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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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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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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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. — Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

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For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A

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

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With a pre-trained model, you can bring it into HR, finance, IT, customer service—all of us are touched by it.” Traditional ML requires a lot of data, experienced data scientists, as well as training and tuning. The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight.

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

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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

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These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. You need to know where the data’s coming from, how it’s transformed, and what the outputs are,” says Nick Amabile, CEO at DAS42, a data consulting firm. AI is a black box.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

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Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.