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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements. Systems architects are responsible for identifying technical solutions that align with the business goals and budget. Average salary: US$151,364 Increase from 2021 : 2.3% Careers, IT Jobs, Salaries

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

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

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. There are other risks, too.

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Business Outcomes of PostgreSQL Cost Optimization

Datavail

With databases representing a substantial portion of the IT budget, getting the most from investments in this area is critical. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending. Proactive performance monitoring and tuning smooths issues. Automating administrative tasks reduces manual efforts.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

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. Despite growing pressure to move fast, most modernization projects inch along at a snail’s pace. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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Key Software Asset Management Tools and Benefits

Apiumhub

Cost Optimization: By providing insights into software usage and license compliance, software asset management tools enable organizations to optimize their software spending. This may involve reallocating licenses, negotiating better licensing agreements, or identifying opportunities to consolidate software vendors.

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