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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 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In these cases, it’s important to budget more time finding the right partner, speaking with them, implementing a proof of concept, and staying closer to progress than you would with a partner working on a more mainstream project.” Dun & Bradstreet’s Manos recommends regular check-ins where key goals, metrics, and objectives are reviewed.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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The Six Pillars of Effective Security Operations

Palo Alto Networks

Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Budget: What will it cost to do this? Metrics: How will we know it is working effectively? Planning: How are we going to do it? Staffing: Who do we need to do this? Facility: Where are we going to do this? Reporting: How will we track activity and provide updates?

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

Title % respondents Senior-most IT or security decision-maker in the firm (e.g.,

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Fleet Management Software: Key Functions, Solutions, and Innovations

Altexsoft

By helping manage expenses (cost registration, fixed costs scheduling, cost/km and cost/hour ratios calculation, etc.), Apart from that, FMS conducts a comprehensive cost analysis providing a clear picture of what your budget is spent on. It’ll track the defined key metrics with the cost drivers, comparing them against the benchmarks.