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The great repatriation? IT leaders reset cloud strategies to optimize value

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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. Research shows that CIOs have been moving workloads back from the cloud for many years and continue to do so. a private cloud).

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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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CIOs recalibrate multicloud strategies as challenges remain

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Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds. Oracle is providing a different template.

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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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Top cloud strategy mistakes CIOs can’t help making

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But succeeding in the cloud can be complex, and CIOs have continued to fumble their cloud strategies in 2022 in a variety of ways, industry observers say. We have continued to evolve our cloud strategy as we gain more insight into the leverage we can gain in engineering, resilience, scaling, security, and market testing.”

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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Yet, controlling cloud costs remains the top challenge IT leaders face in making the most of their cloud strategies, with about one third — 35% — of respondents citing these expenses as the No. Other top concerns are data privacy and security challenges (31%) and lack of cloud security and cloud expertise (24%).

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

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Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.