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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023.

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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

CIO

The forecast is based on a survey of IT professionals in the US and Europe, which was performed this summer by Aberdeen Research. Our research revealed improvements across performance, reliability, security and even reduced overall IT costs among organizations that modernized their infrastructure â??even Budget, Technology Industry

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth marketing survey, VC TikTok, fundraising amid a downturn

TechCrunch

Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022? Here’s the good news: Managers can’t slash your respect budget. Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022? How do we handle being fully remote when it comes to immigration?

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISOs See Budgets Tighten, as Cyberthreats Intensify

Tenable

After double-digit growth in the past two years, cybersecurity budgets expanded more modestly in 2023. Plus, a survey offers an inside look at how organizations are grappling with cyber challenges. Overall, 63% of organizations increased their cybersecurity budgets. And what’s the biggest item on cybersecurity budgets?

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Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact

DevOps.com

A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […].

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