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Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management

CIO Business Intelligence

Events like this highlight the importance of developing contingency plans based on events in the world that can impact businesses. Business continuity is an essential part of the planning process for CIOs and CTOs. Black swan events can impact businesses in significant ways. Do you have maintenance windows? Conclusion.

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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Google’s scientists lift lid on Effingo at Sigcomm 2024

Network World

Such systems provide a standard interface to the resources, an interface that mediates between users’ needs, budgets and system goals.” This, he said, “can be a game changer in both the areas of business continuity, global reach for web applications, and many other types of collaborations.”

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. In other words, how much business risk does your company run if it can’t find (or train) employees into the jobs it needs to be done?

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO Business Intelligence

Implement a periodic review of ICT Business Continuity Policy and ICT Disaster Recovery Policy: Implementing a regular review cadence for ICT business continuity and disaster recovery policies is crucial for effective risk management oversight.

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The CIO’s missing priority

CIO Business Intelligence

What this means is that nobody will congratulate you and your team for a job well done, nor will anyone ask what support you’ll need to continue to keep the company safe. No, every year your information security practices succeed is one more year IT’s budget approvers will be convinced you’ve been overstating the risks. Chargebacks.

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Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

CIO Business Intelligence

“As organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, they are migrating more critical workloads and data to the cloud, which naturally leads to higher costs,” he says. Another factor is the use of multiple cloud providers, Bhargava says. “As Cloud costs have risen for many of CGI’s customers in the past year. “The

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