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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO Business Intelligence

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. He also recommends tapping the open-source community for models that can be pre-trained for various tasks. “All All those 13,000 new models didn’t require any pre-training,” he says. Our theory is no.

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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. The company also wants to train more than 1.2 New data centres After doubling the capacity of its own data centers in Germany in 2023, Microsoft intends to double it again by the end of 2025.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits.

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Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits? » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud computing is used in many different ways these days, but not everyone is completely on board the cloud train quite yet. You may have to spend some time training your employees to get used to the cloud, but it’s not going to be any bigger time investment than other types of software. Modular Data Centers.

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Red Hat seeks to shrink IT skills gap with Lightspeed gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. Users can now use their existing Ansible content with the IBM watsonx Code Assistant to train the model. We’re all very excited about AI but we also have heard from our customers they have flat budgets,” Dubuque said.

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Project Engineer - Data Center Job Board

Data Center Knowledge

Position will manage engineering support for a portfolio of critical operating environments including a 250,000 square foot, tier IV data center and a 1.4 Manage all construction managers, consultants, vendors and management processes, i.e. budget, design, build and commissioning of capital improvements. Purpose of the Job.