Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
No doubt about it, losing bits bites. Even the loss of a tiny amount of information can prove to be a company’s undoing. Lose a lot of them and you can be in a world of trouble from lawsuits to financial ruin. A big part of disaster recovery, then, is copying the bits and storing…
In an age when incredibly fast change is the only constant, it is remarkable that any given CIO stays in position longer than a single CPU refresh cycle. Yet many have successfully remained in place, but not without some serious, and repeated, repositioning. In the beginning, legacy systems offered CIOs a degree of job security;…
Despite Web-enabled conference tools and the rise of telecommuters, travel remains a business inevitably for many companies: deals have to be struck, contracts realized, products delivered, and services rendered, literally, on the fly. That puts CIOs in a precarious position since data must roam beyond company walls in order to get the job done. According…