Feb. 27 - Companies waste billions on SaaS | Employees conflicted on AI

Average software waste hit $18M last year despite optimization push; Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says; What’s behind SAP’s massive restructuring push? [View online]( | [Signup]( | [Forward]( [CIO Dive]( Daily Dive Feb. 27, 2024 | Today’s news and insights for tech leaders [CIO Dive’s studioID]( BROUGHT TO YOU BY — CIO Dive’s studioID [How to Boost The Effectiveness of AI & ML]( Companies look for ways to optimize their use of AI and ML, and one way to do it is to create cloud-based deployments. Explore how the use of the cloud can boost the effectiveness of AI and ML [this playbook.]( [Employees have mixed feelings about AI, Slack finds]( As adoption grows, more than one-quarter of surveyed desk workers are concerned about the impact of AI implementation. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Average software waste hit $18M last year despite optimization push]( Overall SaaS spending fell year over year, but shadow IT overspend and app redundancies persisted, Zylo research found. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says]( Threat actors took advantage of inconsistent cloud security structures, abusing unique features of the technology to initiate attacks. --------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored Content by Lakeside Software Inc [Is your IT team ready for AI?]( Not all AI is (or will be) trained on good data. 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