CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

By understanding their options and leveraging GPU-as-a-service, CIOs can optimize genAI hardware costs and maintain processing power for innovation.” We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In Others may not be in that same situation.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“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.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. They had everything mapped out: software licenses, new cameras and sensors, integration services, and training.

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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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Network World

AUGUST 19, 2024

Will Broadcom raise prices, introduce new licensing models, or rationalize products? Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is disrupting established platform strategies and impacting sourcing, procurement, budgeting and architectural roadmaps, including strategic partnerships,” says Julia Palmer, a research vice president at research firm Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

What’s being announced: New HPE GreenLake for Aruba Data Center Networking Service Packs Today’s environment of economic uncertainty and budget scrutiny requires organizations to improve the traditional IT acquisition process of significant up-front capital investment, long-term budgeting, and elongated procurement cycles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Owned hardware assets. Hardware purchased with a three to five year depreciation plan or lease contracts tie up budget that could be otherwise used to move more rapidly to cloud. Software licenses. Legacy investments with long ROI timeframes may be perceived as ‘committed’ expenses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Owned hardware assets. Hardware purchased with a three to five year depreciation plan or lease contracts tie up budget that could be otherwise used to move more rapidly to cloud. Software licenses. Legacy investments with long ROI timeframes may be perceived as ‘committed’ expenses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

One CIO mentioned accessing certain data on a legacy system required hardware that was no longer available. Another CIO mentioned that planning and moving data to the cloud required deep collaboration with vendors to build an assessment for licensing, workloads and migration costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

[iii] While organizations must plan for usage spikes and failovers, they also have opportunities to clean up workloads, retire unused equipment, and leverage newer, more efficient hardware and solutions. Many companies have budget or purchasing policy constraints or do not need the latest top-performing equipment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises. Williams warns that enterprises that tip the scale too far toward the cloud, risk forgetting the inherent value of data locked in legacy hardware. Cloud costs appear in various forms. Yet many expenses aren’t so obvious.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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Vox

MARCH 27, 2025

Theres the hardware, namely the TV itself; the entertainment, like movies and shows; and the ads, usually just commercials that interrupt your movies and shows. While most people think of Roku as a hardware company, it actually transitioned into becoming an advertising company almost a decade ago.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Any infrastructure purchase requires a budget, or at least an understanding of how much money you intend to spend. To build that budget, an ideal IT procurement solution provides an overview of your inventory, including aggregate information on storage, compute, virtual resource allocation, and configuration details.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

That’s a significant proportion of training budgets potentially being wasted on skills that aren’t making it to everyday work and productivity. Or how a pilot is trained first in flight simulators before logging a certain number of hours before getting their commercial license. This is leaving CIOs and IT leaders in a tricky spot.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 8, 2025

It is not just a simple distinction between two technologies; rather, it is a long-term decision that affects the companys budget, security, scalability, and in some cases, the productivity of the workers. You do not have to buy and configure new hardware. You do not have to buy and configure new hardware. The downside?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s a seemingly impossible dilemma: How to use innovation to drive business outcomes while being restrained by a reduced budget? Today’s business climate is rife with economic uncertainty that is causing IT leaders to do more with less while still innovating to support the business.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2025

Just a massive set of model weights, an MIT license, and a few technical whispers that were enough to set the AI community ablaze. DeepSeek, however, opted for its trademark under-the-radar approach, quietly uploading 641 GB of data under an MIT license. While some innovations arrive with fanfare, this release was different.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Assessment of current infrastructure: Second, you must review your existing systems such as hardware and protocols (e.g. Analysis of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): You must ensure budget consistency, and to achieve this, understand the factors in basic licensing, training, maintenance, and potential expansion costs.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

tight federal, state and local IT budgets. without sacrificing the budget it would take to support those solutions. Instead of leveraging IT budgets to maintain and upgrade hardware and software, cloud allows responders to devote more IT. needed, without the concern of paying for licenses that won’t be used.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to the International Association for IT Asset Management ( IAITAM ), ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), and Asset Portfolio Management (APM). Special software (usually with agents) discovers the hardware and the software that is installed on it. IT hardware is no simple matter either.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget : Beyond the licensing, hardware, delivery, installation, and training costs associated with the platform of choice, the team should also consider wider organizational implications, such as change management. The bottom and most fundamental layer is the hardware layer or infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

But it struck me at that time, how can organizations balance complexity, risk, performance, and efficiency within budget boundaries when each of those factors influence each other in a complex mesh of relationships. Luckily, my organization tasked me to bring this up to IT leadership and I was well equipped to address the topic.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Cyber risk is now a huge corporate concern, and IT security budgets have risen in connection with it. This includes the CISO is responsible for pushing for higher budgets for cybersecurity products and services that will help the company from losing valuable data, from both employees and customers alike. Ice Cream Sandwich.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Back in the old days, software vendors would show up on our doorstep with a suitcase full of CDs and attempt to sell us software licenses. These licenses determined how many people could use the software and how long we were signing up to keep using the software. Another common practice of software vendors was bundling.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The evolution of the iPhone SE series reflects Apple’s strategy to appeal to budget-conscious consumers while offering updated technology. Despite the upgrades, the price is expected to range from $499 to $549, representing an increase from the iPhone SE 3’s initial price of $429.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One argument made at the time was that video games, despite a high initial cost of entry, can be a surprisingly efficient dollar-to-hour use of consumers’ entertainment budget. This goes back to 2008’s Great Recession, where the games industry didn’t seem to take as big of a hit as analysts thought it should have.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

For example, you can eliminate costly infrastructure refresh programs, and a variety of software license maintenance. Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. All these things add up!

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The Verge

MARCH 2, 2022

The $10 a month (or $100 a year) Wyze Home Monitoring service includes one Cam Plus license worth $15 a year to apply to any camera (adding unlimited event recording and other AI features), plus person detection for all the user’s cameras. Its budget competitors have all recently seen price changes.

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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Paessler PRTG Network Monitor’s licensing is based on sensors. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. PRTG adapts to all budgets and can grow with your needs. Distributed monitoring. Detailed reports.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

AI Projects at Pioneer Square Labs An AI copilot for hardware product development that handles requirements, prioritization, and supplier decisions. A licensing assistant that detects unauthorized use of copyrighted material like music or videos, then notifies the owner.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

They are usually sold with a one-time use license. Often requires the installation of own branch hardware and equipment. You having without to come up with the king-sized budget. An on premise solution will need you to come up with fully capable components, hardware and application. On-Premise Call Center Systems.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A similar licensing negotiation was being conducted with Smash World Tour, but it abruptly fell through Nov. The implication was that Panda had pulled strings at Nintendo to get a rival tournament canceled due to licensing, although Nintendo and Panda both deny those allegations.

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