Netropolitan: Country Clubbed Facebook For Rich


What would you do if part of the 1% but found Facebook to be a bit too pedestrian and trite? (Who cares about things like choosing between rent and car insurance.)Well, if you’re James Touchi-Peters...

Out Of Work But Not Out Of Options


I don’t know whether it’s because of the high-profile CIO firings or the high-profile CIO resignations, but there’s a lot of advice out there for unemployed and newly employed CIOs. Even though CIO...

FedEx’s Rob Carter: What It Takes To Be A Board-Level CIO


There are few chief information officers with as stellar a reputation as Rob Carter’s. He has played an integral role in FedEx’s sophisticated logistics and analytics systems, which have been sources...

Target exec’s departure puts spotlight on CIOs


NEW YORK (AP) — The departure of Target's chief information officer in the wake of the company's massive pre-Christmas data breach highlights the increased pressure facing executives who are charged...

Optimizing Private Fleet and For Hire Moves Simultaneously


Guy DeFlorio, the CIO at Mutual Materials, recently spoke at the Oracle Value Chain Summit 2014 about how his company implemented a Transportation Management System (TMS) from Oracle and were able to...

CIOs On The Eve Of Disruption


Wouldn’t it be great to have some prescient life coach sit down at the beginning of every year and identify ten things that are potentially going to screw up your life in the coming year? Your own...

Boundary’s Brain: Helping CIOs Conquer Accelerated Change


 One of the biggest challenges with the modern data center is that it is both distributed and fast-changing. As every year passes, a smaller percentage of computing takes place at the on-premise...

Herding Cats And Other Friday-Before-The-Super-Bowl Stories


I was delighted that when Search Engine Journal identified the 25 greatest Super Bowl commercials of all time this week that on the list, among the beer, snack, and soda ads, were two technology ads...