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How do you choose one cloud over another? Enterprise CIO Forum blogger and HP chief cloud technologist Christian Verstraete explains how.

Consolidation of federal IT continues apace as its budget has leveled off. Agency CIOs have been charged with finding duplicative systems by Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel. 

What would you recommend the government do. I just did my taxes and while I filed electronically, I am left with a copy - a sheaf of paper two inches thick.

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Before anyone flames me, I fully understand that HP has a horse in this race and that as an HP employee I imagine readers will interpret a considered biased, but the news of Citrix sponsoring yet-another cloud IaaS stack had me wondering if the industry is collectively losing it's mind faster than a Mark Webber's pit crew change his tyres (yup, we not only talk funny, we spell funny Down Under).

Could your enterprise function if IT went on strike for 24 hours? This would test out the notion that the cloud, BYOD and other trends have turned IT into a dinosaur. Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge...

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Let me continue discussing the business aspects of cloud series I published originally on CloudSource.

Sesame Workshop CTO Noah Broadwater talks about balancing the needs of mobile BYOD-crazed end users with the security and other needs of the enterprise. The cop-like "protect and serve" motto really fits!

Is the CTO's or CIO's role? What do you think?

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This open letter was written by IT director Jonathan Feldman who is in North Carolina. His open letter to enterprise app vendors appeared in InformationWeek. Rightfully, he wants to know what their cloud plans are because he knows enterprise information technology is headed into the vaporshere.

Maybe, it's time you sent letters to all your enterprise application vendors...

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Focusing on what you are good at
CIOs need to deliver more to their enterprises today. They need to be able to drive innovation, agility, and risk reduction. And they need to do this within the confines of a thinner IT investment envelope. These facts have CIOs and their leadership teams looking at a variety of sourcing options for their development and production environments. CIOs need, more than ever, to understand their organization’s core capabilities.

Many organizations look at cloud computing as a way of lowering costs, but the fallout can actually be much broader: