article thumbnail

4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. We see it as a recruiting and retention factor.” Use renewable energy Hosting AI operations at a data center that uses renewable power is a straightforward path to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s not without tradeoffs.

article thumbnail

A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

CIO

If you run your operations the same way as when you operated in data centers, the cloud will be three to five times as expensive.” When we were in data centers, IT would buy the hardware, and because they knew they needed headroom, they’d overbuy and allocate those costs to the businesses. That’s the beauty of the cloud.

Cloud 246
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO

With the subscription-based model, customers download the software and run it on infrastructure in their data centers. This can create what Palermo refers to as an “air gap,” in that once the product is in the customer data center, the Red Hat product and marketing teams lose a lot of visibility into customer usage and experience.

article thumbnail

The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

From a company standpoint, you minimize turnover and search and recruiting costs.” The 300-person shop doesn’t focus on the classic network or data center support roles — those are outsourced to service providers. “From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

article thumbnail

10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

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. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

Strategy 363
article thumbnail

MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain. It’s tough in the current economic climate to hire and retain engineers focused on system admin, DevOps and network architecture.

article thumbnail

What it takes to succeed as a CIO today

CIO

Are you going to have your own data centers, are you going to be in the cloud, or hybrid? In the middle, you’ve got data. Dan Roberts: Why should someone who’s not looking for a new job connect with an executive recruiter? At the base level, you’ve got compute, and what are you going to do?