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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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

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. Computational requirements, such as the type of GenAI models, number of users, and data storage capacity, will affect this choice. An example is Dell Technologies Enterprise Data Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A lesser-known challenge is the need for the right storage infrastructure, a must-have enabler. To effectively deploy generative AI (and AI), organizations must adopt new storage capabilities that are different than the status quo. With the right storage, organizations can accelerate generative AI (discussed in more detail here ).

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

Cost-effective GenAI, on premises Of course, here’s something that may not be mysterious for IT leaders: building, training, and augmenting AI stacks can consume large chunks of budget. Because LLMs consume significant computational resources as model parameters expand, consideration of where to allocate GenAI workloads is paramount.

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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

JULY 18, 2023

We have also been investing heavily to expand our data center networking capabilities across switching, automation, and integration into HPE compute, storage, and HPE GreenLake. HPE Aruba Networking solutions are deeply integrated into a wide variety of HPE compute, storage, HCI, and HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud offerings.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

That way the group that added too many fancy features that need too much storage and server time will have to account for their profligacy. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

However such fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) can make it harder for IT to secure the necessary budget and resources to build services. On-premises will allow you to customize your model and support it with hardware optimized to handle heavy compute and storage loads. Learn more about how Dell Generative AI Solutions.

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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 23, 2022

Data gravity creeps in generated data is kept on premises and AI training models remain in the cloud’; this causes escalating costs in the form of compute and storage, and increased latency in developer workflow. But over time, data sets and AI models grow more complex as companies seek greater accuracy from the models.

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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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Given that AWS did not break down the investment in terms of employees, contractors, hardware, software, and other items, it’s impossible to know what this investment will specifically buy. Google and Microsoft have historically been similarly vague about their European cloud budgets. Not able to provide a breakdown, I’m afraid.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Any infrastructure purchase requires a budget, or at least an understanding of how much money you intend to spend. To build that budget, an ideal IT procurement solution provides an overview of your inventory, including aggregate information on storage, compute, virtual resource allocation, and configuration details.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Many of the world’s IT systems do not run on the latest and greatest hardware. This will continue due to the typical budget, spending, and equipment update cycles of everyone from the hyperscale cloud to small enterprise. Even in the age of AI, not every rack will be drawing 100 kW or need liquid cooling.

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Network World

AUGUST 21, 2024

I’m very lucky in that respect – I’ve never wanted for staff and budget, though we’ve kept it reasonable and measured.” For example, the health organization had hardware-based endpoint detection and response on its networks. The only major on-prem systems still left are imaging systems that have very robust storage requirements.

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Big data software, hardware, application suites, business analytics solutions. Common applications include storage and analysis of customer sales data, web interactions, suddenly, it seems, IT enterprises are deluged with vendor offerings that solve problems it didn’t know it had.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Traditional hardware vendors also have as-a-service offerings that can run in data centers or at the edge: Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ii] Furthermore, according to HPE internal data, average storage utilization hovers around 40%. iii] While organizations must plan for usage spikes and failovers, they also have opportunities to clean up workloads, retire unused equipment, and leverage newer, more efficient hardware and solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. 1] Between storage, compute, and data transfer costs, plus backups and snapshots, use of the cloud can drive up database costs if not properly managed. billion to $79.1

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

The latest price drops are for dedicated instances, which are different from regular EC2 instances in that they run on single-tenant hardware. They are isolated from other instances belonging to other customers at the host hardware level. Budget Cuts Target North Carolina Incentives. AWS wants to win over the enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

Most IT leaders have assets moved to the cloud to achieve some combination of better, faster, or cheaper compute and storage services. While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. These resources are shared with many users, and the hardware the cloud computing company provides is built on a system that makes the most efficient use of it. ALAN McMAHON.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. Modular Data Centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The demand for software in manufacturing has only increased, as nearly every piece of equipment or hardware is now connected to the internet in some form — and this has also increased the demand for software engineers. Software engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If In addition, 67% of enterprises overprovision on-premises storage to be at least 1.3x By nature, HPE GreenLake is designed to reduce overprovisioning,” Frey says. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises. Most enterprises already have some form of cloud infrastructure in place, observes Ronen Schwartz, general manager and senior vice president, cloud storage, at hybrid cloud data services and data management firm NetApp.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The potential exists for significant savings as SDN allows data centers to move away from single source hardware to the commodity-based pricing we see with servers. Controllers will be a new line item in the IT budget, and it’s expected that VM vendors would want to control the vSwitch, rack, and core as a single unit with their software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Bring the right skills onboard As a baseline, every platform engineering team needs to hire people who have strong communication skills, are technically proficient in software development, hardware and data, have excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and are familiar with platform engineering tools, says Atkinson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If In addition, 67% of enterprises overprovision on-premises storage to be at least 1.3x By nature, HPE GreenLake is designed to reduce overprovisioning,” Frey says. “As

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

Greg Sly, Verizon’s senior vice president of infrastructure and platform services, oversees storage, compute, and networks related to data centers that serve Verizon, along with a set of CIO-level responsibilities, including supporting all the technology used by the company’s employees to run its corporate offices and retail operations.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

To some, laptops are still a huge luxury, but for many of us, the budget is a priority. So, we want to buy a laptop that is under a budget and has good features too. And, a laptop with the latest features and technology in 200-300 dollars is definitely a budget-friendly option. 64GB eMMC Storage (Upgradable via SD card slot).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ve played a key role in Lenovo’s service-led transformation, as we transition from being a hardware business to one that provides end-to-end technology solutions to support business growth. It is no longer enough to manufacture and ship a piece of hardware. I’ve not done it alone, however. What’s your guidance for IT leaders on this?

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