Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. These leaders will have to navigate myriad converging and disruptive technologies, align new initiatives to both business value and technology feasibility, and identify strategies to leverage existing investments to fund innovation. Constellation's research and advisory offerings arm the CIO w/ the knowledge, best practices, and strategies required to manage the four personas of the next generation CIO.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger argued that its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator will be able to deliver strong total cost of ownership even as it falls short of the $500 million revenue target for 2024.
With the results, Apple allayed some fears about iPhone sales. iPhone revenue was $46.22 billion in the fourth quarter ahead of expectations. However, Mac, iPad and services revenue fell short of what many analysts were expecting.
Amazon delivered better-than-expected third quarter earnings as its AWS unit showed sales growth of 19%.
Meta's 2025 budget planning process goes like this: Spend heavily on AI infrastructure and use AI to drive efficiencies so you can plow more money into GPUs.
David Giambruno, VP Tivity Health, is the type of person who negotiates his exit package before ever taking a job. Why? He's going to burn your platforms, automate everything possible, cut costs and be hated by everyone at a company except for the CFO.
Microsoft reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings as commercial cloud revenue was up 22% and Azure grew 33% from a year ago.
The cost of artificial intelligence inference and training will fall and enterprises need to question the current groupthink that revolves around a never-ending data center buildout cycle.
AMD continues to see its revenue surge due to its data center unit, which posted sales growth of 122% from a year ago.
Alphabet handily topped third-quarter expectations and its Google Cloud saw revenue growth of 35% from a year ago due to generative AI.
Enterprise artificial intelligence projects--generative AI, agentic and everything in between--will often depend on old-school IT management techniques.
In 2025, you'll have to get ready for "knowledge," AI governance will move to the forefront, enterprise software models will be revamped, decision automation will depend on humans in the loop and data strategies will be a pain point.
