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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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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

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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.” 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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Re-Tooling Your Way to a More Efficient Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool. Getting by on Small Budgets. Smaller businesses with tighter budgets are often more likely to undertake re-tooling. The Importance of Self-Analysis.

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Wyze hikes its home monitoring prices, but it’s still a bargain

The Verge

The $10 a month (or $100 a year) Wyze Home Monitoring service includes one Cam Plus license worth $15 a year to apply to any camera (adding unlimited event recording and other AI features), plus person detection for all the user’s cameras. Its budget competitors have all recently seen price changes.

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Esteemed UK academy proves innovation without disruption is possible

CIO Business Intelligence

Avaya Cloud Office provides KBA with their primary voice, video, messaging, and intelligent voice routing as standard and provides backup for other communication platforms if they are unavailable, such as texting and social messaging.