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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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Last summer, a faulty CrowdStrike software update took down millions of computers, caused billions in damages, and underscored that companies are still not able to manage third-party risks, or respond quickly and efficiently to disruptions. It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential. Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

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

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Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Open source isnt completely free as there are still infrastructure and management costs. We picked Metas Llama to be the model of choice due to cost, control, maintainability, and flexibility.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

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Does the business have the initial and ongoingresources to support and continually improve the agentic AI technology, including for the infrastructure and necessary data? Asana also recently launched Asana AI Studio, which uses agentic AI to enable teams to create no-code, AI-powered workflows. Feaver says.

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

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In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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Review strategy before considering cuts To deal with rising costs, CIOs say they’re reviewing options such as staff cuts and downgrading service level agreements, as well as ways to increase productivity to combat labor cost increases and other price pressures. They’ve found a way to put 25% increases back into the cost of software.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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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.