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94% of enterprises are overspending in the cloud: report

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A vast majority of enterprises globally are overspending in the cloud, according to a new HashiCorp-Forrester report. In a survey that saw participation of over 1,000 IT decision makers across North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific, 94% of respondents said their organizations had notable, avoidable cloud spend due to a combination of factors including underused, overprovisioned resources, and lack of skills to utilize cloud infrastructure.

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6 LinkedIn Automation Tools for Lead Generation That You Should Try

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Everyone needs a source of energy to sustain life and stay productive. A person needs food, cars need fuel, Instagram influencers need likes, and businesses need leads. But to get such “nutrition”, you need to constantly act: buy food for cooking, come to the gas station, write posts. The same thing happens with leads: to find them and close a deal, you need to perform an extensive search.

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Steps CIOs should take to protect customer data in Nigeria’s open banking systems

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Due to Nigeria’s fintech boom borne out of its open banking framework, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has published a much-awaited regulation draft to govern open banking procedures. And at its core is the need to secure customer data through a robust set of requirements. The regulations streamline how entities who handle customer banking information will secure their systems and share details within protected application program interfaces.

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A QuickStart Guide to Instagram Reels for Brands

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. With over two billion users , Instagram is a social force to be reckoned with. And now with Instagram Reels, brands have the fantastic opportunity to get in front of their audience in a creative and fun way. Interestingly, people have a love/hate with Reels, as they watch and relate to ‘stupidly sentimental’ creations, forging emotional connections to them––and to the brands creating them!

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Which Workloads Belong On-Premises as Part of Hybrid IT

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Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice. A Flexera report found the shift to hybrid infrastructure supported by overwhelming numbers of survey respondents, with 89% of them opting for a multicloud strategy and 80% taking a hy

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Get the Right Predictive Analytics Tools for Users!

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Can Predictive Analytics Provide Accurate Results for My Business Without Burdening My Users? If your business is struggling to forecast and predict outcomes and results, your management team is probably considering predictive analytics. The technology research firm, Gartner, states that, ‘50% of data scientist activities will be automated by artificial intelligence, easing the acute talent shortage.’.

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Shifting from keeping the lights on to turning on new lights

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This article was co-authored by Chris Boyd , a Senior Associate at Metis Strategy. Today’s CIOs lead innovation efforts aimed at increasing revenue, accessing new markets, and growing product lines. However, according to Foundry’s 2022 State of the CIO Survey , 76% of CIOs say it’s challenging to find the right balance between business innovation and operational excellence.

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How a Modern Data Engineering Stack Can Help Create a Data-Driven Culture

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Creating a collaborative, data-driven culture is one of the most important goals of many modern organizations. However, access to the data and data processing tools remains restricted to the selected few technical users or upper management echelons. Data-driven culture cannot exist without the democratization of the data. Data democratization certainly does not mean unrestricted access to all […].

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What is data visualization? Presenting data for decision-making

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Data visualization definition. Data visualization is the presentation of data in a graphical format such as a plot, graph, or map to make it easier for decision makers to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data. Maps and charts were among the earliest forms of data visualization. One of the most well-known early examples of data visualization was a flow map created by French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard in 1869 to help understand what Napoleon’s troops suffered in the d

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