End of Abundance in Tech

How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value

Sustainable Tech Solutions for Enterprise Scalability

Most of the modern economy runs on technology, and represents that backbone of major businesses, firing packets of information to and from websites to customers, sending emails, downloading files, and all other kinds of data capture that happens online today. The data produced by these servers creates an increasingly complex environment that makes managing and monitoring the overall health of your organization’s technology stack dizzying for even some of the most well-informed IT professionals and executives.

Fortunately for today’s CDOs, CTOs, and CIOs, the founder and CEO of Fortified—a leading company in database managed services—Ben DeBow has written End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value to help technology leaders. His method allows executives to develop a technology environment that’s more efficient, leads to a more productive use of server resources, optimizes client costs, provides system reliability and stability, and potentially saves their company millions of dollars that were previously tied up in inefficient technology practices.

To determine the health and capacity of their systems, leaders need solutions they can act on. Yet, many technology leaders lack real insights into the health of their technology environment at the organizational level. In a refreshing shake up of the status quo, DeBow’s book details how to achieve impactful technological health, and equips today’s tech executives with actionable solutions for managing and monitoring technology health so that they can achieve their ultimate goal: to maximize efficiency of the enterprise’s entire tech stack and deliver measurable value to the bottom line.

With the distilled information produced by Ben’s tech health blueprint in End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value leaders can take actions that make the system healthier and more mature. What’s more, those prescribed actions can be mapped into key performance indicators (KPIs) or objectives and key results (OKRs) at the top level of the enterprise. Taken together, executives leave with concrete milestones for server performance and an unprecedentedly detailed understanding of their technology spend and its alignment with project pricing.

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With technology quickly moving away from the functionality of the past and towards an efficiency of the future, Ben DeBow’s and the insights are more pertinent than ever. Within End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value tech leaders find the help the need to gain transparency on technology health enterprise-wide and gain fuller control of their tech stack. Find out about Ben’s next-gen approach to tech health by downloading the first chapter of End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value for free.

Praise For The Book

For any senior executive, this book will become an outstanding and trusted reference for determining effective approaches to ensure value is captured from the increasing volumes of data that we all seem to be drowning in. Ben DeBow’s End of Abundance in Tech is a practical guide to ensuring value is realized from nearly any IT environment in a realistic and simplified way that exceeds any previous attempts

Jason Child

FO of Arm Limited, Board member at Coupang, former CFO of Splunk, Opendoor and Groupon

I found myself nodding in agreement with many of the scenarios presented in End of Abundance in Tech and was impressed with the practical and actionable advice offered. This book provides insightful and thought-provoking perspectives on enhancing efficiencies in technology. Ben DeBow effectively uses real-life examples and situations to illustrate his points, making it easier for the reader to relate.

Tushar Thakker

VP Product Development, Quickbooks Payroll & Time

Ben DeBow’s book, End of Abundance in Tech, will benefit any IT, business, or data leader looking to develop a successful data and analytics strategy. Via solid research and numerous illustrations, DeBow draws an intriguing analogy between personal health and technology health and provides practical advice on how to find efficiencies to drive business value.

Douglas Laney

uthor of Infonomics and Data Juice; Innovation Fellow with West Monroe Partners; Guest lecturer on the valuation of information, MIT

Ben DeBow is at the leading edge of the next wave of business innovation. While many organizations are trying to mature their ability to capture and leverage data to gain new insights, End of Abundance in Tech gives leaders in any organization a framework to connect business value and technology investment. A must read for business leaders seeking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their tech!

Jeremiah Hurley

Senior Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Chief Technology Office; Former Deputy CTO and Director of Innovation at JSOC, US Department of Defense

In thirty years of working in tech infrastructure and information security, I haven’t encountered a person who can identify and solve workload performance issues the way Ben DeBow does. In End of Abundance in Tech, he shows you that you can gain the insight you need to run highly optimal workloads and truly understand your costs. This book is a must-read for any technology executive chasing the elusive big picture of how their environment performs and what it really costs. While we all may know that “non-optimal” almost translate into a more enormous bill, we don’t always know why. Even if you think you’ve got these answers down pretty well, you’ll come away with new ways to think about and solve issues for the long term — not just this week. You may even be able to finally end the debate in your shop about whether it’s the infrastructure that’s the problem or that less-than-perfect code.

Justin M. Cuyler

Sr Director of Information Security, WellSky Corp; Former Sr. Director of Security and Compliance, CarePort Health

In End of Abundance in Tech, Ben DeBow conveys wisdom and insight into the challenges and opportunities of managing modern enterprise systems. Clearly, the author knows how to optimize workload performance for technology efficiency, as illustrated by the practical guidance interspersed with real-life examples and astute observations. Using DeBow’s strategies, readers will gain new ways of thinking about system health, operational efficiency, and financial transparency in technology.

David Hyde

CTO Vertical Markets Software Solutions, a division of Global Payments

End of Abundance in Tech is a valuable resource for any IT leader looking to have a measurable and meaningful impact on the business. Ben DeBow presents a simple argument for gearing technology towards improving efficiency and driving business value. The book provides practical strategies from DeBow’s firsthand cross-industry experiences of achieving cost savings, driving efficiency, and improving productivity, while still delivering value to the business. I would recommend this book to anyone in the IT business looking for actionable solutions to impact their bottom line and stay ahead of the curve in the ever-dynamic business environment of today.

Steve Wanamaker

CEO and Publisher, CDO Magazine