One of my enduring interests is identifying the low hanging fruit for CIOs and CTOs.
CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, heads of lines of business, all see the writing on the wall.
CIOs and CTOs must take a closer look at the true cost of Big Data.
For CTOs, CIOs and their staffs, moving to the cloud sounds like a paradigm shift.
CIOs and CTOs who do know must marry that knowledge with a more intimate understanding of the business.
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This should be a vital question for CIOs and CTOs and it will require a new kind of leadership.
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Silicon Valley even has cartoons doing the rounds, of homeless CEOs holding up signs begging for CTOs to join them.
Dan Woods is chief technology officer and editor of CITO Research, a firm focused on the needs of CTOs and CIOs.
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Dan Woods is chief technology officer and editor of Evolved Technologist, a research firm focused on the needs of CTOs and CIOs.
If CIOs and CTOs keep this vision in mind and move toward it, they will be doing their businesses a big favor.
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Dan Woods is CTO and editor of CITO Research, a publication that helps CIOs and CTOs optimize the present and build the future.
My strong belief is that this mixture of information can only be brewed in the minds of CIOs and CTOs after methodical preparation.
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Some CIOs and CTOs are capable of leveraging their experience, knowledge and skills in technologies or systems into the creation and leadership of companies.
Dan Woods is chief technology officer and editor of Evolved Technologist, a research firm focused on the needs of CTOs and chief information officers.
Vendors are taking advantage of CIOs and CTOs who are nervous about switching their infrastructure to the cloud, but want to demonstrate the opposite.
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While it seems strange, most CIOs and CTOs (which I refer to collectively as CITOs) live in a state of limited awareness out of fear.
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One of the CTOs reported that he was unable to diagnose a problem with an application using an NFS file system based on cloud infrastructure.
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Rather my goal is to shed light on the idea of openness so CIOs and CTOs who are building cloud infrastructure can make better decisions.
CIOs and CTOs must take on this innovation and design challenge.
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Although this path may seem strange, there are a number of CIOs and CTOs whose first role in IT were as the senior-most position in the department.
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As an example of the kind of variations between strategies offered by vendors, take three well-known companies whose CTOs have articulated their vision: Citrix, VMWare and Google.
To even begin to answer these types of questions, CMOs will need to get much closer to CTOs and CIOs, and digital education must become a priority across entire organizations.
This is no small task and will provoke discomfort all around, but the CIOs and CTOs who pull this off will transform their role in their companies and help win the next round in the marketplace.
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The keynote was followed by technical presentations from system architects, CTOs, and CEOs from major embedded-Linux companies, as well as an afternoon keynote entitled "Linux -- The Embedded Cinderella" from Jim Ready, CEO and founder of MontaVista.
My recommendations for how to find these opportunities are based on four observations, the first two about the cloud, one about the way that CIOs and CTOs must improve their management practices, and one about the misunderstood discipline of value-driven Business Process Management.
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CIOs and CTOs should keep their eye on the evolution toward maturity of the public cloud and keep close track of the costs of the private cloud so that rational decisions can be made about where to provision specific types of applications and functionality.
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So, in essence, it is time for CIOs, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and anyone else who might get fired for a major security breach to have a good cry and realize how little control the good guys have and how fearsome the bad guys are.
Tools such as Brinqa and Apptio can help return CIOs and CTOs to the boardroom table, where their presence is increasingly requested, and help resolve one of the critical issues of IT management: how to have a relevant and productive conversation with the business.
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