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Deciding What Runs Where: Cloud, Edge, On-Prem, or Hybrid; How to place workloads based on performance, cost, sovereignty, resilience, and AI requirements.

Cloud decisions are becoming more selective. The challenge is deciding where each workload should run based on cost, performance, control, resilience, sovereignty, and business need. Three pressure points usually drive the decision. - Cost visibility becomes harder when usage grows across cloud services, data platforms, and AI workloads. - Performance and latency matter more when systems need fast access to data or support operational processes. - Sovereignty and resilience become critical when data location, continuity, vendor dependency, and exit options enter the discussion. The working question is simple: how do we place workloads where they create the most value while keeping the hybrid landscape manageable? If these trade-offs are on your agenda, let’s compare how others are handling similar choices.

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Choosing the Right Data Platform Without Creating New Silos; How to balance speed, flexibility, semantics, governance, and long-term maintainability.

Data platforms are meant to simplify access and support better use of data. The challenge is choosing and governing the platform landscape in a way that creates consistency, reuse, and long-term value. Three pressure points usually appear. - Platform choice becomes difficult when teams have different needs for speed, flexibility, cost, and control. - Business meaning needs protection: customer, revenue, product, risk, and FTE need shared definitions across tools. - Ownership and governance need to be clear, so platforms grow with accountability and discipline. The working question is simple: how do we give teams the data capabilities they need while keeping the platform landscape understandable, governed, and reusable? If these questions are familiar, let’s compare approaches with others facing the same data landscape.

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Building the Business Case for New IT Capabilities; How to justify investment when value is strategic, shared, or only visible over time.

Many IT capabilities are essential and difficult to fund through a simple project ROI. The challenge is showing why architecture, governance, resilience, cybersecurity maturity, data foundations, and AI readiness deserve investment before the gap becomes expensive. Three pressure points make the case harder. - Shared value means the benefit often sits across several teams, while the budget sits in one place. - Timing creates friction because the cost is immediate while the value appears over time. - Risk translation is needed so business and finance leaders understand the consequence of delaying the investment. The working question is simple: how do we turn foundational IT capabilities into credible investment cases that link cost, risk, business value, and future flexibility? If you are building these cases internally, let’s compare how others are positioning value, risk, and timing.

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Maximizing performance of critical government services

As the central IT agency for Croatia, APIS IT shoulders a critical responsibility: ensuring seamless operation of government services like taxes, customs, and elections. Their secret weapon? A powerful combination of IBM Instana and Turbonomic solutions.

The IT agency for a nation

APIS IT is the central IT agency for the government of Croatia. The organization delivers IT services and support for critical government entities such as the tax system, the customs system and all Croatian elections.

To support the quality of government services, APIS IT sought to maximize application performance while making efficient use of computing resources.

Full-stack visibility and optimization

APIS IT integrated the IBM Instana^® Observability and IBM^® Turbonomic^® solutions to gain a complete understanding of the status of critical applications and IT infrastructure at any point in time. Application observability combined with continuous infrastructure optimization helps the agency identify application issues and resource congestions before end users are affected.

By taking advantage of Instana’s Smart Alerts capability, APIS IT can defines app performance criteria that will generates automatic alerts. And on the infrastructure side, the organization can follows automated resourcing recommendations from Turbonomic to support performance while minimizing waste across VM and cloud-native platforms .

Combining Instana and Turbonomic, APIS IT can monitor applications from top to bottom, having a single pane of glass for applications and infrastructure. Both solutions are cloud-native by design and deployed on a private cloud Red Hat OpenShift cluster, allowing additional agility and scalability to support ever-changing application demands.

In the words of Franjo Piskur, Head of the Distributed IT Department at APIS IT, “Instana and Turbnomic together take the stress out of application performance management.”

Faster IT ops, higher-performance apps

With the IBM Instana Observability and IBM Turbonomic solutions in place, APIS IT has realized several benefits, including:

70% faster resourcing decisions
Up to 50% faster mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) across the organization
20% better utilization of containers infrastructure
20% reduction in number of application tickets
15% proactive incident avoidance

About APIS IT

APIS IT (link resides outside of ibm.com) is the leading IT company in Croatia and a key IT partner of the Croatian government. It provides IT consulting services to businesses and helps modernize government business processes.

Technologies

IBM Instana Observability IBM Turbonomic

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