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

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Open source isnt completely free as there are still infrastructure and management costs. Llama helps with sales support, coding Deloittes Sarer recently worked with a data center technology company that was looking for gen AI to help transform both the front and back office. Finally, theres the price.

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

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What happens when a supplier goes under The disappearance of a company that supplies technological assets to your enterprise can present huge challenges, especially if it has supplied a significant part of the infrastructure. In another, an external data center was dismantled after being acquired by another company.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

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More than half of users surveyed initially take stock of their existing IT infrastructure. More than a third favor the private cloud approach, or hosting cloudified applications in an external provider’s data center. The motives for this approach are also revealing.

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

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The report, based on an annual survey of IT leaders, also found that 90% of CIOs prioritize partners and vendors based on their sustainability credentials — a huge change since the 2023 report , when 49% of CIOs looked at carbon output, sustainability, and energy efficiency when choosing new suppliers.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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According to IDC SaaS Path research from 2023 , 67% of businesses with more than 1,000 employees have employed a SaaS management platform, says IDC analyst Frank Della Rosa — a market category that includes a broad array of options, such as Productiv, Zylo, Flexera One, Blissfully, Torii, BetterCloud, Zluri, Apptio, and LeanIX, among many others.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

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Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation. With that added role under his belt, Strickland was soon tapped for other plus-roles along with a direct report structure to the CEO.