It is that time of year when we start thinking about our predictions for the next year. Before we get to 2015 predictions next week, let us take an introspective look at 2014 and what we could hope for from…
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5 Tectonic Shifts facing today’s CIO
The past several years have presented an interesting time for CIOs, their staff and the companies they work within. In many ways, the changes are significant shifts how companies have operated. IT has a history of tectonic shifts Tectonic shifts…
HP charts a course for the enterprise CIO from the inside out
Last week, HP (NYSE: HPQ) held their Discover Conference in Barcelona, Spain and the first since announcing their split into two major technology companies. Post split, HP Enterprise, the half focused on enterprise-class solutions, will need to demonstrate a strong…
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Will the real change agent please stand up?
For twenty years, IT pitched itself as the ‘change agent’ in the company. More specifically, IT was positioning itself as the provocateur to bring increased value to the company, lines of business through the use of technology. But is IT…
5 things that prepare the CIO for innovation
Last week, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) held their annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Gigaom’s Barb Darrow summarized her Top-5 lessons learned from the conference here. Specifically for CIO’s, there were a number of things coming from the conference that every…
CIOs are getting out of the Data Center business
More than three years ago, a proclamation was made (by myself, Mark Thiele and Jan Wiersma) that the data center was dead. Ironically, all three of us come from an IT background of running data centers within IT organizations. At…
The importance of the long tail and a market of one
One could ask what does marketing have to do with the CIO and the IT organization as a whole? At the IBM Insight conference last week, this very issue came up on my interview on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. The short answer…
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IBM connects the dots between data, cloud and engagement
At this week’s IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas, IBM brought out the big guns to demonstrate their chops in the data analytics space. Insight is IBM’s conference dedicated to their solutions around data management and analytics. While there are…
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There comes a point when it is not just about storage space
Is the difference between cloud storage provides about free space? In a word, no. I wrote about the cloud storage wars and potential bubble here: The cloud storage wars heat up http://avoa.com/2014/04/29/the-cloud-storage-wars-heat-up/ 4 reasons cloud storage is not a bubble…
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The enterprise CIO needs a comprehensive strategic plan and quick
There are many who profess to know what goes on within the mind of the CIO and across the IT organization as a whole. The challenge is: If you have not been responsible for the role, it is increasingly…
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