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Creating a Network Budget Strategy

Information Week

Developing and managing a network budget is hard work for network professionals, who often get hit with new projects that they know nothing about. Is there a better way to manage network spending?

Budget 95
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Stop Dumping Your Budget Dollars Down The Drain For Network Visibility

Forrester IT

As I’ve talked to numerous organizations about their Zero Trust journeys, one thing has stood out quite clearly: Security teams are struggling to understand what’s happening on their networks.

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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

CIO Business Intelligence

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. What I had been trying to do was to pitch and fund the needs that we inIT felt were urgent, such as new investments in networks, processing, and storage. Why was I at this presentation, you ask?

Budget 94
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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

Budget 62
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Costs, Tech Skills Impeding Network Modernization Efforts

Information Week

Companies overwhelmingly plan to upgrade their networks, but they lack network engineering chops and modernization projects are busting their budgets, according to an Asperitas Consulting survey.

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Prioritizing cloud security: Allocating the majority of CIOs’ cyber budgets

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO’s cybersecurity budget allocations are too spread out across a myriad of single solutions. Cyber budgets get stretched too thinly across single solutions when they should match the organization’s IT and software spending priorities. the majority of its cybersecurity budget should go to protecting these investments.

Budget 100
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Network spending priorities for second-half 2023

Network World

Lack of pessimism doesn’t translate to optimism, though, and optimism is a bit non-specific for network and IT planners to build on. Do they think their budgets will shift, and if so from what to what? Are they looking to make major changes in their networks, change their vendors, be more or less open?

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