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Symposium Partner Event in NYC:
CEOs See Technology as Growth Driver; CIOs Don’t… a Discussion

The symposium partner,  Center for CIO Leadership, a member driven community to advance the CIO profession, is hosting an exclusive executive event for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs and other members of the C-Suite on Thursday, October 21, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm in New York City. Salon Theme:  “CEOs See Technology as Growth Driver; CIOs Don’t… [...]

TiECON East 2010

We are pleased to announce our partner, TiE Boston’s annual flagship conference TiECON East 2010, Boston’s Premier Entrepreneurial Conference which promises to deliver valuable insights on factors that foster entrepreneurial success in the New Economic Climate to be held on May 27th and 28th at the Westin Waltham, MA. The theme for this year’s conference [...]

Infrastructure Security: Getting to the Bottom of Compliance in the Cloud

For many business functions commonly run in the cloud – hosting websites and wikis, for example –
it’s often sufficient to have a cloud provider vouch for the security of the underlying infrastructure

Building Sustainable IT ROI

When analyzing IT ROI, the ROI-sustainability factor is often overlooked. A frequent scenario involves architecture plans that call for multiple diverse technologies that may each be practical choices on their own, but are virtually incompatible together or require completely different skills/teams to integrate and maintain. To build IT ROI that proves itself beyond the planning [...]

IT Governance – Issue 6

What’s in this issue We’ll now turn to a somewhat more familiar aspect of IT, business applications.  In truth these are what most people think of when discussing what IT does and while they are not the be all of IT they are an important output that must be controlled and directed. Since the users [...]