Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
By Larry Bonfante When cloud computing first became the rage, a lot of IT executives who were dismissive of it as the latest fad and went back to business as usual. Now that cloud computing has made significant inroads in the marketplace, many CIOs are feeling threatened by it. They are acting defensive, using legitimate…
By Samuel Greengard CIOs can boost their odds of success by considering these five approaches: View resistance as an opportunity.By now, it’s clear that consumer technology has turned IT upside down. It’s tempting to bemoan the loss of control and complain about the growing challenge of dealing withshadow ITand ageneral defianceto abide by polices. But…
HP reached a big milestone in its Converged Cloud initiative by kicking off a public beta for its HP Cloud Services suite. The IT giant is entering the public cloud services market with an infrastructure based on OpenStack, an open source cloud platform developed by NASA and Rackspace. In just under two short years, the…
In a big vote of confidence for OpenStack, HP today announced HP Converged Cloud, a suite of public and hybrid cloud services that incorporate the open source cloud platform. Amid growing industry support OpenStack, Citrix raised eyebrows recently when it announced that it was ditching its OpenStack-based Project Olympus project for its own open source…
State and local agencies are under constant pressure to provide high-quality services to citizens while managing budget reductions. While some economic indicators are improving, agency budgets are not forecasted to recover in the short term. According to an August survey by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), The 2010 State CIO Survey:…
Shadow IT has worried CIOs for decades. The practice is often defended as a source of innovation and a faster-than-normal way for users to get their jobs done but this off the radar technology use by employees presents serious dangers to the corporation ranging from increased security threats to compliance issues. Dealing with the problem…
The buzz word of the day in the industry is “cloud”. Executives are hearing the word at every turn. They associate the word with spending less, smaller IT departments, and promises of no hassles. Sounds great for the organization and everyone should jump right on board, right? No! Anyone that has been around the industry…
While cloud computing can be many things to many people, two things about cloud almost universally apply: It’s a catalyst not only for IT efficiencies, but in a larger sense cloud is also forcing changes surrounding the very role of IT. This is because IT executives are being asked to account for value and broker…
CIOs at leading technology companies are planning to increase their headcount in the fourth quarter, but not at a rate that suggests the industry is anywhere near ready for bounds of prodigious proportions. According to a survey of executives by employment staffing and consulting services firm Robert Half International, tech companies will hire new employees…
The tech employment market is improving — albeit gradually – according to the latest data cobbled together by TechServe Alliance, a national trade association representing the IT services industry. In July, the IT sector added 9,700 jobs in the U.S., a 1 percent improvement from the same month last year, to a total of 3,875,000…