Turning the Tide: CIO’s dilemma with PUE
An important element of controlling data center cost is, of course, making sure the energy use is as efficient as possible. The Power Usage Effectiveness, (PUE) is a great indicator, but it's also...
View ArticleTurning the Tide: Energy Efficient Servers and the Efficiency Conundrum
A while ago I wrote about the CIO’s dilemma with PUE. Just as you’d never run a business looking only at gross margin, you also can’t run an energy efficient datacenter just looking at PUE; it is...
View ArticleTurning the Tide: Three Simple Imperatives for the Energy Efficient Data Center
I’ve been doing a fair amount of travel for speaking lately for speaking engagements. One of the great things about all that time on the road is getting direct feedback and information about what...
View ArticleThe difference between Energy and Power: Why it matters to the CIO
What do the phrases “My datacenter power bill is too high” and “We have an energy crisis in our data center” have in common? The answer is that each gets the meaning of the words POWER and ENERGY...
View ArticlePower and Energy Efficiency: Double Your Benefit
Is there a difference between Power Efficiency and Energy Efficiency? In many conversations here at Intel, we use the terms almost interchangeably. However, after I wrote a blog post about why the...
View ArticleTop Green IT: Making it Happen
Computer World has just released their Top Green IT User and Vendors. I was of course proud that Intel made the list – we spend a lot of effort on efficiency and it’s nice to see it recognized. What I...
View ArticleHow CIO’s Should Look at Innovation
Lately I have read a lot of articles talking about renaming the CIO from Chief Information Officer to Chief Innovation Officer (or Integration, or Insight…). Maybe I am a traditionalist, but I have...
View ArticleTop 10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2015 and Beyond
Cybersecurity is poised for a notorious year. The computer security industry had a tumultuous 2014, with significant breaches, compromises, and vulnerabilities permeating the news. Governments,...
View ArticleWhat Does CIO Reporting Structure Mean for IT at Large?
A previous manager of mine used to say that structure follows strategy. So it seems logical to conclude that a business’s organizational structure contains significant insights about - and implications...
View ArticleTo Get Where You Are Going…Amplify Your Value
To get where you are going...you have to know where you are! Sounds pretty obvious doesn’t it. To arrive at any destination, you have to leave where you are and move toward that destination. At the...
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Executive Sponsorship
Of the ten mobile BI questions I outlined in my last post, “Do we have an executive sponsor?” is the most important one because the success of a mobile BI journey depends on it more than any other....
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Talent Management
When I bring up talent management as part of a mobile business intelligence strategy, I’m often met with that “deer caught in the headlights” look. I realize that talent management is typically used in...
View ArticleThe Social IT Professional
The role of the CIO and IT professionals has significantly changed in the last decade. In today’s professional landscape, an IT professional is poised to lead the charge for technological innovation....
View ArticleMorphing Into the IT Business Professional: Social Media 101
If you’ve been on social media for a while, you probably noticed there’s a lot of information out there. Even though you’ve been engaging, how do you start to morph your current presence into that of...
View ArticlemHealth Summit Has New Look for 2015
Now in its seventh year, the mHealth Summit is taking its “innovation” theme to a new level with a few surprises in 2015. First and foremost, the summit is taking place a month earlier than usual –...
View ArticleWorking Together: Collaboration Is Key
As CIO, you’re sitting in the driver’s seat, steering your company to harness the power of new technology. You’ve effectively created a cohesive business development team, hired and retained the...
View ArticleMaking Industry Innovators: Using Social Media to Be More Than a Business Leader
A CIO’s official title doesn’t include “Person Keeping the Computers Running.” Yes, you help ensure that happens, but according to CIO.com’s 2015 State of the CIO, an alarming 13 percent of IT...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: The Final Step
The Final Step on our journey to Amplify Our Value was also the most uneventful: we moved our entire production, test, and development environments to the cloud. What?!!? You moved your entire data...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Rock ‘n Roll to CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Me? I was going to be a rock star! From the moment I first heard the Beatles...
View ArticleCIOs and Using Social Media to Find Talent
As a CIO becomes more comfortable with social media and being the face of their enterprise’s IT, it’s time to try more strategic uses of these connectivity tools. Besides using social media to...
View ArticleWhat if CIOs were Presidents of Enterprise IT
NOT !! I am sure Intel CIO, Kim Stevenson would not advocate such a concept -- especially given that she is a fantastic example of a Next Generation CIO driving a new style of business. "The worst...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: It All Started with (an) Operation!
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Will Lassalle his dream of being a surgeon started with a game...a game of...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Building Blocks of a CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Isaac Sacolick wanted to build...bridges, buildings, trains. His love for...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Black Belt CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! All Paul Chapman knew was that he wanted to work in an office. As child...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Mining Gold to Developing People
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Tracy Kemp, CIO of Allegion, the Path to CIO started in the Big Sky...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Hard Hats, Muddy Boots and Technology
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Jason Burns dreamed of being a fighter pilot, to join the likes of Goose and...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Riding the Wave to the Public Sector
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! As a child Aleta Jeffress, CIO for the City of Aurora, Colorado,...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Connecting the Dots
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child...ever! Fire fighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Engineering was the only path that made sense to Intel Security...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Play That Funky Music Tech Boy
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Steve Ginsberg’s Path to CIO included stops in Hollywood, the...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Series Finale
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! So, how did we all end up there? Over the past year, I have asked a...
View ArticleFinding the Real Key to Success with Collaborative Care
I recently sat down to talk with Drex DeFord, President of Drexio Digital Health, to discuss where health care currently stands on patient engagement and collaborative care. As DeFord looked back on...
View Article2017: The Tipping Year for Digital Transformation
We’ve been talking about it for years. You’ve been evangelizing it up your food chain as well (successfully, we hope). And now it’s here: 2017 is shaping up to be the year that the C-suite really...
View ArticleWith a Seat at the Table, CIOs Help Lead Digital Transformation
I’ve been an IT professional for close to 30 years, and over the course of that time, I’ve seen the IT industry undergo remarkable technological advances. However, the pace of the revolutionary changes...
View ArticleHybrid Cloud—Know What’s Under the Hood
Hybrid clouds are a little like hybrid cars. Hybrid cars have two operating modes that work together seamlessly to get you to a destination, but to the driver it all looks and acts the same. Similarly,...
View ArticleIntel IT Accelerating Our Future
As one of the world’s largest semiconductor chip makers, Intel’s vision is to be the performance leader that unleashes the potential of data. In this era of rapid change and distributed intelligence,...
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