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What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. Aligning technology and finance teams Engineers focus on cloud computing, innovation, and moving workloads to the cloud, while finance teams focus on minimizing costs.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. But not all rents are bad.

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, The productivity is there, and will intensify with technologies such as AI and ML; the instrumentation simply doesn't exist to measure it. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption.

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