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

CIO Business Intelligence

Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Given how we think the market will develop, generative AI will get embedded into every application we use,” says Nick Patience, research director specializing in AI at S&P Global Market Intelligence. The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. Then gen AI came out.