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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt. Commonly automated tasks include system monitoring, patch management, and backups. As Gartner’s Buchanan says, “The challenge isn’t cost management, but realizing value from cost.”

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7 technologies that CIOs can’t ignore in 2021

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Cloud storage and backup. As data volumes grow, so does the need for efficient storage and backup. “In To succeed in this data-intensive reality, organizations need an efficient way to expand their storage needs while improving their data backup and recovery.”. These aren’t necessarily new technologies. Secure portals.

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