by Ben Lowe | Jun 26, 2024 | ZIRP
For over a decade, businesses have enjoyed an era of near-zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), where cheap money flowed freely, allowing for rapid expansion and risk-taking without significant financial scrutiny. However, the tide has turned… As interest rates rise...
by Ben Lowe | May 20, 2024 | Uncategorised
For CTO’s and Enterprise Architects: Ben Lowe discusses what exactly is IBM Turbonomic, and why you may want to start caring, and fast. Sometimes, when you’re deep into a thought or explaining a complex topic like IBM Turbonomic, it’s easy to dive straight...
by Ben Lowe | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorised
Ben Lowe discusses why IBM Turbonomic is the perfect platform to launch the Lighthouse vision for “intelligent operations” and the enhanced use of AI technology. During my time at IBM around the 2021 acquisition of Turbonomic, global operational costs—from...
by Ben Lowe | Jan 19, 2024 | Uncategorised
In a climate of rising costs, industry giants have raised the prices of their cloud services, prompting CIOs and CFOs to seek strategies to manage this ‘cloud-flation’ and avoid unexpected high costs. – Grasping Cloud Economics Impact: The escalating...
by Ben Lowe | Dec 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
As a CFO, balancing technological needs with financial prudence is crucial, especially when reducing compute power. Gartner reports that data centers, consuming 3% of global electricity and contributing 2% to greenhouse gas emissions, indicate significant cost-saving...
