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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

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As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. That’s where the contract comes into play.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023.

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The extraordinary synergy of wi-fi and 5G in enterprise networks

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This same principle can help enterprises remain operational and connected during all kinds of internal and external “storms.” Network reliability and availability are among the many reasons why enterprises are augmenting Wi-Fi networks with 5G. In enterprises, Deloitte calls 5G a novel “force multiplier” to Wi-Fi technology.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. For Moncrieff, the conversation was really around ownership, transparency, and cost.

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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

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According to a separate study on the AI readiness of Indian enterprises conducted by EY and Indian IT industry body Nasscom, enterprises are also holding back the deployment of AI due to concerns about data security, privacy, brand reputation, and the safety and security of people and equipment. Artificial Intelligence

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Microsoft can’t keep up with demand for AI in the cloud — for now

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Many features have been developed for Windows and Office copilots without having been deployed due to the lack of compute. Customers are unlikely to go elsewhere, though, as AI workloads are often fueled by large amounts of enterprise data from applications running in the same cloud. AWS and Google both have capacity issues as well.

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The ‘IT Business Office’: Doing IT’s admin work right

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Among the unenlightened, running IT “like a business” is supposed to be best practice, delivering goods and services to internal customers who IT must fully satisfy, and who then pay for what IT delivers to them through the auspices of a charge-back system. Overseeing the IT budgeting process: Each IT manager has a budget to manage to.

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