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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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6 cloud market forces impacting IT strategies today

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Amid that growth, a few key trends surfaced to impact CIOs’ cloud strategies, continuing to today: More flexible consumption models To increase spend within their ecosystems, hyperscalers marketed more flexible consumption programs to enable customers to increase their commitments, while mitigating consumption risk.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

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billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Middle East gets cloudy All of this investment is buoying cloud strategies across not just Saudi Arabia but the entire region, noted Phil Dawson, vice president of research for cloud infrastructure at Gartner. “If

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Oracle bolsters distributed cloud, AI strategy with new Mexico cloud region

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Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. That launch was followed by the opening of a new data center in Singapore and Serbia within months.

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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

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AMD is in the chip business, and a big part of that these days involves operating in data centers at an enormous scale. AMD announced today that it intends to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for approximately $1.9 Jain will join the data center solutions group at AMD when the deal closes.

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De-Risk Your Business by Moving to Colocation Data Centers – A Modern Cloud Experience

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For good business reasons, more than up to 50% of applications and data remain on-premises in data centers, colocations, and edge locations, according to 451 Research. This is due to issues like data gravity, latency, application dependency, and regulatory compliance.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Why are we really going to cloud?

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