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Survey: 54% of I&O Leaders Turning to AI to Cut Costs

A new Gartner survey of 253 infrastructure and operations leaders reports that 54% are adopting AI to reduce costs, with budget limits and integration cited as the top challenges and guidance to start with targeted pilots.

Large Language Model Selection -- Why the Parameter Count Isn't Everything

Brien Posey explains that a large language model’s performance depends more on architecture, training, and data quality than on its parameter count alone.

Accelerator

A component designed to perform tasks faster than general-purpose processors.

Parallel Processing

The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks across multiple processors.

Supercomputer

A high-performance computing system.

Throughput

The rate at which a system transmits or processes data over a given period.

Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)

Indicates how many read and write operations a storage device can complete per second.

Airgap

A physical or logical separation that isolates a computer from untrusted systems or connections.

Runtime

The period during which a program is executing on a computer.

Object Storage

A data storage architecture that manages information as discrete objects.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

A secure communication method that routes network traffic through a protected tunnel.

Sandbox

An isolated computing environment used to execute, test or analyze code.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

An isolated, configurable virtual network within a public cloud.

Cloud PC

A virtual desktop instance hosted in a public or private cloud.

Vendor Lock-In

A dependency on a specific supplier’s technology, platform or service.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

An international standards body.

Private Cloud

A cloud computing environment dedicated to a single organization.

Public Cloud

A cloud model where infrastructure is made available to multiple customers.

On-Premises

In which hardware, software and data are hosted in an organization’s own physical facilities.

Shared Responsibility Model

How security duties are divided between a cloud provider and its customers.

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