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How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

CIO Business Intelligence

In comparison, current large language model pricing is a form of outcome-based pricing, with users paying for tokens processed or generated, he notes. By pricing based on the underlying costs of compute, latency, and throughput, this model provides clarity on how charges are determined and allows for more precise budgeting, Leo John says.

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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says. The comparison works a bit, maybe from a stickiness perspective, because customers have built their applications and workload using virtualization technology on VMware, he says.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Jeff Wysocki, CIO at mining firm Mosaic Company, acknowledges those budget-busting concerns, but he says CIOs may be able to work with their public cloud provider to get those costs under control.

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Cost, by comparison, ranks a distant 10th. As budgets tighten, AI will soon face the same financial scrutiny as other IT investments. Data security, data quality, and data governance still raise warning bells Data security remains a top concern. AI applications rely heavily on secure data, models, and infrastructure.

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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

CIO Business Intelligence

Knowing this was coming, I responded, “On average, most organizations spend around 3-6% of their IT budget on security.” Security spend as a percentage of IT budget is meaningless without understanding your overall IT investment.” But here’s the challenge: Business leaders tend to look for quick comparisons.

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AMD holds steady against Intel in Q1

Network World

People have budgets to spend by the end of the year, so there is often a rush in the fourth quarter for server sales. It will be at least two more quarters before a proper comparison of sales can be made. That applies both to clients and servers, but for different reasons. in Q4 of 2023 and a considerable rise from 65.4%

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Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI

CIO Business Intelligence

By comparison, autonomous agents, located just below GraphRAG on the hype cycle, will take five to 10 years. They include automated knowledge extraction, budgeting, procurement, and enterprise planning. Gartner says itll take GraphRAG two to five years to reach maturity. But its very early, he adds. Its still not in production.