CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A report issued Monday by private investment company Bain Capital indicated that, despite the numerous disruptions to the technology industry—including a global supply chain crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—most IT decision makers foresee either stable budgets or increases for the coming year. Budgeting, IT Strategy

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Index showed that 50% of those surveyed have between 10% and 30% of their current IT budget dedicated to AI. Similarly, 78% of respondents lack confidence in the availability of computing resources for AI workloads, up from 76% in 2023.” A lack of skilled talent is a top challenge across infrastructure, data, and governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. The academic community expects data to be close to its high-performance compute resources, so they struggle with these egress fees pretty regularly, he says. I dont see that evolving too much beyond where we are today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For many organizations, while budgets are ticking slightly up, it’s only in line with inflation, while new initiatives, including AI, need to be funded.” Equinix told Light Reading that the layoffs are a result of the evolution of its services to support changing customer needs, which requires internal adjustments and resource reallocation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation. You’re not alone. Instead, show how leading companies manage it strategically.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By pricing based on the underlying costs of compute, latency, and throughput, this model provides clarity on how charges are determined and allows for more precise budgeting, Leo John says. It all sounds good, but the challenge is that people get annual budgets and cannot tolerate variability, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Poor resource management and optimization Excessive enterprise cloud costs are typically the result of inefficient resource management and a lack of optimization. Many enterprises also overestimate the resources required, leading to larger, more expensive instances being provisioned than necessary, causing overprovisioning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Until now, many companies have cut costs in other areas, laid off staff, or raided the budgets of other departments to pay for AI projects. If you look at 23 and 2024 you had a lot of budget increases, you had a bunch of layoffs over the last couple of years, and not something thats sustainable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

We had high turnover, not so much in the IT part, but in software development and engineering operating units, so innovations in human resource management started from here.” This program has its own planning and also a dedicated budget. This helps to find resources in time and at a fairer price. Talents must be paid.

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Network World

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Since its inception, the Digital Policeman project has documented over 6,000 bribery attempts, recorded 443,765 administrative violations, and solved 2,613 crimesall while saving Kazakhstans national budget $6 million. With over 10,000 smart badges and 21,000 tablets deployed, the project is reshaping the very fabric of public safety.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says. The company also plans to increase spending on cybersecurity tools and personnel, he adds, and it will focus more resources on advanced analytics, data management, and storage solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. These network, security, and cloud changes allow us to shift resources and spend less on-prem and more in the cloud.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. And while the cyber risks introduced by AI can be countered by incorporating AI within security tools, doing so can be resource-intensive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

CIOs have to accept that their current budget does not allow them to do the transformative work in data thats necessary, he says. Thats driving up spending on AI , but its not bringing in the finances needed to put the data house in order, says Ted Schadler, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Many CIOs expect significant price increases in the cloud and other IT products and services during 2025, requiring those with stagnant budgets to make difficult decisions about IT spending. But in some cases, organizations are moving to a multicloud approach , giving them additional IT resources as they pay more for cloud services, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. In other words, the IT resources needed for this project are substantial.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2025

And the glut of gen AI pilots going nowhere is proving a drain on resources, Wells says. Taking the time to look at that budget for it and plan for it, from my perspective, is more important than just jumping right in and potentially losing millions of dollars, because its just not as effective as youd hoped it to be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This allows organizations to maximize resources and accelerate time to market. Many believe that responsible AI use will help achieve these goals, though they also recognize that the systems powering AI algorithms are resource-intensive themselves.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

IT budgets expand, SAP investments show mixed trends The report indicates that 40% of companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) are increasing their overall IT budgets, while SAP-specific investments are rising for 47% of enterprises.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The whole notion of migrating data and having to manage tiering is time consuming and resource intensive. Enterprises should choose to rearchitect their application and migrate the data when the cloud benefits will justify the investment in budget, time and resources.” Which means cost, cost, cost.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, high-speed also means high power and higher heat, placing more demands on the electrical grid and resources and creating a demand for new options. At a time when many DC [data center] operators are facing challenges around power and cooling, LPO can save 25% of the networking power budget, at a system level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

For CIOs tasked with managing IT budgets while driving technological innovation, balancing these costs against the benefits of GenAI is essential. Engage stakeholders: Work with finance and operations teams to align on budgets, shared goals, and success metrics. million in 2025 to $7.45

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

In many respects, the Linux Foundation positions itself in 2025 as a foundation of foundations, providing the tools, resources, legal, governance and event support that open-source groups need. 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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Finding the right partner means that CIOs don’t have to build that expertise in-house or waste time and resources trying to DIY their AI,” he adds. Can I take 5% of my budget and deploy it against five to 10 different projects, across different teams, to build some expertise, to build some intuition and understand where it’s going to work?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Much like finance, HR, and sales functions, organizations aim to streamline cloud operations to address resource limitations and standardize services. However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By tagging resources based on departments, projects or cost centers, organizations can gain visibility into their spending and allocate costs appropriately. Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Cost optimization.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2025

Good data engineering enables transparency, visibility, and accurate budgeting and forecasting. Engineer-friendly tools: Automation tools should be accessible and user-friendly for engineers managing cloud resources. Intuit and Roku have developed tools that simplify resource management and align costs with responsible teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Since its inception, the Digital Policeman project has documented over 6,000 bribery attempts, recorded 443,765 administrative violations, and solved 2,613 crimesall while saving Kazakhstans national budget $6 million. With over 10,000 smart badges and 21,000 tablets deployed, the project is reshaping the very fabric of public safety.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Take advantage of modeling and cost estimator tools that can help IT model configurations and better understand resource needs and budget impacts for a shift from legacy VDI to DaaS. Here are some steps to plan for: Demand your sales representative answer your renewal questions and keep demanding until you get an informed response.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Azures growing adoption among companies leveraging cloud platforms highlights the increasing need for effective cloud resource management. Enterprises must focus on resource provisioning, automation, and monitoring to optimize cloud environments. Automation helps optimize resource allocation and minimize operational inefficiencies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Simply put, it simplifies IT management A single management interface lets you manage access and devices from a centralized data center, eliminating the time and resources spent on OS and software updates and patches.

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