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Amazon Introduces A Time-limited But Free Entry-level Cloud Computing Offering

To help new Amazon AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. Will this help to accelerate the adoption of IaaS among SMBs? http://aws.amazon.com/free/ “Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year, while also leveraging a […]

Are CIOs prepared for the emerging shift towards infrastructure standarization?

Outsourcing: Standardization is the new black by By Christina Torode, News Director 08 Sep 2010 “The world is moving away from custom solutions and a high level of customization, to standardization. That is a huge change-management issue for organizations, but the fact of the matter is that it is happening. CIOs are being very strategic, […]

Leveraging software to tap workers’ collective intelligence to solve problems, reduce costs, and find new markets

BusinessWeek’s new post “Workers of the World, Innovate” e.g. AT&T, Pitney Bowles, Electronic Arts etc Workers of the World, Innovate Pitney Bowes, AT&T, and Electronic Arts are among the companies using software to tap workers’ collective intelligence to solve problems, reduce costs, and find new markets By Rachael King Long-Term Innovation Even ideas that result […]

Symposium Partner Event in UK: The Changing Nature of Innovation and the Role of the CIO to Drive and Lead the Opportunity

As the global economy slowly begins to emerge from the downturn, companies are evolving their focus on cost cutting to look for opportunities to emerge in the new “normal” more competitive and positioned for growth.  The role of technology in innovating out of the downturn is far-reaching, and the opportunities for CIOs to take the […]

Through the Prism of IT Transformation for Tomorrow’s Enterprise Datacenters: Q&A

Through the Prism of IT Transformation for Tomorrow’s Enterprise Datacenters: Interview with Annie Shum As indicated in our recent post “Extending the Scope of the Agile Executive”, Cote and I have recently reached the conclusion that The Agile Executive needs to cover structural changes in order to give a forward-looking view to its readers. We […]