Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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by Geoff Webb of Credant Technologies Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated, will produce the rankest weeds.” It’s a sentiment with which gardeners everywhere can empathize. If there’s one thing you can be certain of, when it comes to weeds, it is that they thrive on a lack of…
by Michael Rushinsky of Sallie Mae What are the highest security risks and threats that are coming down the pike facing all market verticals and why? How do CISOs effectively and efficiently manage the ever-evolving information security risk landscape and adequately mitigate that which we cannot control? As I and several other information security executives…
Unfortunately, their employees really needed to take communicating and collaborating to the next level, and one way to do that is by using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter to stay connected and solve tough challenges in real time. They simply needed to use the tool differently than how the kids used it. So…
The consumerization of IT has been occurring for a number of years now, and it is one of the most disruptive tends the CIO faces; yet it offers amazing business benefits. Will the consumerization trend continue? The answer is yes! Consumerization is a hard trend that will not only continue, but it will accelerate. So…
Business technology executives have different notions about what comprises a technology strategy. Most of these notions are wrong. For some, it means high-level summary statements about the direction of technology. For others, it consists of a tactical set of plans around a major application suite, such as an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. These…
by Ed Airey of Micro Focus The enterprise ecosystem is changing at an unprecedented rate and though helpful in adapting to this change, technology is also making it difficult to keep up with the myriad threats to your IT organization. So where do you begin? Try looking at the areas of IT that are at…
by Wayne Kiphart of Logicalis Industry standards transformed the hardware and software markets and unleashed tremendous innovation. Today, the evolution and increasing acceptance of ITIL best practices promises to transform IT service management (ITSM) and facilitate the controlled expansion of IT environments to include business services operation centers, and public and private clouds. This column…
Interactivity – For centuries, education and training have been, for the most part, passive experiences. Someone stands in front of a group and talks. The people being educated or trained sit and listen, taking a few notes here and there. If there is a lab, they will have some hands-on application, but application labs are…
Anyone who has children or who has been around them for a while knows that kids, as well as young adults, are attracted to video games like flies are attracted to light. And, while older adults may think the kids are being lazy or using their time idly when they’re connected to their Wii or…
Transition – IT has to educate the people who will be most affected before new solutions go “live.” During the transition of any solution to live status, one of the biggest complaints from the business is that IT makes flawed assumptions and plans that result in the transition not being very smooth. For most end…