Tony Kontzer

Welcome to budget season, the annual end-of-year hand-wringing process during which CIOs determine where precious IT budget dollars will be spent in the year ahead. Amid all of the breathless predictions about where 2012’s IT dollars will go–Cloud! Social! Mobile!–exactly how any one particular CIO will spend his or her organization’s money depends largely upon […]

Technological drivers of complexity for CIOs:-mobility-cloud computing-social media-touch computing-security threats

In Summary: Who: IT leaders from Unisys, biotech firm AMAG and forensic investigators Stroz Friedberg What: Discussing the governance, risk management and compliance issues raised by enterprise use of public and private cloud services Why: To provide perspective and advice on an often-overlooked aspect of cloud migrations Amid all the handwringing during the past few […]

CIOs overseeing migrations to the cloud want assurances that the services their companies subscribe to won’t present excessive risk and will enable them to govern those environments as if they are an extension of the organization. For more on how organizations are handling these issues, read our strategic tech feature, GRC in the Cloud. To […]

The way Jeanne Harris sees it, most companies haven’t put enough thought into how they extract insight from the increasingly massive pools of data they’re collecting. Harris ought to know. As executive research fellow and director of research for Accenture’s Institute for High Performance, Harris is co-author of two well-regarded books on data analytics: Competing […]

Regardless of the business sector in which your company operates, chances are you’re struggling with data overload. In fact, the wrangling of data has become a huge area of focus for most IT organizations. “Everybody is drowning in data, and we haven’t even seen a massive amount of data yet,” says Hossein Eslambolchi, CEO of […]

The mainframe computer is the Mark Twain of IT: Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, mainframes are alive and well, and are continuing to deliver business value to the companies that depend on them. Among those companies are most of the world’s financial institutions, as well as other large companies that […]

Five years ago, the cloud computing discussion was in its relative infancy. Big companies recoiled in fear at the thought of giving up any precious data to nascent cloud services. Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud was just a twinkle in some developer’s eye. Salesforce.com had yet to launch its  cloud-based application development platform, Force.com. Fast-forward to […]

In Summary Who: IT leaders from Gartner, The Washington Post Co., The Schumacher Group, The Guardian Life Insurance Co. and others What: Discussing their expectations and requirements for cloud computing to evolve Why: To help shape your strategic business and technology decisions At long last, the hype behind cloud computing has become reality. Companies of […]

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to planning and undertaking a virtualization deployment. Here, we cite five best practices compiled by Tom Bittman, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, and add our perspective, drawn from interviews with leading IT executives, to compile this primer for CIOs considering virtualization: Start small. Take heed of Murphy’s Law of […]

More than a decade after VMware introduced the first software that enabled x86 virtualization, the question facing most IT executives is no longer whether they plan to virtualize, but how far they plan to go. From Wall Street to Main Street, organizations large and small now avail themselves of the benefits of virtualization. Although the […]

By Tony Kontzer Salesforce.com’s move last week to launch a legal counter-attack against Microsoft seems to signal that software’s old and new guards are ready to spar over who will have the most sway over the future of cloud computing. Will it be Salesforce, perhaps the best-known pure cloud computing company out there, riding its […]