Data Center Metrics Vendor Management 
CIO
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?
CIO
JANUARY 23, 2023
There’s a natural pull to look at CIOs now not just for running data centers and applications, but to be a transformative catalyst for the business.” Any CIO gunning for a plus-role needs to be well versed in the metrics and models that move the needle on business outcomes. “If
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CIO
MARCH 26, 2024
Jason Carolan, CIO of data center solutions provider Flexential, says deciding on the right model between full-services and staff augmentation is essential. Dun & Bradstreet’s Manos recommends regular check-ins where key goals, metrics, and objectives are reviewed. Double down on vendor management.
CIO
MAY 29, 2024
“If you’re only buying inference services, ask them how they can account for all the upstream impact,” says Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne, a UK-headquartered company that provides data center solutions for enterprises and hyperscalers. It’s important for CIOs to have metrics on the CO2 emission for a given application,” says Sundberg.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 16, 2021
This means that you’ll have to consider closing data centers and rationalizing staff. You can use the synergy targets as an opportunity to develop a vendor management capability in IT. Use this as an opportunity to teach your team about SLAs, vendor scorecards, and cost optimization.
Kentik
MAY 17, 2021
And the cloud vendors’ management interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. The metrics collected help paint a vague picture of the cloud but don’t address any of the larger problems at play. But this isn’t cutting it. Cloud Performance Monitor.
CIO
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Beyond AI, EA plays a critical role in ensuring the incorporation of ESG sustainability principles into architecture designs, standards and metrics. Data centers consumed 220-320 TWh (trillion watts per hour) in 2021, roughly 7% of what the entire US consumes annually. GTP-4 is rumoured to be 10x times larger.
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