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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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CloudOps: A framework for optimizing your cloud operations

CIO Business Intelligence

“Holistic CloudOps is a framework with several layers that help enterprises manage all aspects of their cloud ecosystem,” says Jason Hatch, vice president and cloud center of excellence lead at consulting firm Capgemini Americas. At a governance layer, we can implement better budgeting and financial tracking and optimization.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Management will study the need of information security policies and assign a budget to implement security policies. Backup Policy. Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. Time, money, and resource mobilization are some factors that are discussed in this level.

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5 lessons that CIOs learned in 2017

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Lesson #1: Cybersecurity needs a larger portion of your IT budget (and focus). In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. Dedicate more of your IT budget to cybersecurity. photo credit: stevepb via pixabay cc Last year saw many high-profile breaches.

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- A Public-Private Radio Network?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Government budgets are pinched left and right – sales tax, income tax, property tax revenues are all falling. However, to rebuild those networks today, and to build the new high-speed data networks for responders’ smart phones, tablets and computers will take dozens – perhaps hundreds of sites to cover the same geography.

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