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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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4 remedies to avoid cloud app migration headaches

CIO

Once enterprises commit to running business-critical applications in the cloud, they rarely move to another provider. The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. But doing this requires planning ahead early on, before moving an application to the cloud the first time.

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Key Pillars to Future-Proofing Your Cloud Management Strategy

CIO

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to further adopt public clouds, and geopolitical conflicts have demonstrated the importance and need for sovereign clouds. As the nature of the cloud evolves, so does the strategy in which organizations must approach these challenges.

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How to Choose the Right Cloud Consulting Company for Your Business?

OTS Solutions

Choosing the Right cloud consulting company can be a tedious task. Now, there are numerous companies that are claiming to provide the best cloud consulting services for Business Transformation. Let us start by understanding the importance of Cloud Consulting for Businesses.

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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO

That’s where EVP and CIO Kathy Kay found herself in coming to Principal Financial Group from PG&E in May 2020 with a desire to lead an aggressive plan to adopt digital technologies, ranging from the cloud to AI. We have a model now that will ingest the data and then suggest better ways of communicating things in a more complaint way.”

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now. West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.”

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.