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. Related: 6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget Budgeting, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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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. Within two years, it will be virtually impossible to buy a PC, tablet, laptop, or mobile phone without AI, Lovelock says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Currently, enterprises primarily use AI for generative video, text, and image applications, as well as enhancing virtual assistance and customer support. AI applications are evenly distributed across virtual machines and containers, showcasing their adaptability.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Support communication can be handled in many ways, including training sessions, project updates, and in-person and virtual meetings. Bilow recommends creating a small OCM budget for a current project and then hiring a boutique OCM consulting firm to manage the effort. Yet clear communication shouldnt be limited to formal channels.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

But lately, some licensees of virtual desktops and applications have been confronted with abrupt changes and even forced to accept and pay for unwanted features. 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.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Each EX4000 12-, 24-, and 48-port model also offers an additional 2 x 1GbE/10GbE SFP+ ports to support Virtual Chassis connections, which can be reconfigured for use as network ports, according to Juniper.All models support IEEE 802.3bz, which defines Ethernet speeds of 2.5GbE and 5GbE over twisted pair copper cabling.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The channel estimation intelligence should be especially useful as it ensures that ever important QoS despite those network performance changes that impact virtually every company.” And maybe that is enough to help you get budget to improve those core network services that are the unsung heroes supporting IT’s reputation!”

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2014

The typical F1000 CIO completed 46 application projects in 2013, and on average, 28 of these 46 projects were over budget and behind schedule. That CIO also spends an average of 40% of her annual budget on applications. Applications are core to the enterprise; they drive nearly every aspect of the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

In a world with thousands of categories, millions of products and hundreds of millions of consumers, when an individual walks into a virtual storefront, a company will be able to make remarkably specific predictions. And theyll get this level of granularity without needing a thousand-person operation or a billion-dollar data analytics budget.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Jay Gill, senior director of products and solutions, Pluribus Networks: Any virtualized network construct that is abstracted from underlying network infrastructure and provided by one entity to another, even within a single company, could be considered NaaS. Multi-vendor environments will further complicate the matter.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. The interview hinted CIOs are cautious with their IT budgets and that while there is spending it’s with a total cost-of-ownership (TCO) mindset. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Regularly reviewing and adjusting budgets based on actual usage ensures better financial control. Optimization and rightsizing.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Broadcom has IT virtualization , virtual networks, and super-effective switching chips. If anything is going to transform networks, it has to be something that tied to a different kind of deliverya delivery of a budget. HPE has strong IT influence too, and with Juniper would have a broad network portfolio.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Despite that since April 1, there are no longer simplified remote working measures in Italy requiring employers to accommodate this, the number of remote employees this year remained virtually unchanged, at 3.5 This program has its own planning and also a dedicated budget. million compared to about 3.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In 2019, McKinsey reported that 75% of ERP transformation projects fail , and nearly two-thirds risk budget overruns of an average 45%. The problem is how you are implementing it, how you are testing it, how you are supporting it. That is what were attempting to solve with this agentic platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Research firm Gartner recently predicted that generative AI will help spur increases in IT spending worldwide , but not all organizations are looking to increase budgets to make use of new gen AI features, especially with payoff in question. In announcing Lightspeed’s extension, Red Hat’s Dubuque acknowledged this bind.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With a wide range of services, including virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless computing, Azure requires advanced management strategies to ensure optimal performance, enhanced security, and cost efficiency. Budgeting tools enable setting cost limits with alerts triggered when spending exceeds thresholds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

For example, a gen AI virtual assistant can cost $5 million to $6.5 million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. Gen AI projects can cost millions of dollars to implement and incur huge ongoing costs, Gartner notes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2020

For the last couple of months I have been selectively sharing conversations, tutorials, and highlight videos from The Virtual Excellence Show on this blog, but I haven’t written anything about the show itself. Physical events supplanted by virtual events. Virtual speaking and events in fact play to my strengths.

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Venture Beat

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hybrid functions offer flexibility and help bring down many of the barriers to running events, from distance to accessibility to budget. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Quality management: Identify quality requirements.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

On Saturday, Tableau ran up a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars as its virtual celebration amounted to 3,500 takeaway dinners from 40 local restaurants. ” Restaurateur Ethan Stowell during a virtual holiday “carol-oke” gathering with the Tableau team. Tableau Photo). Photo courtesy of Smartsheet).

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. Agentic AI offers the promise of a virtual workforce that can offload and augment human work, Alvarez stated.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Los Angeles startup Wave announced a $30 million investment round to fuel growth of its live virtual entertainment platform. Wave partners with music labels, management companies, and independent artists to help host virtual concerts with digital fan avatars.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

NIM Agent Blueprints, some of which are available now, target a number of use cases, including customer service, virtual screening for computer-aided drug discovery, and a multimodal PDF data extraction workflow for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that can ingest vast quantities of business data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Scott Bickley, advisory practice lead at Info-Tech Research, said a press release outlining the pending launch of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, scheduled for the second quarter of 2025, touts 10,000 customers over 50 years running SAP on IBM. Still, modernizing is crucial for businesses with ERP systems to stay competitive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 28, 2016

What they saw seems both supremely silly and surprisingly prescient: video conferencing, holograms, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Read more Categories: customer service; crm; virtual reality; augmented reality; videoconferencing; bots; virtual agents.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With cyberattacks on the rise, government agencies and enterprises alike are challenged to ramp up cybersecurity protections—often with limited budgets and resources. Leading practitioners advise focusing on maximizing efficiency and prioritizing initiatives with the highest security ROI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

For virtually any business in any industry, business performance is highly dependent upon software to fuel virtually every critical business service and process. Further, when these new requirements arise, teams have to start again in terms of collecting work estimates, getting budgets authorized, and obtaining funding approval.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Even where budget is available, some regions do not yet have the capacity to expand the WAN to meet the demand. – bg.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

To meet CIO needs, vendors will offer various options like virtual machine instances with different GPU configurations and spot instances for discounted compute power,” Richer says, adding that containerized AI frameworks can also help IT leaders ensure efficient resource utilization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

CloudHealth has strong ties to virtualization and IT automation found in VMWare Cloud Foundation. They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends. ServiceNow is tightly coupled to its Now Platform workflow engine and ITSM/CMDB products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

When the pandemic hit and candidates and potential employers were unable to meet in person, Year Up’s IT organization scrambled to replicate training, enrollment, and matching processes in a virtual world to keep its talent match-making business going. Gary Flowers. Most of our technical debt is aligned with that project.”.

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