Time to get a cloud strategy‏

Whether public, private or hybrid, it's time to get a cloud strategy

Laura Smith, Features Writer Waiting in line at a recent data center conference, I struck up a conversation with an enterprise architect at a major appliance manufacturer who said he was there with a mission: to figure out how to articulate a cloud strategy to get funding for cloud services. Formulating a cloud strategy is on the minds of many IT executives -- it's the priority for 2011, according to analysts at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn., ahead of virtualization and mobile computing. READ THE REST OF THIS BLOG POST Is the CIO job a young person's game -- and what's considered young? Is the CIO job more vulnerable than other C-suite positions to age discrimination? When should a CIO on the job market start lying about his or her age? Or, to put a finer point on the question, hiding one's age? MORE FROM THE TOTALCIO BLOG CIO resumes: Passing the eyeball test and the black ink test The best CIO resumes are those that balance quantitative factors along with qualitative factors that are harder to measure. READ THIS POST AND OTHERS AT THE CIO SYMMETRY BLOG

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