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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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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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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

Since then, automation has filled the gap in improving customer experience and security. Customer experience and security But as in most industries, customer expectations and security challenges continue to grow along with technological advances. Security and privacy. Conducted by Quadrant Strategies for Iron Mountain.

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Securing Venture Capital for Your New Cloud Startup

Smart Data Collective

You won’t be able to do so without a significant amount of capital. You are going to need to recognize the barriers to entry in this industry and make sure that you have access to the capital needed to cover these costs. You might want to consider using venture capital to raise the funds needed to grow your cloud business.

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Atos CEO Yves Bernaert quits over governance differences

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The company needs to raise capital as it seeks to renegotiate €1.5 Having a finance expert like Saleh at the helm could help stabilize Atos as it seeks to negotiate the uncertainties around its debt rescheduling and its recapitalization plans, which the company says are unchanged since its announcement on Jan. billion ($1.65

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Benefits of Using Data Analytics in Equipment Financing

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Securing financing is a huge example. Data analytics technology is helping more companies get the financing that they need for a variety of purposes. One of the most important benefits of big data involves getting financing for new equipment. The Growing Importance of Using Big Data to Finance New Equipment.

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

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Broadcom has made a series of acquisitions under CEO Hock Tan’s leadership, including CA Technologies and Symantec’s enterprise security division, and Tan has often cut marketing expenses and dumped parts of the acquired company that underperform. But Somerset Capital runs its developer environment in house using VMware. “As

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Top reasons for implementing NaaS

CIO

The survey found that “flexible financing” and “keeping pace with technology” are the top catalysts for implementing NaaS by IT executives/directors who have either installed or are very familiar with the NaaS landscape. Other challenges included keeping legacy applications securely connected as the network infrastructure modernizes.

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