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
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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
Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative
Technology Business Management To our friends at the TBM conference: This question may sound nuts. When it comes to using software to manage costs, is IT
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
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
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
eBay Measures Energy Consumption with Digital Service Efficiency
Digital Service Efficiency Though it’s well understood you can’t manage what you don’t measure, the vast majority of enterprises don’t track the energy efficiency of
7 Points of Friction in Managing IT Infrastructure Change
Managing IT Infrastructure In the IT department of a large enterprise, change is a constant. Across the entire infrastructure spectrum, constant changes in hosting, networks,
Infrastructure Optimization: What You Need to Know About Wasteful IT
IT Capacity Typically, the IT services buyer forecasts usage utilizing a number of factors at his/her disposal: Prior contracted capacity—that is, what was signed up
