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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

While investing in technology is key—and becoming more so—this doesn’t mean that CIO budgets won’t come under pressure, both for capital spend as well as for operations and maintenance (O&M). Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

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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Cloud native order management boosts speed, scale and operational efficiency

TM Forum

40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. HT wanted to move its order management to being open source, cloud-native and microservices-based, so that it could be scaled easily. 40% better productivity.

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Fuzz Testing ROI Framework

ForAllSecure

We’ll start our analysis by addressing a contentious and multilayered topic: product licensing. Product licensing is an obvious cost, but it is a common misconception that it is the largest cost. Penetration testing has no direct product license or operational cost. Manual Penetration Testing Operation Costs.

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Authoring Software: Features, Capabilities, How to Choose, and More

Kitaboo

Some are sold as lifetime licenses (meaning they’re yours forever), while others offer multiple tiers of license options depending on your needs. Open-source tools can offer many of the same benefits at a fraction of the price. It is important to note that authoring tools come in different forms and pricing models.

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Fuzz Testing ROI Framework

ForAllSecure

We’ll start our analysis by addressing a contentious and multilayered topic: product licensing. Product licensing is an obvious cost, but it is a common misconception that it is the largest cost. Penetration testing has no direct product license or operational cost. Manual Penetration Testing Operation Costs.

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- Microsoft vs Open Source

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. On the other hand, all governments have budget pains. Next, in an open source world, what do we do about application integration?