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Report: Nearly half of software licenses are unused, wasting $44M+ per month

Tech Republic

Only 5% of IT leader respondents to a Nexthink survey have complete visibility into the software licenses their organization uses. The post Report: Nearly half of software licenses are unused, wasting $44M+ per month appeared first on TechRepublic.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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Seattle mayor wants city to test new safety tech that could curb gun violence, stolen vehicles

GeekWire

Harrell released his 2024 budget proposal Tuesday that includes mid-biennium adjustments to the 2023-24 budget passed last year. The City uses two-year budget cycles and in odd years, such as 2023, it makes minor changes. Among Harrell’s proposals include a $1.8 Mayor Harrell is reinvesting $1.8

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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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The ‘IT Business Office’: Doing IT’s admin work right

CIO Business Intelligence

Which is why many wise CIOs create an IT Business Office and make it responsible for alleviating the administrative burden for the IT organization, taking on responsibilities like the following: IT’s performance metrics and reporting systems: Doing metrics right isn’t easy. Just formulating them well takes a lot of effort.

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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

At Atmosphere ’23 we showcased many of these new solutions and technologies, and based on customer endorsements and industry recognition as a leader in GigaOm’s Radar Report for Data Center Switching , we’d say the market is certainly taking notice.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

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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