By now, most in IT have heard of the global impact from the CrowdStrike software bug. Essentially, a ‘content update’, not a change in software code caused Microsoft Windows based systems to crash. The impact was incredibly swift and widespread causing…
Read More Lessons learned from the CrowdStrike and Microsoft outage
As we start the second half of 2024, a number of items are on the minds of CIOs including AI PCs, VMware, AI and data. As if that wasn’t enough, there are incoming regulatory requirements alongside political and economic instability.…
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January proved to be quite the month for changes in the tech space. Between industry events, acquisitions, tech shifts and cybersecurity breaches, there was no loss of things to keep track of. From a personal perspective, I ended up taking…
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Happy New Year! Kicking off the first of this year’s CIO In The Know newsletters talking about The CIO Playbook for 2024. Bottom line: The CIO’s remit is huge! And complicated. Simplification is the key word here. Any conversation in 2023…
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2023 was expected to be a bumpy ride as I mentioned in the CIO Playbook for 2023. It turned out much bumpier than expecting. Unfortunately, there is still a good bit of uncertainty going into 2024. The good news is that…
Whew! Typically the summer months are slower than the rest of the year, but this summer has been nothing but crazy busy! I attended plenty of great industry events this summer. In June, there was HPE Discover, Snowflake Summit and…
Read More CIO In The Know – AI Fatigue is coming and what’s next
Over the past several weeks, I’ve attended a few conferences where cybersecurity is making waves in new ways for enterprises. It is really refreshing to see, as cybersecurity is one place that enterprise vendors have needed to spend more time,…
Read More CIO In The Know – Is 2023 finally the start of a renaissance in cybersecurity?
I asked OpenAIs ChatGPT “What are the top issues facing CIOs? The results were, frankly, very interesting. They are good but in practice CIOs will find the results pedestrian and not actionable. ChatGPT Response Here is the unedited response: As I mentioned earlier,…
2023 has had quite the stormy start literally and figuratively. It will likely go down representing many things, but probably none as significant as rightsizing IT. Rightsizing is not a new IT term, nor a new function. 2023 is quickly…
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) met last week in Davos, Switzerland for its annual conference. Here’s my take on the outcomes from WEF and impact for the CIO. For those not familiar with the WEF, it is an annual gathering…
