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HP Awarded $32.4 Million Cybersecurity Contract by U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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government agencies prevent network and system vulnerabilities. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 federal civilian government agencies.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%. In addition to cloud consumption, there may be drivers at play.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. Data governance In traditional application development, enterprises have to be careful that end users aren’t allowed access to data they don’t have permission to see. AI is a black box.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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Government push for open source software. 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. For instance, information technology spending for the government of India alone went up by 5.7

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” Then, in July, Meta’s Llama 2 came out, and this time, it was licensed for commercial use.