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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

Now, more than a decade later, business leaders recognize the advantages the cloud offers but are struggling with bloated cloud costs. Andreesen Horowitz coined the phrase the Cloud Paradox in a 2021 article , which posits that the pressure the cloud puts on company margins can start to outweigh the benefits over time.

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Optimize data layout by bucketing with Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to accelerate downstream queries

AWS Big Data

However, as data volumes continue to grow, optimizing data layout and organization becomes crucial for efficient querying and analysis. To address this challenge, common practices like partitioning and bucketing can significantly improve query performance and reduce computation costs.

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For the planet and people: IBM’s focus on AI ethics in sustainability

IBM Big Data Hub

“But it’s important to reap these benefits while minimizing the environmental impact. According to the European Union’s 2023 Energy Efficiency Directive , Europe’s data center electricity consumption is expected to grow 28% from 2018 to 2030, exemplifying the environmental costs of AI usage.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 1 The rapid migration to the public cloud comes with numerous benefits, such as scalability, cost-efficiency, and enhanced collaboration. 6 On top of that, the average cost of a data breach is over $4.4

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

Compaction is the process of combining these small data and metadata files to improve performance and reduce cost. Systems of this nature generate a huge number of small objects and need attention to compact them to a more optimal size for faster reading, such as 128 MB, 256 MB, or 512 MB. impl":"org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO",

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2023 Predictions: Data Trends That Will Dominate Business Agenda in APAC

Cloudera

In the past year, businesses who doubled down on digital transformation during the pandemic saw their efforts coming to fruition in the form of cost savings and more streamlined data management. 3- Continued move to the public cloud and hybrid cloud, optimizing deployments. 1- Treating data as a strategic business asset .

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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

The analyst reports tell CIOs that generative AI should occupy the top slot on their digital transformation priorities in the coming year. Moreover, the CEOs and boards that CIOs report to don’t want to be left behind by generative AI, and many employees want to experiment with the latest generative AI capabilities in their workflows.