Tag: Cloud Usage

May 15, 2023

Widespread adoption of cloud-based collaboration platforms often leads to a “multicloud by default” approach without a clear strategy to support workload needs. Sound familiar? Today many organizations are reexamining their cloud usage and, importantly, the costs associated with it. Nearly […]

May 12, 2023

A 2022 study carried out by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that 62% of firms use third-party cloud-cost estimation tools. This included software to compare potential costs of different public cloud providers. The impact of these finops tools was clear […]

April 6, 2023

I spoke with Brian Adler, Sr. Director, Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera, about this year’s State of the Cloud 2023 report, which provides a complete portrait of current cloud usage. Among the topics we covered: What was your single biggest […]

February 7, 2023

For as long as organizations have been interested in moving resources to the cloud, they’ve been concerned about security. That interest is only getting stronger as cloud usage grows – making it a perfect topic for the latest #CIOTechTalk Twitter […]

August 19, 2022

According to a report published by Anodot, 49% of survey respondents find it difficult to get cloud costs under control. Furthermore, 54% believe their primary source of cloud waste is a lack of visibility and observability into basic cloud usage. […]

June 4, 2021

Most people have experienced sticker shock at one time or another. Eyes tend to bulge when they scan down to the bottom line of an itemized hospital bill! Similarly, CIOs know that cloud-usage-bill shock is a very real thing. For […]