AI’s honeymoon with the enterprise is coming to an end. It’s time to get to business. That’s one of the main themes from IDC’s recent predictions report, “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation 2024 Top 10 Predictions”. But even though IT decision-makers will be scrutinizing AI and automation investments, you can rest assured they…
DetailsAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Specifically, AWS will launch what it’s calling…
DetailsAn outage due to a predictable event is every CIO’s nightmare. All it takes is a networking misconfiguration that causes cascading failures over time to bring on trouble. Certainly, while these kinds of events are, strictly speaking, “predictable” that doesn’t mean they are easy to foresee. Predicting infrastructure needs to support future usage, for example,…
DetailsIT organizations are taxed with managing, maintaining, and augmenting complex IT infrastructures that are constantly evolving. At the same time, they must deliver consistent IT service performance and availability to end users, while enabling innovative digital transformation for the business. And yet, IT teams face significant challenges, including: Addressing information overload Predicting capacity planning Assessing…
DetailsThere’s immense pressure on IT to become more productive, increase uptime, and reduce outages all while keeping costs in check. It’s a big challenge for CIOs to meet, which is why so many are turning to AIOps. Recently, that’s exactly the course Gisela Riggan, EVP and CIO at Prosperity Bank, chose to pursue, and she…
DetailsData volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 ZB by 2026. A typical novel contains 1 MB of data and is about 12 mm thick, so 12.8 ZB of data in novelized form would create nearly 400,000 stacks of…
DetailsGitHub first launched its copilot in 2021, and Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available a few months ago. These AI assistants often use the term copilot to indicate how generative AI capabilities embedded in workflow tools can augment and assist people in performing tasks and prompting for information more efficiently. The term copilot has caught…
DetailsTransformation should be completed quickly, without getting lost in the minutiae, says Ingo Elfering, group CIO of Fresenius. “It’s better to do it quickly, like taking a Band-Aid off, even if it hurts for a short time,” he summed up at the recent Hamburg IT Strategy Days 2024. So this has been the approach to IT…
DetailsArtificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. This rapid change demands a rapid response, but the strength of that response depends greatly on two factors – the agility of systems and processes and the availability of…
DetailsChe l’IT sia strategico per il business non è più un segreto per i CIO. Ma, quando tutto il top management – anzi, l’intera organizzazione – abbracciano questo concetto, allora la trasformazione digitale diventa davvero innovazione. Si tratta di un cambiamento organizzativo spesso incarnato dall’istituzione di una IT Governance, che suggella il ruolo centrale della…
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