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Strategic Cost Transformation for Commercial Markets | NET(net)

  Regardless of Geography, Industry, Organizational Size, or Company Lifecycle Phase, in virtually every commercial market there is untapped opportunity to Find, Get, and Keep more economic and strategic value in your IT supply chain.  Despite the fact that most organizations significantly overpay for the technology they need to run their companies, sustainable IT value chain improvements can be made and sustained to achieve IT cost and value optimization for the long term. With detailed expertise in virtually every geography and industry around the world, NET(net) offers exceptional experience, world-class subject matter expertise, and unmatched performance and results. For More Information Follow the link .

2023 Cloud Cost Series (Part 3 of 3): The Top 5 Reasons Why Clients Are Repatriating Cloud Workloads

  In recent years, cloud adoption has been one of the most significant trends in the IT industry. Up until late 2020, client organizations have been increasingly migrating their workloads to the cloud to take advantage of its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. However, since late 2020, cloud migrations have slowed, and since early 2022, there has been a growing trend of businesses actually  repatriating  previously migrated workloads from the cloud back to on-premises environments. The cause of this trend is not immediately obvious, but it's clear that it stems from changes in business models, privacy laws, technology, and economics (among other factors). We're still seeing client organizations migrate workloads to the cloud disproportionately when compared to legacy data center deployments, but many are now also moving select workloads out of the cloud as well. This blog will discuss the Top 5 reasons for this trend of workload repatriation as well as the ...

NET(net)'s Top 10 Ways to Save on Mainframe: Part 2 of 10 Part Series.

  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 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  IT is typically the highest indirect spend area for modern enterprises and is also the cost category with the highest potential yield (we average about 33% savings on addressable IT spend). In addition, since 2020, clients have largely exhausted conventional cost savings countermeasures such as canceled projects, delayed spending plans, and cuts in discretionary spending, and many have even gone through Reductions In Force (RIFs), and/or even facility closures. As a result, clients are at risk of cutting muscl...

Oracle 3rd Quarter Results and Your Spend Considerations Before May 31st

Oracle's financials have generally been strong in recent years with their aggressive cloud push, reporting steady growth in revenues and earnings. However, Oracle faces increasing competition from other cloud providers, particularly in the areas of IaaS and PaaS. Additionally, Oracle has been shifting its focus towards cloud-based services and away from its traditional software licensing business, which could impact its financial performance in the long-term. Read our series related to this starting with The Top 5 Price Shock Phenomena of Cloud Costs. For read more follow the link.