The Economics Of Disaster Recovery
In this Q&A session, Jeff Klaus, GM of DCM Solutions at Intel Corporation, shares his unique expertise on how businesses and data centers are planning for disaster recovery. This article originally...
View ArticleData Center Security: Blue Sky Ahead
76 million servicemen records exposed 100,000 websites destroyed by attackers Hackers broke into FAA computers It’s seems like every week there is news of some security breach. And then there is the...
View ArticleEncrypt the World
In preparing for a visit to come customers, I was reviewing the instructions needed to make sure AES was the preferred cipher used in SSL/TLS and playing around with a test server to confirm things...
View ArticleBuying Criteria, the New Tie-Breaker
Purchasers of computer equipment, whether big data center servers or consumers face similar trade-offs in buying new equipment. When the focus turns to the processor it's usually starts with a...
View ArticleSecuring the Cloud—It’s on Everyone’s Mind
Based on recent posts by cloud watchers, it's clear to me that security is on everyone's mind. It's positioned to be the obstacle to widespread adoption of cloud computing, but what's really going on...
View ArticleFiresheep and Baseball: More Encryption Please
Okay I admit it. Although I have lived in Silicon Valley for over ten years, I wasn't much of a San Francisco Giants fan until they started making their recent run in the playoffs. It was fun to root...
View ArticleMobility Week: The Power of Open
Last week, I was chatting with one of our developers when his office lights inexplicably blinked. Perplexed, I inquired, “What just happened?” As is common working with software developers, I caught a...
View Article3 Reasons Analytics Matter to Physicians
As physicians, we're taught to practice evidence-based medicine where the evidence comes primarily from trade journals that document double blind, randomized control trials. Or, perhaps we turn to...
View ArticleConnecting Analytics to the Surgical Patient Experience
While measuring is a requirement for process improvement, it's not the end goal. Identifying the necessary reports, in and of itself, does not automatically translate to an improved patient experience...
View ArticleIs the Term ‘mHealth’ Still Relevant?
Today’s world is mobile by default. Everyone is connected. Everyone expects to have information at their fingertips. Everyone expects to have understanding and meaning immediately available to them....
View ArticleTempering the Emotionality of Data in Healthcare
The old adage “ignorance is bliss” never resonates more clearly than when watching someone respond emotionally after being presented with “wrong” data — especially in healthcare. Being human, our...
View Article4 Reasons Why Clinicians Should Care About Data Stewardship
This guest blog was written by Matt Oldham, Director of Data Architecture at Graphium Health. I deal with data everyday. As a data architect, database administrator, and data integration engineer, data...
View ArticlemHealth: 4 Tips for Designing Secure Applications and Electronic Health Records
by Jeff Zavaleta, MD, chief medical officer, Graphium Health, and Daniel Dura, chief technology officer, Graphium Health Discussions around security in the healthcare IT space usually center around...
View ArticleAttend HP’s 27.Apr virtual event on Next Era of Mission-Critical Computing
HP is holding a global virtual event on April 27, 2010 that will introduce HP's vision and major announcements regarding their products and solutions for what HP is describing as the "next era of...
View ArticleThe CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!
I was very honored to be asked to join the Intel IT Peer Network as a Guest Blogger. If you are a frequent participant of the IT Peer Network, I hope you find some of my musings insightful, or at least...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Series Finale
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! So, how did we all end up there? Over the past year, I have asked a...
View ArticleAre you feeling SaaSy?
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and all the other aaS’s seem to have exploded in the last couple of years. In my previous post, The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO, I briefly touched on the confluence of...
View ArticleDear Abby: Some Relationship Advice
Dear Abby, I need some advice. I have been dating my girl friend, let’s call her Betty for over 30 years now. Just when I thought we were progressing in our relationship along came Sam. Sam is young,...
View ArticleIt’s the Data, Stupid!
Like the original “The Economy, Stupid” sign that hung in the Clinton Presidential Campaign Headquarters, every CIO should have “It’s the data, stupid” hanging in their offices as a reminder to...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Hard Hats, Muddy Boots and Technology
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Jason Burns dreamed of being a fighter pilot, to join the likes of Goose and...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Steve Snyder, CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in...
View ArticleThe CMO, the CIO’s New BFF
Tu dis dix et je dis dix Tu es prompt et je suis prompt Dix, dih, prompt, promp, Ignorons ces différences A tí te gusta la papa y a mí me gusta la patata A tí te gusta el tomate y a mí me gusta el...
View ArticleThere’s an App for that!
The Appification of IT The App. Another word we can thank Steve Jobs for bringing into our lexicon, along with i-anything. Before the launch of the iPhone in 2007 about the only time you would hear the...
View ArticleSometimes BYOD Feels Like BYOB
The Consumerization of IT In the beginning, life was simple. Blackberry ruled the roost. You put in a BES server, connected it with Exchange and your employees could receive email no matter where they...
