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How To Onboard Startups

Forrester IT

The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Like a conventional CIO, a full-time fractional CIO is responsible for an enterprise’s overall IT strategy and management, says Abhi Shrikhande, vice president and general manager of technology services at freelance talent network Toptal. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He will lead technology initiatives for the Poonawalla group in its quest to build a world-class digital technology-based platform for financial services. He was CTO at L&T Financial Services before joining Poonawalla. This is Bhardwaj’s second stint at the financial services company. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur.

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors.

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