Managing expectations for DR in a virtual server environment

We've been looking at evolving technology strategies around disaster recovery in a virtual server environment this week at SearchCIO.com, but some of the best advice I...
Is the CIO role ‘redundant and glorified?’

I heard from a reader recently that Chief Idiot Officer, not Chief Information Officer, is a more apt descriptor for CIOs he's dealt with. Harsh.
The scathing note was in response to my recent story, "
CIOs’ list of demands for public cloud providers

Transferring data outside your four walls, particularly over the Internet, is not an appealing prospect to many CIOs. But cloud uptime? Now that is an even larger trust issue...
A reader laments the performance of virtual desktop infrastructure

To hear the prophets tell it, virtualization -- of both the server and the desktop -- is inevitable. VMware says we're at the tipping point -- a point in time...
Business productivity and cost reduction No. 1 concern in CIO survey

Think the Great Recession is over? Not for CIOs. For the second year running, business productivity and cost reduction was the No. 1 concern of CIOs, CTOs and IT executives in the annual CIO survey from the Society for Information Management -- and by a wide margin, according to Jerry...
Women in IT band together at VMworld 2010

Navigating the crowded halls of VMworld 2010 in San Francisco last week, I couldn't help feeling drawn to the signage developed for this year's event: "Virtual Clouds, Actual Roads. " The backdrop...
Meditating on Harvard’s mobile strategy, Eric Schmidt and “Lost”

Harvard in the palm of your hand! Just in time for the start of classes, the most Ivy-ed of the ivory towers has launched a mobile initiative that delivers university content -- campus maps, the course catalog, a people directory, news and...
ITIL books don’t mix with cloud? ‘A massive cop-out,’ ITIL guru says

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) books -- 30 years in the making and regarded by many as the industry's bible for managing IT services -- do not at first...
VMware luminaries say virtualized environments lead to IT as a Service

Hall D in San Francisco's Moscone Center was an electric mecca this week, as tens of thousands of IT professionals gathered to hear VMware Inc. luminaries discuss the future of IT as a Service at the VMworld keynote session. Upbeat music pulsed as the techies took their seats, and three giant...