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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

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Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC. We could hire five people.’”

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Merging Airbnb and the traditional hotel model, Mexico City’s Casai raises $23 million to grow in Latin America

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The company was co-founded by chief executive Nico Barawid, a former head of international expansion at Nova Credit and consultant with BCG, and chief operating officer María del Carmen Herrerías Salazar, who previously worked at one of Mexico’s largest hotel operators, Grupo Presidente. Image Credit: Casai.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

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When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’ Software consulting. Our clients are often very focused on the hardware side, which requires us to be more diligent when working on the software/firmware side of the project to ensure everything will work together smoothly.

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Hungry for resources, AI redefines the data center calculus

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But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. Power efficiency gains of new hardware can also give data centers and other organizations a power surplus to run AI workloads, Hormuth argues.

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Aware of what tech debt costs them, CIOs still can’t make it an IT priority

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It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC.

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ERP modernization: Still a make-or-break project for CIOs

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Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says.

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Maybell Quantum’s Icebox is a small fridge for large quantum computers

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Maybell Quantum , a Denver-based startup that plans to build hardware for the budding quantum computing ecosystem, is coming out of stealth today and launching Icebox. As the name implies, Icebox is a cryogenic platform to cool quantum processors down to the very low temperatures it takes to run a stable quantum system.