cost - News, Features, and Slideshows

• 'It’s time for IT to stop acting like a cost centre'

  But first put the IT house in order, with proof that you’re optimising the value delivered to the business and mission, writes Cathleen Blanton of Gartner

• CIO upfront: 'Brexit should lift key IT spend'

  Disruption invites innovation, and while Brexit will impact the way businesses and people operate across the Channel, technology will play an even more critical role to simultaneously both help establish new borders and also to bridge the divide, writes Inder Singh of Unisys.

• 'What do we get for our IT spending?': A CIO's response

  CIOs who change the conversation from cost to value are taking the right steps to move away from the cost cutting cycle. But how do you shift the focus?

• ​Overtaking Moore’s Law

  Today’s focus on the digital enterprise provides a significant opportunity to re-evaluate this traditional thinking and to break free from the simplistic constraints of cost containment.

• CIOs urged to re-examine budget amidst currency fluctuations

  “This exchange rate challenge will be managed by good planning — not by rapid response,” says Roberto Sacco of Gartner.

Whitepapers about cost

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  EMC's comprehensive flash strategy

  This whitepaper reveals which vendor is demonstrating that it has appreciated the broad, long-term strategic importance of flash storage and is moving rapidly to both maximize and optimize its use across its portfolio. You could be forgiven for thinking flash storage is the saviour of the storage world, but the truth is far more about pragmatism than panacea. This is because flash is a technology, and not a market Solid-state storage has been around in some form or another for over three decades, but only in the last few years has it become widely adopted Looking ahead, the most successful vendors seem certain to be those that offer—in addition to a range of solutions—a hybrid approach

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  Ponemon Institute Report: 2014 Cost of Data Breach Study: Australia

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  Aberdeen Group Research: IP Telephony TCO for the SME: Think beyond equipment cost

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  Managing your User Environment