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Uncertain economic conditions will drive companies toward optimization and automation
By Asaf Ezra, Co-Founder
& CEO, Granulate
Last year was a
turbulent one for the economy, and that uncertainty will carry over to 2023.
Organizations continue to find themselves faced with having to make difficult
budget cuts in order to maintain steady growth in their bottom line. As a
result, I expect to see more organizations respond by turning to optimization
and automation.
Organizations will look to automation to avoid further budget cuts
and layoffs
Though inflation in select markets is starting to level out, companies are still bracing for
a potential recession in 2023 with central banks expected to further raise interest rates early this year. In addition to a
possible recession, organizations will have to deal with the increasingly
difficult challenge of hitting their sales targets.
With shrinking budgets and reduced staff,
companies will be looking to make cuts in the right places in 2023. This is
where cloud optimization and automation come into play. Optimization solutions
make it possible for businesses to avoid the hard decisions when it comes to
cuts. Furthermore, automation will help with workload orchestration and
capacity management, saving on high IT costs, which can in turn help avoid
painful layoffs.
Today's cloud cost reduction market is
noisy, with many tools being offered to solve the problem of high expenses.
Companies will seek out the solutions that can most efficiently reduce
computing costs through continuous performance improvements, and that can do so
on quick timelines for the best time-to-value - in weeks, not months. Finally,
automation will help companies accomplish these goals more easily, minimizing
the strain on their workforces from manual tasks.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Asaf Ezra is the co-founder and CEO of Granulate, a company providing autonomous, continuous workload optimization solutions. Asaf is a Talpiot program alum and continued his IDF service as a commander in Israel's elite 8200 intelligence unit. He previously held positions as R&D Team Leader and Project Manager where he led 30+ researchers, engineers and analysts in large-scale projects.