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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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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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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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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

And in regulated industries, vendors must also comply with specific regulations, such as HIPAA or PCI. The same approach can be extended to include generative AI vendors, products, and services, but there are some new twists. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If

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IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity

CIO Business Intelligence

Wright’s IT department has four staffers in Russia, and he works with a consulting firm that supplies him with about 25 workers — half from Russia and half from Ukraine. Monish Darda, CTO and co-founder of software company Icertis, says his executive team thought about such topics in response to the pandemic. Monish Darda.

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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.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

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The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing.