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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

CIO Business Intelligence

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. Why was I at this presentation, you ask?

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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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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While a new forecast released Monday by Spiceworks/Ziff Davis said that overall IT spending will be largely unhampered by recessionary trends in the economic outlook, much of that spending will be driven by large enterprises, leaving the picture much murkier for small and medium-size businesses. Just 30% of companies with â??no

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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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A Massive Key To Your Future Success Is Healthy Service Provider Relationships 

Forrester IT

On average, companies spend 28% of their technology budgets on technology services. Those budgets have increased by 13% over the past 4 years and for custom software by 20%. This lively and vibrant sector is both a fast follower of enterprise demand and an instigator, supporter, and sometimes […]

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. “I’d

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Palo Alto cloud service prevents distributed enterprise data loss

Network World

Palo Alto is rolling out a cloud service that promises to protect the highly distributed data in contemporary enterprises. Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but most of the current DLP systems were only designed to help global-scale organizations that have huge data protection budgets and staffs.