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How cloud adoption solves some of IT’s biggest headaches

CIO

To address these issues, IT organizations are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to gain operational efficiency and agility. How cloud eases IT challenges When organizations migrate their workloads to cloud platforms, this burden shifts dramatically. This could take weeks or, more likely, several months to accomplish.

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Cloud analytics migration: how to exceed expectations

CIO

A cloud analytics migration project is a heavy lift for enterprises that dive in without adequate preparation. Traditional systems often can’t support the demands of real-time processing and AI workloads,” notes Michael Morris, Vice President, Cloud, CloudOps, and Infrastructure, at SAS. But this scenario is avoidable.

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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

TechCrunch

But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

TechCrunch

The relatively recent shift to cloud computing promised to lower costs and boost productivity, but “ cloud-first strategies may be hitting the limits of their efficacy , and in many cases, ROIs are diminishing,” writes Thomas Robinson, COO of Domino Data Lab.

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The mainframe’s future in the age of AI

CIO

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. You either move the data to the [AI] model that typically runs in cloud today, or you move the models to the machine where the data runs,” she adds. “I I believe you’re going to see both.”

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No refactoring required: A painless path to cloud adoption

CIO

Cloud computing has been a major force in enterprise technology for two decades. But according to a Barclays report issued last year, only 42% of workloads reside in the public cloud , despite the benefits of running workloads in the cloud. Retraining admins on new tools to manage cloud environments requires time and money.

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Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

CIO

At Cloud Next 2025, Google announced several updates that could help CIOs adopt and scale agents while reducing integration complexity and costs. Smaller LLMs and other updates At Cloud Next 2025, Google also introduced specialized LLMs for video, audio, and images in the form of Veo 2, Chirp 3, and Imagen 3.

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