How the 3Cs are Redefining the CIO

In the past, life for a CIO was hard work but not an impossible undertaking. Today, however, things are getting more and more difficult faster and faster. But, for those who love a challenge, the CIO is the best seat in the house. The main challenges CIOs face can be summed up with the 3Cs:…

Don’t Let Your Legacy Be Your Legacy

There are often a few white elephants lurking in the corners of the corporate data center; they need to be addressed. This article looks at how to keep legacy systems from standing in your way to a converged infrastructure. The logical place to start a converged RISC/x86 infrastructure initiative is with the easy stuff: those…

The Most Mismanaged IT Asset of All – the CIO

Pretend for a moment that you are a CEO, and you learn that an asset that costs your company a cool quarter of a million dollars a year is chronically underutilized. Wouldn’t you want to do something about it? Well, with the average CIO commanding $250,000 or more annually in salary and benefits, it would…

How to Recapture IT Spending

The first article in this series about safeguarding IT budgets shared an approach to protecting IT budgets by reallocating non-value creating IT spend to efforts creating tangible business value. While that approach can protect or even expand IT budgets, it may not be enough. A second approach — recapturing non-value creating IT spend — can…

The Management of IT Revolves Around ITAM

IT asset management (ITAM) as a business practice was long thought to fall solely under the technical side of the organization; with little to no regard for standard business practices and disciplines. IT was, and still is, foreign territory to executive management and therefore immature compared to other business practices―lacking executive buy-in and having no…