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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well. There are other risks, too.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Those principles are data centric, platform first, cloud based, automation led, and zero trust (so that everything is secure from the start).

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The Holistic IT Governance

Future of CIO

It takes strategic and systematic thinking and a holistic IT governance approach in running an Agile IT. Begin with the CIO identifying every component of the cost associated with "keeping the lights on", then the currently approved projects by title, executive sponsor, budget, schedule, and resources dedicated to each project.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Prior to joining Fractal, Tiwari was senior vice-president and global CISO at Airtel, where he set up the managed security services initiative Airtel Secure for Business. Before that, he was the chief information security advisor at Microsoft India. . Rossari Biotech appoints Rakesh Dhanda as CIO.

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Vendor consolidation a hot-button topic for CIOs as they try to manage the tensions between innovation and efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

New Methodologies – Agile methodology is more needed than ever, so organisations can experiment, measure outcomes, and learn fast. Governance and Ownership – striking the right balance between retaining the right level of control while also allowing the Agile approach to thrive is critical.

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