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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. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. March 2022. March 2022.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. Double down on vendor management.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. Then gen AI came out. This is where large language models get me really excited.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Companies who want to survive and thrive are looking to new technologies like AI and automation to bridge the gap and gain a competitive edge. The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. Of course, not many companies can afford this option.