Tag Archive | "CIOUpdate"

What You Should Tell Your CEO About Cloud Computing – CIOInsight

Tags: CIO, CIOInsight, CIOUpdate, Cloud, Cost Reduction, IT Management Tools


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Figuring out  facts from fiction will be key for CIO’s as they map out their cloud computing strategies and justify the investment to their CEOs.  Cloud Computing ROI will be measured in ways far beyond the typical promises of cost savings.  Business Service Management ROI can’t be overlooked as enterprises accelerate their way to the cloud.

Randy

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To borrow from Mark Twain’s famous remark about the weather, everybody talks about the cloud, but nobody knows anything about it. At a time when companies’ use of clouds is just getting started, the chief information officer’s judgment and store of knowledge are invaluable assets. These are especially important when the CIO sets out to educate that most important stakeholder of all, the chief executive officer.  (Read Full Article…)

Six Decisions IT Employees Should Never Make – CIOInsight

Tags: Business Service Management, CIOUpdate, IT Management, Spending


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Here’s a fun piece to end a week.  Why buy a Cadillac when a Buick will do or letting IT spend for new toys!  Sneak Peak into an upcoming Harvard Business Review story.

How much empowerment does your IT organization have?

Michele

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How much empowerment is too much for your IT employees? As reluctant as you may be to micromanage your teams, there are certain decisions that you simply can’t leave to the troops.  (Read Full Article…)

Transforming IT to Show Cost of Svcs-5 Best Practices – NetworkWorld

Tags: Business Service Management, CIO, CIOUpdate, Cost Reduction, IT Investment, IT Management Tools, Service Level


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Several good  insights into effective ways to quantify the cost, quality, and value of IT in a way the business understands.

Randy

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Recently, we brought together 60 CIOs and IT leaders from the Fortune 1000 for our bi-annual “CIO Technology Business Management Council” meeting. The purpose of this event was to provide participants with an opportunity to learn from their peers about how to transform their IT organization into a services oriented organization and run “IT like a business.”  Read full article

Watson’s Jeopardy Showdown-Man Vs. Machine – CIOInsight

Tags: CIO, CIOUpdate, IBM, Performance, SUSE, WATSON


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I’m putting my money on Watson!  After all the world’s most famous supercomputer runs on IBM’s high-performance, high-capacity Power servers and SUSE Linux Enterprise is the fastest operating system on POWER7.   Let’s see how it all comes out on Feb 14th!

Randy

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An epic showdown of man vs. machine kicks off Feb. 14, 2011. That’s when “Watson ,” a computing system from IBM, will face off against “Jeopardy!” superstars Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Can an artificial intelligence-driven machine overcome championship-level human minds? With Watson, the key challenge isnt a command of statistics and factoids. Its a matter of programming a computing system that can pick up the subtle nuances of the game show.  (Read Full Article….)

Are You a Transformational CIO? – CIO Update

Tags: Business Service Management, CIOUpdate, Roles, Service Enable, Service Performance, Service Value, Transformation


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This is a really great read!  I especially applaud and agree with the yin and yang of transformation.  IT pushes back to change their job/role, but has the power.  The business doesn’t have the technology power, but welcomes new and changing roles.  The business jobs are usually those lost during automation and the IT jobs being those that stay and evolve.  Great summation, I’m paraphrasing.

Managing, measuring and communicating service performance is the transformation that must occur – totally agree.  Transform or die!  Thus the role becomes that of the analytical service provider versus the monitor of commodity technology.

Today in the press Amazon was dissed for being an innovator in supplying infrastructure services.  It is services like these, purchased on a credit card that will bring agility to those in-house staff members developing new products and services for your businesses creating an agile service development organization.  Now IT operations has to jump on board and inject the intelligence into those workloads to enable the management of those workloads regardless of where they run – service enabling the workloads.  This agile approach and transformational thinking is what business seeks.

Embrace agility, new technology and deployment options and transform……or die as they say.  Are you transforming?

Michele

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“Today, the IT infrastructure is the backbone and accelerator of a company’s business transformation,” explained Jean Cholka, CEO of the global IT services provider Freeborders. “Thereby, having the right leader in the IT organization in place is critical to a company’s success.”  (Read Full Article…)

The Rise of the Stealth Cloud – CIO Update

Tags: Business Alignment, Business Service Management, CIOUpdate, Cloud, Service Providers, Trends, Virtualization


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.  (read more…)