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

CIO Business Intelligence

Conversations and subscriptions A per-conversation model seems to be an emerging approach, says Sesh Iyer, managing director, senior partner, and North America regional chair at BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups IT building and designing group. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

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Red Sox CTO Brian Shield on building a world-class IT team

CIO Business Intelligence

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. You have your full-time lineup of veteran leaders. Your very best are your all-stars.

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10 quantum computing milestones of 2024

Network World

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. By comparison, superconducting qubits and trapped ion cubits operate at temperatures close to absolute zero. Whats the deal with error correction?

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. By comparison, the previous record-holder for most expensive downtime was the 2017 AWS outage, which cost customers an estimated $150 million. Our legal team knows exactly what to ask for when negotiating contracts.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Even after organizations use tools such as RedHats InstructLab to augment those industry-specific models with company-specific data, theyre still small by comparison.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract. Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements’ , so they can understand the many nuances of cloud contracts.

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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

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To give us a perspective on this question, we had the opportunity to speak with Roger Hockenberry , CEO and founding partner of Cognitio , a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. Intelligence Community.