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?
According to Nvidia, the US government informed the company April 9 that its H20 chips would require a license to be sold in China for the "indefinite future."
Google Cloud announced a bevy of capabilities and services designed to enable multi-agent systems for its customer base, which is increasingly integrating the company’s models, data platform and agent development tools into their stacks.
While many folks think of mainframes as creaky old systems designed to process transactions without downtime, the z systems are big business for IBM and a strong upgrade cycle. In addition, IBM has reinvented the mainframe a few times for cloud workloads and now AI.
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The shock and awe from tariffs represent just one part of the Great Reset that’s being led by a President that has a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform America's standing and shape the POTUS legacy. Hampered by a failing WTO and short-term thinking that plagues the Western world, tariffs provide the biggest leverage point to both political and economic bilateral negotiations for access to the US $29 trillion economy.
The enterprise data center was supposed to be dead by now, but the reality is on-premises workloads are getting new life courtesy of AI workloads.
The AI Landscape's Tectonic Shift: OpenAI's dominance is crumbling under the weight of technical missteps, unsustainable economics, and intensifying competition from both established players and newcomers. With Microsoft testing rival models, Apple reconsidering partnerships, and Chinese innovations accelerating, the "simply partner with OpenAI" strategy has become dangerously outdated. The next 18 months will transform the AI ecosystem—and only organizations with flexible, sophisticated approaches will emerge as winners.
Platform9, which has been gaining momentum in moving VMware customers to its private cloud suite, launched a community edition of its Private Cloud Director.
