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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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OpenTofu: Liberating IaC and DevOps beyond Terraform

CIO Business Intelligence

Earthquakes in infrastructure automation The story begins in August 2023 when HashiCorp, the custodians of Terraform, the most widely-used IaC framework, announced that they were moving its license from Mozilla Public License (MPL) to Business Source License (BSL). The community struck back. There are some solid reasons.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Technology Evaluation Centers, the most popular software includes: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) , an open-source framework for building Python programs to work with human language data. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Of course, automating procedural, repeatable tasks via robotic process automation (RPA) not only cuts cost but frees up talent for higher-value, more strategic activities, enabling the business to do more with fewer people and address talent supply issues. There are several ways to tackle this problem.

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Navigate AI market uncertainty by bringing AI to your data

CIO Business Intelligence

And while LLM providers are hoping you choose their platforms and applications, it’s worth asking yourself whether this is the wisest course of action as you seek to keep costs down while preserving security and governance for your data and platforms. Of course, GenAI can also help with that. Can you blame them?

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IT leaders go small for purpose-built AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Low barriers to entry Better yet, the cost to try a small language model AI is close to zero, as opposed to monthly licensing costs for an LLM or spending millions of dollars to build your own, Bullock says. Building AI for your needs HomeZada, provider of digital home management tools, is another convert to a purpose-built approach to AI.

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