7 traits of indispensable IT leaders

There’s no better type of job security than indispensability. Once an IT leader is regarded as essential by his or her employer, recognition rises, colleagues begin listening, project doors swing open, and salaries and benefits skyrocket. Achieving indispensability isn’t as challenging as it may sound. It can be easily acquired by embracing several common traits…

The hard truth about lifecycle management

IT gets lifecycle management wrong a lot. Search for a definition of lifecycle management and you’ll find something along the lines of: A strategic approach to managing the life cycle of an application or platform from conception to end of life — from provisioning, through operations, to retirement. Under this definition lifecycle management doesn’t seem…

UAB IT helps fuel genomic breakthroughs

When Dr. Curtis Carver, Ph.D., took over as CIO at University of Alabama-Birmingham in 2015, he confronted a “computer science museum,” as he calls it — instances of every operating system, storage device, and application on the market for the past 30 years. Carver’s first priority then was to clean up the outdated mess and…