Ballmer departure changes the Microsoft game for enterprise CIOs
In a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, chairman Steve Ballmer announced his departure from Microsoft’s board of directors. While Ballmer still retains 4% of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), he...
View ArticleSeven Things the CIO should consider when adopting a holistic cloud strategy
As conversations about cloud computing continues to focus on IT’s inability at holistic adoption, organizations outside of IT continue their cloud adoption trek outside the prevue of IT. While many of…
View ArticleThree harmonious factors that change the CIO octave
Wikipedia: The term harmony derives from the Greek ‘harmonia’, meaning “joint, agreement, concord”, from the verb ‘harmozo’, “to fit together, to join. The future of the CIO role comes down to…
View ArticleCIOs ill equipped to manage the growing security threats
Security, or Information Security (InfoSec) as the more formal term, is going through a period of massive change. In recent months, the public has become keenly aware of the risks from…
View ArticleIBM BLU Acceleration speaks to core business challenges with Cancun Release
IBM’s BLU Acceleration is starting to make inroads in addressing common issues faced by enterprise IT organizations. BLU Acceleration is IBM’s in-memory database processing is based on DB2. In-memory...
View ArticleSSO and Identity Management must be part of any cloud strategy
Over the past five years, security topped the list of concerns about cloud computing. Rightfully so, if security is truly a concern, it should also serve as an inhibitor to cloud…
View Article5 things to prepare the CIO for disruption
For years, IT organizations operated in a certain way. They provided a relatively standard service in a particular way. Of course, both of these evolved incrementally year over year. Over the…
View ArticleIs the cloud instable and what can we do about it?
The recent major reboots of cloud-based infrastructure by Amazon and Rackspace has resurfaced the question about cloud instability. Days before the reboot, both Amazon and Rackspace noted that the...
View Article8 Reasons Not to Move to Cloud
Cloud-based solutions present the largest opportunity today for the enterprise, business, IT and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Recent conversations have posed the question about cloud adoption...
View ArticleCould Rackspace start the cloud vertical movement?
There are plenty of other posts detailing whether Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) should sell or split. I detailed my own thoughts here back in May 2014. With the speculation continuing to twist…
View ArticleDevOps, Weaving Development and Operations Together in the Enterprise
DevOps is a hot topic inside many Enterprise IT organizations today, because of the operational and development efficiencies it can bring. By leveraging DevOps best practices, Enterprises can take...
View ArticleWhat do cloud consolidation and disruption have in common?
One thing is for sure, we can expect to see much more of cloud consolidation and disruption happening in the IT space over the coming months and years. Recently, Cisco, EMC,…
View ArticleThe enterprise CIO needs a comprehensive strategic plan and quick
There are many who profess to know what goes on within the mind of the CIO and across the IT organization as a whole. The challenge is: If you have not…
View ArticleThere comes a point when it is not just about storage space
Is the difference between cloud storage provides about free space? In a word, no. I wrote about the cloud storage wars and potential bubble here: The cloud storage wars heat up…
View ArticleIBM connects the dots between data, cloud and engagement
At this week’s IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas, IBM brought out the big guns to demonstrate their chops in the data analytics space. Insight is IBM’s conference dedicated to their…
View ArticleThe importance of the long tail and a market of one
One could ask what does marketing have to do with the CIO and the IT organization as a whole? At the IBM Insight conference last week, this very issue came up…
View ArticleCIOs are getting out of the Data Center business
More than three years ago, a proclamation was made (by myself, Mark Thiele and Jan Wiersma) that the data center was dead. Ironically, all three of us come from an IT…
View Article5 things that prepare the CIO for innovation
Last week, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) held their annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Gigaom’s Barb Darrow summarized her Top-5 lessons learned from the conference here. Specifically for CIO’s, there...
View ArticleWill the real change agent please stand up?
IT is not the change agent today, but it should be. And the CIO should be the one leading the charge.
View ArticleThink you are ready to build a cloud? Think again.
There is plenty of banter about what it truly takes to play in cloud: Do you think you are ready to jump into the deep end? Is your team ready? What…
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