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Scalability, Reliability, and Cost Savings: The Benefits of Cloud Computing for Software Development

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This article explores how cloud computing can benefit software development and how companies can leverage it to streamline operations. Accessibility also means reducing cloud costs while simultaneously improving resource management and support, essentially allowing businesses to leverage their IT budgets more effectively.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

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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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

In contrast, traditional organisations use a project-based approach to delivery, with temporary teams created on an as-needed basis for a specific purpose with budgets based on up-front funding estimates. If the scope is clear and easy to define up-front, it’s a great way to keep everyone on track and ensure teams are delivering to budget.

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Low-code: An Accelerator for Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. Cyber budgets must be spent wisely, often without increasing costs or targeting the most likely risks.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

There is, for example, far more creativity involved in building software than is typically imagined. As Dan Moore writes in his “ Letters to a new Developer ” blog, “Even as a new developer, you’re constantly making small creative decisions (naming a variable, for example). Measure the right outputs.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

And AWS recently announced Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables enterprise software developers to embed gen AI functionality into their programs. For example, AWS offers Outposts, a managed service that enables customers to run AWS services on-premises or at the edge.

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