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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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From cloud spend to cloud value: The power of Cloud Unit Economics

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Cloud can unlock new capabilities to strategically drive the business. As a result, organisations are continually investing in cloud to re-invent existing business models and leapfrog their competitors. Understanding this relationship is crucial in providing valuable context on cloud expenditure.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

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In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

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However, trade along the Silk Road was not just a matter of distance; it was shaped by numerous constraints much like todays data movement in cloud environments. Merchants had to navigate complex toll systems imposed by regional rulers, much as cloud providers impose egress fees that make it costly to move data between platforms.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

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Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

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A look at the future of mainframe modernization with hybrid cloud

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At the same time, many organizations have been pushing to adopt cloud-based approaches to their IT infrastructure, opting to tap into the speed, flexibility, and analytical power that comes along with it. It’s a decision that maps back to the overarching goals of a business and how they want to leverage their data.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

To address this, a next-gen cloud data lake architecture has emerged that brings together the best attributes of the data warehouse and the data lake. About alternative solutions such as lake houses and how they compare to next-gen cloud data lakes How to separate compute and data by preserving data in open file and table formats.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Instead of considering the data warehouse and the data lake as independent “data islands” that coexist in a cloud platform, it is time to reconsider the fundamental ways that information is accumulated, managed, and then provisioned to the different downstream data consumers.

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Cloud-Scale Monitoring With AWS and Datadog

In this eBook, find out about the benefits and complexities of migrating workloads to AWS, and dive into services that AWS offers for containers and serverless computing. Find out the key performance metrics for each service to track in order to ensure workloads are operating efficiently.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Enterprises are pouring money into data management software – to the tune of $73 billion in 2020 – but are seeing very little return on their data investments.

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12 Considerations When Evaluating Data Lake Engine Vendors for Analytics and BI

To do so, modern enterprises leverage cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytical purposes, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. Businesses today compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Yet they are continually challenged with providing access to all of their data across business units, regions, and cloud environments. Leveraging Dremio for data governance and multi-cloud with Arrow Flight. Data teams in large enterprise organizations are facing greater demand for data to satisfy a wide range of analytic use cases.

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Detect and Respond to Threats Across Your Applications, Networks, and Infrastructure

As dynamic, cloud-native environments face increasingly sophisticated security threats, the boundaries between security, development, and operations teams are beginning to fade.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Download this eBook to learn about: The changing state of containers in the cloud and explore why orchestration technologies have become an essential part of today’s container ecosystem. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems.