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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve never had a technology touch everyone so rapidly.” Embedded AI Embedding AI into enterprise systems that employees were already using was a trend before gen AI came along. ML was used for sentiment analysis, and to scan documents, classify images, transcribe recordings, and other specific functions.