Cloud-First Strategy vs. Hybrid IT

In the fifth of 10 episodes, Hari Candadai, Global VP at Rimini Street, interviews Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research to discuss digital transformation solutions in the face of the global pandemic.

For many enterprises, a cloud-first strategy actually means an ongoing hybrid IT strategy where new workloads move to the cloud while old workloads remain hosted until it makes sense to move them. And that can be quite some time, because it is not easy to shift to the cloud, and often not worth the time and cost to move everything.

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Predicts 2023: Inflation’s Permanent Impact on SaaS/Software Costs, Commercials and Business Practices

As software vendors respond to the impact of inflation, they are now more likely to view support as a profit center, optimizing it at the expense of the end-user and leading to a potentially degraded experience at a higher cost. In this Gartner Predicts 2023 report, you will get insight into how software vendors are adjusting their support models and gain strategies on how you can control your costs and improve your negotiating power: By 2026, 50% of enterprise applications will separate support from existing subscription and maintenance costs to create additional revenue streams Impacts of market conditions on support and maintenance pricing over time Why you should consider third-party support to protect critical applications as an alternative to vendor-provided support Read the full report to discover strategies for keeping software costs under control as vendors shift their models. Gartner, Predicts 2023: Inflation’s Permanent Impact on SaaS/Software Costs, Commercials and Business Practices, 9 January 2023, Mike Tucciarone Et Al. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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