CIO

MARCH 28, 2025

They also ensure that enterprises have a foundation from which to implement crucial AI-driven improvements that can boost productivity and growth. With Windows 10s end of support approaching, IT decision-makers are caught between needing to invest and managing budget constraints, he says.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

This week, I am diving deeper into what generative AI means, or doesn’t mean, for enterprise buyers. It was based on a report data point showing that automation had risen among enterprise budget priorities. Enterprise companies and generative AI: Just looking? Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

On the other hand, there are also many cases of enterprises hanging onto obsolete systems that have long-since exceeded their original ROI. Understandably, many enterprises may want to ‘sweat the assets’ in order to get the most out of their systems, but this tactic comes with risk,” he warns.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

The platform draws on Deloittes experience from its technology, risk, tax, and audit businesses, and is integrated with all major enterprise software platforms. Power from partners Zora AI leverages Nvidia AI Enterprise, Nvidia NeMo, and Nvidia Blueprints to power its agents. PwC, in fact, estimates gen AI could contribute between $2.6

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At a rough guess the CIO of an average-size enterprise, following this methodology, would be ready to launch sometime in 2026. Reframe the conversation Thats when its time for you as CIO to have a tough conversation with the Powers That Be about the IT budget. To fix the challenges we face well need a bigger budget.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. The Nutanix State of Enterprise AI Report highlights AI adoption, challenges, and the future of this transformative technology. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

But Bilow observes that enterprises sometimes bypass early stakeholder groups and jump straight to business user needs. Another option is establishing an OCM center of excellence within the enterprises transformation management office (TMO) if one exists. Start by focusing on a current project.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

The economy simply isn’t in a recession,” which had been a fear among many enterprise CIOs, Pyle claimed. Talent shortages — or, more precisely, the shortage of skilled workers willing to take jobs at the rate most enterprise CIOs are willing to pay given tightening IT budgets — will be another key factor. “At

Technical Review 193

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Thats why smart enterprise IT leaders are turning to AI-powered procurement platforms to streamline sourcing, optimize spending, and mitigate risk. Legal and Budget Complexities Create Bottlenecks The Challenge: Complex contract negotiations and rigid budget approvals can slow down procurement and lead to missed opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To hear the hype from vendors, you would think that enterprise buyers are all in when it comes to generative AI. But like any newer technology, large companies tend to move cautiously. Throughout this year, as vendors feverishly announced new generative AI-fueled products, CIOs took note.

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Generative AI Enterprise Technology Company 313

CIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

Taking the time to look at that budget for it and plan for it, from my perspective, is more important than just jumping right in and potentially losing millions of dollars, because its just not as effective as youd hoped it to be. We turned corporations almost into VCs, funding IT projects as if they were startups.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says. While AI projects will continue beyond 2025, many organizations’ software spending will be driven more by other enterprise needs like CRM and cloud computing, Lovelock says.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Downtime cost large enterprises an average of $200 million annually, cutting 9% from yearly profits, according to a study commissioned by Splunk. And while ransomware accounts for a relatively small proportion of that total, enterprises should really be budgeting more for it.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Andy Ellis of YL Ventures Across-the-board, it seemed like the golden heyday where chief information security officers got more money every time they turned around had come to an end, with a third of CISOs reporting their budgets had dropped, and another fifth having frozen budgets, meaning only committed money would be spent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To move faster, enterprises need robust operating models and a holistic approach that simplifies the generative AI lifecycle. It also contains observability components for cost tracking, budgeting, auditing, logging, etc. It also uses a number of other AWS services such as Amazon API Gateway , AWS Lambda , and Amazon SageMaker.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AI spending on the rise Two-thirds (67%) of projected AI spending in 2025 will come from enterprises embedding AI capabilities into core business operations, IDC claims. Enterprises are also choosing cloud for AI to leverage the ecosystem of partnerships,” McCarthy notes. Only 13% plan to build a model from scratch.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. That’s where the contract comes into play.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2025

Our take: CIOs must focus on smart spending rather than indiscriminate budget slashing. See also: 10 IT budgeting mistakes to avoid.) enterprises are set to outspend their European counterparts significantly, according to research from Capgemini Research Institute. For midsize enterprises, the gap is even wider, with the U.S.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Without one to pilot the GenAI journey, projects and business functions that rely on the tool can exceed budgets and outrun its value. Looking beyond existing infrastructures For a start, enterprises can leverage new technologies purpose-built for GenAI. That being said, a strategic approach to GenAI is still necessary.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many customers who knew the Broadcom playbook signed three to five-year enterprise agreements with VMware before the deal was closed,” Ramaswami said, adding this bought them time. The interview hinted CIOs are cautious with their IT budgets and that while there is spending it’s with a total cost-of-ownership (TCO) mindset.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Productivity is one of the key benefits enterprises expect from AI. Foundrys research shows that nearly two thirds of organizations (61%) are increasing AI budgets, while 87% are either researching, piloting or actually deploying AI. [3] And the race to pioneer the technology is definitely on.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management. Enterprise IT struggles to keep up with siloed technologies while ensuring security, compliance, and cost management.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Keeping the enterprise running has never been an easy task. To the casual end-user, manager, or C-suite exec, an enterprise architect’s job is magical. For all its advances, enterprise architecture remains a new world filled with tasks and responsibilities no one has completely figured out. No one knows anything.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. Winning enterprise sales teams know how to persuade the Chief Objection Officer. Enterprise security attackers are one password away from your worst day.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As enterprises increasingly embrace generative AI , they face challenges in managing the associated costs. To manage their generative AI spend judiciously, organizations can use services like AWS Budgets to set tag-based budgets and alarms to monitor usage, and receive alerts for anomalies or predefined thresholds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

But the biggest difference, in Cohen’s view, is that those two companies “ are disparate from travel” and thus focus more on SMEs while TripActions is more focused on enterprise companies. No other company is able to provide a single, unified T&E [Travel & Expense] solution for enterprise companies on a global scale.”.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

So, it’s no surprise that GenAI projects are prioritized for funding across budgets. For IT to support projects that deliver efficiencies from AI, it first needs to unlock its own efficiencies on traditional IT work, enabling the ability to focus on managing the time, budget, and assets that AI projects will require.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) services, particularly generative AI (genAI), become increasingly integral to modern enterprises, establishing a robust financial operations (FinOps) strategy is essential. This includes proactive budgeting, regular financial reviews and the implementation of cost allocation policies that ensure accountability.

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2025

But I remind tech leaders that one of the biggest line items in any organization is the IT budget. Old rule: Stay in your lane New rule: Collaborate across the enterprise The CIO domain was once confined to the IT department. The historical role of IT leaders is to ask, What does the business want and how can I help them.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Take advantage of modeling and cost estimator tools that can help IT model configurations and better understand resource needs and budget impacts for a shift from legacy VDI to DaaS. Find the best consolidated management tools that can help enterprises and MSPs manage scaling, security, and updates.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

HP Anyware is the enterprise software IT needs to keep people productive with secured access to their digital workspaces without a VPN. Help your apps and budget perform Give your creative apps a boost by consolidating your graphics workstations alongside existing cloud storage and renderfarms. Why HP Anyware?

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