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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

While cloud risk analysis should be no different than any other third-party risk analysis, many enterprises treat the cloud more gently, taking a less thorough approach. Moreover, most enterprise cloud strategies involve a variety of cloud vendors, including point-solution SaaS vendors operating in the cloud.

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. There are, for example, those in leadership roles who, while promoting the value of risk-taking, also insist on “holding people accountable.” You can’t lose.

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CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

CIO Business Intelligence

There are a lot of risks and a lot of land mines to navigate,” says the analyst. Coming to grips with risk The first step in making any bet — or investment — is to understand your ability to withstand risk. The CIO has strategies in place to address all three. It’s a significant danger with significant costs.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Today we face the harsh reality of cloud costs, if not done right,” says Jay Upchurch, executive vice president and CIO at SAS. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs.

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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives. Successful strategic sourcing often results in process optimization, cost management, customer satisfaction, risk management , increased sustainability and other benefits.

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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

That includes maintenance and upgrades deferred in favor of other projects or priorities, which can result in high future costs when those actions can no longer by avoided, often when a solution reaches end-of-life. Here’s where CIOs can rethink their approach to the long-term benefit of their organizations.

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