The Shared Responsibility of Taming Cloud Costs

As multi-cloud strategies take hold and more organizations shift workloads and applications to the cloud, it can be challenging to keep track of resource usage that can result in “surprise” cloud bills and end up being costly for the business. In fact, Gartner predicts that 60% of cloud leaders will encounter public cloud cost overruns.…

The University of Phoenix and Expedient: Making the Transformation from a Legacy Datacenter to Software-Defined Excellence

Founded by Dr. John Sperling in 1976 to help working adults enhance their carriers, the University of Phoenix offers accredited online courses through 18 academic programs, including ones for business, counseling, education, and healthcare. Jamie Smith, the university’s CIO, still remembers his first tour of the university’s leased 27,000 square-foot datacenter. The result of years…

Building an Experience-driven Contact Center

All-inclusive vacations. Personalized tours. Packed sports arenas. These are the kinds of experiences that engage us, excite us, and leave us feeling satisfied. CXOs, CIOs, and others entrusted with and empowered to make CX decisions should want the experiences that flow in and out of their contact centers to be just as engaging. They should…