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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Tracy came along with Atlantic Aviation after that transaction.

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Atos calls for help after plan to raise new capital falters

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French IT services company Atos has called on a third-party trustee to help it negotiate debt refinancing with its banks after plans to raise €720 million in new capital through a rights issue fell through. It announced it requested the appointment Monday, promising to give an update on the negotiations in due course.

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How to capitalize on ‘Trustworthy AI’

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When a new wave of technology innovation seems to be breaking over the horizon, the fear of missing out — FOMO — can drive hasty decisions on new IT investments. It thrust into the spotlight the potential of generative AI to revolutionize customer interactions, generate images from text input , and even automate software coding.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

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Generative AI shifts the cloud calculus Somerset Capital Group is one organization that has opted to go private to run its ERP applications and pave the way for generative AI. Controlling escalating cloud and AI costs and preventing data leakage are the top reasons why enterprises are eying hybrid infrastructure as their target AI solution.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

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The list of highest-paying IT skills is always shifting as technology evolves, but some skills have consistently maintained earning power for IT pros over the years. And while several factors impact one’s salary, such as tenure, experience, and location, expert-level competency comes at a higher premium for some skills versus others.

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What most CIOs get wrong about strategic IT plans

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In my younger and more sarcastic days I used to needle my friend the budgeting manager, who was also responsible for reviewing capital project proposals to ensure their projected ROI exceeded the hurdle rate. What,” I asked him, “is the ROI for budgeting?” But it wasn’t, I insisted, our plan. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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To Carm Taglienti, the explosion of all things AI over the past few years has been both a pro and a con to IT teams. On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says. “We

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