Ep. 2 - How to afford AI and the people to run IT

AI budgets are blowing up. Hardware prices are all over the place. And executives want ROI yesterday. 

So here’s the real question nobody wants to say out loud: How are you supposed to afford the tech and the people to run it? 

In this week’s episode of Let’s Solve IT!, host Matt Brown and Stephan Stelter, NetApp Manager, Solutions Engineering, confront the tension IT leaders feel every day: innovation pressure vs. finite budgets. They get into FOMO-driven spending, AI productivity myths, and resource scarcity.  

Rather than defaulting to layoffs or across‑the‑board cuts, this conversation explores a smarter path forward: reallocating resources, retasking talent, and placing the right workloads in the right environments to maximize impact without burning out teams or budgets. 

If you’re feeling squeezed between transformation goals and headcount limitations, this episode is for you.  

Let’s talk about what that really means, and Let’s Solve IT! 

 

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