Network World

JULY 24, 2024

Like a cell phone or laptop, the hardware wears out or becomes obsolete.” With an anticipated budget of US$500 million, Discovery’s requirements are extensive. Vendors are also expected to provide estimates of maintenance costs for both hardware and software, including the establishment, at a minimum, of a Center of Excellence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

Los dispositivos de consumo con IA impulsan el gasto El gasto en IA generativa previsto para este 2025 estar impulsado en gran medida por la integracin de capacidades de IA en hardware , como servidores, telfonos inteligentes y ordenadores personales.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

There are different delivery models for NaaS, including: Subscription hardware: Instead of making an outright purchase (Capex), a business pays a monthly subscription (OpEx) for the hardware but still handles the installation and operation of the equipment. Multi-vendor environments will further complicate the matter.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Terabits per second.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Assess hardware compatibility Hardware refresh requires careful planning and sufficient lead time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

The Cafe-like Branch architecture enables you to classify and isolate devices automatically, securing environments without requiring costly hardware upgrades or downtime. Theres no more extending the corporate network to every single location Cost efficiency : MPLS, NAC and expensive switches have long been a drain on budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Cost is a core concern; IT budgets are expected to increase by around 10%, but inflation will likely leave CIOs withat bestthe same spending power as in previous years. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025? That amounted to 10% infrastructure cost savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. Power efficiency gains of new hardware can also give data centers and other organizations a power surplus to run AI workloads, Hormuth argues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Reframing technical debt There is no magic potion that can eliminate all technical debt, but technical debt can be attacked via budgeting if technical debt is not just perceived as upgrading IT infrastructure. To address this, the school district must raise funds and budget for replacing or modernizing the building.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. Some organizations may also have the veteran IT workers needed to deal with legacy hardware and code, adds Madan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

With Windows 10s end of support approaching, IT decision-makers are caught between needing to invest and managing budget constraints, he says. Today, were working together to embed future-ready AI capabilities like Microsoft Pluton into AI PCs for robust, hardware-based security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not less. One contributing factor to managed services’ ongoing growth as a percentage of IT budgets is finding and keeping the right IT talent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

By understanding their options and leveraging GPU-as-a-service, CIOs can optimize genAI hardware costs and maintain processing power for innovation.” We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

Everything being in done in AI hardware and software today, he said, is about improving performance efficiency, and one of the key areas to do that is to make the entire solution, or in this case, the data center, work more efficiently.

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Network World

AUGUST 8, 2024

A large organization owning such systems adds dimensions of complexity with ever-changing network topologies, strict requirements on failure domains, multiple competing transfers, and layers of software and hardware with multiple kinds of quotas.”

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Program analyst/manager Working closely with project managers, program analysts and managers oversee programs and projects within an organization to ensure they’re on track and on budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says.

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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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Government Artificial Intelligence Energy CTO 147

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

There are three ways to do this: Maximize hardware energy efficiency Consolidate infrastructure Use renewable energy sources Deploying Energy-Efficient Hardware The Hyperion Research study found three geo-specific motivations for the heightened prioritization of sustainability in HPC deployments.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Recent insights from Tech Fund reveal a widening disparity in R&D budgets between competing hardware makers AMD and Nvidia, a key factor in Nvidia's increasing market dominance. In that same mix we could look at Intel, which currently appears much weaker than both despite dwarfing their R&D spending. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s well within the budget.” It was quite cost-effective at first to buy our own hardware, which was a four-GPU cluster,” says Doniyor Ulmasov, head of engineering at Papercup. Increasingly, we’ll see AI-specialized hardware,” predicts Claus Torp Jensen, former CIO and CTO and currently a technology advisor.

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Storage Cloud Dell Hardware 349

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2022

Scary attacks such as Rowhammer make it possible for nosy neighbors to break into other users on the same hardware. But one of the big advantages of paying for your own hardware is not worrying about your neighbors in the data center. But there’s no doubt that controlling the hardware reduces the legal points of failure.

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Data Center Data Real Estate Hardware 290

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They force a deep-rooted dependency on their proprietary hardware and platform for the workloads they run. Large VMware customers seeing huge price increases may be able to justify the time and complexity of a migration, he says. Mainframes have much stronger lock-in for the software running on them, he says.

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Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2025

In todays business environment, where IT budgets are tight and sustainability is paramount, striking a balance between financial and environmental objectives is crucial. This service is available as a Care Pack when it is sold with new hardware or to existing devices by purchasing it within the existing Post Warranty eligibility window.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2023, enterprises worldwide spent $166 billion on AI solutions (AI software, hardware, and services), but that spending is expected to grow 27% per year to $423 billion by 2027, according to IDC’s report. Hardware spending will drive up the cost of AI adoption,” said Fleming. “So

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Forrester IT

MARCH 14, 2023

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

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Budget Energy Hardware Industry 195

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

Many people think of Network as a Service (NaaS) without the managed services component as simply a lease of the hardware and software. The lease of hardware and software involves the same ordering process as making a purchase. From the CIO perspective, NaaS is aligned to an operational IT budget point of view.

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Network Hardware Software Software 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

Server instances can be allocated to teams and then tracked with a budget. An important section of the suite is devoted to controlling the budget. The tool can be customized to generate accurate cost estimates of private installations by taking into account heating and cooling costs, hardware, and data center rent.

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Tools Cloud Budget Vmware 290

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 347

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But if you’re a department head pitching a major software expenditure to a CIO, if you’re a CIO with a limited budget trying to choose between competing projects, or you’re a CIO trying to sell a software-driven strategic initiative to the CEO or the board of directors, a strong TCO analysis is a must.

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Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 328

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

Investing in IT without busting the budget is no mean feat, for even the most well-heeled organizations. Budget-conscious organizations are increasingly turning to pay-per-use subscriptions billed as OpEx. Yet the public cloud’s flexible financial model remains attractive to enterprises leery of large CapEx investments.

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Budget Cloud Dell How To 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 25, 2021

The cheaper price point does come with some trade-offs including limited support for some software and hardware, but artists on a budget can now use a Wacom tablet with their… Read more. With millions of students now attending school from home, affordable laptop alternatives like the Chromebook are more popular than ever.

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Budget Hardware Software Software 93

Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Further, many organizations haven’t yet planned or budgeted for this shift,” stated Mark Horvath, vice president analyst at Gartner. Energy-efficient or green computing includes incremental tactics such as adopting greener energy or switching to more efficient hardware, and long-term strategies enabled by novel technologies, Gartner reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value. Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process.

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