CIO Symmetry:

December, 2009

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December 18, 2009  3:34 PM

In BPM vendor merger, is anybody afraid of the Big Blue wolf?



Posted by: Kristen Caretta
business process management, Midmarket CIO

IBM announced this week that it was buying Lombardi, a successful and well-known BPM technology vendor. Lombardi has a range of tools that are...

December 11, 2009  3:02 PM

Paying the price for server uptime



Posted by: Karen Guglielmo
fault tolerance servers, Midmarket CIO, server uptime, Strategy for CIOs

What’s the price for server uptime? How much would you be willing to invest to maintain five 9s of availability on your mission-critical line of business applications? With limited budgets and resources, many midmarket companies are investing an average of $20,000 in fault-tolerant servers and...


December 4, 2009  3:24 PM

What’s going on in IT as the CIO role changes?



Posted by: Kristen Caretta
CIO Jobs, Midmarket CIO, Strategy for CIOs

As the role of the CIO evolves to include more of the business and strategic decision making and less of some of the techy details, the CIO may be missing what's going on across IT in some situations. But...


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