Transform IT Show – Episode 4 Recap: The Power of Human Infrastructure
What did you think about Frank Wander comparing all of us to pieces of technology infrastructure? On the surface, it can seem dehumanizing. Like we’re just parts of a machine. But the reality is much...
View Article4 Takeaways From Hannover Messe 2017
I had the pleasure of attending this year’s Hannover Messe, the world’s leading industrial show. I traveled to beautiful Hannover, Germany, to attend this event, which is 11 years in the running. This...
View Article4 Ways We Can Redefine Innovation In The Enterprise
If we want to drive growth and profitability in the enterprise, we need to redefine innovation. Changing how we think about innovation directly influences our ability to transform our organization and...
View ArticleTroubleshooting the Altiris Manageability Toolkit for vPro Technology – Part...
In part 3 we covered troubleshooting common Provisioning Console issues. In part 4 we now focus on those components operating in the background during provisioning. With a functioning install and...
View ArticleReturn On Security Investment – BlogTalk Radio Wednesday June 4
Measuring the value of information security programs is difficult and a problem for the entire industry. Come join us for a 3 part series discussing the challenges, how Intel is taking a practical...
View ArticleSCCM SP1 hotfix KB957469 released – AMT 4 / 5 Power Control
Microsoft has just released a hotfix to address AMT 4 / AMT 5 power control within System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (KB957469):...
View ArticleDo it yourself – Power on, patch, and go back to sleep with 4, free .exes
Having worked with Intel Active Management Technology and Intel vPro Technology since version 1.0, it seems to me that there are a whole host of possibilities for those who are do-it-yourself-ers. One...
View Article4 Tips to Successfully Market Security to Consumers
Marketing security to consumers is a difficult prospect. Security is not normally something a consumer thinks about, without a good reason. When walking into a store, full of anticipation of...
View Article4 Obstacles That Are Keeping Your Employees from Collaborating
Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, once said that “coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” When you provide employees with...
View Article20 Questions on SSD #4: How consistent is the performance of your SSD?
20 Questions on SSD: Things you’ll want to ask. Question #4: How consistent is the performance of your SSD? In the last few blogs of our 20 questions on SSD series, we looked at OEM qualification,...
View ArticleThe CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!
I was very honored to be asked to join the Intel IT Peer Network as a Guest Blogger. If you are a frequent participant of the IT Peer Network, I hope you find some of my musings insightful, or at least...
View ArticleAre you feeling SaaSy?
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and all the other aaS’s seem to have exploded in the last couple of years. In my previous post, The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO, I briefly touched on the confluence of...
View ArticleDear Abby: Some Relationship Advice
Dear Abby, I need some advice. I have been dating my girl friend, let’s call her Betty for over 30 years now. Just when I thought we were progressing in our relationship along came Sam. Sam is young,...
View ArticleIt’s the Data, Stupid!
Like the original “The Economy, Stupid” sign that hung in the Clinton Presidential Campaign Headquarters, every CIO should have “It’s the data, stupid” hanging in their offices as a reminder to...
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: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“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 Snyder, CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in...
View ArticleWhat is the significance of 11.4 cents??
Did you know that using an electricity rate of 11.4 cents per kWh provides a simple method of calculating annual electricity cost of any device? 1 watt of power consumption, with an electricity rate of...
View ArticleThe CMO, the CIO’s New BFF
Tu dis dix et je dis dix Tu es prompt et je suis prompt Dix, dih, prompt, promp, Ignorons ces différences A tí te gusta la papa y a mí me gusta la patata A tí te gusta el tomate y a mí me gusta el...
View ArticleThere’s an App for that!
The Appification of IT The App. Another word we can thank Steve Jobs for bringing into our lexicon, along with i-anything. Before the launch of the iPhone in 2007 about the only time you would hear the...
View ArticleSometimes BYOD Feels Like BYOB
The Consumerization of IT In the beginning, life was simple. Blackberry ruled the roost. You put in a BES server, connected it with Exchange and your employees could receive email no matter where they...
View ArticleBecome a SuperCIO – Play CIO Superhero
I thought I would take a time out from my monthly series of posts “The CIO is Dead, Long Live the CIO” and instead of writing about “gamification”, we could all play a game. Let me set the stage: CIO...
