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IT frustration costs companies more than $100 million a year — with shadow IT the only user solution

CIO Business Intelligence

The average large enterprise lost $104 million to digital inefficiencies in 2024, driven by productivity losses connected to employee IT frustrations and hundreds of ghost apps flying under the radar, according to a new study. Meanwhile, many enterprise employees turn to unauthorized apps and software to do their jobs, the study says.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. Meta itself refers to it as a community license or a bespoke commercial license.

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When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side

Information Week

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24 The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. The study focused on perceptions of their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget.

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