CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2022

Being on what she calls the “frontier” of the global energy transformation may keep her up some nights, but it is “rewarding” beyond words, says Karaboutis, who will be speaking at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium next week. You can imagine what the Infrastructure Act and the Go Green [initiatives] has meant for my budget.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 1, 2023

I looked at the Budget 2023 that India’s Finance Minister presented on Feb 1st 2023. On that day, India’s Prime Minister tweeted, “This year’s Budget infuses new energy to India’s development trajectory”. I find that he was not far off the mark.

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

“Here in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, we build leadership-class supercomputers for scientific applications,” said Matt Sieger, project director for Discovery, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL, which is managed and operated by UT-Battelle on behalf of the US Department of Energy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Advanced materials and energy: Innovations in materials science enable stronger, lighter, sustainable products next-gen batteries for affordable EVs, improved airplane composites for fuel efficiency and clean-energy breakthroughs like small modular nuclear reactors and carbon capture technology.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. Energy-efficient computing Energy-efficient computing will continue to be a hot topic, according to Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a recent global survey , 86% of participants said their organizations had dedicated budget to generative AI, but three-quarters admitted to significant concerns about data privacy and security. AI faces a fundamental trust challenge due to uncertainty over safety, reliability, transparency, bias, and ethics.

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Forrester IT

MAY 9, 2017

vs. 5.1%) for US budget growth in 2017, with our new 2018 forecast pointing to a modest improvement next year. US consumer spending remains strong, as a result of reduced energy costs and low unemployment. This forecast assumes moderate US economic growth (2% to 2.5% real GDP growth, 4% to 4.5% nominal GDP growth). Despite the weak 0.7%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In Energy consumption: Another cost consideration CIOs are also mindful of the massive energy consumption of generative AI applications, which is another hefty cost to consider. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

The supercomputers that power HPC, however, require more and more energy to operate. For respondents anticipating an HPC budget reduction, the goal is to reallocate dollars to sustainability initiatives. For instance, the power consumption of the world’s fastest supercomputer rose from 7.9MW in 2012 to 29.9MW in 2022.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

This event is an opportunity to hear directly from leaders in DC on the impact of the Congressional and Presidential elections, including diving deep into topics like cybersecurity, healthcare, defense, energy, technology and budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These initiatives reinforced our customer-centric IT approach, informed budget allocation, and strengthened our responsive, efficient IT strategy. Discussions led to a comprehensive review, optimization, and consolidation of our lab infrastructure, adopting models like lab-as-a-service and refining our offerings.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2025

startup helped drivers juice up their vehicles when energy is cleaner and more readily available. Babu Jain, entrepreneur-in-residence at Washington Clean Energy Testbeds at the University of Washington. The testbeds provide access to high-tech equipment and expert support for innovators in clean energy and climate technology.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

energy sector. Energy Supply Chain ," the report analyzes the cybersecurity performance of the 250 largest U.S. energy companies and their supply chains, with a particular focus on third-party risks. One of the report's most striking findings is the disproportionate impact of third-party vendors on energy sector breaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

The promise of the smarter city Smart cities offer the promise of a thriving urban ecosystem that seamlessly blends technology, systems, and people to optimize everything from traffic flow to energy consumption. These details will define the starting point for formulating an action plan based on available budget and priority.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Jay Inslee this week proposed a new wealth tax to help generate revenue for government programs and address a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. Pouring all my energy into making Seattle a better place to be an entrepreneur and the gut punches feel endless.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But released the next day, the 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey revealed that EMEA-based CIOs expect IT budgets to increase 4.4% Digitally reduce energy usage: Gartner believes that CIOs should use cloud, data and analytics to establish a “base load” – an overview of how much energy the organisation has consumed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

The report, based on an annual survey of IT leaders, also found that 90% of CIOs prioritize partners and vendors based on their sustainability credentials — a huge change since the 2023 report , when 49% of CIOs looked at carbon output, sustainability, and energy efficiency when choosing new suppliers.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. I recently talked to the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company that budgeted $500,000 for an AI-driven quality control system. Cultural adaptation is another hidden cost that rarely makes it into initial budgets.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2024

