I've had the pleasure of watching and studying many enterprise class CIOs and CTOs. And I've performed CIO duties and once was an enterprise CTO myself. In my opinion, enterprise CIOs and CTOs have it really really hard. The bigger the enterprise the harder it can be to get anything done. There are lots of reasons for that. Part of the challenge is that large enterprises have complex IT environments frequently made up masses of legacy … [Read more...]
Gov 2.0: Cloud Computing As Government Panacea
September 10, 2009 By
The importance of cloud computing was a significant theme at this week's Government 2.0 Summit Two of the most influential people in the cloud computing market -- Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and General Services Administration CIO Casey Coleman -- talked today at the Gov 2.0 Summit about cloud computing's high potential as a cheaper, better way of delivering IT resources. Such enthusiasm, however, is tempered with lingering questions about security, … [Read more...]