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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. Tracy came along with Atlantic Aviation after that transaction.

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Relationship management: The unsung art of optimizing IT teams

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One must have technical acumen and business savvy, be a great communicator and problem-solver, and know how to secure funding and capitalize on it. And for that you must develop an uncanny knack for relationship management and an understanding of how differing personalities can enforce and work with one another to great effect.

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Atos calls for help after plan to raise new capital falters

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French IT services company Atos has called on a third-party trustee to help it negotiate debt refinancing with its banks after plans to raise €720 million in new capital through a rights issue fell through. IT Operations, Managed IT Services Paul Saleh, previously the company’s CFO, was named CEO on Jan. 29, Atos rolled over a €1.5

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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To Carm Taglienti, the explosion of all things AI over the past few years has been both a pro and a con to IT teams. On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says. “We

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

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Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. For CIOs who may need to customize their cloud cost information streams or manage a complex cloud estate, do-it-yourself cloud cost management may be the way to go. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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LayerX Security Raises $24M for its Browser Security Platform, Enabling Employees to Work Securely from Any Browser, Anywhere

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LayerX , pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and other investors.

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Whether your technology is new or old, lifecycle management is key

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Business needs first, then the lifecycle management program Your infrastructure lifecycle management program should be aligned with your organization’s growth roadmap. This will involve comprehensive and proactive infrastructure management. Lifecycle management keeps an equal focus on an asset through all its stages.