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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

CIO Business Intelligence

The US Federal Government has been investing heavily in IT modernization and cybersecurity, with an estimated budget of $65 billion for 2023 for civilian IT spending, according to a White House report. While application operations and technology consulting revenue both saw an increase of 17%, business transformation revenue grew by 14%.

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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The ITZBund acts as a central IT service provider for the federal administration and operates a wide range of critical processes in the areas of transport, budget, taxes, internal security, and integration, for example. Serrette’s team also developed a marketing and communications strategy for the multicloud management program.

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO Business Intelligence

Make storage part of the corporate cybersecurity strategy. You need to think of your enterprise storage as part of your holistic corporate security strategy. Use a hybrid cloud strategy to accelerate digital transformation. Here’s how to equip yourself for that discussion with C-level executives. Reduce IT costs.

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

But released the next day, the 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey revealed that EMEA-based CIOs expect IT budgets to increase 4.4% Gartner’s managing VP Mary Mesaglio said she remained optimistic for tech investments, with the latest crisis offering CIOs yet another opportunity to “make the difference”. global inflation rate.

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The Digital IT Leader as Gap Minder

Future of CIO

Nowadays, businesses are steadily moving into the digital era with characteristics of hyper-connectivity and interdependence. Information Technology is the linchpin to build differentiated business competency. In fact, IT business synchronization is one of the most important aspects to achieve digital harmonization.

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IT Savvy Board’s Five Oversight

Future of CIO

Contemporary corporate boards today are IT savvy and digital ready for moving their organizations to the next level of the business agility and maturity. Therefore, Digital Board today need to become IT friendly and technology savvy, with a comprehensive IT oversight on how to run a highly intelligent and high mature digital business?

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CIO playbook: Collaborating with business leaders on their IT spend

CIO Business Intelligence

Industry observers say IT leaders are generally not opposed to business leaders taking more ownership of tech spending. “If If you speak to the vast majority of CIOs, they’ll say those business transformations need to be led by the business leader with support from IT,’’ notes Len Riley, commercial advisory practice leader at UpperEdge.

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