article thumbnail

Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

Budget 159
article thumbnail

Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

CIO

Security and data privacy The introduction of GenAI into enterprise workflows, and the related data needed to power it, amplifies the need for CIOs to implement robust security measures, develop incident response plans, and stay vigilant against evolving cyber threats to protect sensitive information and maintain business continuity.

article thumbnail

Cybersecurity e NIS2: come si muovono i CIO per dormire sonni (un po’) più tranquilli

CIO

Nella strategia per la protezione cyber rientrano un SOC (Security Operations Center), due data center proprietari che garantiscono la business continuity e il progetto, in corso di realizzazione, di un sito di disaster recovery presso il CED di Regione Campania.

article thumbnail

Enterprise Storage Solution Provider of Choice: The Case Studies

CIO

One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products. Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. Infinidat’s cloud-like flexible consumption models optimize budget for the customer.

article thumbnail

Tech Trends for 2024

Infinidat

A cyberattack, such as a ransomware or malware attack that destroys or takes all of the enterprise’s data “hostage” for ransom, is a huge disaster on par with a ferocious hurricane or earthquake in terms of the operational disruption and the business impact. Gartner projects 6.8%

Trends 73
article thumbnail

The New Normals of Network Operations in 2020

Kentik

Network budgets remain intact. Forty percent (40%) of respondents said their organizations’ networking budgets had not changed due to economic uncertainties caused by the pandemic. In fact, for 36% of respondents, budgets had either significantly or somewhat increased. Work/life balance is a top networking challenge.

Network 83