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Level the playing field with GenAI: Top SMB use cases

CIO Business Intelligence

Coupled with the leanness and agility of SMBs, centering GenAI in their long-term strategy is an increasingly compelling move for many businesses. Driving innovation by easing content creation Yet even as GenAI is transforming the dynamics of business, not every SMB has seized this opportunity.

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Big Data, People and the SMB

Eric D. Brown

Additionally, those large organizations are well ahead of their small and medium business (SMB) counterparts. There are a number of reasons for the lag between large organizations and SMB. In the world of the SMB, the ability to bring in new people just isn’t there. To me, this levels the playing field a bit for the SMB.

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Does your SMB have the foundation in place for GenAI?

CIO Business Intelligence

Dell Technologies devices are produced with a three-pronged approach to cyber defense—software security, built-in hardware and firmware security, and supply chain security—that can mitigate threats as they happen. At the same time, companies are free to scale dynamically their use based on business needs.

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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

High-risk legacy protocols and services, such as Server Message Block (SMB), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Telnet, Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS), and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), frequently make up more than 20% of internal East-West network connections. Our unique agentless architecture protects headless machines.

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At risk of being left behind on AI, SMBs focus on the art of the possible

CIO Business Intelligence

The barrier to entry The big issue for SMBs is the cost of the computing power and related expenses needed to run modern AI models, says Tony Fernandes, CEO and chief AI officer at HumanFocused.AI, an AI consulting firm. SMBs are particularly vulnerable to these cost increases.”

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More SMB Love Needed

Cloud Musings

In a recent post, titled “ 10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is ”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace: Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system.

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Cloud infrastructure sales rise as companies seek digital resiliency

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating workloads to the cloud, investing in data storage, and cloud-native application development have all been particular drivers of SMB (small and medium business) investment in the cloud, as they step up digital transformation projects, the report said.

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