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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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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.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Embrace cloud-native principles.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Management will study the need of information security policies and assign a budget to implement security policies. We also need to consider all the regulations that are applicable to the industry, like (GLBA,ISO 27001,SOX,HIPAA). Targeted Audience – Tells to whom the policy is applicable. Backup Policy. Virus Policy.

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CloudOps: A framework for optimizing your cloud operations

CIO Business Intelligence

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. From there, companies deploy their application either automatically or through continuous integration and continuous delivery,” he says.

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5 lessons that CIOs learned in 2017

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Lesson #1: Cybersecurity needs a larger portion of your IT budget (and focus). In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. Dedicate more of your IT budget to cybersecurity. photo credit: stevepb via pixabay cc Last year saw many high-profile breaches.

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