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FinOps is the discipline enterprises need to optimize cloud spending

CIO Business Intelligence

Going back after the fact to optimize for cost while you’re still trying to operate and grow can make things even harder.” By quickly showing engineers the financial implications of feature development and product changes, for example, they can optimize features for cost in the same way they tune for performance or uptime.

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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

CIO Business Intelligence

Prepare now for the quantum cryptography threat To counter the threat well ahead of time, NIST launched in 2016 an international call for algorithms that will protect data even once large quantum computers become available. For example, gate rotations are free and need to be optimized by multiple repetitions of this process.

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8 Ways to Fine-tune your SQL Queries (for production databases)

Sisense

When querying a production database, optimization is key. Hence it is important to optimize your queries for minimum impact on the database’s performance. Those practices should be applied when optimizing SQL queries , including: Identifying relevant stakeholders. Define Business Requirements before Beginning.

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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

Compare that to a company that relied on BizTalk 2016 as its application integration platform. Well before BizTalk 2016’s retirement, Microsoft announced that its successor, BizTalk 2020, would be released mid-2019, and BizTalk 2016’s end-of-life date (well, month) would be November 2022.

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Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Part of the strategy and policy that we put in place in early 2016 around the cloud was that the closer we were to the consumer experience, the more we could abstract from that consumer experience and leverage cloud and commodity services.” “We’ve spent several months in our lab refining the recipes and the processes to make it possible.”

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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Since 2016, we have reduced all our emissions by 51%, and in our primary markets, 100% of the electricity we consume comes from renewable sources. They also help us reduce our costs and optimize our processes – a differentiator that helps us compete even more effectively on the global stage. And they help and benefit our customers.”

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Q&A: Businesses need to be the boss of AI, or else

CIO Business Intelligence

As with any revolutionary technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed with both optimism and fear. The optimistic outlook posits that AI is our virtual assistant, taking care of mundane, task-oriented activities so we have time to conjure up new business ideas.