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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. We’ve never had a technology touch everyone so rapidly.” Today’s foundational models are jacks-of-all-trades.

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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

CIO Business Intelligence

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. Therefore, most CIOs focus on business-critical operations, since maintaining existing enterprise systems is a top priority.