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CIO
2017 Enterprise IT Secrets Revealed!
First off, 2017 will see an increase in the quantity of clickbait article titles... Each year about this time, analysts, bloggers, and random people on the street start to prognosticate about the coming year, seeking to predict the trend that will define the year, the hype that will get blown out… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Analyst-Induced Hype and Managing Real-World IT
Recently, I received an article in my inbox entitled “If you’re not planning for IoT, you’re already behind” and, frankly, it just frustrated me. Although the article author was listed as simply “CIO Staff” the featured picture was that of Vernon Turner, SVP Enterprise Systems & Fellow f… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Your Data Is Useless
You may have heard the phrase “A person is smart, but people overall are stupid.” This phrase is intended to demonstrate that, as individuals, people can provide brilliant insight, but as the number of opinions grows and insight ultimately becomes lost to rhetoric and groupthink, stupidity event… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Solution Spotlight: Cloud Migration And Mobility In Minutes With Velostrata
Fast. Simple. Easy. These are not the things that come to mind when you think of cloud migration and cloud mobility, but one startup is shaking things up to make it a reality, albeit with some limitations. There’s no denying the intrinsic benefits of a hybrid cloud model. Flexibility, agility, sc… Read More
By Kasia Lorenc -
CIO
7 Hybrid Cloud Lessons From 7 Leading Cloud Computing Vendors
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate. It has transformed infrastructure, networking, storage, backup and recovery, performance analysis, troubleshooting, development and testing, and so much more. And today, there’s much more to cloud than what AWS and Azure have to offer… Read More
By Kasia Lorenc -
CIO
The Continuing Evolution of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the market was introduced to what we now consider “original” hyperconverged infrastructure technology. In that initial wave of technology, we saw appliances combining servers and storage hit the shelves, firing a shot over the bow of storage providers t… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
The Cloud Is A Journey, Not a Destination
You’ve all heard the mantra that enterprise IT workloads are marching slowly (or quickly, in some cases) but surely to the cloud. In this context, the assumption is that workloads are exiting the local data center and making their way to public cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft. Whi… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Get Your Data Under Control in 5 Steps
Across every industry vertical and without regard for organization size, there is one fact that remains true: the data deluge is upon us. The much-ballyhooed “Big Data” phenomenon that prognosticators have warned about is here. Whether or not you’re a believer in the transformational power… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Exploring 10-year Trends
Storage is the cornerstone of data center. Without it, the world as we know it today wouldn’t exist. The data that we store is extremely important to our businesses and even to our families. As such, the storage industry - and storage administrators in particular – are notorious for moving very… Read More
By James D. Green -
CIO
Bridging the Cloud Gap: Hybrid Cloud is the Technical and Financial Choice
For years, we’ve heard the mantra of “to the cloud” in which pundits have said, with absolute certainty, that a journey to the public cloud is inevitable and will be the platform of choice for every business in the not-too-distant future. Nope. Not gonna happen. Here’s what will happ… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Make IT Relevant By Managing Technical Debt
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='36' color='#ffffff' background_color='#777575' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]T departments are wallowing in debt… technical debt. Just like those that have racked up massive credit card bills, technical debt can be debilitating and results in an IT function that st… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
CIOs Need to Prepare Staff for Cloud Services
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='36' color='#ffffff' background_color='#777575' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]f your organization is just dipping its toes into the cloud paradigm, the impact on your staff will be relatively minimal, but they will still be affected. Your staff will need to learn the… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
The Cloud, Hosted, or On-premises: The Many Options for the SMB CIO
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='36' color='#ffffff' background_color='#777575' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hether it’s considered a blessing or a curse, CIOs today have a multitude of options at their disposal when it comes to running workloads. In general, there are four options: On-prem… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
The CIO and the Cloud: Embrace, Extend, Innovate
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='36' color='#ffffff' background_color='#777575' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he word “cloud” became a hot addition to the popular lexicon a few years ago and quickly took on eye-rolling status as vendors tripped over themselves to include the new term in all of t… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
The 80/20 Rule Is Dead; Long Live the 80/20 Rule
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='36' color='#ffffff' background_color='#777575' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]f you’ve worked in IT for any length of time at all, you’ve probably heard of the 80/20 rule. Also known as the Pareto Principle, this rule states that 80% of the IT budget an IT’s e… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Four Activities Every CIO Should Embrace
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='36' color='#ffffff' background_color='#777575' border_color='']G[/dropcaps]ood CIOs are far more than just good technical people or good business people. Good CIOs also need to be good leaders. In this article, I describe four activities that CIOs should embrace.… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe