Put STaaS at the Center of Your Multicloud

One of the ways in which enterprises can maintain better control over how they store, activate, manage, and monetize today’s surge in data is to deploy storage as a service (STaaS) as a central part of their multicloud. Multicloud combines services and resources from multiple cloud providers to increase the flexible use and availability of…

Mastering Relationships Leads to Cloud Success

By Hugues Treguier Pre-pandemic, remote work skeptics feared that their workforce would not be able to do all work securely and efficiently. Enterprise IT, security teams, and executives have since learned that – in most use cases – sensitive data can be entrusted to the cloud and that workers are able to function at full…

Pathways to the C-suite: CIO hopefuls look to level up

Andy Farella spent five years rising up the IT leadership ranks at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) — first as director of business applications and then associate CIO — when he started feeling restless. “I was dealing with multiple aspects of the organization and involved with big projects, issues, and challenges,” Farella says. At the…

2 CIO action items for 2022

There is a structure and discipline to the art of futuring. Every quarter I conduct a conversational walkabout in the CXO community seeking to understand the mindsets, projects, and priorities defining the IT landscape. In Q1, 2022, I am asking in situ CIOs two questions: What categorical bucket[s] does the organization place you in? How…

7 ways to win over a new IT team

The first few weeks a CIO spends with a new IT team are both critical and challenging. Recent events haven’t made the job any easier. A pandemic, digital innovation initiatives, and “The Great Resignation” have combined to make it more challenging than ever for an incoming CIO to engage with their new team and set…

Cloud, IoT usher in new era for healthcare

CIO Larry Jones has seen his share of change over more for than 30 years working in healthcare IT. But the group CIO of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies (JJMDC) believes recent IT advances are fueling digital transformations that will open whole new horizons for health care. “We believe we’re taking some early steps…