Cloud May Not Be the Solution for Cyber Security Concerns

Dateline: May 19, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. For the past few weeks, we've shared startling statistics published in a blog at Information Week titled, Nearly 90% of organizations victim of data breaches.   Many managers believe their security concerns are eliminated if they move to the cloud, because cloud providers will make … [Read more...]

The Brand of Your IT Department

Dateline: June 12, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea is functional branding...the reputation your IT organization has in your business.  Doron Gordon, an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Samanage, a provider of cloud-based IT service  management systems, wrote about functional branding in a blog at … [Read more...]

Big Data as a Service

Dateline: December 19, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea suggests a framework for Big-Data-As-A-Service (BDaaS).  In the age of SaaS, PaaS, and many other as-a-service offerings, BDaaS may be the next big thing.  It's the topic of a recent article by Varun Sharma, an Enterprise Architect and "as-a-service" … [Read more...]

Data Security and the Twentysomethings

Dateline: February 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea looks at data security across age groups.  In a recent blog at HBR.org, titled, Do Millennials Believe in Data Security?, Editor Sarah Green shared some recent statistics about data security.  The SoftChoice survey found that, 28.5% of twenty-somethings keep … [Read more...]

Technical Skills Might Be The Hurdle to Cloud Migration

Dateline: February 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought comes from a recent blog about Bank of America's cloud strategy.  Information Week's Chris Murphy wrote a mini-case study titled, Bank Of America's 'Why Stop There?' Cloud Strategy where he examines the bank's strategy for migrating from a data center-based … [Read more...]