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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%).

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Cloud ROI: Getting innovation economics right with FinOps

CIO

Best practices for maximizing cloud ROI The key to ROI is to audit and track every cloud service cost across the IT portfolio— particularly when companies have on average 11 cloud infrastructures, nine unified communications solutions, as well as a cacophony of unsanctioned applications consuming up to 30% of IT budgets in the form of Shadow IT.

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IT services company Atos finalizes plan for IBM-style split

CIO

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. Atos had planned to divide into two publicly listed companies, but on August 1 announced it is taking a different route. Technology Industry

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO

Such department-spanning career ladders already exist in other specialist areas at Dow, such as data science, where experts might find themselves working in IT, manufacturing, R&D or supply chain management. The infrastructure that we’ve put in place will be able to transition to 5G,” she says. Unified Communications

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PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS: Making the Right Choice for Your Oracle Cloud Migration

Datavail

The term XaaS (“anything as a service”) is shorthand for the proliferation of cloud services in recent years—everything from databases and artificial intelligence to unified communications and disaster recovery is now available from your choice of cloud provider. Oracle Data Cloud. Oracle IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

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Why Going Cloud Native Is the Right Move in the Recession

d2iq

to 2.2%, IDC analyst Rick Villars believes IT spending will continue to see growth in the 5% to 6% range.The fact that so many organizations are increasing spending in a downturn shows how important IT infrastructure is to the health of an organization. While Garner has reduced its projection from 5.1%

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Channel Partner Spotlight: TechEnabler

Kentik

The result is that we increase efficiency and enable new revenues on customers’ existing infrastructure. We do that in a few ways: New technologies : We propose innovative technological solutions that allow our customers to optimize existing infrastructures, reduce costs, and increase quality and efficiency. What services do you offer?