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

CIO Business Intelligence

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1%

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

One such area that’s getting more thought today is SaaS backup and recovery, something many CIOs have to date taken for granted, leaving it to their SaaS vendors to not only deliver better than five-nines uptime but also be the sole entities backing up and recovering SaaS-siloed data that is increasingly vital to companies’ data-driven operations.

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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 gen AI came out. This is where large language models get me really excited.