Information Week

MARCH 24, 2025

IT leaders are turning to automation, AI-driven insights, and strategic tiered storage policies to reduce cloud spending.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

This includes proactive budgeting, regular financial reviews and the implementation of cost allocation policies that ensure accountability. This includes setting budgets, forecasting costs based on usage patterns and implementing automated alerts for cost overruns. The focus is on enhancing cost visibility and control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Expectation of disruption Limited investment in cyber resilience remains a challenge, despite rising security budgets overall: nearly 49% of U.S.-based based IT leaders globally believe their budget for cyber resilience is inadequate. A lack of budget cannot be put down to a lack of evidence of need.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Thats primarily due to the benefits of FinOps in designing governance, cost optimization strategies and cloud usage policies that organizations understand. Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Federated FinOps.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 22, 2024

While inflation has eased in many parts of the world, APAC’s unique economic dynamics—ranging from commodity price exposure to varying fiscal policies—will keep inflation higher compared to the U.S. As CIOs gear up for 2025, the landscape is more uncertain than ever.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 7, 2025

In 2024, women accounted for 22% of global security teams on average, compared to 17% in 2023, according to ISC2.

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

Governments are very interested in open source, and we have to make sure that we are participating in the right way to understand and comply with policies. The new structure will see OpenStack become a foundation within the Linux Foundation, with its own budget, governance and member fees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

of IT budgets by 2027. The challenge is reminiscent of the 1990s when CIOs reigned in application silos by moving to ERP systems, and in the 2010s when CIOs had to contain mobile devices through BYOD policies. You cant just move to a single vendor as in the ERP days or develop policies just for physical devices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Crushing hybrid work and work-life balance One area where CIOs should elicit IT employee feedback is around hybrid work, remote work, and any related policy changes. Conflicts between employees’ work-life balance goals and company policies or a leader’s expression of one-size-fits-all working principles can kill the IT culture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Business leaders can’t wait until next year for another budget to get approved.” For example, it’s easy to build the capability to answer questions related to HR policies. “New business opportunities arise at any time, and people have to be able to quickly purchase tools to get the job done,” he says.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Jay Inslee this week proposed a new wealth tax to help generate revenue for government programs and address a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. Rachel Smith, CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, said the state should address broader budget choices before implementing something like a wealth tax.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

It provides tools to onboard new AI agents, define their roles and responsibilities, track their effectiveness, budget and forecast their costs, support compliance, and foster continuous improvement. Financial auditing agent: This agent connects business documents to monitor transactions, reconcile balances, and review internal controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In Italy specifically, more than 52% of companies, and CIOs in particular, continue to struggle finding the technical professionals they need, according to data by Unioncamere, the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies. This program has its own planning and also a dedicated budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To inform your approach, consider factors such as technical expertise, how Windows 11 Pro features support their workflows, budget constraints, and willingness to upgrade hardware. Also, include additional licensing costs in your budget planning to ensure you have adequate resources to support the upgrade.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These initiatives reinforced our customer-centric IT approach, informed budget allocation, and strengthened our responsive, efficient IT strategy. Discussions led to a comprehensive review, optimization, and consolidation of our lab infrastructure, adopting models like lab-as-a-service and refining our offerings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

Nikhil Prabhakar underscores IndiaMARTs Learn, Unlearn and Relearn policy which practices mandatory job rotation within the organization, with employees moved from one technology to another to ensure that they are hands-on with multiple skills. Any solution or product comes with an expiration date.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Budgeting tools enable setting cost limits with alerts triggered when spending exceeds thresholds. Further, implementing automation for right-sizing underutilized resources ensures workloads run on appropriate infrastructure without over-allocating resources, which can save budget.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 26, 2015

As technology executives, we''re often challenged with managing policy requirements and keeping up with technology to support them, while working with limited budgets and a shallow pool of qualified staff. By Charles Hall.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2025

But I remind tech leaders that one of the biggest line items in any organization is the IT budget. Thats not to say that CIOs should chuck all policies, standards, and controls. The historical role of IT leaders is to ask, What does the business want and how can I help them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Each jurisdiction has its own procurement laws and policies, and within that, each agency or department can have its own interpretation of them. Some of the other reasons behind the delay include changes in scope, research and evaluation along with reaching an agreement around budgeting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

CIOs were least likely to identify as AI-ready business areas such as new product lines (22% of respondents), corporate policy on ethical AI use (24%), or their supply chain (26%) as the least AI-ready, while 49% rated their IT departments’ own technical skills as AI-ready. Artificial Intelligence

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a recent global survey , 86% of participants said their organizations had dedicated budget to generative AI, but three-quarters admitted to significant concerns about data privacy and security. AI faces a fundamental trust challenge due to uncertainty over safety, reliability, transparency, bias, and ethics.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

The CCSO oversees and coordinates all security efforts across the Internet2 infrastructure and is accountable and responsible for setting organizational policies and approaches while engaging with the Internet2 member community. Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in the network security and information security policy workforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

Set policies and procedures for the entire data lifecycle. The leader needs to give the governance team direction, develop policies for everyone in the organization to follow, and communicate with other leaders across the company. Lack of resources: Data governance initiatives can struggle for lack of investment in budget or staff.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

And from a cost perspective, NaaS pricing is fluid, so business leaders may find that per-year operational costs are more than they budgeted and theres a risk of significant fluctuations in monthly bills. Multi-vendor environments will further complicate the matter.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Yet most of the responsibility falls on customers to leverage those tools and practices effectively while addressing cost optimization practices through governance, leadership support, and policy implementation. Essentially, cloud cost management is a shared responsibility between the enterprise and vendor, Kulkarni says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Do I have a DX budget and completion timeline? Other distinguishing points: DX is not treated as a project with its own budget, or even an IT program led by the CIO. Because that question leads to the budget question and the resource questions. You’ve got to have policies that get you to yes,” ServiceNow’s Iyer says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This led to a long tenure in central government in New Zealand as a policy researcher. The role of a technology leader In my role, I am fortunate to have strong relationships with our senior executive team, which has been invaluable when discussing budgets, funding, and long-term strategic goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

With that backdrop, let’s take a look at one of the newer security policies set to bring even more change to the way we think about, and approach, IT security—the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). But what exactly does this policy mean for IT security? And how can businesses ensure they’re ready? What is DORA?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Enterprises need a common framework that provides availability, resiliency, and security for modern applications with the ability to abstract connectivity, identity, and policy. Using tools such as Tanzu Service Mesh , can help simplify the connection, observation and protection of your applications across any runtime or cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

Just as concerning, less than a quarter of CIOs say their organizations have an adequate corporate policy around ethical use. Essentially all (96%) CIOs expect their AI budgets to grow over the next 12 months, but just 20% say their IT budgets will grow by more than 10%. Financial resources are also a concern.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These solutions can be used to create, manage and enforce policies for responsible AI use, explain how AI systems work, and provide transparency to build trust and accountability. Further, many organizations haven’t yet planned or budgeted for this shift,” stated Mark Horvath, vice president analyst at Gartner.

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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. We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The ability to “personalize” their policy and fit it into their household budget has changed the industry. Perhaps the most visible of these efforts is in personal auto insurance. Drivers can choose coverages based on price or needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

Further, the report showed that NASA was years away from moving to an enterprise computing model and was in violation of the federal policy to implement a centralized software asset management program that tracks inventory and license data. “We The agency uses over 49,000 desktops, laptops and engineering computers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

They couldnt hire people from outside either, because they hadnt anticipated the need early enough to put it in their budgets. Another challenge was IT may not have had the available skills to support the new technology. Everything happened very fast.

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