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July 24, 2024
CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies
CIOs are looking at ways to avoid single points of failure and are re-evaluating their cloud strategies to prevent any 'blue screen of death' incidents. Read more
5 IT risks CIOs should be paranoid about
From mounting technical debt to financial concerns in the cloud, IT leaders must recognize, survey, and develop plans to address several key operational risks that if left unchecked could debilitate their business. Read more
CIOs must beware committing âAI washingâ themselves
Temptation to overstate AI capabilities is trickling down from vendors to users. Under pressure to show progress, IT leaders must create clear definitions and reviews to avoid implications. Read more
The great repatriation? IT leaders reset cloud strategies to optimize value
CIOs continue to move workloads back from the public cloud, but their moves represent a refinement of their cloud strategies â not a rejection of the cloud itself. Read more
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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions
âFreneticâ spending, compute-intensive workloads, and a market dominated by one hardware maker have IT leaders looking to new technologies and methods for containing the high costs of generative AI. Read more
CIOs are stretched more than ever before â and thatâs a good thing
Modern digital leaders have to climb an ever steepening responsibility curve. Successful CIOs embrace this challenge and collaborate with their executive peers to transform the business. Read more
CrowdStrike failure: What you need to know
A flawed update to CrowdStrike Falcon sent Windows servers and PCs across the globe into an endless reboot cycle that IT organizations are still working to remediate. Read more
