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Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source. Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm.

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You Can’t Regulate What You Don’t Understand

O'Reilly on Data

The world changed on November 30, 2022 as surely as it did on August 12, 1908 when the first Model T left the Ford assembly line. If we want prosocial outcomes, we need to design and report on the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and measure the extent to which they have been achieved.

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Monitor and optimize cost on AWS Glue for Apache Spark

AWS Big Data

One of the most common questions we get from customers is how to effectively monitor and optimize costs on AWS Glue for Spark. In this post, we demonstrate a tactical approach to help you manage and reduce cost through monitoring and optimization techniques on top of your AWS Glue workloads. includes the new optimized Apache Spark 3.3.0

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Steps taken to build Sevita’s first enterprise data platform

CIO Business Intelligence

When I joined in July 2022, the company had spent the prior 24 months completing more than 20 acquisitions, and the IT team was busy bringing all these new systems online. For the first time, we’re consolidating data to create real-time dashboards for revenue forecasting, resource optimization, and labor utilization.

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4 key steps for optimizing your IT services portfolio

CIO Business Intelligence

From the CEO’s perspective, an optimized IT services portfolio maximizes cost efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. Highly optimized portfolios leverage outsourcing to ensure that commodity-based sourcing is offloaded to outsourcers, freeing up internal teams to focus on strategic projects that add value and effectively manage costs.

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Amazon EMR on EC2 cost optimization: How a global financial services provider reduced costs by 30%

AWS Big Data

We outline cost-optimization strategies and operational best practices achieved through a strong collaboration with their DevOps teams. We also discuss a data-driven approach using a hackathon focused on cost optimization along with Apache Spark and Apache HBase configuration optimization. This sped up their need to optimize.

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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

To help make it quick and easy for IT leaders to get a reliable snapshot of the enterprise storage trends, we put together this “trends update” for the second half of 2022. We predicted at the start of 2022 that cyber resilience from the storage estate would be critical this year because of the threats of cyberattacks.