Jack Rosenberger

By Jack Rosenberger Four months after the Heartbleed bug was publicly disclosed, 97 percent of the external servers operated by Global 2000 companies remain vulnerable to the OpenSSL flaw, according to a new report by Venafi Labs, a security firm. While most of the servers have been patched to close the Heartbleed bug, fully remediating […]

By Jack Rosenberger More than half of businesses using virtualized infrastructure have only “partially” implemented a security solution to protect their virtual servers, according to a new survey by Kaspersky Lab. This troubling statistic—essentially, one in two virtual servers is vulnerable to cybercriminals, spies and assorted malcontents—is especially troubling given that businesses are increasingly storing […]

By Jack Rosenberger Adriana Karaboutis has quit asking Dell employees what they want. Karaboutis made her “I have stopped asking people, as a CIO, what they want” pronouncement during a keynote panel discussion at the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium earlier this month. To help explain her “Do, Don’t Ask” strategy, Karaboutis cited auto manufacturer […]

By Jack Rosenberger A wing commander in the British Royal Air Force, Charles Reep has been credited with creating the first notational analysis system of soccer when, in 1950, he used a pencil and notebook to record the play between a pair of English soccer clubs. Today, Reep’s toolkit seems fairly quaint, especially when it’s […]

By Jack Rosenberger The challenges of near-constant mergers and acquisitions, the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing, and the importance of creating synergies is nothing new to Bill Bradley. A nearly 30-year veteran of CenturyLink, Bradley joined the Louisiana-based company in 1985 when it was known as Century Telephone. Since then, it has grown from […]

By Jack Rosenberger “Never walk past a mistake” is one of the first lessons taught to young leaders in the U.S. military, according to retired U.S. General and Secretary of State Colin Powell in his memoir, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership. Like a gifted teacher, Powell, with an able assist from coauthor […]

By Jack Rosenberger In a blog post earlier this year, Greg O’Connor, CEO of AppZero, proposed Bezos’s Law, which he defined as the observation that, over the history of the cloud, “a unit of computing power price is reduced by 50 percent approximately every three years.” Named after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the law is […]

By Jack Rosenberger Large enterprises will nearly double their investments in SAP clouds during the next year, according to a new report by HCL Technologies. The organizations are moving more business operations and on-premise applications to the cloud not to reduce costs, but because they recognize the business advantages of cloud computing—such as providing better […]

By Jack Rosenberger A friend who works in a large New York advertising agency recently told me about a interdepartmental meeting at her company. It was a fairly high-level affair with 10 to 12 attendees, and everyone arrived for the meeting at the scheduled time—everyone except for Tom, the person who called the meeting. My […]

By Jack Rosenberger Intel is reinventing how its employees share expertise and information inside the company, according to Intel CIO Kimberly S. Stevenson, who spoke with CIO Insight during a recent visit to QuinStreet Enterprise‘s New York office. The global chip maker is changing not only how employees share their collective knowledge, but it is […]

By Jack Rosenberger If you’re an ambitious and career-minded CIO, you want to work in a highly IT-intensive industry, like banking, IT, life sciences, media and telecommunications. Why? Because CIOs in these sectors are better suited to transform their business—and subsequently achieve their career aspirations—than their peers in other sectors. That’s one of the key […]

By Jack Rosenberger Big data analytics is a top priority for eight in 10 mid-size and large companies, according to a new survey by QuinStreet Enterprise. While the respondents are pouring money into big data initiatives in order to enable quicker and more accurate decision-making, the companies are concerned about project and management costs, the […]