The One Infographic About the Digital Revolution You Need to Understand | LinkedIn
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IVIS-11 ; Windows Azure Active Directory Now Open for Business — Virtualization Review
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Every company using AD should do an analysis of this solution asap,
especially SMBs using AD. This is one of those areas where the vast majority of businesses would benefit in some fashion by moving their AD to the cloud.
If your infrastructure is too “complicated” or there are too many AD to AD trust relationships or whatever reason seems to exist to not make this a simple cost/benefit analysis should be challenged, especially in SMBs.
Windows Azure Active Directory Now Open for Business — Virtualization Review.
Do you agree? I do….Enterprise IT Will Be Out of Infrastructure Biz in 5 Years — Virtualization Review
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Enterprise IT Will Be Out of Infrastructure Biz in 5 Years — Virtualization Review states within 5 years. While the timeline may actually be a bit longer than that, the perspective is accurate.
IT’s innovation focus, and leadership, should be around business process, data and converged collaboration (using the cloud, preferably). Focus on making IT as agile as your business needs you to be in your core competencies, including security/compliance/privacy and BCP/DR.
First Security, Then Innovation – NYTimes.com
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“Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as Cispa. The bill would make it easy for tech companies to share information about computer security threats with government agencies, helping fortify against cyberattacks.”
via
href=’http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/disruptions-new-motto-for-silicon-valley-first-security-then-innovation/?partner=rss&emc=rss’>Disruptions: New Motto for Silicon Valley: First Security, Then Innovation – NYTimes.com.
Is your IT in front of Cispa and what that would mean to your company’s use of technology?
Free (w/strings attached)…open source code – Computerworld
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“The problem is, many IT organizations aren’t applying good governance practices to open-source software.”
The concern cited by this article is not that open-source is bad, its that open-source not done properly introduces risks to a company. If IT as the corporate innovation leader was ahead of this, the risk to the company would be minimized.
Has your IT led your company down the right path to take advantage of open-source?
via Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open source code – Computerworld.
Open for debate? Mandatory BYOD Heading Your Way – CIO.com
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Mandatory BYOD Heading Your Way – CIO.com claims BYOD will be an expected expense for employees to get/keep jobs. Effectively, this article implies that much as an employee having a car in the suburbs to get to work is due course, having your own smartphone will become due course soon enough.
What do you think?
Will “IT?” Why the cloud will (entirely) replace in-house applications | ZDNet
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IVIS-10, listen to industry gurus like Hub Designs (MDM)
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For a great primer on Multidomain MDM, be sure to listen in to Hub Designs and Stibo Webinar on Multidomain MDM,
Hub Designs and Stibo Conducting Webinar on Multidomain MDM .
I would also recommend joining the Hub Designs MDM Community and perusing the site for some world class content.
IVIS-9, Innovation via survey participation – 2013 and 2012 Cloud Computing Survey | North Bridge
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IVIS-9 – what better way to stay current than by participating in a survey called the Future of Cloud, which is jointly done by a research firm AND a VC firm? …especially when you can receive/review the end results?
Time for the 3rd annual GigaOM and North Bridge Venture Partners Future of Cloud Survey. The survey results from last year can be viewed at 2012 Cloud Computing Survey | North Bridge.
To take this year’s survey, and more importantly, to be to share in the knowledge gained, just go to http://northbridge.com/2013-cloud-computing-survey .
Corporate open-source project security, roots in lack of IT innovation? – Network World
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Open-source projects may have different security concerns than do COTS (commercial off the shelf) projects, IT control being one. However, if development life-cycle best practices are in place, through security QA testing, open-source projects should do fine.
Per the pie chart, the problem may have its roots in lack of IT innovation. An IT-led initiative would not have a tagline of “who’s in charge of open-source security…?” When an innovative IT organization has invested up front in mapping out the use of emerging technologies (e.g. open-source), future users of that emerging technology will want to go to IT to lever IT’s existing best practices knowledgebase.
If open-source projects are happening and they aren’t following IT best practices, then it seems logical that these aren’t corporate IT-defined or led projects.
Why not?
Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult – Network World.
