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Optimizing for Price and Performance in the Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

What’s more, the cloud options, and workloads being hosted, change all the time. IDC research shows that capacity optimization has emerged as a top priority (alongside cost management) within cloud-based organizations. Complexity is amplified by the fact that 90% of enterprises use multiple clouds, according to IDC. [1]

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Big Data Creates Greater Divide Between CDN & Traditional Web Hosting

Smart Data Collective

One thing that got overlooked was the role of big data in web hosting. Big data is creating a new era of hosting solutions. CDN and traditional hosting options are both available. Big Data is Changing the Future of Online Hosting Forever. Who Is Hosting This is a leading hosting review site.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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Seekr finds the AI computing power it needs in Intel’s cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The company needs massive computing power with CPUs and GPUs that are optimized for AI development, says Clark, adding that Seekr looked at the infrastructure it would need to build and train its huge AI models and quickly determined that buying and maintaining the hardware would be prohibitively expensive.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

“Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. growth experienced in 2022.

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Five ways to reduce your public cloud spend with IBM Turbonomic

IBM Big Data Hub

A recent survey 1 found that cloud over-spending was higher in 2022 than in the previous year: 56% of companies surveyed admitted that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget, some by over 20% to 30% of their intended spend. Eliminate cloud waste through optimization Figure 3: IBM Turbonomic cloud cost optimization.

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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

IBM Big Data Hub

4 Efforts to preserve biodiversity and natural resources gained momentum in December 2022, when countries signed a global biodiversity framework at the United Nations’ COP15 summit. The smart factories that make up Industry 4.0 Join the IBM Sustainability Community 1 Green transition creates $10.3T