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Windows 8, State Street Corp.'s continuous transformation top October Quick Read

Quick Read by John Dodge,
Community Manager

Windows 8 getting traction in IT; how State Street Corp. transforms itself; and our top CIO Questions of the Week are featured in our October Quick Read, which summarizes the hottest topics at the Enterprise CIO Forum. Enjoy.

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Business Issues, CIO Leadership, Security

Is Shadow IT bad? It depends.

Community Video by John Dodge,
Community Manager
, Wed, 11/07/2012 - 16:00

BYOD and Shadow IT can work, but what should the CIO do when he or she finds out about a rogue app, cloud or device? CTOvision.com editor and former Defense Intelligence Agency CTO Bob Gourley (r.) tells Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge that the CIO can "kill it" or discuss BYOD with stakeholders. Bottom line: people will use any tool to do their job, regardless of who oversees it. This interview was done on Skype with Gourley  in Washington D.C. area and Dodge in Boston.

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Business Issues, CIO Leadership, IT Performance

Are information silos a big or small problem in your enterprise?

Polls by John Dodge,
Community Manager
, Mon, 11/05/2012 - 21:12
Are information silos a big or small problem in your enterprise?
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Business Issues, CIO Leadership, Technology, Cloud

Practical SOA with Cloud Services

Integrating the cloud

Blog-post by Dinesh Srirangpatna, Fri, 11/02/2012 - 03:55

It is easy to experience pitfalls while expanding IT Architecture to consume cloud services. While larger companies can afford to hire consulting services and external integrators,  it is good to have an understanding of the basics to set expectation with vendors or even within the company. This can help plan speed of the cloudintegration or choosing which services to consume. The underlying assumption in this article; the organization has evolved from legacy tightly coupled systems to SOA design across the enterprise (including shared services)

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Business Issues, Technology, Cloud

HP’s cloud CTO: ‘It’s time for CIOs to embrace opportunities of the cloud’

Cloud due for a new moniker and beyond Infrastructure as a Service: Christian Verstraete

Quick Post by John Dodge,
Community Manager
, Wed, 10/31/2012 - 19:24
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Our own prominent blogger and HP chief cloud technologist Christian Verstraete was recently featured in Siliconrepublic.com, a prominent tech web site based in Ireland. Good read...check it out...   

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Business Issues, Technology, Cloud

Can you escape vendor lock-in with the cloud?

Community Video by John Dodge,
Community Manager
, Tue, 10/30/2012 - 15:27

Our latest Question of the Week asks about how enterprises can avoid vendor lock-in and still get maximum benefit from the cloud. The discussion has generated a raft of insightful comments. Join in.

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Technology, Cloud

Reasons to adopt PaaS

Blog-post by Rick Blaisdell, Thu, 10/25/2012 - 14:15
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A new research from IBM Center for Applied Insights shows that IT decision makers quote big data as one of the main reasons to adopt platform as a service in their businesses. Although SaaS is very popular, most CIOs have not paid that much attention to cloud-based PaaS solutions.

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Technology, Cloud

“Cloud and Mobile”: What is the future of this relationship?

Cloud computing, mobile devices drive innovation, flexibility

Blog-post by Richa Pokhriyal, Thu, 10/25/2012 - 13:55

Who is dating who is always interesting for people, especially when it is regarding celebrities and popular folks. Well here we are about to discuss one of the rapidly flourishing association in technology industry and yes both parties are super popular i.e. cloud computing and mobile. Coming to the point businesses and users are looking for availability of data, email and applications anytime and from any location whether they are at home, on-premise or on move.

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Business Issues, Cloud

Do you believe that signing on with a cloud provider means vendor lock in at some level?

Polls by John Dodge,
Community Manager
, Mon, 10/15/2012 - 17:19
Do you believe that signing on with a cloud provider means vendor lock in at some level?
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CIO Leadership, Technology, Cloud

Enterprises getting results with cloud

Cloud strong on competitive advantage, savings

Blog-post by John Dodge,
Community Manager
, Wed, 10/10/2012 - 18:00

A white paper from management consulting firm Navint Partners LLC seems to indicate large enterprises are enjoying success with their cloud efforts. Indeed, 90% said in a survey that reaped the projected savings the cloud would yield; 80% said  the cloud gave them a competitive advantage; 64% said the cloud has a "significant impact on process efficiency and effectiveness;" and 46% said they had money in the IT budget specifically for cloud computing.

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