CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

Data centers are running at near capacity in many areas of the world, according to the Global Data Center Trends 2024 report from CBRE, a real estate services firm. High-performance computing will require rapid innovation in data center design and technology to manage rising power density needs,” it adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In today’s organizational landscape, where technology wields increasing influence, the role of the CIO has been elevated, particularly catalyzed by the exigencies of the pandemic. The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3 CIOs should consider placing these five AI bets in 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

The power of 5G networks will one day usher in new generations of IoT applications, but large-scale adoption may still be a long way off. The three main use cases of 5G wireless technology were originally specified by the 3G partner program (3GPP). Something else needed to be offered for lower-end applications.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2024

. “The proposed impacts announced today are part of the roles that we previously announced we were evaluating in 2024. Consultation with local employee representatives, where applicable, will occur before making any final decisions.” Expedia’s new CEO, Ariane Gorin , started in her new role earlier this month.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

According to IDC Research, “Downtime continues to cost cloud buyers” (IDC’s Cloud Pulse, 4Q23: Executive Summary, Part II — 2024 Cloud Return on Investment). Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

In fact, CIOs listed numerous roadblocks to IT strategic success in the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. Now there’s news that the competition for tech workers may heat up even more this year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

According to a Bank of America survey of global research analysts and strategists released in September, 2024 was the year of ROI determination, and 2025 will be the year of enterprise AI adoption. But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Nearly half (49%) of IT leaders responding to the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com, say they expect to play more of a strategic role in the upcoming years, with another 36% anticipating a heavy emphasis on transformational responsibilities. Other surveys offer similar findings. Risk management came in at No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We experienced the impact of one of our SaaS providers, OpCon, not having a solid DR [disaster recovery] plan during the MS Azure Central Region outage,” says Gary Jeter, CTO of TruStone Financial. billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach nearly $300 billion in 2025, according to Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

While scope 3 reporting won’t be mandatory anywhere before 2024, the hard work to prepare has already begun in some organizations—even though the blueprint isn’t yet finalized. Scope 3 reporting will come as a shock to a lot of technology leaders,” says Niklas Sundberg, CIO of global solutions at Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

IDC research finds roughly half of worldwide genAI expenditures in 2024 will go toward digital infrastructure. After taking a hard look at their physical operations and staff capabilities as well as the fine print of cloud contracts, some are coming up with strategies that are delivering positive return on investment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

increase in IT spending overall in 2024, compared to 4% in 2023, software spending growth suggests CIOs need to adjust their budgets downward elsewhere. Earlier this year, Forrester competitor Gartner projected a worldwide IT spending increase of 8% in 2024. through 2027. With Forrester projecting a 5.3%

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two thirds of the CX practitioners, service leaders, analysts, and consultants from around the world who took part in CX Network’s Global State of CX 2024 agreed or strongly agreed they’re increasingly concerned about the ethical use of AI and its future development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. This team establishes the company’s risk tolerance, acceptable use cases and restrictions, and applicable disclosures. We intend to implement it in Q1 2024.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We went live on April Fool’s Day 2024, and it’s been a really good experience,” Shannon says, adding that IT deployed the system within its 12-month timeframe. But the changes bogged down the system “because there were so many custom scripts and performance was lagging,” and some processes didn’t work properly, Shannon says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In 2024, a new trend called agentic AI emerged. Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world. This data would be utilized for different types of application testing. The output of the system should be able to stress the end user application by producing different-sized test files.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2024

Consequently, one of the CIO’s top priorities for 2024 is discovering and uncovering the added value human workers can concretely achieve using LLMs — and much of this remains unknown. More benefit may come from a process or technology improvement instead of broad application of AI to ‘fix’ problems,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

Forrester incluyó la IA generativa para el lenguaje y los agentes de IA entre las 10 tecnologías emergentes más importantes para 2024. La IA generativa es especialmente útil para el desarrollo web, añade Natalie Lambert, fundadora y socia directora de GenEdge Consulting , una consultora de IA.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

“One of the biggest lessons from 2023 was the need for adaptability,” says Peter Bilyk, chief innovation officer at Ukrainian law firm Juscutum. Companies that were able to pivot quickly in response to new technologies, market demands, or global events fared better.” Remaining adaptable will be key as we step into 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Until recently, technology was often seen as a mere expense rather than a catalyst for innovation and business growth. Studies like Foundry’s 2024 State of the CIO report reveal a dramatic change in attitude. In 2015, we attempted to introduce the concept of big data and its potential applications for the oil and gas industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Board of Directors Survey from Gartner , for example, found that 80% of non-executive directors believe their current board practices and structures are inadequate to effectively oversee AI. The time for experimentation and seeing what it can do was in 2023 and early 2024. Now many are admitting they werent quite ready.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

IT analyst Forrester listed gen AI for language and AI agents as two of its top 10 emerging technologies for 2024. Some videoconferencing applications now generate transcriptions and summaries, as do standalone tools such as Otter.ai. Apps such as Grammarly correct mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2024

The following 10 award-winning projects showcase the impressive power of IT in the enterprise today and the ingenuity of modern CIOs and their teams, serving as representatives for the cohort of 2024 honorees. The end result, completed in early 2024 and now fully operational, is the data center EMR mirrored in cloud infrastructure.

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