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The velocity of technological change is providing improved business functionality for organizations that have previously operated with a smaller internal IT footprint. But this change comes at a cost, creating a new set of risks that CIOs must effectively manage to be successful.
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The costs of preserving, searching and reviewing information in litigation can be staggering. What costs a dollar to store on a hard drive can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to search and review for a lawsuit. Ignoring or destroying salient information prior to or during a lawsuit can lead to losing a case—regardless of the merits of the actual claim—and spending a small fortune litigating the issue of whether you have met your discovery obligations. The solution? Take steps to budget, hire and manage information properly on the front end; corral discovery costs; and avoid Luddite lawyers.
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The IT team at Northeastern Illinois is severely overburdened with the challenge of managing existing IT services while also addressing new educational and operational requirements, says Kim Tracy, Executive Director of the school's University Technology Services. Enter cloud computing. "By moving IT services to the cloud, we can offload the complexity of the current IT environment and improve services to our faculty and students and provide the best learning experience possible," he says.
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When it comes to data, too much of a good thing can indeed become a bad thing. These five tips will help you make sense of the exponentially expanding volume of data we're all facing.
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It’s interesting to note that the performance of today's comparatively larger storage arrays isn’t intrinsically much better than I was getting in 1980 -- maybe twice as fast for data retrieval. There's just a lot more data being stored, and the cost per stored bit is way down. Some of the same operational challenges are still around, too.
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The big data era may make some companies nervous. But we are exploiting it, leveraging it, learning from it. You might say we get the "big picture" into our business that big data gives us.
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We have two factors intersecting: a never-before-seen wealth of data from transactions and interactions, plus a new level of technology innovation to drive down costs. There are four key technology considerations for today’s CIO looking to capitalize on big (and diverse) data.
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Increasing demand for mobile computing capabilities is forcing IT executives to fret about everything from device support and application development strategies to a whole new set of security concerns, with huge rewards awaiting those who tackle these issues most effectively.
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Do you believe that IT leadership is only applicable to those with formal responsibility to manage others? If so, then you've fallen prey to the three false and highly limiting beliefs about IT leadership. These three beliefs are held by IT pros on all rungs of the organizational ladder.
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The IT department for the City of Rochester was bogged down by managing more than 450 individual printers scattered throughout its agencies. A move to managed print services not only saved dollars but freed up tech workers to take on other projects.
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Experienced CIOs see the opportunities presented by "Big Data" in context. They know that maximizing big data to deliver real business results will require a focused strategy that leverages and protects their existing data assets, develops new capabilities that are production-ready and reusable, and is able to manage the deluge of new data that will be created in the process.
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This agency-wide transition has wide-ranging goals, including modernizing e-mail and calendar infrastructure; integrating collaborative tools; and facilitating synchronization with mobile devices to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's mission nationwide.
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Wishing you a 2012 filled with much professional dissatisfaction. Here’s why.
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We have all seen the steady blurring of the lines between work and nonwork over the past couple of decades. In far too many cases, corporate policy hasn’t kept up with what’s actually happening. Infrastructure isn’t free, and allowing employees to use it for nonbusiness purposes has an opportunity cost, if not an actual expense. Here's a look at the emerging issues CIOs will have to contend with in 2012.
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A CIO turned CEO shares lessons learned as he climbed the C-Suite ladder.
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