View ArticleBecome a SuperCIO – Play CIO Superhero
I thought I would take a time out from my monthly series of posts “The CIO is Dead, Long Live the CIO” and instead of writing about “gamification”, we could all play a game. Let me set the stage: CIO...
View ArticleFaster than a Speeding Bullet – The Incredible Pace of Change
Is it me, or this the pace of change accelerating as we speak? I can remember as a kid, the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas just seemed to drag on and on. Christmas would NEVER arrive! Today,...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value – A Seismic Shift Forward
Did you feel it? Did you feel the shifting of the earth? Did you hear it? Did you hear the rumble so loud you could feel it in your bones? What? You missed it? What were you doing on Saturday night...
View ArticleTo Get Where You Are Going…Amplify Your Value
To get where you are going...you have to know where you are! Sounds pretty obvious doesn’t it. To arrive at any destination, you have to leave where you are and move toward that destination. At the...
View ArticleParty Like It’s 2016 and Amplify Your Value!
Party like it’s 2016!! OK, sitting here on April 1st, 2015 that doesn't sound very prophetic, perhaps a tad premature, but certainly not prophetic. But, think about celebrating New Year’s Eve 2015,...
View ArticleArchitecture: Amplify Your Value by Thinking Beyond IT!
“Wait, wait, wait...before we talk about all these projects, shouldn’t we talk about our operating model? Are we really as diversified as we think?” I couldn’t believe my ears! I looked across the...
View ArticleTHAT Project is a REAL Cluster! Amplify Your Value: Avoid CF Projects!
SNAFU, FUBAR, CF...if you have been in IT longer than five minutes you have been involved in a project that has been described as a real cluster. (If you are confused, look it up in the Urban...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Draw Your Own Map!
The day was blistering hot! The air did not move. It was stifling hot. The crowd gathering in this Kansas field struggled to find shade, several people stood in the shadows of the tall grasses...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Reap the Rewards!
Amplify Your Value and you can Reap the Rewards...that’s kind of the theme of this entire series...how you can amplify the value of your IT department and how your company can reap the rewards. But...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: A Tale of Two Recoveries
Monday, January 6, 2014: Not since the blizzard of ‘78 had a day started in this way. After receiving close to 18” of snow on Sunday, temperatures plunged to windchills of 40 and 50 below. My phone...
View ArticleTurning a Geek into a Butterfly…a Social Butterfly, That Is!
Social Media is part of the Third Platform* (Cloud, Mobile and Big Data being the other parts). Like the other confluences of change rushing toward the CIO, Social Media has the potential to disrupt...
View ArticleIT’s Year in Review
New Year’s Day 2015 As I sat watching the Rose Bowl (not that I am a big follower of college football, I’m more of a pro football/college basketball kind of fan), but it is an annual tradition to watch...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Just Another Spoke in the Wheel
One of the most dramatic steps we took to becoming a Value-add revenue generating partner was to completely throw out our existing network. Wow! As I write that it sounds a little “harsh”. Let me...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: The Final Step
The Final Step on our journey to Amplify Our Value was also the most uneventful: we moved our entire production, test, and development environments to the cloud. What?!!? You moved your entire data...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Rock ‘n Roll to CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Me? I was going to be a rock star! From the moment I first heard the Beatles...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: It All Started with (an) Operation!
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Will Lassalle his dream of being a surgeon started with a game...a game of...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Black Belt CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! All Paul Chapman knew was that he wanted to work in an office. As child...
View ArticleGame Over! Gamification and the CIO
Congratulations to the winner of the CIO Superhero Game! The first to complete the challenge and become “Super CIO” was Brad Ton of Reindeer Auto Relocation. He was presented with an AWESOME Trophy to...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Take a Journey to the Cloud!
“Hello, my name is Jeff Ton and it has been one thousand, two hundred and seventy two days since I last opened Outlook.” February 6, 2012, an historic date in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yeah, there was...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Mining Gold to Developing People
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Tracy Kemp, CIO of Allegion, the Path to CIO started in the Big Sky...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Connecting the Dots
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child...ever! Fire fighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Engineering was the only path that made sense to Intel Security...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Paris to the Sierra Nevadas
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! CIO of Brain Balance Achievement Centers, Stephane Bourles’ Path to...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Building Blocks of a CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Isaac Sacolick wanted to build...bridges, buildings, trains. His love for...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Riding the Wave to the Public Sector
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! As a child Aleta Jeffress, CIO for the City of Aurora, Colorado,...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: We will always have Paris
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child ever. Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything but CIO. As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Ginny Davis loved animals. Growing up, she...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Play That Funky Music Tech Boy
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Steve Ginsberg’s Path to CIO included stops in Hollywood, the...
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