Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
By Chris Preimesberger DEL MAR, Calif. — Nobody likes to talk about the danger of their jobs evolving into something they do not like, least of all highly compensated enterprise C-suite executives. But a group of Fortune 500 CIOs did just that several days ago. The occasion was the second, and possibly annual, The Wall…
“It’s really incumbent upon CIOs to step it up a notch,” Gelsinger told the audience of fellow and former CIOs at the summit. “They really have to. IT systems are morphing into new entities that involve CMOs, in addition to CIOs and CTOs. The democratization of IT, thanks to the cloud and mobile devices, is…
by Matt West, director of Telecom Services at NPI Bring-your-own-device has evolved from trend to the new normal and with that discussions around the risks of implementing a BYOD policy in the enterprise have become intense. How can enterprises enforce secure remote access to corporate assets? What happens when an employee stores sensitive info on…
by Kevin Flynn, senior product manager at Fortinet The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon is disruptive. It tears massive security holes into an already disintegrating perimeter. It causes IT administrators to lose sleep. Passing fad? Not likely. In fact, research shows that if the youngest generation of workforce employees has anything to say about it, BYOD is…
by Jamie Ryan, senior vice president, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for Aspect Within the last few years, businesses have undergone a major transformation as the consumerization of IT makes its way into the enterprise and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies become more prevalent. Workers want the same technologies on the job As today’s workers are…
CIOs take heed Most CIOs, IT departments, or even the general public don’t realize the impact an ultra-intelligent agent will have; much less how it will transform companies the world over. Think about it. If you have an UIEA that can give you exactly the information you want, do you need to take the time…
Over the past thirty years I have been writing, speaking, and consulting about technology-driven trends that are coming but difficult for most people to see. Back in 2000, I wrote about one such trend that would hit about now, and here we are, on the brink of experiencing a technology that will provide new opportunities…
Oliver Bussmann joined SAP as CIO in 2009 — the eve of the tablet trend and a year that saw smartphone sales reach nearly 54 million units. Since then he’s deployed more than 8,000 iPhones, 17,000 BlackBerry handsets and 14,000 iPads. In this Q&A with CIOUpdate’s sister site, CIO Insight’s Michelle Maisto, Bussmann describes how…
by Roger Yang is the CEO of Avema Critical Wireless Businesses of all shapes and sizes are struggling with the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomena. On one hand, BYOD is a boon. Employees get the devices they like. Often they pay for them out of their own pockets, and productivity goes up. On the…
by Geoff Webb of Credant Technologies If you were the CISO of a large enterprise you’d already know that an IT security earthquake may well be on the way because there is a fault line that runs beneath most of the assumptions upon which we have built the last decade of security progress. That fault…