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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?
On-premise enterprise AI workloads are being talked about more as technology giants are betting that enterprise demand will launch in 2025 due to data privacy, competitive advantage and budgetary concerns.
On Blackstone's third quarter earnings conference call, the company said its data center portfolio now has $70 billion in facilities and more than $100 billion in pipeline development.
Amazon is investing in X-Energy Reactor Company's $500 million venture round as it becomes clear that AI factories will be increasingly tethered to nuclear reactors.
Dell Technologies launched its Dell PowerEdge XE9712, a system built on Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 platform with 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs and 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in a rack.
Nuclear power has seen a resurgence as hyperscalers look for energy to train large language models (LLMs) and power AI workloads.
Ashwin Rangan, who has been in the CxO game for three decades at ICANN, Rockwell International, Walmart and Bank of America, has seen his share of technology cycles and generative AI is just the latest.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched an AMD-powered system designed for complex AI model training. The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 leverages 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators.
Dell Technologies launched new systems powered by AMD's next-generation EPYC server processors and PowerEdge XC9680 system powered by AMD Instinct MI300 and 300x AI accelerators. Dell is also surrounding those AMD powered AI systems with services and the chipmaker's software stack.