By Tony Kontzer UPDATE: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died at age 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. As anyone who's followed my posts here over the past several years surely knows, I haven't exactly been what one would ....
By Don Desiderato This is the first installment in our new monthly blog series, The CIO's Calendar, in which we'll give you insights on how to plan your time in the month ahead as you look to allocate res....
By Tony Kontzer I have nothing against Steven VanRoekel. At the age of 41, he has logged 15 years with Microsoft and served as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission--an impressive car....
By John Parkinson Warning! Math and science present in what follows. Physics is tough. You don't get a vote on the "laws" and you can't generally cheat without getting hurt. You can change the laws if you....
By John Parkinson Over the past 25 years I must have reviewed over 200 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for IT departments of all sizes and companies in all kinds of businesses. I would gue....
By Tony Kontzer The day after Apple announced its iCloud service, I was at my nearby community pool getting ready to swim some laps when everyone started looking to the sky to gawk at something you just d....
By John Parkinson IBM turned 100 years old this month. Many workers in the industry that it helped spawn (and that nearly killed it over a decade ago) are already eligible for AARP membership, and have be....
By Tony Kontzer The announcement last week that Vivek Kundra would leave his post as the nation's first CIO this August to accept a fellowship at Harvard has spurred gratuitous analysis of his all-too-bri....
By John Parkinson I have always been fascinated by what we can learn from looking at edge cases - what Malcolm Gladwell called "Outliers" in his eponymous book. In almost every area of human endeavor, the....
By John Parkinson Every now and again I come across an idea that's simultaneously brilliant in theory, yet hard to understand how it can possibly work in practice. Here's the latest. By now, most people k....
By Tony Kontzer One night recently, I found myself seated around the table at an upscale San Francisco restaurant, discussing cloud computing with a couple of people who spend a lot more time thinking abou....
By Tony Kontzer For more than a decade, cloud vendor NetSuite has toiled in relative obscurity, watching the headlines go first to Salesfore.com, and later to the likes of Amazon.com and Google. But on the....
By Tony Kontzer The recent breaches at RSA, Epsilon and the Texas state comptroller's office notwithstanding, big-company IT security execs may have something to celebrate. Conversely, overtaxed IT crews ....
By Tony Kontzer Maybe, just maybe, there's light at the end of the government IT tunnel, and CIOs at agencies across the country--and beyond--have U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra to thank. In a post published on t....
By Tony Kontzer With the craziness unfolding in the world, from the devastation in the wake of the March 11 earthquake in Japan to the political upheavals throughout the Middle East and North Africa, it's....