(PNNL Photo) There’s growing concern about the nation’s ability to meet future energy demands, driven in part by the AI boom and advances in clean tech. aims to bring together researchers and industry partners to develop grid-scale energy storage technologies for all stages of the battery development cycle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. And they keep on top of project budgets. But what if your problem isn’t IT but with the users themselves? CIOs and project managers understand these risks. They pay keen attention to business requirements.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In a new GatesNotes blog post on Thursday, the Microsoft co-founder is calling for a better national way to evaluate and nurture great ideas around clean energy research. Specifically, Gates would like to see the federal government create the National Institutes of Energy Innovation. “This the most important thing the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“When I joined Graded IT to drive digital transformation, management was convinced of the centrality of change,” says Gennaro Ardolino, head of digital innovation and CISO of the Neapolitan energy saving company. Instead of simply controlling the company’s tech needs and related budget, the focus should be on security and innovation.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 14, 2023

As I wrote at the time: “Energy prices are scary. Budgets are tightening. Last year, a number of Forrester analysts discussed how manufacturers are responding to the challenges their industry faces right now. Supply chain disruptions are scary. Workforce modernization and empowerment are hard. Aligning the competing (or, […]

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 23, 2022

They must also use their budgets creatively to drive the agenda and energy […]. Better products, achievable quotas, and more support? CSOs/CROs, together with sales enablement leaders, must address these questions and emotions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When building the new data centers, Microsoft is also paying attention to the sustainability aspect and investing in renewable energies. “We We will generate more electricity from renewable energy sources than our data centers consume,” Smith promised, noting that Microsoft is focusing on solar energy in Germany.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2022

We do see some of the consumers are cutting their budgets and trying to save money in the short run. Other factors affecting AWS growth, according to Olsavsky, were inflation in employee salaries due to stock-based compensation and rising energy costs alongside continued investments in its data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

Several factors appear to be driving cloud cost increases, including inflation, a rush to deploy compute-hungry AI , and energy costs, says Mark Boost, CEO of Civo, which bills itself as a low-cost competitor to the big three hyperscalers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. “The The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 18, 2018

Agencies that only focus their time, energy and budget on meeting various mandates are having trouble keeping up with evolving cyber threats. With the recent focus on data-level security and year-end budget sweeps around the corner, shouldn’t your agency be looking at how to better store and protect its data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Powering through the world’s energy needs . Consider for example one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies, Chevron. Since the late 1800s, the energy company has worked its way through exploring, producing, and transporting crude oil, natural gas, and other energy products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For renewable energy leader Doosan Enerbility , the savings unlocked by switching from vendor support to Rimini Street for its Oracle Database allowed for the funding of innovations such as robotics process automation (RPA) and other new technologies to help support the company’s mission to bring forth eco-friendly energy alternatives to consumers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2024

Concerns that AI contributes to global warming stem from estimates that GPUs used to develop and keep AI models running use four times as much energy as those serving conventional cloud applications, and that AI could be on track to use as much electricity as Ireland. Think about how much computer and carbon that saved.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2022

Since the pandemic, NaaS solutions are growing quickly due to the need for a hybrid workforce, the demand for CapEx during off-budget cycles, and the shortage of employees with a networking skill set. . This in turn can reduce a company’s carbon footprint by optimizing energy consumption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

However, despite data centres and transmission networks being responsible for nearly 1 per cent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, a new Deloitte study reports little over half (54 per cent) of businesses have converted to energy-efficient technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For these data to be utilized effectively, the right mix of skills, budget, and resources is necessary to derive the best outcomes. Yet, it is the quality of the data that will determine how efficient and valuable GenAI initiatives will be for organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These insights can ensure heating, energy use and occupancy levels are optimised – something that’s particularly important during the energy crisis, when energy prices are spiraling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Many have even spun up renewable energy arms. Furthermore, monitoring solutions allow companies to track real-time energy consumption, enabling them to reposition energy-heavy workloads to locations with lower energy costs or optimize usage for carbon emissions. Innovation underpins corporate sustainability efforts.

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