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From cloud spend to cloud value: The power of Cloud Unit Economics

CIO

Cloud can unlock new capabilities to strategically drive the business. As a result, organisations are continually investing in cloud to re-invent existing business models and leapfrog their competitors. Understanding this relationship is crucial in providing valuable context on cloud expenditure.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The pressure to modernize IT and business processes has now clearly led to most cloud transformation projects being planned and implemented.

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Microsoft vs. Google cloud-spat belies anticompetitive reckonings for both

CIO

28, Rima Alaily, Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, described the recently founded Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) , allegedly financed and controlled by Google, as an “astroturf group.” The Open Cloud Coalition apparently launched on Oct. In a blog post dated Oct. 29, one day after Alaily’s allegation. “The

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CIOs must reassess cloud concentration risk post-CrowdStrike

CIO

The outage put enterprises, cloud services providers, and critical infrastructure providers into precarious positions, and has drawn attention to how dominant CrowdStrike’s market share has become, commanding an estimated 24% of the endpoint detection and response (EDR) market. It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk.

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2024 Salary Guide

With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in today’s evolving workforce landscape. Download the guide to navigate 2024’s talent market with confidence.

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NxtGen: India’s cloud powerhouse

CIO

When asked what enabled NxtGen to become the largest cloud services and solutions provider in India, A S Rajgopal, CEO, founder, and managing director, points to the pillars that guide the company’s operations: speed, security, simplicity, support, scalability, and sovereignty.

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Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

CIO

If you’re stressing over cloud cost increases, you’re not alone. Three out of every five organizations saw cloud spending increase in the past year, with nearly four in 10 who experienced price hikes saying their costs jumped by more than 25% — this according to a recent survey of IT professionals commissioned by cloud provider Civo.

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Best Practices for Deploying & Scaling Embedded Analytics

Deployment: Benefits and drawbacks of hosting on premises or in the cloud. Application Design: Depending on your capabilities, you can choose either a VM or a container-based approach. Packaging and Deployment Workflow: Embedded analytics solution should work seamlessly with your current application.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

To address this, a next-gen cloud data lake architecture has emerged that brings together the best attributes of the data warehouse and the data lake. About alternative solutions such as lake houses and how they compare to next-gen cloud data lakes How to separate compute and data by preserving data in open file and table formats.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Instead of considering the data warehouse and the data lake as independent “data islands” that coexist in a cloud platform, it is time to reconsider the fundamental ways that information is accumulated, managed, and then provisioned to the different downstream data consumers.

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Cloud-Scale Monitoring With AWS and Datadog

In this eBook, find out about the benefits and complexities of migrating workloads to AWS, and dive into services that AWS offers for containers and serverless computing. Find out the key performance metrics for each service to track in order to ensure workloads are operating efficiently.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Enterprises are pouring money into data management software – to the tune of $73 billion in 2020 – but are seeing very little return on their data investments.

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12 Considerations When Evaluating Data Lake Engine Vendors for Analytics and BI

To do so, modern enterprises leverage cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytical purposes, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. Businesses today compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Yet they are continually challenged with providing access to all of their data across business units, regions, and cloud environments. Leveraging Dremio for data governance and multi-cloud with Arrow Flight. Data teams in large enterprise organizations are facing greater demand for data to satisfy a wide range of analytic use cases.