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

CIO

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. An abundance of choice In the most general definition, open source here refers to the code thats available, and that the model can be modified and used for free in a variety of contexts.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

More than half of users surveyed initially take stock of their existing IT infrastructure. Two thirds of those surveyed see the consolidation and standardization of their application landscape and platforms as prerequisite for being able to successfully outsource workloads to the cloud. The motives for this approach are also revealing.

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

CIO

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. But despite such challenges, CIOs say they’re meeting them head on. Here’s how.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. According to G2’s latest state of software report, AI is the fastest-growing software category in G2 history. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Then there’s housekeeping.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) will allow for improved software delivery pipelines in 2019. As both security threats and compliance pressures grow, automating security and baking security controls into the software development process is now critical. Kubernetes. Containers.

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Outsourced IT: Is It Right for Your Company?

Kaseya

Outsourced IT is the concept of hiring external service vendors to handle certain IT functions. Companies outsource infrastructure management, application services, utility services, cloud-enabled outsourcing, software-as-a-service and more. You might have to install or use additional software.

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