Death of the Traditional IT Department
I’m very lucky in my job. I love it actually. It literally gets me all over the world talking to…
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Monitoring your service providers
Outsourcing has been the rage for years now, and the outsourcing of computing resources to the cloud leads the way. And why not? It allows you to increase efficiency (focus on core business activities instead of running a datacenter), cut…
Augmented Everything: How a CIO can make workers smarter, stronger, more aware
Much has been written recently about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence and robotics technology, and about how these technologies will…
Making a Modern Mainframer
It’s no secret that the dreaded “skills gap” is affecting the mainframe market. It’s getting harder and harder to find…
In the age of the customer, the CIO is between a rock and a hard place
Today, customers drive business and battle lines have been drawn. Organizations are now obsessed with their customers and are competing…
Money for Nothing
My wife loves shopping – even for food; I don’t, but we need to get it done. Because we’re both…
Ignoring reality
While it may be difficult to credit the sincerity of someone who self-critiques by saying, “I care too much,” there…
Six ways to improve IT Efficiency and Profitability for Healthcare Insurance Companies
If you’re a healthcare insurance company, you’ve probably felt the repercussions of the Affordable Care Act. Since its inception, it…
Enterprise Cloud Computing in the New Millennium
A recent study found that 70% of enterprises have either applications or infrastructure running in the cloud today—that’s up 12%…
The Five-Point Mainframe Transformation Leadership Checklist
Despite utterly foolish predictions to the contrary, the mainframe persists as the core computing engine for global commerce. That’s because…
Bimodal IT – is it really the right way to go?
I’ve been hearing a lot about Bimodal IT—Gartner was pumping it up recently at their Gartner Symposium, while Jason Bloomberg…