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CIOs: Eliminate Waste - Let 2015 Be Your Year of the Smart Cloud

A Familiar Tale I recently heard a familiar tale from the CIO of a Fortune company: “We don’t have a repeatable or accurate cost allocation model that can be used to reflect the true cost of computing services consumption back to our lines of business. Quantifying a workload’s owner/size/scope and forecasting the growth profile and… Read More »CIOs: Eliminate Waste—Let 2015 Be Your Year of the Smart Cloud

January 18, 2015

Cloud Optimization & Migration

Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness Checklist

Cloud Migrations - There is often a great deal of friction in the process of enterprise cloud adoption. For example, business decision-makers often suffer from confusion over key questions about the true cost, risk, and the total economic impact of moving their core applications to the cloud. Assessing and selecting the right cloud migrations path, transition… Read More »Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness Checklist

November 25, 2014

Security

Is It Happening? Security-Driven IT, CIOs and CFOs Must Align

IT Security: Will IT departments ever have a chance to spend the money they want on initiatives they consider top priority? The struggle to spend versus save has often been a two-sided war (and it makes sense in a process of checks and balances). However, CFOs have traditionally understood allocating budgetary resources for IT to… Read More »Is It Happening? Security-Driven IT, CIOs and CFOs Must Align

November 7, 2014

ITBM

Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative

To our friends at the TBM conference: This question may sound nuts. When it comes to using software to manage costs, is IT the enterprise’s least equipped department? While I’m paraphrasing, this is indeed the point of view of a white paper by the leading technology business management (TBM) solutions provider, Apptio. In… Read More »Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative

October 28, 2014

IT Infrastructure

Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!

IT services Re-posted from the Year 2000 “Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it… Read More »Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!

October 25, 2014

CIO

Attention CIOs: A 2016 Budget Upside Surprise Awaits You

IT budget optimization You’ve armed yourself with the latest IT “power tools” – ITSM, e.g., ServiceNow, ITBM, e.g., Apptio – and are starting to get real traction. Better business user satisfaction, better cost transparency. All good. So what’s the next act? How can you harness these great tools to ring the cash register in 2016 and accelerate funding of… Read More »Attention CIOs: A 2016 Budget Upside Surprise Awaits You

October 3, 2014

Sourcing

IT Purchase Decisions: Know Your Internal Buying Center

IT Purchase It isn’t news to say that purchasing outsourced IT services can be complex. Oftentimes, enterprises can get tied up in knots while trying to create context and understanding around the many different approaches, platforms and suppliers that are available to them. However, it’s also important to realize that much of that complexity is… Read More »IT Purchase Decisions: Know Your Internal Buying Center

September 29, 2014

Strategic Sourcing

What's Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?

CIOs constantly wrestle with five common infrastructure sourcing problems and finding the solutions is no easy task. IT Infrastructure Sourcing. This is complex stuff. It’s difficult to find and decipher the most meaningful data and transform it into useful data. In a mission to assemble real-world transaction data, we’ve created a proprietary data repository that… Read More »What’s Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?

September 29, 2014

Cloud Optimization & Migration

The Keys to Making Smart Decisions About Migrating Applications to the Cloud

Migrating Applications to the Cloud You want to migrate legacy applications to the cloud, right? To meet the needs of your enterprise, it’s become an imperative. It might sound simple, but you’ve discovered it’s not. Let’s take a look at the keys you need to consider before you pull the trigger. If only application migration… Read More »The Keys to Making Smart Decisions About Migrating Applications to the Cloud

September 29, 2014