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CIO leadership and sustainability

Innovation and the investments of innovations should not be market-based or economically influenced but rather a core part of the business model.  In this changing economy, what kind of leadership is need to drive this?  What role of the CIO can enable the sustainability of an enterprise and move beyond the IT niche?  What is […]

vmware performance and wasted resources

I am amazed at how many environments I see where expensive hardware resources are just plain wasted in the name of improving Vmware performance. The common areas of waste include: -Storage. Often VMDK are allocated much bigger then they need be. This is especially painful to see on expensive fiber channel SAN storage at $30 […]

Recession and Business-IT Maturity

By Vaughan Merlyn, Executive Vice President of nGenera Just as a lot of CIO’s were gearing up for a year or two of growth and innovation, many are now being told to “hunker down” for a period of austerity. The usual first victims – cut travel, cut training, cut anything that smells like overhead! That […]

Variability in Outsourcing: Changing the Model for the Current Market

Variability in Outsourcing: Changing the Model for the Current Market   By Bill Adamowski, President of KPO for ISGN   The fallout from the subprime crisis is continuing to shake the mortgage industry and the credit crunch has extended into the conventional mortgage market. According to a February 2008 article in the New York Times, […]