CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As has been pointed out in this space numerous times (for example, here ), this is a terrible idea. But while the company’s legal staff are its experts when it comes to analyzing contracts, they aren’t its experts in the subject matter that IT’s vendor contracts and license agreements govern.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As an IT leader, you deal with balancing benefits and budgets within the rapid pace of technological change every day. For example, real-time analytics are used in retail stores to enhance in-the-moment customer experiences. For example, accounting offices often require usage restrictions on sensitive, financial data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Expedia Group, for example, grew significantly over time through acquisitions to comprise 21 separate travel brands, each with its own tech stack and SaaS providers, says Rajesh Naidu, chief architect and head of data platform and data management. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool. We’ll also provide examples of rejigging a system to improve performance. Getting by on Small Budgets. The Importance of Self-Analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

For example, he says, web application firewalls don’t only protect applications but cut networking costs by reducing spurious and malicious traffic. For example, he uses the Titaniam encryption engine to support several data protection use cases, as well as security tools provided by cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft. “We

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Former employees of Daedalic Entertainment, the studio responsible for the licensed game “Gollum,” have revealed some startling information about the troubled development process. Despite having competent developers on board, the game’s full potential was hampered by the game’s modest budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Take the Malaysian oil and gas conglomerate as an example.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2021

40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. 40% reduction in licensing costs as the company no longer needs licenses from vendors of different OSS/BSS platforms. 40% better productivity.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example, an audio version of a course allows people with visual impairments to learn comfortably. This challenge can be solved at the macro level over time, with more awareness about digital education and leading through example. Assess your current resources and set a budget. can be some ways to navigate this challenge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Back in the day, when its assumptions, methodologies, and overall culture were formed, IT suffered from a serious case of ratio inversion, focusing something like 80% of its budget and efforts on the 20%, leaving 20% of its attention to help with the unstructured 80%.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

For example, you can eliminate costly infrastructure refresh programs, and a variety of software license maintenance. Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. Cost Avoidance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Organizations must examine shared resources, storage costs, network costs, platform services, monitoring, logging, and licensing. For example, if the goal is to reduce hot storage, a KPI must be defined to meet the efficiency objective and deliver value creation—and it must be measured.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

The steps and timelines will depend on your unique environment, team, and budget. For example, if an organization is searching for a way to secure web traffic on agentless devices, work with your single-vendor SASE vendor to make sure the new security product will integrate with your existing and planned SASE solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

The steps and timelines will depend on your unique environment, team, and budget. For example, if an organization is searching for a way to secure web traffic on agentless devices, work with your single-vendor SASE vendor to make sure the new security product will integrate with your existing and planned SASE solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Exceeding the planned budget. seiter_daniel Often in the need of speed, we have seen clients “lift and shift” without doing any type of application dependency mapping, right sizing, licensing assessments, etc., for example Healthcare, Legal, Finance) What is your success rate in migrating applications/systems?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

McNeil, for example, says the cost to advertise doubled on one of his brand’s go-to shows after it was acquired — although so far, they’ve honored his prior price point. Acquisitions and licensing agreements occur regularly now, often with big price tags attached. No more promo codes necessary. It normally banks around 100,000.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

If you are looking to protect your invention or license it, the only way to ensure that your idea is protected is to file a patent with the U.S. For example, many people have ideas for apps. Find out how much a prototype would cost, see if it’s within your budget, and try to put into practice the elements of your idea.

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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring QoS (Quality of service, for example, to monitor VoIP). Paessler PRTG Network Monitor’s licensing is based on sensors. PRTG adapts to all budgets and can grow with your needs. Bandwidth monitoring using SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, packet sniffing. Application monitoring. Web monitoring. IPv6 support.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But if you’re a department head pitching a major software expenditure to a CIO, if you’re a CIO with a limited budget trying to choose between competing projects, or you’re a CIO trying to sell a software-driven strategic initiative to the CEO or the board of directors, a strong TCO analysis is a must.

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The Investing Edge

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

To help fit your pricing into their preferred payment, the salesperson could present the fee as subscription model vs. a licensing, for example. All software ends up in the CIO’s budget for maintenance, so you have to keep the CIO in the loop in order to build a long term relationship within the organization. Ambrosino).

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 25, 2022

For example, providing additional lab practice might be beneficial to a student of high-school Chemistry. Look, if your technology investments are just cost-centers, it is only a matter of time before you are asked to look at diminishing budgets to buy more or even maintain what you have. These are now par for the course. #2

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A similar licensing negotiation was being conducted with Smash World Tour, but it abruptly fell through Nov. The implication was that Panda had pulled strings at Nintendo to get a rival tournament canceled due to licensing, although Nintendo and Panda both deny those allegations.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

There still need to be limits on this mechanism, so I’m not issuing 20 direct purchases to the same company in a year, for example, and to make sure the vendor has a valid business license. A city, for example, might set up a roster for “web applications”. Roster and invitation to bid.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Digital is the age of change, technology life cycle becomes shorter every year and CAPEX doesn't allow most of IT organization to keep modern and competitive, how shall CIOs argue to CFOs to move from CAPEX to OPEX your IT budget? Start the conversation as a way of providing the CFO budgeting flexibility.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

of Juno at its IPO, and the institution’s research budget fattened with the company’s success. Alaska’s involvement was an early example of increasing investment by government sovereign funds and other non-traditional funders in biotech. The technology is licensed and sometimes disappears into a black box. “We

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Future of CIO

MARCH 31, 2013

Essentially, that involves a very detailed cost breakdown of the IT Services, to a resource unit level, for example, which is then allocated across geographic and business hierarchies, using cost modeling techniques. A chargeback can be done on a more equitable, actual usage basis, rather than assuming everyone is using the same amount.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, the rise of torrent sites and peer-to-peer networks has made it effortless for users to share copyrighted content, such as movies, music, and software, with millions of people worldwide. Pirated material is often available for free or at significantly reduced prices compared to legally licensed content.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Try getting a driver’s license or not paying your taxes. The ugly episode where United Airlines recently had police drag a customer off a plane is a one example. But government – and the Veteran’s Administration is a another example – makes process King. Governments have been around for dozens, hundreds of years.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2011

While the examples I used in the book are now a little dated, the strategic concepts are still absolutely relevant. Walk into a youth hostel or budget hotel in any exotic country around the world, and you’re more than likely to see someone reading a guidebook from Lonely Planet, the dominant global brand in budget travel.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

I was most intrigued to hear real-world examples of communications needs from Oregon’s responders. Some of those present in the room cited the need for subsidies for responding agencies with very limited budgets and potentially for volunteer firefighters or search-and-rescue volunteers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” What would happen, for example, if a key client’s business was shut down by a cyberattack? What would be the next steps?

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

As just one example, we have twenty cities and states around the nation who have authority from the FCC to build fourth generation wireless networks. But we have a sustainable budget and services going into 2011. And precipitously falling tax revenues. Thank you to the officials who stepped up and made these tough choices.

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

The analysis also included this incredible tidbit: “In a February 2022 survey experiment, we asked opt-in respondents if they were licensed to operate a class SSGN (nuclear) submarine. In reality, the share of Americans with this type of submarine license rounds to 0%.” Oof, right?

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