7 Key Questions for IT Budgeting for 2025

Is your business getting ready for a healthy and vibrant 2025? In today’s world, that includes developing a strategic IT operations budget that aligns your IT roadmap with your business goals and takes into account the current economy and the most relevant changes in the technology landscape. For mid-market companies, generative AI (GenAI), cybersecurity, and …

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3 Hard Truths About Cloud Migration (and How to Afford a Modern IT Stack)

CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and internal IT departments are facing a dilemma — how do they leverage advanced technologies that run in the cloud when their IT operations budget is already bloated? Can they ultimately save money by buckling down and accelerating cloud migration?  Companies might save money, but that’s not the reason to accelerate cloud adoption. …

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How CIOs Succeed by Accelerating Cloud Adoption

When companies rushed to the cloud during the pandemic, they set themselves up for the tough choices they must make today — what’s the best way to get out from under all this expensive sprawl? Using both traditional and cloud infrastructures was smart back then, but what makes the most business sense right now? The need …

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Blindsided by VMware? How To Regroup and Come Out Ahead

If you’re one of VMware’s 500,000 customers, you have some decisions to make…quickly. VMware, now owned by Broadcom, recently announced it will no longer sell perpetual licenses (or related support) and will sell subscription licenses instead — which will cost customers significantly more in the long run. Most of Leapfrog’s clients use VMware products and …

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How To Cut Costs and Gain Efficiencies By Consolidating IT Vendors

At Leapfrog, nearly all of the business leaders we speak to are taking more control over their IT operations budget. We recently had a conversation with our chief technology officer, Emmett “Trey” Hawkins, about why U.S. companies are tightening their operations and how they can do it effectively. The reasons why can be summarized quickly. …

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The High Cost of IT Vendor Sprawl

If your company’s IT ecosystem has evolved piecemeal over the years, you’re not alone. Many companies integrate new vendors to satisfy the needs of the moment or take advantage of a good deal. Eventually, however, you end up with a complex patchwork of multiple vendors providing overlapping services. This diverse IT vendor landscape is not …

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Should You Hire or Upskill to Leverage AI?

Getting the business results you want from generative AI isn’t easy — there’s a definite learning curve. What’s the fastest way to get up to speed? Information Week explores this issue in Hire or Upskill? The Burning Question in an Age of Runaway AI. Leapfrog is glad to weigh in — we’ve been enthusiastically helping …

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Security and Maturity: Today’s CIOs Take Center Stage

About a decade ago, the CIO’s main goal was to oversee a team to manage the technology of a company and control costs. Annual IT initiatives often included finding ways to take something expensive — existing technology — and make it cheaper so that the budget could be used for other initiatives. Innovating or delivering …

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Why Your Mid-market Company Needs an MSSP

Keeping your business secure from cyber threats keeps getting more complicated. Even companies that previously thought they weren’t targets due to their size or industry know they need to adjust their thinking — cybersecurity vigilance is today’s reality. Mid-market companies that need to update their security controls are particularly at risk. Cybercriminals know that mid-market …

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