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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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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 things keeping IT leaders up at night

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“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

Outside of technical firsts, I was also very lucky to have a mentor who ensured I was given great opportunities and showed me that I may have thought too highly of myself and would always have much to learn from others. Instead of coding projects, I coded automations for budget forecasting and such.

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NCMS CIO exploits ‘Great Resignation’ to slash costs, streamline IT operations

CIO

The Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey , conducted by PwC, predicts that one in five workers worldwide may quit their jobs in 2022 with 71% of respondents citing salary as the major driver for changing jobs. This would have not only impacted our budget but would have also created an imbalance in the IT department.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

CIO

A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. Bringing in an IT person who is highly skilled in a specific area can work well for the company budget — allowing you to scale up and down quickly. Dobbs coaches his team in interviewing and does post-mortem on interviews to get the most out of this process.