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Overall, the study finds IT leadership is becoming more pragmatic, holistic, strategic and business-focused, while also working to optimize IT operations and services, with priorities like agility, innovation, time to market, security, strategy and the value of IT to the business. Consider that in the past year, CIOs have doubled the amount of time they spend on business priorities and strategy. Moreover, in the past 24 months, the frequency of their at-least weekly interactions with their C-suite peers have increased from 31 percent to 200 percent.
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Forbes
Women are increasingly filling board slots, and BloombergBusiness reports that for cybersecurity board openings, two-thirds of those roles are filled by women.
Based on a review of the profiles of the women IT executives, there are a few reasons why women CIOs are succeeding in these ways.
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CIO
Security concerns rate at the top of NASCIO poll for third straight year, while cultural and administrative challenges slow the adoption of cloud computing in state governments.
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PCWorld
When you're the CIO of a company that sells to CIOs, you've got to figure there's a good chance you're going to be asked to do more than just keep the servers running.
"If you ask my CEO, he'll say, 'You're the voice of customers,'" said Bask Iyer, who was hired in March as CIO and senior vice president at VMware. "'You use these products,' he'll say; 'Tell us if we're building the right products for the market.'"
Only much further down on CEO Pat Gelsinger's list — after forging customer relationships and helping to build revenue, for example — would be operations: "And oh by the way, make sure everything works," Iyer quipped.
Iyer's own list is a bit different.
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MultiBriefs
In an effort to enhance the overall content of SIM Connect, we'd like to include peer-written articles in future editions. As a member of SIM, your knowledge of the event industry lends itself to unprecedented expertise. And we're hoping you'll share this expertise with your peers through well-written commentary. Because of the digital format, there's no word limit and our group of talented editors can help with final edits. If you're interested in participating, please contact Ronnie Richard to discuss logistics.
CIO
How often do you meet a CIO who has the strategic seat at the table and can also drill down deep on operational issues? Deloitte CIO Larry Quinlan is that rare executive.
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The Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. has an open-source software hit on its hands.
Google has capitalized on the growing popularity of so-called containers, which are standardized building blocks of code that easily can be moved around the Internet and across a broad range of devices. In June 2014, as containers were taking off in the world of software development, Google open sourced Kubernetes, its technology for managing clusters of containers. Since then, Google has captured about 80 percent of the market for cluster managers, according to consulting firm Cloud Technology Partners Inc.
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TechTarget
Many fear cloud computing in health care. But a long-term care company disputes that stance, instead going 100 percent into the cloud while firmly believing it complies with HIPAA.
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CIO Today
A lot of information gets transferred back and forth after users launch mobile apps, but only some of it is related to the actual tasks they're trying to execute. In fact, researchers have been unable to find any obvious reasons for nearly half of the communications that take place after users launch some of the most popular Android apps. Researchers have found that "covert communication is quite common in top-popular Android applications in the Google Play store," according to Julia Rubin, a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who led the research.
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