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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“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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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

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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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Game Changer: Modernize IT Procurement with Data-driven Insights

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Cost Avoidance and Operational Costs | Maximizing Business Value with AWS

Linux Academy

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 Dark Side Of Cloud Computing

The Accidental Successful CIO

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. Software service providers have started to bundle together applications.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

Application monitoring. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options. 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.

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