3 Key Cloud Computing Trends to Consider When Planning Your IT Budget
Information Week
JANUARY 30, 2023
As remote and hybrid work rises in popularity, so will the adoption of technologies that prioritize agile, secure end-user computing.
Aligning security and business strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings.
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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2022
When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. When a cloud strategy team has those chief objectives nailed down, they can plan supporting considerations – such as security, resiliency and scalability – around them more effectively.”
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Security helps raise global enterprise IT spend
TM Forum
APRIL 29, 2022
with security set to be one of the key areas of investment. The desire to increase security and data protection are helping fuel German SMEs’ IT investment, as are improvements to digital customer experience. Worldwide spend on IT is set to rise faster during 2022 than previously forecast, according to new data by Gartner and.
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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 6, 2022
When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. When a cloud strategy team has those chief objectives nailed down, they can plan supporting considerations – such as security, resiliency and scalability – around them more effectively.”
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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 25, 2024
Modern digital organisations tend to use an agile approach to delivery, with cross-functional teams, product-based operating models , and persistent funding. But to deliver transformative initiatives, CIOs need to embrace the agile, product-based approach, and that means convincing the CFO to switch to a persistent funding model.
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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Any number of things can happen to cause delays and drive up costs.
The cyber security challenges in fintech and neobanking’s rise
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 25, 2022
Riccardo Galbiati, cyber advisor, Office of the CSO at Palo Alto Networks, says the biggest advantage fintechs and noebanks have over traditional, larger financial services firms in the sector is their agility. The only solution to this dilemma is to make sure that the development lifecycle of applications become ‘secure by design.’
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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. These IT pros can also help organizations avoid potential risks around cloud security, while ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud across the company.
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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.
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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 11, 2024
We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. More than ever, we have to be agile and be unafraid of waste. And yet we must.
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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 4, 2022
Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases.
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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 5, 2023
“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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Building your own web application platform is locking you in
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 17, 2023
Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities.
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Steps to Improve Your Security Posture during Technology Modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 27, 2022
The constantly changing risk environment requires companies to be agile in how they adapt and address cyber risks. Moving off legacy platforms into more agile technology environments such as? Visibility, speed and agility . Internet of Things (IoT). CIOs should: .
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The NIS2 Directive: why cyber-resilience is the new normal for European organisations
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 19, 2024
Defending this was never going to be easy at a time of constricted budgets and a shortage of technical skills. One of the biggest challenges will be NIS2’s emphasis on boosting supply chain security, widely acknowledged as a major potential weakness. The threat has become a matter of national security. This is hugely ambitious.
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CIOs need a universal storage layer to manage multicloud complexities…here’s why.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Increasingly, innovation relies on the key tenets of agility and speed. But CIOs grapple to reconcile advancing agility and speed with the complexities of managing multicloud and sprawling edge environments built on disparate standards and formats. Dell What are the benefits of a universal storage layer?
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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Procurement management: Secure necessary procurements. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on.
10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
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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The Fellowship of the Metaverse: CIO, CMO, CCO and CHRO
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Migrate to the cloud, strengthen security, protect privacy, increase agility, advance automation, improve sustainability, optimise the budget … “explore the metaverse” is certainly on the to-do list for most CIOs, along with many, many other competing priorities. Agile Development So, how should you handle this conundrum?
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ST Engineering showcases applications of new technologies to stay ahead of disruption
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Foundry’s CIO Tech Priorities 2023 found that IT leaders are investing in technologies that provide greater efficiencies, better security, and improved end-user experience, with most actively researching or piloting projects around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, data analytics, automation, and IT/OT intelligence.
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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 17, 2023
In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.
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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
5, Insufficient budget Digital transformation can be expensive, and executive leadership teams that do not allocate enough budget to the initiative may struggle to succeed. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.
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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Likely, they will need to exploit all the latest tools provided by cloud and data partner ecosystems to manage, govern, scale, analyze, and secure their data before they can deliver these types of solutions.
4 ways to invest in IT during a recession while keeping costs low
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Gartner recently lowered their expectations for IT budgets to increase by just 2.2% Here are tips for making the most of your IT budget in a recession. Don’t skimp on security New CVEs and zero-day attacks are being discovered at higher rates year after year. Do not let up on security; others certainly aren’t.
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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 26, 2023
They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.
