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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. What I had been trying to do was to pitch and fund the needs that we inIT felt were urgent, such as new investments in networks, processing, and storage. Let’s say you need more storage to keep up with incoming data.

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How Can CIOs Avoid Wasting Their Budget?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What steps can a CIO take in order to avoid spending their budget buying technology that will just end up going to waste? We can achieve lower infrastructure and storage costs and the technology is improving all the time. As the CIO, you are in charge of determining where the department’s budget gets spent.

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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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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

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. On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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Motorola’s latest budget phone leaks with 64-megapixel camera and 5,000mAh battery

The Verge

It looks like Motorola is about to announce a second entry in its budget G9 phone lineup, just weeks after it revealed the Moto G9 Play. inch 1080p display, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage (expandable via microSD), and will run Android 10 out of the box. The Moto G9 Plus is shown with four rear cameras and a hole-punch display notch.

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Town Sends 15% of Annual Budget to Cybercriminals

SecureWorld News

That is approximately 15% of the town's annual budget. Since the town's budget is about $15.8 million annually, the loss could affect projects within Peterborough and whether they will be completed in a timely way, among other budgeting dilemmas. What is your take?

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook. Enterprise storage can be used to improve your company’s cybersecurity, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs, while improving application and workload service levels. What should you do?

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