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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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

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“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.”

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Do you have the data center and data science skill sets?” It was quite cost-effective at first to buy our own hardware, which was a four-GPU cluster,” says Doniyor Ulmasov, head of engineering at Papercup. He estimates initial savings between 60% and 70% compared with cloud-based services.

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IT leader’s survival guide: 8 tips to thrive in the years ahead

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Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Quality, hard-working individuals underpin all data initiatives,” Jayanthi says.

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Four Cloud Computing Myths That Need To Die

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My In-House Data Center Is More Secure. A third-party has control over the hardware and the network. That’s true, but it doesn’t make your in-house data center more secure than the cloud. In this article, I’m going to tackle four of the myths I come across most often. The reason is this: we live in a connected age.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Change the organizational mindset.

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Scope 3 is coming: CIOs take note

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders generally need to get numbers from suppliers in four different categories: hardware vendors, software vendors, professional service providers, and cloud providers. The large hardware vendors usually have the numbers readily available. Software vendors don’t know where to start.