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

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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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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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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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Outsourced IT: Is It Right for Your Company?

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It is primarily a budget-cutting approach wherein companies offshore their processes to service providers in countries like India, the Philippines or China, where the expenses are low and the talent pools are full. Objective Alignment — Having a third-party vendor manage your IT infrastructure might lead to misalignment of objectives.

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. At this point in time, it needs to be asked whether such a rapid increase in the number of vendors is sustainable.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

And, managing who has access to these systems poses a significant challenge. These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure. They’re more likely to be VPs or directors rather than C-level executives.