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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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This $252 Nokia X100 is a budget 5G phone with a 1080p display and 6GB RAM

The Verge

Starting November 19th, 2021, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile will be adding another budget 5G phone to the lineup — the $252 Nokia X100 that is exclusive to T-Mobile. It has 6GB of RAM to support its processor, 128GB of internal storage, as well as a microSD card slot that can accept up to a 1TB card for backup and extra storage.

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You are doing big data, but do you have the storage space for it?

Eric D. Brown

One aspect of the big data frenzy that I don’t see enough people talking about is the storage space to hold all this data. Big data can get really big if you let it, and with the mindset that ‘more is better’, data storage volumes are growing exponentially. Where are organizations storing data? In the cloud? Internally?

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DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget using Lenovo TS140

Storage IO Blog

Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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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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Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices

SecureWorld News

You must know which workloads and storages you have and where, how much performance you require to run production, and which data should be available in any case. Calculate your budget Reaching minimal RTOs requires providing sufficient hardware resources and using optimized software to handle such complex computing.

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Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database

SecureWorld News

While it is essential to clarify that the information mostly consisted of data that is intended to be publicly available, the security lapse allowed access that could potentially unveil deeper insights into Cigna's internal storage network. I also recommend using multiple vendors, if your budget allows it.

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