CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

Erik Gfesser, an IT consultant and former director at Deloitte, says hes seen enterprises running hundreds of unauthorized apps and software libraries when he engages with them. It rarely ends well for either the business team, the ghost IT team, or the central technology organization, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC.

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JUNE 7, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Caylent, an AWS cloud consulting partner, uses AI to write most of its code in specific cases, says Clayton Davis, director of cloud-native development there. It may be difficult to train developers when most junior jobs disappear. Some companies are already on the bandwagon. Gen AI tools are advancing quickly, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Were less concerned about one-time training/fine-tuning costs and more worried about managing ongoing operational expenses. Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts. USTs Masood agrees that the cost potential of model training isnt for the faint of heart.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Your communication strategy is lacking Leaders often overlook the importance of building strong communication links between management and team members, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at software development firm Euristiq. You can be the executive sponsor, assigning someone from your organization who you would like to train in this area, she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. The main commercial model, from OpenAI, was quicker and easier to deploy and more accurate right out of the box, but the open source alternatives offered security, flexibility, lower costs, and, with additional training, even better accuracy.

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MAY 30, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. However, before that can go into production, the AI has to be trained not only to quote policy, but to also respond in a tone that respects sensitivities in different parts of the world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. That offers potential pathways to train new AI to reduce the need for supervision. In December, Langbase released a state of AI agents report, based on over 3,400 responses from executives and technology professionals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Industry-specific modelsrequire fewer resources to train, and so could conceivably run on on-premises, in a private cloud, or in a hosted private cloud infrastructure, says Nag. But should you?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s widely recognized that introducing IT teams to the latest technology, business, and security advancements is essential for maximum performance and productivity. Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments? Training technology is also rapidly advancing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It You need people who are trained to see that. We had to figure this out and get our team trained,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says. Everything fell in place; every box was ticked,” she says. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. In the current quarter we expect our Cerner Health business to be awarded two large new contracts with a total value of over $1 billion,” Ellison added.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. This uses the same transformer technology thats behind large language models and other types of generative AI, but trained specifically on quantum processes.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

Prior to starting Applicology, an independent consulting firm specializing in informatics and cyber security issues, Flores spent 31 years at the CIA where he held various positions in the Directorate of Intelligence, Directorate of Support, the National Clandestine Service and the Office of the CIO. Media Contact: Laura Taylor.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. Seekr’s main business is building and training AIs that are transparent to enterprise and other users. Training a large foundation model versus inferencing on a smaller, distilled model take different types of compute.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Today, were not using gen AI in any investment decision, trading decisions, or even back office areas without a human in the loop, he adds. Once you get Copilot for Office 365, you go through training, and thats driven up our utilization to around 93%. Were taking that part very slowly. Youve got that down to a science, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. For healthcare organizations, what’s below is data—vast amounts of data that LLMs will have to be trained on. Consider the iceberg analogy.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

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DECEMBER 7, 2013

By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb continues coverage of FEDcyber 2013 by speaking with Bandura Systems CTO David Maestas about their PoliWall appliance that can restrict access to networks by country. Bandura Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of TechGuard Security, LLC. Don’t miss an episode of SecureNinjaTV!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

Companies use gen AI to create synthetic data, find and remove sensitive information from training data sets, add meaning and context to data, and perform other higher-level functions where traditional ML approaches fall short. If there are duplicate records, fuzzy logic matching technology is great at checking whether it’s the same person.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post. We’re dependent on it.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

There’s also the ever-present threat of copyright lawsuits related to AI-generated text and images, accuracy of AI-generated content, and the risk of having sensitive information become training data for the next generation of the AI model — and getting exposed to the world. How transparent are they in their model training process?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. “We Kumar adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

Companies are struggling to hire true data scientists — the ones trained and experienced enough to work on complex and difficult problems that might have never been solved before. This has left data scientists not only bored but also frustrated that they weren’t focusing on the core work they have been trained to do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

But there are no ways around the significant premium pricing being placed on generative AI workloads because the core infrastructure necessary to train and tune generative AI models are “largely supplied by one company: Nvidia ,” IDC notes. These chips are evolving rapidly to meet the demands of real-time inference and training.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Just under half of those surveyed said they want their employers to offer training on AI-powered devices, and 46% want employers to create guidelines and policies about the use of AI-powered devices. CIOs should work with their organizations’ HR departments to offer AI training, Chandrasekaran recommends.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

This may involve everything from manual workarounds to training for staff and support teams or additional redundancy. Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. This helps mitigate risks and ensures accountability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Training and upskilling are also integral to this transformation, she says. She says that Thomson Reuters is already seeing a positive business impact from the generative AI training. “In The next set in training is about how we capture that augmentation and elevation. PhotoRoom doesn’t have a formal training program, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. AIs need a lot of training data, and for some types of high-level, strategic decisions, there isn’t much of it.

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APRIL 19, 2014

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