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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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The Holistic IT Governance

Future of CIO

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. Next in exactly the same format, show the requested projects for which there are no resources in the current budget.

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. At this point in time, it needs to be asked whether such a rapid increase in the number of vendors is sustainable.

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