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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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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.

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Top 8 ways to improve cybersecurity for your organization

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As you plan your security budget, know that your recommendations to improve cybersecurity will be scrutinized more than ever before. No budget is unlimited. Below, I’ll share my most effective strategies for improving cybersecurity across your organization. Align your cybersecurity program to business goals and financial impact.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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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. There’s a trick to this, and it’s one that, ultimately, your organization will thank you for. Here are three strategies for getting it done.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

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Compliance with DORA will require full adherence to five critical areas of focus outlined in the regulation: ICT risk management : This guidance establishes a standard framework for what organizations should do in response to an ICT security incident.

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

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The following are three practical ways to make enterprise storage a strategic asset for your organization. You also need to decide what to do for modern data protection and you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity.

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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

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Today, it is not enough just to innovate within one’s own vertical; to truly exploit the power of GenAI to transform workflows and drive competitive advantage, CIOs need to look outside their own organizations to get the scale, domain expertise, and speed required to develop fully integrated solutions.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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