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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

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Albemarle has been using AI as a virtual assistant since the recent pandemic lockdowns. “We Patrick Thompson, former CIO and digital transformation officer at Albemarle Albemarle But in a few short months, generative AI is beginning to take traditional AI to another level for applications like predictive maintenance.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. The requesting team works only at the application layer.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. Importantly, you should also indicate the goal for the workload (e.g.,

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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A fractional CIO’s responsibilities typically include IT team management, budget development and supervision, specifying technology investments, and providing guidance on IT systems and governance, he says. What is a virtual CIO versus a fractional CIO? What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs?

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. After having spoken to numerous customers and vendors, its clear to me that cloud computings operational transformation necessarily triggers structural changes in the IT organization - as well as in the rest of the enterprise. IT Financial Management. (4).

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

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IBM no longer makes its own servers, but it might focus on integrating the software with its Red Hat Virtualization platform and IBM Cloud, to the detriment of other customers relying on other integrations. If your software vendor is independent then the immediate question is: Is the company buying this one that I’m using?

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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Now, with generative AI, they should also ask about the measures vendors take to ensure that data remains private and isn’t used to train and enrich their models, he says. Can I run it in my own virtual cloud?” Vendors need to understand the environment of their specific sector,” he says.