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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO Business Intelligence

The Fortune 500 company, born an insurer in Des Moines, Iowa, roughly a decade after the Civil War ended, is under pressure to provide customers with an integrated experience, particularly due to its expanded financial services portfolio, including the acquisition of Wells Fargo’s Institutional Retirement and Trust (IRT) business, Kay says.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO Business Intelligence

Notably, the company’s extensive cloud solutions portfolio, including the 11:11 Public Cloud and 11:11 Private Cloud , draws on those offerings and includes numerous services, such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Backup-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, and full multi- and hybrid cloud capabilities.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

The costs of recovering from such incidents, especially for smaller organizations without cyber insurance, can be devastating. For instance, Microsoft provides up to 10 free licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Premium to qualifying nonprofits, which include advanced cybersecurity features.

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Hidden Costs of Cybersecurity: Balancing Risk, Complexity & Efficiency

SecureWorld News

These are licenses, hardware, software, infrastructure capacity and bandwidth, backup and restoration, ancillary and monitoring systems, management systems, professional and managed services, and human resources. I ended up with a visual image of an iceberg with apparent costs at the tip and hidden costs beneath the water level.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. June 2015: Hewlett-Packard Co. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt. Periodic checks on your IT spending can unearth hidden costs you might not be aware of, from unused software licenses to redundant services. Billing errors, overprovisioning of licenses, and changes in capacity are other things to look for.

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The Hidden Costs of AI Implementation: What No One Tells You

Eric D. Brown

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. The purchase price is obvious, but then come the property taxes, insurance, maintenance, utilities, and those inevitable repairs that always seem to pop up at the worst possible time. Think of it like buying a house.

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