CIO weekly wrap-up

Here’s a rundown of the latest content on SearchCIO.com:

• Gartner: 25 ways to cut IT costs — Cutting costs is “never an activity with long lead times,” according to Gartner analyst Ellen Kitzis. Here are 25 tips from Gartner to think about between now and the end of the year.

• Top five tips for CIO strategic planning — Strategic planning for enterprise CIOs takes on even more importance in an unsteady economy. Here are five tips for doing it properly.

• Traditional DR test models outgrow usefulness — Traditional disaster recovery testing methods focus on a small group of mission-critical applications, leaving many important ones at risk.

• Managing IT risk in the enterprise — In this podcast, author George Westerman offers advice to help you turn IT risk management from a cost of doing business into an enabler of strategic value.