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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. It is highly likely that other costs would be incurred in a large-scale migration.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes the creation of landing zones, defining the VPN, gateway connections, network policies, storage policies, hosting key services within a private subnet and setting up the right IAM policies (resource policies, setting up the organization, deletion policies).

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

But while FINRA is a big user of SaaS, the services are all priced in a way thats highly inconsistent, which makes managing across them, according to Khrimian, a challenge. And dont expect tool vendors to step up in terms of helping to maximize the value of your FinOps investment, warns Jensen.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

As it faced its latest challenge, Accenture chose SAP Fieldglass , a vendor management system for services procurement and external workforce organization, to provide reporting and analytics. That includes the reduced fees for document storage in regions where procurement practices were primarily paper based.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

So for many companies, it’ll be a matter of increased vigilance to not let costs get out of hand as cloud usage increases.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value.