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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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Map an AI strategy that’s yours, not SAP’s

CIO Business Intelligence

billion by 2027, with overall market growth accelerating from 17.8% In particular, spending on generative AI will surge from 8% of all AI software spending in 2023 to 35% by 2027, Gartner predicts. Beware of escalating AI costs for data storage and computing power. in the same timeframe.

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Energy shortages threaten to restrict 40% of AI data centers by 2027

Network World

The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner. According to Gartner, AI-focused data centers will consume approximately 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year by 2027, nearly doubling their current power consumption, from 260 TWh in 2024.

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Alibaba Cloud is betting on emerging markets with massive price cuts

Network World

Alibaba’s recent move to reduce prices of several cloud services, including compute, storage, and database offerings among others, is seen by experts as a strategy to attract new customers in emerging markets as competing in China heats up. The growth in generative AI, approximately a CAGR of 73.3%

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9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

Adversaries that can afford storage costs can vacuum up encrypted communications or data sets right now. According to Gartner, companies should have started on their crypto agility police by the of 2024, start implementing it in 2024 and 2025, and have it in production by the end of 2027.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. of AI storage in 2022 to 30.5%

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