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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Focus on value, not just price : The lowest bidder does not always win.

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CSO30 Awards: Introducing the top 30 security leaders in the UAE

CIO

Anoop Paudval Head of Information Security and Governance Gulf News, Al Nisr Publishing 5. Ayoub Fathi, Vice President of Information Security, CISO noon 7. Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Elshamy, Head of Information Security, Fujairah eGovernment 11. Ebrahim Kamalzadeh, Head of Information Technology, Al Nabooda Automobiles 13.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO

For now, Andrew Cotter, CIO at large equipment financing firm Somerset Capital Group, is sticking with VMware, although he’s concerned about possible price hikes when his company’s VMware licenses are up for renewal. But Somerset Capital runs its developer environment in house using VMware. “As Do we go with something else?’”

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Slow Start to Venture Capital Funding in 2024

Alpha Sense BI

The venture capital landscape continues to test the discipline and diligence of investors and startups alike. Like many other asset classes, venture capital continues to be impacted by lingering macroeconomic factors affecting funding and liquidity prospects. The number of deals also plummeted to a four-year low.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

We closed three of our own data centers and went entirely to the cloud with several providers, and we also assembled a new data strategy to completely restructure the company, from security and finance, to hospitality and a new website. I like to call the IT department ‘information decision systems.’ For us this is fundamental.

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Controlling cloud chaos: How to realign IT with the business

CIO

For instance, if IT requires more processing or storage, the team needs to initiate a capital expenditure to purchase additional hardware. The first step is gathering information to facilitate transparency around cloud usage and costs. The business has to get involved. That means reports will need to reflect a variety of needs.

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Venture Capital Trends and Outlook for 2024

Alpha Sense BI

Heading into the second half of 2024, venture capital investors remain cautious as they acknowledge persistent challenging dynamics in the landscape. While dry powder reserves have reached record highs, investors are wary about deploying capital with certain recent macroeconomic factors still fresh in mind.

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