CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI.

Cloud 109

Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 109

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Today we face the harsh reality of cloud costs, if not done right,” says Jay Upchurch, executive vice president and CIO at SAS. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

Strategy 141

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 141

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going. He didn’t realize his job was not just to suggest a bunch of new security capabilities, but business enablement. billion this year.

Security 107

Security Budget Information Security Applications 107

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP). This paper followed a much earlier output from the group in 2007 - which helped define the now much-used PUE and DCiE metrics which I wrote about back then.

Data Center 113

Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Those who are falling short may have missed signs indicating the need to tack and set a new course. They came up with the following 10. Consequently, CIOs need to be clear on the outcomes their initiatives will deliver and that they can measure and report on those outcomes in top- and/or bottom-line figures.

Infosys 143

Infosys Budget Policies Examples 143

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 15, 2011

IT vendors - and even analysts - are understandably eager to see new technologies and operating models (cloud) adopted quickly. These players will develop based on knowing their specific market requirements - i.e. competing on security, compliance, use habits, special-purpose applications, performance, etc. Thursday, December 15, 2011.

Data Center 200

Data Center Financial Cloud Virtualization 200

Future of CIO

JANUARY 13, 2013

Failure to deliver value in the eyes of the internal and external customers is a failure of IT leadership and a failure of whomever the CIO reports to. The majority of IT organizations today still stick to reactive mode, and at the lower level of maturity. IT d oes not understand the business' life cycle and plans accordingly.

Budget 45

Budget Agile Government SDLC 45