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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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Several major vendors have already announced they’ll indemnify enterprise customers against the potential copyright risks associated with using their products. Microsoft, for instance, announced its legal indemnification policy for Copilot in September. If you’re not flexible and agile enough, your clients will move away,” he says.