Preface: Thank you for joining us for this 10-part series to discuss the Top 10 Ways You can Save on your Mainframe Costs in 2023. Nearly all Clients are Clamoring for Savings in 2023. This is largely due to (a) rising input costs, (b) softening business forecasts, and (c) continued economic uncertainty and headwinds. This has caused many clients to re-evaluate spending plans and implement new cost-cutting targets. IT is the Number One Cost Savings Category of The Modern Enterprise. IT is typically the highest indirect spend area for modern enterprises and is also the cost category with the highest potential savings yield (we average about ...
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Preface Many client organizations who are long-time users of Atlassian's Jira are suffering from supplier-imposed changes over the last several years that have resulted in sharp increases in costs, pressure on their relationships, and the opportunity for other providers to gain a foothold in the gap Atlassian has put between themselves and their customers. Of course, this has been happening right at the time when client organizations can least afford to be distracted by this small but annoying problem. Background Atlassian has been forcing cost increases on their customers in several ways, including: Changing the licensing model: Atlassian ...
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Preface When it comes to casting aspersions, technology suppliers face their fair share of scorn from client organizations who have been burned by past transgressions. It’s not uncommon for them to demonstrate contempt for the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, and others... but few garner the wrath deservedly bestowed on Bloomberg. Time and again, these organizations seek ways to dethrone the financial software giant, best known for its iconic ‘Terminal’, yet Bloomberg continues to cling to a strategy of tyrannical account control wherever they can, as they continue to ride the mysticism of an iconic social status symbol in ...
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Preface: Thank you for joining us for this 10-part series to discuss the Top 10 Ways You can Save on your Mainframe Costs in 2023. Nearly all Clients are Clamoring for Savings in 2023. This is largely due to (a) rising input costs, (b) softening business forecasts, and (c) continued economic uncertainty and headwinds. This has caused many clients to re-evaluate spending plans and implement new cost-cutting targets. IT is the Number One Cost Savings Category of the Modern Enterprise. IT is typically the highest indirect spend area for modern enterprises and is also the cost category with the highest potential savings yield (we average about ...
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Oracle in hunt for new money With Oracle Cerner integration going slowly, and as expected most valuable and highly skilled resources are leaving the organisation, the Cerner acquisition has not delivered (yet) the value Oracle has been expecting so far. See our post from 2021 on this topic here. So, what can you do and what do you need to know? Increase the annual YoY price increase on core products to a minimum of 8%. In an economic tide, where clients are creaming for cost optimizations Oracle, has increased their starting position for support renewals to an 8% YoY increase. Only when a client would be committing to new business of the ...
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Introduction: Doing the same things and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity, at least according to Albert Einstein. Engaging with suppliers in 2023 requires a different approach otherwise, you can expect price increases by 20% or more on your annual renewals. The Rise of an Anti-Customer Profiteering: Historically, technology suppliers would at least try to align with their customers for mutual long-term benefit. In 2023, at the very time that their customers are in desperate need of relief on costs, technology suppliers have departed from their long term aligned stance. Instead, suppliers are forcing substantial ...
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Who is Crowdstrike? CrowdStrike, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company that provides cloud-delivered endpoint protection, threat intelligence, next-gen antivirus, incident response, ransomware, and endpoint detection and response (EDR). The company was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Alex Ionescu. CrowdStrike's headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California. CrowdStrike's Falcon platform is a cloud-delivered endpoint protection platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to detect and respond to threats. The Falcon platform is used by businesses of all sizes, including Fortune ...
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Preface While cloud adoption has been growing rapidly since before the pandemic, in recent years, there are signs of a slowdown in the overall rate of growth. Several factors contribute to this trend: Price shock: As client organizations migrated their workloads to the cloud, they often underestimated the costs involved. While the cloud offers scalability and flexibility, it is not always the most cost-effective option, particularly for certain types of workloads. Some clients experience price shock when they receive their cloud bills, especially if they haven't properly optimized their resources, realized the implications of data movements, ...
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Preface: Thank you for joining us for this 10-part series to discuss the Nearly all Clients are Clamoring for Savings in 2023. This is largely due to (a) rising input costs, (b) softening business forecasts, and (c) continued economic uncertainty and headwinds. This has caused many clients to re-evaluate spending plans and implement new cost-cutting targets. IT is the Number One Cost Savings Category of the Modern Enterprise. IT is typically the highest indirect spend area for modern enterprises and is also the cost category with the highest potential savings yield (we average about 33% savings on addressable IT spend). In addition, since ...
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Preface Many client organizations buy a Datadog subscription (at least initially) to monitor cloud application performance to identify and reduce cloud costs (generally as a result of inefficient processing). As time goes on, and the client organization expands its use of monitoring, these costs start to stack up. At some point, clients start wondering, ‘who is the Datadog for my Datadog’!? If you’re getting rolled by your Datadog subscription, you just may need to get that dawg in you. For real! Introduction Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and ...
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