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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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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Those principles are data centric, platform first, cloud based, automation led, and zero trust (so that everything is secure from the start).

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The Holistic IT Governance

Future of CIO

Begin with the CIO identifying every component of the cost associated with "keeping the lights on", then the currently approved projects by title, executive sponsor, budget, schedule, and resources dedicated to each project. Next in exactly the same format, show the requested projects for which there are no resources in the current budget.