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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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The next wave of cybersecurity: Cloud and SOC integration

CIO Business Intelligence

In todays modern business landscape, cloud technology adoption has skyrocketed, driven largely by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). This shift has completely transformed how businesses operate, with 63% of organizations citing AI as the primary driver for cloud investment.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Data architectures to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years.

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From cloud spend to cloud value: The power of Cloud Unit Economics

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud can unlock new capabilities to strategically drive the business. As a result, organisations are continually investing in cloud to re-invent existing business models and leapfrog their competitors. Understanding this relationship is crucial in providing valuable context on cloud expenditure.

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CIOs look beyond ‘Big 3’ cloud providers for AI innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS, Microsoft, and Google may continue to dominate the enterprise cloud market, but a raft of second-tier cloud providers are proving to be valuable partners for organizations and innovators with specialized workloads and use cases especially in the burgeoning AI era. Athos Therapeutics is one such enterprise.

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