[I was quoted in David Spark’s blog post on 16 Tips for Moving Your Workload to the Cloud, Enterprise CIO Forum, November 10, 2014]
On vetting the cloud provider, I said that “You want a secure, integrated, centrally managed and easy-to-use environment, with SLAs around availability and performance, especially at peak demand,” Read David’s post for additional perspectives…
[My post in Network Computing, November 7, 2014, Information Week, Promethean Data Solutions IT Weekly Newsletter, November 17, 2014]
Bandwidth spikes, sluggish websites, and slow backups are just some of the unexpected problems that IT pros fear. Don’t wait for disaster to strike. Read more…
[My post in The daily Network Monitor, October 27, 2014]
Over the past few years, organizations have been forced to deal with the rapid rise of BYOD, which created a number of IT problems as more and more employees began bringing in their own devices to the workplace. Today, there is a new trend IT departments are preparing to deal with that could be more troublesome than its predecessor: Wear Your Own Device (WYOD). With the number of wearable devices steadily increasing, from Google Glass to Apple watches, it’s only a matter of time before we see a proliferation of wearables in the enterprise. Read more…
[My interview in FierceCIO, October 27, 2014]
From David Weldon’s article in FierceCIO:
A recent study concluded that CIOs today are living in a period of unprecedented change and challenge. That doesn’t make victory easy, when the goal line keeps moving on the field.
To get a better sense of this transformation, FierceCIO spoke with Azmi Jafarey, CIO of software company Ipswitch, about how his role in IT has changed, what is driving the evolution and where he sees the greatest challenges ahead. Read more…
[Also referenced in Fierce CIO, November 3, 2104, CIOs: Focus on emerging tech to keep business, customers happy]
[My post in Wired magazine, Innovation Insights, October 23, 2014]
With Microsoft leapfrogging over Windows 9 and proceeding straight to Windows 10, the question becomes, should we be excited? The short answer is yes, we have waited three years for this preview. While I suspect that not everyone shares my enthusiasm, the reality is that Windows 10 represents an acknowledgement of past pain and introduces user-experience improvements that will certainly sit well with Windows users. And while we have only been given a first look, more can be expected from the “continuum of devices” that will operate on Windows 10. Read more…
My post in Network Computing, October 6, 2014]
The modern workforce has high expectations for network performance and wireless access. But providing unfettered access can put the business at risk. IT must draw the line. Read more….
[My post in Wired magazine, Innovation Insights, September 25, 2014]
If you thought that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was the biggest source of IT department headaches, then think again. There is a new trend IT departments are preparing to deal with that could be more troublesome than its predecessor and that is Wear Your Own Device (WYOD). Read more…
Last Saturday, September 13, the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN) had a Leadership Conference in Boston. The opening keynote by Dr. Hina W. Chaudhry, Director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was nothing short of spectacular. Dr. Chaudhry spoke about her work in regenerating heart cells after a heart attack – a feat hitherto considered impossible in mammals. The potential, to cure the disease that is the world’s number one killer, is enormous. Continue reading
CIOsynergy in Boston in August was a lively affair. Along with a stellar keynote by John McAfee on the security dangers of mobile devices (your phone has likely been spying on you) and an introduction to ThingWorx, who provide a development platform for the Internet of Things, we had a diverse panel of CIOs to talk about the direction of enterprise IT, our successes and failures. I was one of the panelists, joined by colleagues from Deloitte, NutriSavings, Loomis, Sayles and Co., East Boston Savings Bank and Boston Scientific. Our moderator was Scott Shuster (formerly of ABC News, producer of NPR’s “All Things Considered”, Consulting Editor for McGraw-Hill and Business Week, to name a few of his accomplishments).
Scott asked me to comment on the recent spate of articles on the tension between IT and Marketing departments. Forbes, for example, in its August 6, 2014, issue had an article on “How to avoid a CMO vs. CIO war”. My take on this is: foolishness! Continue reading
Cloud, Mist, Fog, Droplets — I heard it all at an “Internet of Things” conference last Saturday, May 31, 2014. The event was sponsored by the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs in Boston. Verizon, Cisco and a wearables startup Quanttus participated. Quanttus was too secretive. All they said was that they had raised 22M$ in their first year and were concentrating on cardiovascular monitoring and getting FDA approval for trials “soon”. Verizon and Cisco were more forthcoming about their plans for IoT and the transformative beginnings of large scale machine to machine and machine to human data communications and the intelligent use of this data. Continue reading
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