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5 things CIOs must understand about AI infrastructure

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Scalability, flexibility, and reliability When you consider AI infrastructure and its building block nature, precision becomes even more important for handling varying AI workloads effectively. Yes, that’s scalability and flexibility to accommodate changing computational demands.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending. But by 2027, the analyst firm expects that to rise to at least 40%.

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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

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As with many data-hungry workloads, the instinct is to offload LLM applications into a public cloud, whose strengths include speedy time-to-market and scalability. Inferencing funneled through RAG must be efficient, scalable, and optimized to make GenAI applications useful.

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Whether your technology is new or old, lifecycle management is key

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This is where software-driven infrastructure plays a key role because it enables the scalability, performance and resilience you need to support secure, high-quality user and customer experiences. This enables us to map out your environment and formulate a plan of action that fits both the technology constraints and your budget.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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Principal software engineer As a senior-level technical role, a principal software engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers and ensuring that the team builds and implements high-quality, scalable software, while following best practices. Average salary: US$145,416 Increase from 2021: 3.4%

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Lenovo’s Arthur Hu on the CIO’s customer-centric imperative

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I’ve played a key role in Lenovo’s service-led transformation, as we transition from being a hardware business to one that provides end-to-end technology solutions to support business growth. It is no longer enough to manufacture and ship a piece of hardware. It is easily scalable, which is attractive for companies of all sizes.

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