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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO

Tech and tech-adjacent expenditures, including categories like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), cloud and data services, billing, software, network storage, business process outsourcing, telecommunications services, and data center technology, represent significant expenses.

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Is it SaaS, IaaS, or NaaS?

CIO

As the adoption of cloud and other as-a-service offerings has accelerated in recent years, so has the number of acronyms used to describe these offerings. Like SaaS, it is an all-inclusive category that can span the entire IT infrastructure portfolio from compute to storage to networks. This is where it can get confusing.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO

Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. This includes running a benchmarking spend analysis on all categories relative to industry peers, as well as leading technology companies. Almost invariably, spending on cloud has leapt from low or even non-existent to high.

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Zesty lands $75M for tech that adjusts cloud usage to save money

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Spending on the cloud shows no signs of slowing down. In the first quarter of 2021, corporate cloud services infrastructure investment increased to $41.8 But while both small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises admit that they’re spending more on the cloud, they’re also struggling to keep costs under control.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO

Cloud data architect: The cloud data architect designs and implements data architecture for cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Big data architect: The big data architect designs and implements data architectures supporting the storage, processing, and analysis of large volumes of data.

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Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows

TechCrunch

We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it. When we came out with this, with the vector database category, nobody knew what the hell we’re talking about. And so it’s very easy to bet on the leader of a category that is already formed,” Liberty told TechCrunch.

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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

TechCrunch

The subscription gains the owner access to the camera, AI-based image processing software and cloud storage, and other services. This is 30% lighter, charges faster and comes with 500 GB of on-board storage. It is one of the strongest brands in the VC industry, with a strong track record of backing category-defining companies.