Technology Optimization advises CIOs seeking to invest in innovation and strategic advantage while optimizing the cost of providing ongoing support.
New economic realities and shrinking IT budgets necessitate that IT organizations become better at justifying new projects, more efficient in delivering IT services, and smarter at adopting new technologies that can deliver business value while reducing costs.
Organizations must work together to optimize the cost reduction that funds innovation, and learn how to balance the needs of business with the responsibilities of IT. Is your organization ready for the shift to innovation? Have you developed a strategy to fund innovation with optimization?
Over the course of years, Salesforce has made many bold decisions to continue to reinvent itself. On its 25th anniversary this week, Salesforce once again reinvented itself by deciding to go all in with AI.
Broadcom's first quarter results were better-than-expected as technology buyers plan to closely watch comments about retaining VMware customers. Broadcom's chip business continues to benefit from the AI buildout.
PC giants are all betting that AI-enabled PCs will get sales growing again and create new use cases, but it's unclear whether technology buyers will play along.
The lowly enterprise data center may be making a comeback as companies look to leverage generative AI but keep corporate data secure and lower costs.
"We are also seeing strong interest and orders for AI optimized servers equipped with the next generation of AI GPUs, including the H200 and MI300X," said COO Jeff Clarke, referring to Nvidia and AMD GPUs, respectively.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise posted a mixed first quarter where sales fell short of expectations due to what CFO Marie Myers said were "challenges brought by the softening of the networking market and GPU deal timing."
The Leap Year Brings A New Copilot - Finance
Microsoft announced the public preview of Copilot for Finance. With tools such as Copilot, the user experience begins and ends with generative AI. In conversations with Vice President of Business Applications Engineering - Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications Marketing - Emily He, Vice President of AI-led ERP Engineering - Georg Glantshnig, users can now apply geneative AI across departments such as sales, service, finance, and IT with Copilot for M365, Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, Copilot for Finance, and Copilot Studio.
Nutanix's second quarter earnings conference call featured a heavy dose of VMware questions from Wall Street analysts. Here's what Nutanix is seeing in the field about disgruntlement over Broadcom's VMware strategy.
Nvidia's data center business continued to surge and the company continues to raise its revenue guidance at a rapid clip.