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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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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. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. I'm not so sure?

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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

CIO

But those close integrations also have implications for data management since new functionality often means increased cloud bills, not to mention the sheer popularity of gen AI running on Azure, leading to concerns about availability of both services and staff who know how to get the most from them.

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The C-suite is expanding — and IT leaders are stepping up

CIO

Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As Sustainability has been crying out for digitization,’’ Graham says.

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

I should say that I initially spoke with WaveOne’s cofounders, CEO Lubomir Bourdev and CTO Oren Rippel, from a position of significant skepticism despite their impressive backgrounds. So why aren’t we using this ML-optimized chip for video? Well, that’s exactly what WaveOne intends to do.

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Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

CIO

The BIA process involves evaluating various threat scenarios, including the failure of key third-party services like Microsoft Azure. Gerald Johnston , an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), founded GJ Technology Consulting, LLC, where he assisted global financial institutions and helped launch a UK startup bank.

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AI agents will transform business processes — and magnify risks

CIO

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. “And