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Moderate IT budget increases have CIOs shaping 2025 strategies to suit

CIO Business Intelligence

More than nine in 10 IT decision-makers project their budgets will increase in 2025, according to the Forrester 2025 Budget Planning Guide for Technology Executives. That spectrum of budget adjustments is being met by a range of strategies by IT leaders seeking to make the most of their 2025 IT spend.

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Seattle startup Live Aware raises $4.8M for new AI-powered game developer feedback system

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(Live Aware Labs Image) The other co-founders at Live Aware are head of product Nathan Wheeler , a former Seattle teacher who went on to work at the Seattle indie studio very very spaceship , and CTO Dave Berger , the co-founder and former engineering director of Microsoft subsidiary 343 Industries (now Halo Studios ).

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The state of CIO salaries: Rising to meet the prominence of the role

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CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. Typically, [CIOs] have 401ks and as part of the negotiation process, they’ll negotiate a lump sum that will offset the cost of that loss” from leaving their current job. “The Stephenson says.

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Taking stock of human capital in the age of AI

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million in 2023, and is expected to grow by 5% in 2025, equal to 3.75 Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. million compared to about 3.6 Talents must be paid.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

CIO Business Intelligence

“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

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Of roughly 2,500 CIOs surveyed recently by Gartner, 9% say they have already deployed gen AI applications, and a staggering 55% say they will deploy large language models (LLMs) in production by the end of 2025. Meanwhile, established AI vendors are also moving quickly to offer advanced gen AI platforms to keep their customers close.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

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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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