CIO concerns
The CIO challenge: Manufacturers demand always on, always performing, always contemporary IT
Asia Pacific, Japan, and China manufacturers fuel the world economy, and their digitization practices influence global innovation, our investment climate, technology purchases, and individual country business and partner ecosystems. Earlier this month, I had the privilege of hosting the regio…
Unleash the Potential of Your Multicloud Strategy
It wasn’t that long ago that many people thought moving everything to the cloud would be simple and cost-effective – and cloud would somehow make everything easier. The reality is that cloud was anything but simple. Balancing the need to manage costs with enabling speed and business agility became a…
What’s Wrong with Enterprise Agreements?
Enterprise Agreements (EAs) are growing in popularity as organizations are looking for flexible agreements and streamlined procurement to meet their evolving business needs. Historically, these types of buying programs are ideal for large organizations that want to get the right tools into the right…
Application Centric Infrastructure Addresses 3 CIO & VP of Infrastructure Top-of-Mind Concerns
Among the top concerns for CIOs and VPs of infrastructure are making IT relevant to the business and driving revenue growth, reducing operational expenses while preserving innovation, and mitigating risk by meeting or exceeding security and compliance requirements. The Cisco Application Centric Infr…
Cloud for Local Government Global Blog Series, A Better Economy in the Cloud
My colleague Norm Jacknis (former CIO of Westchester County, New York) passed along a list of CIO concerns for 2013 that was prepared by Alan Shark of Public Technology Institute, a nonprofit that provides technology guidance to local government. The list for cities and counties included: 1. Big Dat…