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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

Cloud 245
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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Yet many companies still find it difficult to keep an eye on the costs of their cloud deployment and to continuously optimize them. In this context, more than a quarter expect cloud costs to rise by 20% or more.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The pressure to modernize IT and business processes has now clearly led to most cloud transformation projects being planned and implemented.

Cloud 358
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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Agents will begin replacing services Software has evolved from big, monolithic systems running on mainframes, to desktop apps, to distributed, service-based architectures, web applications, and mobile apps. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart.

CTO Hire 354
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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

Strategy 363
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Complexity snarls multicloud network management

Network World

“The primary challenges include maintaining a holistic view of security controls, meeting regulatory standards across varied cloud platforms, securing data across multiple providers to prevent unauthorized access or accidental loss, and managing the architectural and operational complexity of utilizing multiple providers,” he explains.

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