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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

In addition, CrowdStrike hired two independent software security vendors to review the Falcon sensor code, its quality control, and release processes, and also changed how its updates are released: more gradually, to increasing rings of deployment, says Adam Meyers, CrowdStrikes SVP for counter adversary operations. Trust, but verify.

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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. Business alignment, value, and risk How can an enterprise know whether a business process is ripe for agentic AI? A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI? Agentic AI needs a mission.

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

CIO

According to Baris Sarer, who leads the AI division of Deloittes technology, media, entertainment and telecommunications industry practice, Metas Llama model is the one that shows up most in industry deployments, followed by Mistral. We picked Metas Llama to be the model of choice due to cost, control, maintainability, and flexibility.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO

In the ever-changing tech landscape, service interruptions and company disappearances are more common than CIOs would like. Sometimes a provider proposes a solution based on technology that swiftly becomes obsolete, or just can’t move fast enough when a more promising solution emerges. So too are robust vendor management practices.