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11 IT infrastructure Resources
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Scaling the LinkedIn social graph
video.zdnet.com— — “LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor talks about scaling challenges such as improving the value of user relationships.”
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Autodesk architects SaaS future
video.zdnet.com— — “Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk describes the company’s datacenter strategy and how he’s incorporating new technologies such as cloud computing and software-as-a-service.”
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Top IT priorities at Avaya
video.zdnet.com— — “Lorie Buckingham, CIO of Avaya discusses her most important IT priorities since taking the CIO position at Avaya which includes consolidating the company’s datacenter operations globally.”
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Wotif CIO: Paul Young
video.zdnet.com— — “In this interview, the company’s CIO Paul Young talks about some of the important technical and business decisions he has made in order to successfully manage the infrastructure of a rapidly growing Web 2.0 company.”
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UNICEF: Andre Spatz
video.zdnet.com— — “In a Face to Face interview with ZDNet Editor-in-Chief Dan Farber, UNICEF Chief Information Officer Andre Spatz explains how field operations “scale up,” integrating themselves into the global framework through a satellite system equipped with a firewall…”
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IT Infrastructure: Does Your Infrastructure Support Your Strategy?
cioinsight.com— — “One out of every five dollars spent on IT is being spent on infrastructure, and it appears to be money well spent. CIO Insight surveyed 561 IT executives and a large majority express satisfaction with the flexibility of their IT infrastructure.”
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What's the Business Payoff of Infrastructure?
cioinsight.com— — “In 1997, David Kronick, Vice President and CIO of CD&L Inc., a $175 million distribution and logistics company based in Hackensack, N.J., went to his CEO and asked for money to beef up the company’s infrastructure—a legacy of 11 independent firms.”
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The Digital Transformation of Traditional Businesses
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“The article presents a systematic framework that identifies the different drivers that determine the competitive advantage of deploying new information technologies such as the Internet, mobile communications and broadband networks in the United States.”
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MIT's Weill on Leveraging Infrastructure
cioinsight.com— — “Peter Weill, the director of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, says IT infrastructure is the foundation on which all e-business depends.”
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Building IT Infrastructure for Strategic Agility
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“Recent research indicates that managers at top-performing companies are able to identify the nature and array of initiatives they may need to implement, then determine the unique combination of IT service clusters necessary to create that agility.”
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Management by Maxim: How Business and IT Managers Can Create IT Infrastructures
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This article focuses on the role of business and IT maxims. An information technology (IT) infrastructure is vitally important to companies, particularly those in industries going through dynamic change, those reengineering their business processes, and those with widely dispersed operations.