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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Here are four steps to getting the most out of cloud computing resources in an economical manner.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

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Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

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In 2019, half of enterprises surveyed said their number of mainframe workloads had grown; in 2023, 62% said the same 1. Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores. Simplification of the environment: Legacy storage systems are complex and often siloed.

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

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Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook. Enterprise storage can be used to improve your company’s cybersecurity, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs, while improving application and workload service levels. What should you do?

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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

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Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. The following five trends can be summed up in eight words: cyber resilience, automation, hybrid cloud, performance, availability, and consolidation. .

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Why it’s time to put your stake in a ground-to-cloud strategy

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Asset accumulation from mergers and acquisitions, as well as workloads rapidly built to satisfy business needs, have spurred an increase in public and private clouds, on-premises systems, colocation facilities and edge environments. For example, some traditional applications tend to be difficult to migrate to the public cloud.

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Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond

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a data center, cloud, and Managed Services provider, is quick to point out that enterprises’ data sovereignty requirements are growing in scope. Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet. Wojciech Stramski, CEO of Beyond.pl

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