Datavail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With databases representing a substantial portion of the IT budget, getting the most from investments in this area is critical. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending. As an IT leader, balancing costs and delivering value is one of your most pressing concerns.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

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. Despite growing pressure to move fast, most modernization projects inch along at a snail’s pace. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cost Optimization: By providing insights into software usage and license compliance, software asset management tools enable organizations to optimize their software spending. This may involve reallocating licenses, negotiating better licensing agreements, or identifying opportunities to consolidate software vendors.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

Like a conventional CIO, a full-time fractional CIO is responsible for an enterprise’s overall IT strategy and management, says Abhi Shrikhande, vice president and general manager of technology services at freelance talent network Toptal. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The vendor management team would receive this feedback so they can escalate or find a new vendor for that service. You could exclude these situations from SLO burn budgets. The “next thing” that is two years behind schedule also relies on another system that depends on this busted service.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 17, 2021

Although this may sound like a simple idea in theory, complete oversight of your company’s security processes can quickly consume a lot of manpower, not to mention the entire IT budget. Managed services are an excellent option that not only save businesses time and money, but simplify their cloud security, as well. Vendor management.

Cloud 52

Cloud Vendor Management Compliance AWS 52

Cloudera

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Finding opportunities for monetary savings offers the benefit of reducing costs, but more importantly, it enables a reallocation of budgets towards innovation projects. . Compliance requirements are often the reason for maintaining something, but eventually you have to avoid the compliance cost and redirect that budget.

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. An architect for an in-shop product engineering department requires different capabilities and attitudes compared to an architect that has to work with vendors and ensure successful integration. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences.

Architecture 130

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. An architect for an in-shop product engineering department requires different capabilities and attitudes compared to an architect that has to work with vendors and ensure successful integration. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences.

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Architecture Organization Technical Review Software Review 130

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Budgeting & forecasting. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Network systems security.

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Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

The rigorous FedRAMP authorization process provides assurance that the vendor offers a solution that supports systems, incorporates innovative technology, and secures their customers’ information. Why Is Vendor Management Important to Cybersecurity?

Security 51

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Infinidat

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Infinidat understands the problem and is here to help transform IT Operations’ view of Purchasing from being a speed bump in the pathway to their getting the storage they need to a partner that helps them get maximum value from their storage budget. Monetizing the Cost of Operations and Purchasing Not Working Together.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Budget: What will it cost to do this? There is a glut of siloed tools in the industry that lead to a variety of issues, including extensive vendor management, limited feature use, duplicate functionality, and sometimes, end-user degradation.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Systems Review Vendor Management Knowledge Base 71

Infinidat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Data migrations are inherently complex, and when poorly done, affect IT’s ability to meet SLAs. It also allows us to build relationships with prospective new customers and insights into their workloads.

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Infinidat

OCTOBER 1, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Data migrations are inherently complex, and when poorly done, affect IT’s ability to meet SLAs. It also allows us to build relationships with prospective new customers and insights into their workloads.

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Storage Weak Development Team Infrastructure Backup 52

Jeremiah Grossman

MAY 17, 2016

Security budgets are always extremely tight, so it’s smart to get the absolute best price possible from your security vendors. Never ever pay full price, or even take the first quote vendors give you. Among other things, VARs make vendor management much easier for customers. There you have it.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the key steps in achieving all of the above will be vendor consolidation, and there will be a strong trend towards this in the year ahead. For example, one key piece of advice for CIOs looking at constrained budgets and inflationary pressures in the year ahead is to be open with suppliers regarding those budget constraints.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Most IT dollars are spent on business as usual: maintenance and upgrades represent 70% or more of the annual IT budget. The proto-CIO is a strong technologist with vendor management and negotiating skills, with a steady-as-she-goes disposition. IT, the argument goes, is less a source of value and more a cost of doing business.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 16, 2023

Whether we went the third-party route or built our own thing, that’s more vendor management and/or infrastructure overhead. Behind the scenes, a budget for failure is established, and you can define alerts that progressively notify when a budget gets close to—or exceeds—its limit. turbo’s limit. LLMs are black boxes!

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

The board signed up provided they stayed within a capital budget, could be in market in less than 18 months, and could fully retire legacy products within 24 months, with bonuses indexed to every month they were early. About a year in, it became clear delivery was well short of where it needed to be.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

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

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Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

Having an internal IT team means working with a bunch of IT vendors. However, vendor management can become an expensive and cumbersome task. Service providers manage these tasks for their clients, freeing up plenty of time and resources for those clients to manage their businesses.

Security 52

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Aside from the fact that this serves the interests of a multitude of non-tech corporate functions such as human resources, vendor management and finance, it also provides a great deal of comfort to the individual. Vendor contracts for supply of specialist labor have to be replaced with contracts tied to business outcomes.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

This perspective is a shift from existing strategy perspectives as it affects nearly every major decision a company makes, from growth initiatives, portfolio strategy, and M&A opportunities to its approach to budgeting and cost cutting. SD : Why now? It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 29, 2019

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. FMS streamlines the related administrative processes. Security and safety features.

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Protera

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For example, if you’re repainting a building and your goal is to get it done as quickly as possible within budget, the process reflects that. You may also be negotiating licenses with third-party software vendors, cloud vendors, managed services partners, hardware providers, and other vendors.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 11, 2019

For example, both are involved in: Forecasting prices , overseeing budgeting, planning and auditing. Cost management (estimating, controlling, optimizing, and reducing operating costs). SAP products fit exactly into the requirements of large enterprises with thousands of employees and multi-million dollar budgets.

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