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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments. Were looking more at SaaS and PaaS, and our enterprise technology organization is trying to utilize some of the same principles for our on-premises data centers.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

On the rise: the cloud center of excellence It’s particularly exciting to see how companies organize themselves when it comes to the cloud, and how they implement appropriate cloud governance. More than a third favor the private cloud approach, or hosting cloudified applications in an external provider’s data center.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC SaaS Path research from 2023 , 67% of businesses with more than 1,000 employees have employed a SaaS management platform, says IDC analyst Frank Della Rosa — a market category that includes a broad array of options, such as Productiv, Zylo, Flexera One, Blissfully, Torii, BetterCloud, Zluri, Apptio, and LeanIX, among many others.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. Invest in workforce planning. “In Select the right partnership model.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. After having spoken to numerous customers and vendors, its clear to me that cloud computings operational transformation necessarily triggers structural changes in the IT organization - as well as in the rest of the enterprise. Big Data. (6).

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

More than half of respondents admitted difficulties in first feeding the CCMO tools with the appropriate data, and 44% said that integration was a problem and third-party tools didn’t match their reporting requirements. The complexities of FinOps FinOps apparently can’t provide a solution either.

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