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?
AI Begins And Ends With Nvidia
Despite the massive buzz on AI, only a few core companies that power the Age of AI will succeed. The high capital costs of research and development investment, the time required to take a product to market, and the ability to cross competitive moats create a massive barrier to entry. In fact, only a few vendors have shown significant profits in AI:
Take A Measured Approach To AI Adoption
The rush to AI projects often comes as an all or nothing approach. However, lessons learned from Constellation's Executive Network (CEN) members show a gradual and measured approach. Constellation sees five phases to adoption from both a business and cultural point of view:
Generative AI projects in the enterprise have moved beyond the pilot stage with many use cases going into production. Scaling has been a bit of a challenge, but the maturation of how CxOs are approaching genAI is underway.
Dell Technologies and Supermicro are building an AI factory with Nvidia for Elon Musk's xAI.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads. Nvidia AI Computing by HPE will be available in the fall.
GPU instances are taking a larger share of cloud enterprise spending and now are 14% of compute costs compared to 10% a year ago, according to a Datadog report analyzing AWS customer usage.
Broadcom saw strong AI demand in the fiscal second quarter and said VMware accelerated its software business.
Here are the details of the Oracle and Google Cloud tie-up followed by the OpenAI deal and the not-too-surprising strong cloud results.
Don't look now, but AI-optimized servers and infrastructure may be the most trendy innovation corner of technology. And the release cycle looks like it was ripped out of the Apple and Samsung playbooks.
Cisco at its Cisco Live conference outlined a partnership with Nvidia to launch Nexus HyperFabric AI Clusters, a data center networking architecture for generative AI deployments.
