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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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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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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance

Forrester IT

The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […]. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD).

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO Business Intelligence

“In one case, it was a supplier of an application that managed a crucial activity with hospitals, which maintained support until we managed to migrate to another platform. In another, an external data center was dismantled after being acquired by another company. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

The report, based on an annual survey of IT leaders, also found that 90% of CIOs prioritize partners and vendors based on their sustainability credentials — a huge change since the 2023 report , when 49% of CIOs looked at carbon output, sustainability, and energy efficiency when choosing new suppliers.

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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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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Around 13% of users say they’ll pursue a rigid cloud-only strategy in the future. More than a third favor the private cloud approach, or hosting cloudified applications in an external provider’s data center.

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