View ArticleFaster than a Speeding Bullet – The Incredible Pace of Change
Is it me, or this the pace of change accelerating as we speak? I can remember as a kid, the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas just seemed to drag on and on. Christmas would NEVER arrive! Today,...
View ArticleParty Like It’s 2016 and Amplify Your Value!
Party like it’s 2016!! OK, sitting here on April 1st, 2015 that doesn't sound very prophetic, perhaps a tad premature, but certainly not prophetic. But, think about celebrating New Year’s Eve 2015,...
View ArticleArchitecture: Amplify Your Value by Thinking Beyond IT!
“Wait, wait, wait...before we talk about all these projects, shouldn’t we talk about our operating model? Are we really as diversified as we think?” I couldn’t believe my ears! I looked across the...
View ArticleSupport for OpenStack Kilo and Latest Open vSwitch Boost VM Performance in...
By Dana Nehama, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Network Platforms Group (NPG), Intel I’m very pleased to announce the availability of a new release of the Intel® Open Network Platform – our integrated,...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Draw Your Own Map!
The day was blistering hot! The air did not move. It was stifling hot. The crowd gathering in this Kansas field struggled to find shade, several people stood in the shadows of the tall grasses...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Reap the Rewards!
Amplify Your Value and you can Reap the Rewards...that’s kind of the theme of this entire series...how you can amplify the value of your IT department and how your company can reap the rewards. But...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: A Tale of Two Recoveries
Monday, January 6, 2014: Not since the blizzard of ‘78 had a day started in this way. After receiving close to 18” of snow on Sunday, temperatures plunged to windchills of 40 and 50 below. My phone...
View ArticleTurning a Geek into a Butterfly…a Social Butterfly, That Is!
Social Media is part of the Third Platform* (Cloud, Mobile and Big Data being the other parts). Like the other confluences of change rushing toward the CIO, Social Media has the potential to disrupt...
View ArticleIT’s Year in Review
New Year’s Day 2015 As I sat watching the Rose Bowl (not that I am a big follower of college football, I’m more of a pro football/college basketball kind of fan), but it is an annual tradition to watch...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Just Another Spoke in the Wheel
One of the most dramatic steps we took to becoming a Value-add revenue generating partner was to completely throw out our existing network. Wow! As I write that it sounds a little “harsh”. Let me...
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 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 ArticleGame Over! Gamification and the CIO
Congratulations to the winner of the CIO Superhero Game! The first to complete the challenge and become “Super CIO” was Brad Ton of Reindeer Auto Relocation. He was presented with an AWESOME Trophy to...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Take a Journey to the Cloud!
“Hello, my name is Jeff Ton and it has been one thousand, two hundred and seventy two days since I last opened Outlook.” February 6, 2012, an historic date in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yeah, there was...
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 ArticleTHAT Project is a REAL Cluster! Amplify Your Value: Avoid CF Projects!
SNAFU, FUBAR, CF...if you have been in IT longer than five minutes you have been involved in a project that has been described as a real cluster. (If you are confused, look it up in the Urban...
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 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 ArticleAmplify Your Value – A Seismic Shift Forward
Did you feel it? Did you feel the shifting of the earth? Did you hear it? Did you hear the rumble so loud you could feel it in your bones? What? You missed it? What were you doing on Saturday night...
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: From Paris to the Sierra Nevadas
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! CIO of Brain Balance Achievement Centers, Stephane Bourles’ Path to...
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: 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: We will always have Paris
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child ever. Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything but CIO. As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Ginny Davis loved animals. Growing up, she...
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 ArticlemHealth: 4 Tips for Designing Secure Applications and Electronic Health Records
by Jeff Zavaleta, MD, chief medical officer, Graphium Health, and Daniel Dura, chief technology officer, Graphium Health Discussions around security in the healthcare IT space usually center around...
View Article4 Reasons Why Clinicians Should Care About Data Stewardship
This guest blog was written by Matt Oldham, Director of Data Architecture at Graphium Health. I deal with data everyday. As a data architect, database administrator, and data integration engineer, data...
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