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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

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This is a common scenario: A client reaches for benchmarks and metrics without fully grasping the larger context. But benchmarks, while useful in certain cases, are often misleading when taken out of context. Executives and boards want hard data, and benchmarks offer an easy way to provide seemingly objective metrics.

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Global AI regulations: Beyond the U.S. and Europe

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Building on that perspective, this article describes examples of AI regulations in the rest of the world and provides a summary on global AI regulation trends. The complexity of varying global AI regulations is challenging for CIOs. An earlier article described emerging AI regulations for the U.S. and Europe. and countries of the EU.

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Top 8 failings in delivering value with generative AI and how to overcome them

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International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets. This practice provides support to boards, business leaders, and technology executives in their efforts to architect, benchmark, and optimize their organization’s information technology.

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Emirates Global Aluminium’s digital transformation: An interview with Carlo Nizam, Chief Digital Officer

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16: Under Carlo Nizam’s leadership, EGA is not just embracing digital transformation, it is setting a new benchmark for the aluminium industry. Everyone is going to say AI. (15:15) 15:15) It’s not just a question of AI. (15:18) 15:18) It’s a question of what type of AI and for what.(15:23) 15:30) Chat, GPT, Copilot, super useful. (15:34)

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CIO metrics are failing digital transformation; it’s time to radically rethink success

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International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets. This practice provides support to boards, business leaders, and technology executives in their efforts to architect, benchmark, and optimize their organization’s information technology.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

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At global marketing agency and consulting firm The Channel Company, security considerations are deeply embedded in business strategy and budgeting, says CIO Rik Wright. If you’re a global business, use the ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards. But Kim warns CISOs against refusing C-level requests for benchmarking.

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

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Various industry benchmarks show that new generations of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), network equipment, and other IT infrastructure assets are significantly faster than their predecessors, but this alone is often not enough to designate existing equipment as legacy infrastructure.