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Oracle expects data-hungry generative AI to drive revenue growth

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle is betting on high demand for data, driven by generative AI -related workloads, to boost revenue in upcoming quarters as enterprises look to adopt generative AI for productivity and efficiency. Net income for the quarter rose 56% year-on-year to $2.4 Generative AI is changing everything. billion, up 9% from last year.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Enterprise Applications, Oracle, Technology Industry They also don’t yet have any direct pricing strategy around how to monetize AI.”

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news for SAP is that many of the customers adopting its cloud-based S/4HANA offering are net-new, meaning more market share. The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.