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

CIO Business Intelligence

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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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.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

But only 6% of those surveyed described their strategy for handling cloud costs as proactive, and at least 42% stated that cost considerations were already included in developing solution architecture. According to many IT managers, the key to more efficient cost management appears to be better integration within cloud architectures.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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MSFT: Launches MDR And Hops On The Everything-As-A-Service Bandwagon

Forrester IT

Everything-eventually-becomes-a-service which Microsoft demonstrates by launching its own version of managed detection & response. We discuss what CISOs need to know, how it will impact the market, and what to look for next.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. McMasters, for instance, keeps up with each cloud vendor’s roadmap, and looks for opportunities to collaborate.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

billion company has 11,000 employees and a presence in more than 100 different countries, and has already picked its broadest AI providers — Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce. Beyond that, most vendors are still falling short. Many generative AI vendors claim they offer an end-to-end AI solution,” Liu says.