How will AI impact your IT budget?
How will AI impact your IT budget?  
Podcast: The Reasoning Show
Published On: Sun Feb 16 2025
Description: As AI begins to make its way into the Enterprise, how will the experimentation, adoption and operations of AI impact 2025 and beyond IT budgets? SHOW: 898SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #898 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:WHERE WILL IT BUDGETS MOST LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY AI IN 2025-2026?Is your focus on human-augmented capabilities or human-replacement capabilities? If you’re buying AI as part of SaaS services, will the pricing be seat-based (human-augmented) or usage-based (human-replacement), or some combination of both? Are you directly paying for AI-capabilities, or is AI being positioned as “free”, but the other services are becoming more expensive?Are you expanding your predictive AI projects (and data-science teams), or primarily focused on GenAI related projects? Are you buying AI resources from the cloud providers, or from AI-specific hosting providers, or buying GPUs for private-cloud usage? Are you planning to use standard AI tools, or do you plan to training/align your own models with your data?Do you have a cost-control capability for your AI projects yet?What are your success-criteria for POCs, Experiments, Trials? Are you upskilling existing staff, or hiring AI-specific staff? Or using external consulting? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow