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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Can Auto CIOs Transform Their Companies Into Software Companies?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The goal is to transform the car companies into firms that provide services that people will buy. The person with the CIO job in the auto industry is going to have to confront entrenched corporate cultures and limited budgets with which to make the transformation. CIOs at car companies really do have their hands full.

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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite this sunsetting, companies still run the platform, primarily because they want to defer investing or can’t afford to invest in the upgrade. To address this, the school district must raise funds and budget for replacing or modernizing the building. Windows Server 2012 is not alone.

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Three predictions for AI and automation business adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2023, enterprises worldwide spent $166 billion on AI solutions (AI software, hardware, and services), but that spending is expected to grow 27% per year to $423 billion by 2027, according to IDC’s report. Hardware spending will drive up the cost of AI adoption,” said Fleming. “So

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Managed services projections increase through 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not less. One contributing factor to managed services’ ongoing growth as a percentage of IT budgets is finding and keeping the right IT talent.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending. But by 2027, the analyst firm expects that to rise to at least 40%.

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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. Not to belabor the metaphor, but when it comes to Google’s hardware efforts, there’s a bit of a “darkest before the dawn” vibe. Hardware is hard. Hardware is hard,” Pichai says.