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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

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One such area that’s getting more thought today is SaaS backup and recovery, something many CIOs have to date taken for granted, leaving it to their SaaS vendors to not only deliver better than five-nines uptime but also be the sole entities backing up and recovering SaaS-siloed data that is increasingly vital to companies’ data-driven operations.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. We’ve seen 10 to 15% increases across the board for two years in a row,” says CTO and chief transformation officer Richard Wiedenbeck.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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So enterprises looking for generative AI vendors have a lot of options to choose from. We’ve been conducting extensive research with partners like Gartner, McKinsey, and others to understand the market landscape and how other companies are using this technology,” says Yexi Liu, CIO of food products multinational Rich Products.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. February 2022. Kamal Goel Web Werks.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. They can provide highly refined, specialized solutions that benefit from significant investment in research and development, he says.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

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In July, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Given how we think the market will develop, generative AI will get embedded into every application we use,” says Nick Patience, research director specializing in AI at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Then gen AI came out.