A CIO with even average technical skills will be not only inadequate for his or her job, he or she will represent a danger to the overall health of the company
If AOL can get a server up in eight seconds, and the IT organization takes two weeks, it's going to be seen as hopelessly ineffective-and ripe for a complete teardown.rn
It isn't about employees using consumer devices; it's about consumers becoming the primary users of internal IT applications. Dealing with this challenge will be significantly more difficult than creating a BYOD policy
While there's no question cloud computing represents a big change in infrastructure, that approach overlooks the fact that cloud computing is comprised of an agile infrastructure married to automated operation
In talking to a number of informed people, it's clear that private cloud implementations are moving forward in many organizations, with RFPs to vendors out with an aim of contract award in 2011 and implementation in 2012
The notion that one should treat computing resources as cheap commodities assumed to be unreliable goes against the time-honored axioms of IT. Time for some second thoughts