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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now. While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs.

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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. When businesses are struggling due to the recession, there’s a strong temptation to look for ways to cut spending. Data and Information Security, IT Leadership

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

CIO

Across the world, climate change has bitten hard into the economies of tech-centric California, again due to wildfires. So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. But the climate emergency is steadily changing that.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Agile calls for collaboration among cross-functional teams as well as end users, and promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, continual improvement, flexibility in responding to changes in requirements and early delivery of products.

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Better, faster decisions: Why businesses thrive on real-time data

CIO

Use real-time data for business agility, efficient operations, and more. Gathering and processing data quickly enables organizations to assess options and take action faster, leading to a variety of benefits, said Elitsa Krumova ( @Eli_Krumova ), a digital consultant, thought leader and technology influencer.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum.

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