TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
The leadership perspective The urgency around cloud migration is being driven by business leaders who understand the competitive implications.“ Cloud spending is growing fast – exponentially for some – and it’ s holding businesses back from investing in growth and innovation,” said James Kretchmar, global CTO of the cloud technology division at Akamai Technologies.“ This is especially true with AI, where businesses are struggling to squeeze return on investment [ ROI ] out of their investments.
“ Leaders need to take a hard look at where they’ re spending and what outcomes they expect. Traditional ROI models don’ t map neatly to AI – productivity alone isn’ t enough,” he continued.“ Companies have to prioritise the quality of outcomes and use the right tool for the job. This includes looking beyond the egacy cloud providers to those [ designed ] for performance-sensitive applications like inference.”
This perspective is shared by leading technology executives across industries.
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