CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

“People may be used to working on legacy applications and processes, but as part of digitally transforming the organization, an IT leader will have to put in place new processes and solutions that are beneficial for the company and don’t impact it in any negative way.” He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It can also expose companies to future legislation. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. The company also prohibits staff from using ChatGPT to write letters to clients. Not without warning signs, however.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations. Quick response to disruptions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2016

This is posing a challenge especially for companies involved in products not traditionally thought of as able to collect personally identifiable data. You’ll find who owns the data in documents such as end-user license agreements. Businesses, including farms, are for example signing contracts with drone companies.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

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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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

Governments such as that of India are pushing for the adoption and use of open source software capable of cutting licensing costs from giant companies such as Oracle, IBM and Cisco. Giant tech companies going open source. Currently acting a freelance consultant, Alex is free to write about the topics he's so enthralled by.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. He can take his own credit card and buy some licenses and connect online.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

He lead the strategic planning for Microsoft’s NMCI proposal, winning over $400 Million in new government sales, and also renegotiated a $25 Million, multi-year license agreement for over 30,000 servers with OSD, NII. He is the founder of Martingale Consulting, in Potomac, Md. Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation and advisor to the U.S.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The top 10 funding rounds across the Pacific Northwest in 2022, listed below, highlight companies that were able to attract venture capital dollars despite rising interest rates and tumbling public tech stock valuations. Nuclear energy company TerraPower fuels up with $750M. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This week Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier has a LOT for which to be thankful. First are some of our technology vendors, a few of whom have ever increasing appetites for money. But a few public sector unions have held out for their contracted raises , which are far larger than inflation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 23, 2007

The main reason for this post is to announce the companies we’re showcasing as “five leading examples of Web 2.0 companies in Australia, will be released in the next few days, appearing first on Richard’s Read/Write Web , which is one of the top few technology blogs in the world. in Australia” at the event.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights. Do we address cyber scenarios to the extent that we should? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

These will be of Australian companies that are actively engaged in Enterprise 2.0. They preferably shouldn’t be technology companies, because it is too easy for other companies to say that they’re different. This will be assisted by tools such as our Web 2.0 Showcasing relevant case studies. Identifying success factors.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 7, 2007

companies ( full details here ), which amply demonstrated the calibre of local companies and talent, as well as BEA’s demonstration of their new enterprise 2.0 Certainly this year has seen a surge of new web companies, applications, alongside some real commercial success. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the Top 60 Web 2.0

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What should you be aware of before licensing a BPM tool? If your company can’t deliver the level of service that customers expect, they’ll find someone who can. Does your company still rely on inefficient processes? Every company is different and inefficiencies will manifest themselves in different ways.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Signs of inflation, labor market instability, and geopolitical strife are among the many reasons CIOs may be feeling some anxiety about the future, says Steve Shoemake, managing partner and global technology practice leader at consulting and staffing firm Vaco. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. .

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Know the long-term licensing costs. Before you dive into low-code, understand that comparing licensing fees on an apples-to-apples basis is nearly impossible. Licensing structures and costs vary wildly by vendor. But, it’s important to know the base licensing model and what factors might lead to more fees. Features used.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has expanded its ongoing partnership with San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI with a new exclusive license on the AI firm’s groundbreaking GPT-3 language model , an auto-generating text program that’s emerged as the most sophisticated of its kind in the industry.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

As a CTO, I’m so immersed in technology that I’m not sure “broadband” means anything to the average American (if an “average” American exists). A significant fraction of people know about broadband and what it means. Admiral Barnett’s remarks centered on wireless spectrum for use by first responders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s still the case today, except entrepreneurs and companies are now beginning to adopt tools to create applications and develop services that don’t require coding. Actors and leaders of incubators and educational movements are doing what they can for the sake of those in both technological and non-technological sectors.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. In 2022, the company raised $150 million in funding and was valued at a staggering $1.15 The company needed connected people to make that happen. Spokesperson S.Y.

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