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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s competitive business setting, enterprises are constantly under pressure to maintain profitability amid challenging economic conditions. By leveraging data-driven methods, businesses can optimize and reclaim operating capital from their extensive technology budgets, reducing expenses without resorting to drastic measures.

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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.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO Business Intelligence

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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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. Let’s say you need more storage to keep up with incoming data.

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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% Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1%

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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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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. 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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