TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Spending on the cloud shows no signs of slowing down. In the first quarter of 2021, corporate cloud services infrastructure investment increased to $41.8 But while both small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises admit that they’re spending more on the cloud, they’re also struggling to keep costs under control.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Strapi is releasing its cloud-hosted version of its popular content management system. With Strapi Cloud, developers don’t have to manage their own servers as the company handles hosting for you. Some developers also start with a vanilla virtual private server on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Years ago, there was a price war between public clouds. Since those heady days, the cloud infrastructure market has matured and changed. But the era of seemingly endless price cuts has been overtaken by a different market narrative: While building on public cloud services is inexpensive to start, it can become far less so over time.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

The cloud services landscape is in constant flux. With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores. Any organization that currently stores its mainframe data on tape or VTL should prioritize migrating that data to a hybrid cloud object store.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. It might not be the buzziest areas to grow a company, yet MinIO found a niche selling object storage, while competing directly with Amazon S3. How did cloud-native technologies contribute to your success?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. This article explores some of the most common misconfiguration risks and how you can address them to tighten up cloud security.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Cloud cost optimization startups have become ubiquitous, and they’ve found a friendly ear among enterprise clients looking to cut costs amid the downturn. But should younger startups similarly scrutinize their cloud spend? If you’re an investor and would like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Message Hub, Cloudant, and SQL query services. Cloud Computing, IBM

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

The cloud computing revolution brought with it many innovations, but also lessons about the pitfalls of rapidly adopting new technologies without a well-planned strategy. Applying shadow IT’s lessons to Generative AI As organizations build their AI strategies, the lessons from the cloud era can be particularly invaluable.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Yet many companies still find it difficult to keep an eye on the costs of their cloud deployment and to continuously optimize them. In this context, more than a quarter expect cloud costs to rise by 20% or more.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. In that case, the board’s bank was troubled by the volume of unexpected fees charged by cloud providers.

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how to optimize it.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

Driving a hybrid cloud roadmap that elevates business success was the discussion topic of a round table hosted by CIO and IDC I attended this week. A group of senior technology leaders gathered in Toronto to share and discuss how they are managing cloud services. Cloud Computing, Events, IT Leadership

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

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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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

The global cloud infrastructure services market remains strong, buoyed in part by enterprise interest in AI. In the second quarter of 2024, global spending on cloud infrastructure services grew by 19% year-over-year to surpass the $78 billion mark. from Google Cloud and GPT-4o mini from Azure. Sonnet and other APIs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While a recent Rocket survey on the state of the mainframe showed that the mainframe — due to its reliability and superior security — is here to stay, many organizations are moving to hybrid infrastructure with a “cloud-first approach” to operations.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. A growing number of IT leaders treat compute and storage as they would the utility grid. But recognizing cloud advantages doesn’t always mean a smooth transition from on-prem.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It will do this, it said, with bidirectional integration between its platform and Salesforce’s to seamlessly delivers data governance and end-to-end lineage within Salesforce Data Cloud. Alation is a founding member, along with Collibra.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service: AWS S3 Express One Zone, a new high-performance and low latency tier for S3. The company promises that Express One Zone offers a 10x performance improvement over the standard S3 service.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

James Ochoa, vice president of cloud solutions at Flexential, views the company’s extensive portfolio not simply as a collection of innovative, bespoke, and proven technologies, but more fundamentally as the solution it uses to help more than 3,000 enterprises in more than 20 industries solve their business challenges.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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CIO

MARCH 29, 2023

Over the past few years, more organizations have gone all in with migrations to the public cloud. But for some “without a concrete strategy, it has led to some obvious challenges with respect to measuring the real value from their cloud investments,” says Ricky Sundrani, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As more businesses push forward with digital transformation projects, cloud computing has stood out as a powerful tool capable of fueling the analytics that drive new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—two capabilities that are quickly becoming a must-have in nearly every organization.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

Technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), require the right infrastructure to support moving data securely across environments. They find they have limited bandwidth and an inability to perform multiple replications for a variety of data sets both in mainframes and the cloud.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

Rohit Badlaney, General Manager of IBM Cloud Product and Industry Platforms, brings more than two decades of experience in his role leading strategy, product management, design, and go-to-market for IBM Cloud. Badlaney believes that IBM stands out among other hyperscalers for being the destination for VMware workloads in the cloud.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. of AI storage in 2022 to 30.5%

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CIO

AUGUST 7, 2024

Il leader IT ed ex CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege ha sentito per anni i dirigenti lamentarsi delle implementazioni cloud, citando la rapida escalation dei costi e le difficoltà legate alla privacy dei dati come motivi principali delle loro frustrazioni. Si tratta di una percentuale coerente con i risultati di diversi sondaggi precedenti.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift , a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized documents. “By joining forces with Dropbox, we can better scale our capabilities to make work easier for a larger number of small businesses and freelance customers.”

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