You’ve been tasked with finding ways to cut your IT operations budget for 2025 — where do you start? IT budget planners are grappling with how to stretch already tight budgets, and the added financial demands of AI readiness and cybersecurity resilience don’t help. To make cutting costs even harder, almost everything is more expensive …
Why You Need to Fund New Cybersecurity Protections in Your 2025 IT Budget It is time to start preparing business budgets for 2025! As you begin the IT budgeting process, it’s important to look at current trends regarding cybersecurity to ensure you protect your business from cyberattacks and data breaches. The global annual cost of …
Most CEOs are bullish on AI. Is yours? According to the Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey, 87 percent of CEOs surveyed agree that AI’s benefits outweigh its risks. In addition: Three times more CEOs believe this year than last that AI will impact their industries more than any other technology. Half of CEOs …
You’re probably ready to integrate Generative AI (GenAI) in 2025 if you haven’t already — who wants to get left behind? Most midmarket companies need to modernize their IT environments before they can truly leverage AI’s potential. But what does it take to modernize? This table outlines the top-line differences between a traditional IT environment with …
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 …
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. …
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 …
If you’ve been looking to hire tech talent, you’ve likely come up short. Like so many other things, human resources are harder to find and more expensive than they were pre-pandemic. While the tech talent shortage isn’t new — it’s been going on for years — the related salary increases are impacting IT budgets and …
You feel it at home and at work — things cost more than they used to and some things are hard to find. Supply chain volatility and inflation are part of life right now and it’s no different for technology. Before the pandemic, technology products were plentiful. It would take about a week from purchase …
Whether you want to or not, moving some computing to the cloud may be in your future for 2023. The technology hardware components that you bought three, four, and five years ago are aging out — they’re no longer reliable. You need to buy new ones, but supply chain volatility continues so servers and other …
