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

CIO Business Intelligence

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. An abundance of choice In the most general definition, open source here refers to the code thats available, and that the model can be modified and used for free in a variety of contexts. And there are plenty of such models to choose from.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher. It was quite a juggle.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

“Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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AI agents will transform business processes — and magnify risks

CIO Business Intelligence

It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. Centric Consulting, for instance, works with a midsized regional property and casualty insurance company that uses two different vendors to collect customer emails related to insurance claims, and process those documents.

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ITAM Isn’t Sexy. But We Need It!

CTOvision

The owned aspect refers to the contracts, that is, the pieces of paper received from each vendor that tells you how much you bought and how much you paid for it. The version you bought as part of MS Office. Then there is the version you bought as part of an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA), which has a totally different SKU.

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Web 2.0 in Australia: The birth of Silicon Harbour? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

David Backley, Chief Technology Officer of Australian banking giant Westpac, said that risk aversion in corporations means both that they are less likely to try new technologies, and to by them from smaller vendors rather than the software giants. Another key theme was the application of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

What are people “sleeping on” … I’m borrowing the “sleeping on” reference from an interview Willison did on the Changelog podcast , where he said : This is the thing I worry that people are sleeping on. trained model arrived, licensed for research and commercial use. So Welcome To S1E4.