Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
I’ve written before about the constraints that hit small businesses when it comes to IT. Constraints are everywhere, but one area that I’ve always found them is within the technology / IT space of small businesses. On a previous article titled Small Business CIO – Manager of Constraints, I discussed the development of options for [...]
Big Data. Two small words with huge meaning. Do a search for “big data” on Google and you’ll find over 23 million results. Do a book search on amazon for ‘big data’ (affiliate link) and you’ll get over 5,000 results (I’m actually surprised the number is that low). Big Data has a few different connotations. There are [...]
Are you ready for more touch screens in the enterprise? Windows 8 is an operating system built for touch. Whether its running on a PC, tablet or phone, its been designed around the touch being the main form of interaction. We already use touch screens regularly with our phones and tablets but how would they [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Big Data is a Big story these days and has been for some time. Big Data is a big business too….and will most likely continue to grow. Big Data is a topic that many in large organizations are talking about…as are many consulting and technology companies. HP, among [...]
The events in Japan over the last week are heartbreaking….but there’s lessons to learn from these events. Elliot Ross has a great post titled Disaster Preparedness And Recovery with some excellent links to a write-up of a first person account from Japan called Some Perspectives on the Japan Earthquake. In that article, a description was [...]
Rackspace has just announced their open source cloud platform, OpenStack in collaboration with NASA. While the open source world has been a viable area for quite some time, there seems to be a lot of talk these days of open-sourcing many things. Google has opened up Android, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced an [...]
I’ve been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of their IT infrastructure and platforms. Most of the things I’ve read on the topic of small business IT outsourcing has been fairly light in terms of advice for small business owners. [...]
Image via Wikipedia I’m sure you’ve asked yourself this question sometime in your life. You know that moment in your day (or life) where you have the ability to do something but you stop to ask yourself ‘should I?’ Whether it be skipping school, buying the new iPhone or buying a new car…you might stop [...]
Image by Aprile C via Flickr I’m in Atlanta this week on business. I decided to stay at a nice little boutique hotel in midtown called the Artmore Hotel. The price was the same as the other hotel I was planning to stay in…and the hotel looked much more interesting than the Courtyard. A [...]
In my post earlier this week, I spoke, or more accurately typed, about the importance of story. I wonder if there are any CIO’s and IT leaders out there that read that and wondered about their story? Their personal story…and their IT group story. Have you thought about what the story is for your IT [...]
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