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Grounding sky-high cloud costs: 3 hot tips

CIO

Cloud doesn’t just open the door to enabling advanced technologies like AI, hyper-automation, and big data analytics – it unlocks a complex realm of costs and expense management problems that can threaten innovation and its financial sustainability. The bottom line: CFOs and CIOs need fixed costs for easier budgeting and forecasting.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Mastering Cloud Transformation for Business: Cloud Foundations

Perficient

Hybrid Connectivity: Connectivity across public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises networks for secure, effective, and reliable communication via VPN, private dedicated circuits, or SD-WAN. Cloud Governance: Effective governance policies and guardrails to ensure secure, compliant deployments across teams.

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