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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. Making existing applications better with embedded AI is awesome,” says Greenstein. billion to the global economy. Then gen AI came out.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

With AI, their users can get extremely smart research assistants. Now I’ve got summarization capabilities, access to the world’s best research librarian, and a first-draft text generator for a lot of things I want to do,” he says. There are a number of models, of various licenses, currently available to the public.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% A project could be getting delayed leading to a CIO paying extra consulting charges.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. What is Big Data? However, this may not be the best fit for your use case(s) in terms of appropriateness or cost.

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