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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%).

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Take FinOps beyond the cloud: How to widen your IT financial savings

CIO Business Intelligence

A new surge of enthusiasm surrounds a strategic framework poised to simplify the management of cloud expenses and help companies lower their IT costs — it’s called FinOps, a portmanteau of the words Financial and DevOps. Public cloud infrastructure seems to be a place where you can “check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. That’s where the contract comes into play.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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From Cloud to Customer

CIO Business Intelligence

Why Cloud Platforms Matter to Marketing Leaders According to IDC, 89% of marketing campaign management applications in Europe are now cloud based rather than on premises. Marketing is becoming digitally transformed through the adoption of new cloud-based marketing applications.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers.

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