5 ways to maximize your cloud investment
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 10, 2024
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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DoD Releases Enterprise-Wide Zero Trust Strategy
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
"This 'never trust, always verify' mindset requires us to take responsibility for the security of our devices, applications, assets, and services; users are granted access to only the data they need and when needed," John B. Sherman, the DoD's CIO, said in the document's foreword. "We
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Top reasons for implementing NaaS
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
By Cathy Won, Consultant with eTeam, HPE Aruba Networking Contributor In a recent IDC NaaS survey 1 , sponsored by HPE, 71% of respondents agree or strongly agree as-a-service (aaS) consumption models offer better IT agility compared to traditional consumption models.
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Webinar Review: Make DevSecOps Your New Year’s Resolution
Flexagon
JANUARY 20, 2021
Individual organizations and industries at large demand greater innovation and high-quality outputs while maintaining a strict budget. As a result, IT landscapes must shift from traditional Waterfall SDLCs to Agile models, from silos to collaborative cultures, and from limited.
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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 11, 2023
As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. It’s also essential to find the right partners who share an agile mindset and commitment to sustainable change.”
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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 23, 2024
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.
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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Drive business impacts by closing operational and security gaps Digital transformations aim to deliver competitive advantages typically through new digital products, improved customer experiences, and data-driven decision-making.
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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
The ITZBund acts as a central IT service provider for the federal administration and operates a wide range of critical processes in the areas of transport, budget, taxes, internal security, and integration, for example.
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Fed Tech Roundup October 7
CTOvision
OCTOBER 7, 2015
Fraud-fighting analytics, email security and border IT - FCW.com. DOD looks to agile to solve software conundrum - FCW.com. Trade Group's FITARA Maturity Model Could Help Agencies with 2017 Budget - Nextgov. Air Force successfully tests wearable biometric sensors - GCN.com. Lots of data, lots of fears - FCW.com. Why the U.S.
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National Grid’s energy transformation is fueled by IT
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 20, 2022
You can imagine what the Infrastructure Act and the Go Green [initiatives] has meant for my budget. I don’t want to give you exact numbers, but I had a smaller budget when I was the chief information officer at Dell.”. It’s about increased security to the state. Her answer? She gets to change the world.
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Is IT Budget Planning Still Too Yesterday
Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Effective budgeting management, can flex to changing business needs. However, from a recently released IW survey report, IT budgeting process in many organizations still stuck in the past, half think their company’s budget process isn’t consistently flexible enough for changing business needs.
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13 IT resolutions for 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 2, 2024
Emphasizing agility and flexibility is key in this dynamic environment,” he says. “To Such teams can be assembled based on specific projects, offering greater speed, flexibility, and agility,” he says. He’s determined to keep up, finding ways to help his staffers be more agile in using AI to accelerate insights that inform innovation.
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What Duxbury Networking’s CIO does to balance head with heart
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
What keeps IT leaders up at night covers a broad range of issues including improving overall IT performance, data security, process risk and compliance, and meeting needs to improve business agility. A relationship with security “I recently read an article that said: ‘If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable,’” he says.
What are Main Characteristics of Agile EA
Future of CIO
APRIL 30, 2013
Agility is not just the ability to change. But, what’re the new characteristics of Agile EA? Agile EA What Is Agility ? According to industry experts: Agility is not just the ability to change. Agile Enterprise Architecture is not a blueprint. Agile Enterprise Architecture is not a blueprint.
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Softchoice—delivering award-winning, end-to-end multi-cloud strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 7, 2023
By leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS along with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Carbon Black to enable a zero trust approach across the board, Softchoice made the customer’s architecture highly resilient and secure. “We After moving to the new environment, Softchoice’s customer was more agile, scalable, and secure.
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Pay for in-demand IT skills rises fastest in 14 years
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 28, 2022
CIOs seeking to hire or retain skilled IT workers should continue to budget generously for payroll. Pay premiums for non-certified tech skills rose by the largest amount in 14 years in the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest edition of the IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index, compiled by Foote Partners.
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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 9, 2022
The demand for high agility and time to market is creating a compelling case for critical portions of their portfolios to be transformed to a more cloud-native form-factor.”. Then if you can create agile teams that include security, infrastructure support, development, product owners, etc., Don’t shortchange security.
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Digital Transformation Success: It’s All About Simplicity Through Partnerships
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2022
According to 2022 State of the CIO study , 85% of CIOs are focusing on transformational initiatives with pre-pandemic levels of technology budget growth. To enhance and stabilize continuous business operations despite future disruptions seeing how the pandemic has highlighted the importance of business resiliency and agility.
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