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The CIO Playbook for 2023

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon January 6, 2023January 10, 2023in CIO, Cloud, Data, ESG2 Comments

Each year, I revise the CIO playbook to reflect the changing agenda for the CIO. Over the past several years, the role of IT has seen dramatic change within the enterprise. 2023 is no exception as a few focus areas…

CIO In the Know – Looking forward to 2023

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon January 2, 2023January 10, 2023in CIO, NewsletterLeave a comment

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of the CIO In The Know newsletter for 2023. Each week, I share insights and ideas from the perspective of the CIO. These insights come from the provocative and stimulating conversations I…

Preparing IT for the Great Reconciliation

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon November 8, 2021November 8, 2021in CIOLeave a comment

The pandemic threw a monkey wrench into many things including how we spend money. As IT leaders move through 2021 and consider the post-pandemic next normal, there is a great reconciliation coming that IT needs to prepare for. As I mentioned in…

Is cloud computing more expensive than alternatives?

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon November 4, 2021November 9, 2021in Business, CloudLeave a comment

This question seems to come up every year. Yesterday, there was a thread on Twitter that again raised the question of whether public cloud is cheaper than the alternatives. I wrote about this a few years ago in the post ‘Is public…

Dell Technologies aligns with enterprise directions

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon October 23, 2020in CIO, Cloud, Data, Edge1 Comment

Takeaways and areas to watch from Dell Technologies World 2020

Analyzing the Dell Technologies strategy from a CIO perspective

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon March 9, 2020July 12, 2021in BusinessLeave a comment

Dell Technologies has embarked on an ambitious strategy that encompasses many things of interest for the transformational CIO. It starts with their ‘moonshot’ goals and continues into value, risk, reputation, trust and specific technological solutions for the enterprise. AIMING FOR…

Eight reasons why enterprises move workloads from public cloud back on-premises

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon February 5, 2020in Cloud

There is a lot of confusion and misinformation as to why enterprises would move an application or workload from public cloud back to their corporate data center. Enterprises are moving applications to…and from public cloud. Unlike the perception, repatriation is…