If one thing is certain in IT, it’s never too late to cash in on the cloud. As the cloud becomes more critical to IT and the business at large, demand for cloud skills will only grow. But proving you have the right skills and knowledge in a competitive job market can be difficult. If…
Most old-school CIOs would never give the network a second thought. It’s been described to be as the pipes or plumbing of a company. Something you need, but it offers no strategic competitive advantage. Oh, the times have changed. We’re now connecting things and moving data everywhere, including the cloud, and that has put the…
Risk management is becoming increasingly complicated, thanks to the growing volume and complexity of security threats, and it is leaving many organizations awash in security risk data without the means for assessing or contextualizing its potential business impact. According to a recent report from the ERM Initiative of North Carolina State University’s Poole College of…
Employees who go off the reservation to acquire software outside official channels can provoke consternation and alarm in CIOs. But when the digital dust settles, IT organizations and the staff they serve often emerge from these events in a stronger relationship and with improved management. Cloud-based application delivery and subscription business models from vendors create…