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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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A fractional CIO’s responsibilities typically include IT team management, budget development and supervision, specifying technology investments, and providing guidance on IT systems and governance, he says. What is a virtual CIO versus a fractional CIO? What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs?

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

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Sometimes, though, it sneaks in through the back door as a result of ad-hoc individual or departmental initiatives — or even through the front door, bundled by the vendors of enterprise applications already in widespread use. OCI Supercluster will combine thousands of Nvidia GPUs and high-speed memory for training LLMs.

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

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Buying another vendor in the same space isn’t out of the question, as Nutanix and SimpliVity target enterprises of different sizes. Prior to its acquisition by HPE, SimpliVity supported its hardware accelerator and software on servers from a variety of vendors. It’s also important to avoid analysis paralysis, he says.

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The importance of converging the Security Service Edge

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The pandemic also exposed the limitations of virtual private networks, which enable remote access to secure computing resources. Even more alarming was when frustrated users disconnected from the VPN entirely to log in to their SaaS applications, thus bypassing any of the security controls and increasing the overall threat surface.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. It will add it to its Spot by NetApp portfolio, the collection of SaaS tools built around the cloud management and cost optimization company it bought in 2022. Atlassian buys Percept.ai.