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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO

Open source isnt completely free as there are still infrastructure and management costs. In our case, we run it on AWS within our own private cloud, he says. With open source, you have control over where youre using it and when itll go away, he says. Finally, theres the price. So were still paying for usage.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

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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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO

During his keynote speech at the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference in November, AWS CTO Werner Vogels argued that the cost aspect must be taken more into account in the cloud development process. AWS, Google, Microsoft and others must ensure their cloud customers aren’t alienated by excessive costs, but criticism is growing.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Overarching service partner principles apply here, says Julia Chen, vice president for partner core at AWS — such as clarity around strategy and expectations, established governance mechanisms, and good communication. Double down on vendor management. Select the right partnership model.

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Key Software Asset Management Tools and Benefits

Apiumhub

Cost Optimization: By providing insights into software usage and license compliance, software asset management tools enable organizations to optimize their software spending. This may involve reallocating licenses, negotiating better licensing agreements, or identifying opportunities to consolidate software vendors.

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Why the Age of the Cloud Native Security Platform Is Here to Stay

Palo Alto Networks

Cloud providers use the concept of a shared responsibility model to describe the fact that they’re responsible for meeting the security SLAs of the underlying services — securing the physical data centers, providing the controls to limit role-based access and so forth — but customers are responsible for secure configuration of those services.

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Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product

Kentik

And the cloud vendorsmanagement interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. The Terraform path builds a Terraform configuration template based on user preferences, making it simple to configure your AWS environment in seconds.

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