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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7% Here’s how.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. That helps me plan.”

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Outsourced IT: Is It Right for Your Company?

Kaseya

Onshoring is when you outsource to a service vendor residing in another city within your country. This approach to outsourcing eliminates the issues resulting from foreign taxation policies and cultural differences. You don’t need to spend time and money on training in-house technicians to make them more technically sound.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

As the attack surface expanded with emerging technologies and interconnected systems, so did the sophistication and frequency of cyber threats. No review of 2023 would be complete without mentioning the explosion of AI into the public eye, like ChatGPT and Copilot. Enable the use of passkeys for more advanced or tech-savvy users.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO

Technology and telecommunications deals accounted for more than one-fifth of that, according to Shearman & Sterling. Keeping on top of activity in this area can help your company make the most of emerging opportunities and steer clear of issues that often arise when vendors combine. M&A volume climbed from $3.26