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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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Despite these challenges, having an up-to-date disaster recovery plan that works and guaranteeing a robust network, security, and systems support framework for new business directions are foundational elements of IT that can’t be ignored — and should be funded. The average cost of a data breach is $4.64

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

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With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers.

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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

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They want a simpler product and constant innovation with an eye toward security and resilience. The core principle for our new engagement with cloud providers is that end customers should have complete freedom to move their workloads from their own data centers to cloud providers, and between cloud providers.

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Red Hat seeks to shrink IT skills gap with Lightspeed gen AI

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For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. A new administrative dashboard provides account administrators with telemetry data around Ansible Lightspeed usage, including monitoring metrics for gen AI requests and insights into how end users are using the service.

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

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Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. More specifically, Rasmussen is boosting her spend on cybersecurity to help manage risk, a key element for enabling Ceridian’s planned global expansion.

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The AI continuum

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It provides smart applications for translation, speech-to-text, cybersecurity monitoring and automation. Great for: Extracting meaning from unstructured data like network traffic, video & speech. Model sizes: ~Millions to billions of parameters. About Intel Intel hardware and software are accelerating AI everywhere.