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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. IT organizations can save substantial amounts on SaaS contracts by lowering service levels, CIOs say.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s gen AI platforms, however, require much less data since companies can start out with general-purpose foundation models and either fine-tune them on their own data, add a vector database, or inject information and examples directly into the prompt. Then gen AI came out. This is where large language models get me really excited.