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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO

This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career. What is an IT consultant?

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

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Caylent, an AWS cloud consulting partner, uses AI to write most of its code in specific cases, says Clayton Davis, director of cloud-native development there. “A lot of the problem with AI-generated code is not necessarily that it doesn’t work right, but that we already do this a certain way.”

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. In a November report by HR consultancy Randstad, based on a survey of 12,000 people and 3 million job profiles, demand for AI skills has increased five-fold between 2023 and 2024. Other surveys found a similar gap.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. We have to look at how we interact with colleagues and how we interact with AI, he adds.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Redshift is a data warehouse (aka OLAP database) offered by AWS. If you're an ambitious person, do you go work at AWS?

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Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

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For example, the database team we worked with in an organization new to the cloud launched all the AWS RDS database servers from dev through production, incurring a $600K a month cloud bill nine months before the scheduled production launch. This lack of engagement results in inertia and minimal progress.

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

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We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at the FinOps X conference in San Diego in June. Students at OpenCV University and an AI consultancy spinoff, for instance, use RunPod to train AI models, says Satya Mallick, Ph.D.