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How Can CIOs Avoid Wasting Their Budget?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What steps can a CIO take in order to avoid spending their budget buying technology that will just end up going to waste? A good example of this comes from companies that have assumed that their customers would use PayPal if they offered it as a payment option. This could result in a big budget drain. Where Is The Money Going?

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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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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. For example, the hospital wants the ability to look at imaging and pathology data so staff can better diagnose patients faster and quicker, he says.

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Building your own web application platform is locking you in

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs have shifted toward building their own web application platforms with a set of best-in-class tools for more flexibility, customizations, and agile DevOps. This can be costly for organizations: A recent study found that 25 to 40% percent of IT projects exceed their budget or schedules by more than 50%. Click here to learn more.

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5 Steps to Securing Fuzz Testing Budget

ForAllSecure

This differentiation can be attributed to their use of application security testing tools, one of which is fuzzing. Step 1 Understand Your Application Portfolio. Take time to figure out what applications are most important to your organization’s livelihood. Enter your applications: 1.). Fuzzing is proven.

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“If organisations are hacked, they should stay calm and act quickly by instantly activating their incident response plan”

CIO Business Intelligence

This continued emergence of cloud environments has greatly affected application development and their associated security architectures. Cloud environments by their nature often consist of rapid DevOps cycles eliminating the need for application developers to adequately maintain secure applications.

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The extraordinary synergy of wi-fi and 5G in enterprise networks

CIO Business Intelligence

As an IT leader, you deal with balancing benefits and budgets within the rapid pace of technological change every day. Improve capacity and latency Enterprise network traffic is growing, and new data-hungry applications require faster and faster data speeds. The benefits are extraordinary. Here’s why.

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