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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Limitations of CCMO tools There’s a lot of room for improvement in cloud cost management.

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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. Understanding price sensitivity, elasticity, and the price pack architecture, is driving new levels of performance. You can vote with your budget. That has been super powerful.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

“It’s often the data in these silos [that needs] to be integrated between multiple sites, multiple systems, especially in the [real-time] world that we live in today versus the more batch-oriented architecture of a decade ago.” It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. data, security, development, architecture) as well. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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