Microsoft joins FIDO group hoping to replace passwords w/public key cryptography | Ars Technica

Microsoft joins FIDO group hoping to replace passwords with public key cryptography | Ars Technica.

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please join me at ITFMA’s Norfolk, VA conference April, 2014

With the rapid acceptance of cloud working hand-in-hand with the consumerization of IT, the role of the CIO is rapidly moving from operator to broker of IT.  Come share and learn how this is impacting the world of IT Finance and how to proactively lead in this evolution….

2014 ITFMA Conference in Norfolk, VA; Financial World of Information Technology

April 14-18, 2014    

Four IT financial conferences on:

• IT Financial Management Best Practices – the workshop I will be delivering will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 15th

• IT Chargeback, Cost Allocation & Unit Costing

• IT Financial Management Practitioner Experiences

• Government IT Financial Management

register via ITFMA – Information Technology Financial Management Assn.

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ITconnecter Job of the Week – Director, Global Shared Services Center, Attleboro, MA

POSITION SUMMARY:

Sensata is seeking a Shared Services professional with a track record of success and demonstrated experience in overseeing and transforming a Shard Service Center focused on Customer Service, Finance.  As Sensata continues to expand our shared service center, the job of Global Shared Services Director is to drive strategy and implement solutions and processes that transform the shared service function.  This is an all-encompassing role, which includes the formulation of strategy, management of the global teams while ensuring the delivery of excellent customer service to our stakeholders. This role reports directly to the CIO.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with senior leadership to identify gaps and opportunities to apply frameworks that substantially improve performance of back office functions
  • Develop short and long-term plans with anticipated deliverables, outcomes, and required resources to sustain the transformation
  • Lead major change initiatives and strategies within business case for multiple countries and business areas
  • Drive continuous process and services improvement initiatives
  • Provide oversight to ensure connectivity between strategies and customer needs
  • Develop and leverage internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals
  • Build and develop a global team to provide front line support to internal customers
  • Ensure compliance and data integrity is being executed across all teams globally
  • Lead business transformations and capability-building in the context of the overall wave/project/continuous improvement effort from diagnostic through implementation
  • Introduce new frameworks, tools, or ways of using existing material
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Cloud Security Alliance offers ultra-high cloud security plan – Network World

“…The rise of cloud-based services has accelerated the disappearance of traditional network perimeters and new methods need to be adopted to protect data that’s shared with cloud data centers, corporate networks and mobile devices, they say.

“Part of this initiative is to come up with an easily adjustable way to adjust the perimeter,” said Bob Flores, former chief technology officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, a contributor to the “Software Defined Perimeter” architecture document….”

via Cloud Security Alliance offers ultra-high cloud security plan – Network World.

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Disruptive innovation via the “adjacent possible,” no matter the industry…..

After an earlier LinkedIn post on startup Lufa Farms Inc. ( http://lufa.com/en/), I saw this http://freightfarms.com/.

Disruption happens everywhere…think of the impact this could have on agriculture, on retail (grocers, restaurants, CPG, et al) and their traditional channels, supply/demand chains, transportation logistics…..and IT systems and processes.

Is there an existing G2500 company in a related industry doing innovation mapping to see how they could benefit from the success of these firms? The oppty could be enormous, think of car rental industry, Zipcar or its “adjacent possible” innovation (e.g. RelayRides).

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@IBM report re:Cyber Monday Sales Grow 20.6% Over 2012 Figures

Armonk, N.Y. — Cyber Monday online sales grew significantly, increasing 20.6% over 2012 figures, according to a report by IBM. The average order value was $128.77, down 1% from a year ago. Sales were highest in New York, with DC, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta rounding out the top five. In addition, mobile traffic grew to 31.7% of all online traffic, increasing by 45% over 2012, with mobile sales exceeding 17% of total online. The complete report is available at the link below.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/marketing-solutions/benchmark-reports/cyber-monday-2013.html

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IVIS-35; Use agile architecture to support perpetual business transformation (& agility), & avoid chaos | ZapThink

Next Step – Understand the relevance and importance of an agile architecture in IT, integrated with cloud and managed via I/TBM, and become the go-to in your enterprise to help the business deal with the now endless cycle of business disruption.

From the most recent ZAPFlash newsletter, some key takeaways:

  • “Without a consistent, comprehensive, inherently dynamic, best practice approach for dealing with disruption, organizations will inevitably find that such disruption leads to chaos. The challenge, therefore, is to efficiently respond to the disruption…leverage it for competitive advantage – which is how ZapThink defines business agility.
  • business agility is something the entire organization must exhibit. While technology is part of the story, business agility is never a technology problem with a technology solution. It’s a business transformation challenge requiring both organizational and technological change.
  • The goal of Agile Architecture is to enable continuous business transformation instead of the chaos that typically results from business and technology disruptions…there is no final state: no situation where the problems of the business have been solved. The fundamentally disruptive nature of the Cloud as well as the other forces of change impacting the organization prevent such a final state…”

via Transforming Business Transformation with Cloud and Agile Architecture | ZapThink.

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explosive growth of data….CSC infographic….

Big data infographic from CSC (included in the actual blog) cites the following facts:

  • Data production will be 44 times greater in 2020 than it was in 2009
  • By 2020, 1/3 of ALL data will live in or pass through the cloud
  • 1 exabyte = 1B gigabytes, which some individual businesses were storing by 2012;  5 yrs prior, in 2007, ALL human knowledge could have been stored on 295 exabytes

Download (PDF, 1.28MB)

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Cross Datacenter Portal – 72% surveyed would like portal across hosted, colo, cloud solutions (AND on-prem)

From this survey, courtesy of Internap (inserted below):

Nearly three-quarters of respondents also cited interest in using an online portal to hybridize colocation with other IT infrastructure services, such as cloud and hosting. This affirms the growing need for a holistic view and seamless management across all data center services, combining the capex and control benefits of colocation with the opex and agility benefits of cloud.

Although this comment does not specifically mention on-prem datacenters, either traditional capex models or self-hosted virtual private cloud models, the traditional models technology management/monitoring should also be evolved into this single portal to allow CIOs to evolve from IT operators to IT brokers.   Bolt ITFM, including evolved CMDB concepts,  on-top of this portal and you have technology business management (TBM, or ITFM v2.0).

Only in embracing this approach will CIOs and IT provide requisite value in the future to their business units, including to enterprise CMOs.

Download (PDF, 246KB)

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Love IT! Top 100 Free eBooks for Business Students and Entrepreneurs – StumbleUpon

from the article:

“Whether you’re enrolled in a business school degree program or desperate for a review of b-school basics as you start your own company, it’s hard to pass up free study materials. These 100 ebooks on marketing, management, ecommerce, and finance are all free and worth checking out.”

Check them out at  Top 100 Free eBooks for Business Students and Entrepreneurs – StumbleUpon.

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