CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to 2023. As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. Venables believes that legacy IT presents a significant challenge to security teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

“The security technology market is in a state of general overload with pressure on budgets, staff hiring/retention, and having too many point solutions are pervasive issues for organizations today.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. Gartner predicts 2023 IT spending will grow 5.1%

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Atlas VPN is a budget-friendly VPN that offers a unique IP address swapping feature perfect for privacy enthusiasts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not less. One contributing factor to managed services’ ongoing growth as a percentage of IT budgets is finding and keeping the right IT talent.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

At a time when many DC [data center] operators are facing challenges around power and cooling, LPO can save 25% of the networking power budget, at a system level. Arista has talked about LPO for 800G earlier, but 2025 is the year when LPO will become real, with demonstrable power and cost savings, Hull said. 2025 will be a big year for UEC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

This demand for skilled IT workers is reflected in the rising average salaries of certain job titles as companies compete for top talent, according to data from the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. Here are the 10 IT roles that have earned the biggest bumps in pay for 2023, according to salary data from Dice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

Security threats Matt Mead, chief technology officer at SPR Consulting, expects increasingly sophisticated security threats in the next year. Your security posture is only as good as your weakest link, which is almost certainly your employees.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2023

The overall perceived value of IT certifications is shifting, according to the 2023 Tech Salary Trends report from Dice. If you’re interested in earning a certification to help boost your resume, these are the 10 most popular IT certifications for 2023, according to data from Dice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud strategies and tech investments in 2023, members of VMware’s Tanzu Vanguard community shared their insights on what trends will take shape. The main problem in 2023 will be how can we learn new skills fast and stay on top of all the new tools and technologies in every area.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

For some that means getting a head start in filling this year’s most in-demand roles, which range from data-focused to security-related positions, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2023 IT salary report. The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023. The survey also reveals the average salaries for each role based on experience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For those paying close attention, substantive changes were foreshadowed in 2023 when it was quietly noted that perpetual software maintenance licenses would not be renewed upon expiration. Find the best consolidated management tools that can help enterprises and MSPs manage scaling, security, and updates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

According to the 2023 State of the CIO research , which surveyed 837 IT leaders and 201 line of business (LOB) participants, functional and transformational work consumed the bulk of IT leaders’ time this year, much the same as 2022. Chief security officers and chief analytics officers are also more likely to report into IT leadership.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to the recent Hiscox annual cyber readiness report , 41% of SMBs in the US fell victim to a cyberattack in 2023, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2021. A Corvus study found 47% of businesses with fewer than 50 employees have no cybersecurity budget at all, even as a majority call cybersecurity a “top concern.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Enterprise IT struggles to keep up with siloed technologies while ensuring security, compliance, and cost management. And according to the most recent Enterprise Cloud Index survey related to the recruitment and retention of cloud talent, 80% of respondents identify IT and cloud talent recruitment and retention a concern for their budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, CIOs must still demonstrate measurable outcomes and communicate these imperatives to senior leadership to secure investment. Reinforcing this claim, one in four IT executives from the 2023 AI Priorities Study believe their organization is moving too fast when it comes to deploying gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years. Placing an AI bet on marketing is often a force multiplier as it can drive data governance and security investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

In June 2023, Gartner researchers said, data and analytics leaders must leverage the power of LLMs with the robustness of knowledge graphs for fault-tolerant AI applications. The first major announcement was in September 2023 by graph database company NebulaGraph. Vendors took the ball and ran with it. But its very early, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

After more than a decade leading the digital transformation and cybersecurity initiatives of the services company, hes managed to forge a synergy where tech and information security are established as fundamental pillars for business success. Technology must be agile, easy, and secure so people can extract the greatest value from it, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

A recent example is Windows Server 2012, which was sunsetted by Microsoft in October 2023. Reframing technical debt There is no magic potion that can eliminate all technical debt, but technical debt can be attacked via budgeting if technical debt is not just perceived as upgrading IT infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 is not alone.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Conventional wisdom says businesses must balance the cost of security with user experience—implying that security is a tax on digital interactions. 1 reason for the increase in tech budgets this year. The security paradox To understand the “tradeoff” mentality, let’s review the ‘security paradox.’

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. However, it has also introduced new security challenges, specifically related to cloud infrastructure and connectivity between workloads as organizations have limited control over those connectivity and communications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s technology darling and other machine learning investments have already impacted digital transformation strategies in 2023 , and boards will expect CIOs to update their AI transformation strategies frequently. Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94%

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. With these paid versions, our data remains secure within our own tenant, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This includes a significant reevaluation of large ticket items, influenced by developments in 2023 around generative AI, according to Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst and CEO at Greyhound Research. Nonetheless, there will be continued investment in enterprise security and cloud computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 12, 2024

From a cybersecurity perspective, how has 2023 been? According to Statista, the number of IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability. What are the top three challenges security leaders will face in 2024?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

No company got out of 2023 without having a story about how much better their company was going to be, how much better their products were going to be, how much better their customers’ lives were going to be because of generative AI,” he said. growth in 2023. Another big change from 2023 comes in the devices category, which saw a 9.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

And while ransomware accounts for a relatively small proportion of that total, enterprises should really be budgeting more for it. The large enterprises surveyed also spent an average of $19 million on ransomware and data extortion payouts — although they only budgeted $13.4 Global 2000 companies are spending an average of $23.8

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Customers should be able to benefit from the improved focus,” Elliot says, including a more targeted allocation of people, budgets and other resources. “As As one company, BMC was spreading a limited R&D budget across too many product needs,” he says. In 2023, BMC filed confidentially for an IPO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

As such, it’s vital to have a robust and forward-leaning approach to web application security. With an estimated market size of USD $30B by 2030 , the term “application security” takes on numerous forms, but one area of heightened relevance in today’s world is the DevSecOps space. What is DevSecOps?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With a wide range of services, including virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless computing, Azure requires advanced management strategies to ensure optimal performance, enhanced security, and cost efficiency. These components form how businesses can scale, optimize and secure their cloud infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

From a cybersecurity perspective, how has been 2023? According to Statista, the number of IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability. What are the top three challenges security leaders will face in 2024?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

After Broadcom acquired VMware in late 2023 , many customers complained about huge price increases, but most cant seem to end the relationship. The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

HPE Aruba Networking is coming off a very strong Q2 2023 with our Intelligent Edge revenue reaching $1.3 As a result, organizations are embracing new as-a-service (XaaS) models to reduce the complexity of managing IT ecosystems, align usage with budgets, and improve operational efficiencies.

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