There are two aspects to suviving and thriving as a technology operations executive. The first is a focus on the core of actually doing a good job. All is lost if you lose focus on “dial tone” or have an embarrassing / critical security breach or failure. You can’t win any credibility if something serious…
Cisco Joins Race to Offer Cloud Services http://on.wsj.com/1jkPkZa
Target Seeks New Chief Information Officer After Data Breach – Bloomberg BusinessWeek Target Profits Hit – ABC News Target chief information officer resigns – Financial Times Like the Super Bowl winning Seattle Seahawks, a winning formula for IT and Technology teams is to have a best in class defense and an offense that doesn’t turn…
Just finished reading this IT novel by Gene Kim (Author), Kevin Behr (Author), and George Spafford (Author). If you are in Technology Operations management (the Big TOE – Technology Operations Executive) or just an individual contributor in this space, you will find it entertaining and hopefully informative and/or validating the problems, challenges or solutions you currently face or have tackled.…
Verizon’s LTE Map Is Nearly Complete, but All Four Major Carriers Are Starting to Fill in the Dots http://allthingsd.com/20131224/verizons-lte-map-is-nearly-complete-but-all-four-major-carriers-are-starting-to-fill-in-the-dots/
Uncarrier vs. AT&T Good Forbes article… AT&T, T-Mobile Bring More Chaos To Phone Plans But Should You Care? http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/12/08/att-t-mobile-bring-more-chaos-to-phone-plans-but-should-you-care/
Lessons From The Businesswoman With The Largest IT Job In Financial Services http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/11/19/lessons-from-the-businesswoman-with-the-largest-it-job-in-financial-services/ 100,000 IT employees and contractors!
Another bumpy day for Windows Azure http://gigaom.com/2013/11/21/another-bumpy-day-for-windows-azure/
Samsung owes Apple $290M more in damages, jury says http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57613390-37/samsung-owes-apple-$290m-more-in-damages-jury-says/?subj=cnet&tag=title
The recent IT troubled launch of the National Health Care enrollment systems at the federal and state levels is a recent reminder that planning, design, architecture, and stress / performance testing are all critical elements to avoid front page news. Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website., Problems at main Obamacare website are being fixed: White House …,…
New innovative products and business models, IT Consumerization, and re-emergent influx of venture capital are accelerating industry and business velocity. [warning: this is a Public Service Announcement: The following paragraph is a huge run-on sentence to incorporate every major IT trend in recent times] In response to business pressures to move more quickly, we are…
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