VM Provisioning Is Still in Its Infancy
Creation of VMs from a golden image can be automated, but the requirements of each workload are not easy to discover.
Using the Question Game for Business/IT Alignment
One of the most important enduring challenges facing CITOs is making sure that the technology portfolio is aligned at all levels with the needs of the business.
AtTask's Vision of Enterprise Work Management
Enterprise software of all types has too often been inflicted on individual workers by management, who received little assistance from the products in doing their jobs. Enterprise software created "work about work" for individual workers who used applications to track their work so that executives could see what was going on.
Asana's Vision of Collaborative Task Management
Imagine that wherever you are, in the office or in a remote location, you have all the information that you need to do your job literally at your fingertips, and that you know the same is true for everybody that you’re working with.
Cheezburger Avoids BI ‘Fails’ By Sipping Data Slowly
Getting value from big data is everyone’s problem, even LOLCats.
CITO Research Mission: Creating a Playbook for IT Pruning
All of the information needed for a pruning analysis should be available as part of managing a well run IT shop.
How Vertica Was the Star of the Obama Campaign, and Other Revelations
One of the most critical contributors to the Obama campaign’s success was the direct access it had to a massive database of voter data stored in Vertica.
Mission: How to Find and Use External Data
A first draft of a program for finding and making use of external data to improve business results.
What Is a Data Scientist? A video interview with Dan Woods
Data scientists are needed to help turn big data into a richer model of the customer.
Xtreme Labs: How to Perfect Mobile Apps
Creating mobile apps is a program, not a project. The biggest mistake is thinking you can address mobility by building one app.