CIOs: Time to XaaS-Up!

Smart CIOs know that, for IT today, everything is a service.

For an in-depth look at how CIOs are discovering more choices in IT, better security than ever before, and a whole new role for themselves within the enterprise -- check out Larry Lange's latest Smart Enterprise cover story: XaaS: Everything is a Service.

Larry Lange Contributes to Major New 'Enterprise Cloud' Survey From PwC

Five months in the making, renowned technology analyst firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have published an important new survey on the impact of cloud on the enterprise.

Larry Lange contributed two in-depth features which accompany the survey.



The PwC survey, The Future of IT Outsourcing and Cloud Computing, queried 500 high-level business executives to better understand the state of data center management today, and what the ultimate cloud goal is: a complete shift to public cloud offerings—or a transition to private clouds—or a combination of both.

Following are Larry's two feature stories which accompany the PwC survey:

1). "Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): New providers innovate to win enterprise cloud business"

Larry's first article discusses how new cloud-based IT providers are taking aim at the enterprise market for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)—by offering the kinds of innovative solutions for which there is growing demand, especially private cloud hosting and consulting. Still, these providers face stiff competition from IT outsourcing (ITO) providers like IBM and Hewlett Packard.

2). "The Big Dilemma: Security versus scalability in the public cloud"

Larry's second article reveals that today's enterprise executives clearly identify security as the biggest risk involved in public cloud deployment, and that they overwhelmingly—about 8 to 1—prefer private cloud over public for IT infrastructure.

Both articles are must-reads for any CXO studying the benefits and challenges of cloud deployment.

IT at the Speed of Business

As everyone in IT knows today, speed is everything.

For an in-depth look at how CIOs are succeeding on the fast-track, check out Larry Lange's latest Smart Enterprise feature, IT at the Speed of Business.

Empowering the 'Me' Enterprise

Anytime, anywhere computing is on the rise. For IT leaders at JetBlue, Hay Group and elsewhere, mobile devices and social media create new security and data changes-and new opportunities to lead.

To find out how CIOs are handling all this, check out the newest Smart Enterprise cover story by Larry Lange. A must-read for everyone in IT, it's called Empower the ME Enterprise.

IT on the Fast Track

CMP Media & Computer Associates have published the new issue of their joint business-technology print magazine Smart Enterprise. Targeted for CIOs and business technology execs, Larry Lange has written an informative feature for the issue, and it's called The Era of Now.

Here's what it's about: Speed is the new business requirement, and no one knows that better than CIOs. Despite tight budgets, the business demands that IT deliver products and services to customers, partners, suppliers and internal users as quickly as possible, and on a 24x7 basis. Indeed, CIOs are being charged with nothing less than empowering the real-time business.

CIOs: IT as the New Supply Chain

This issue of the business-technology print magazine Smart Enterprise feature's Larry Lange's cover story for the issue--about how IT is entering a new era.

The in-depth article, Greater Expectations, discusses how leading CIOs are emulating the wildly successful manufacturing sector—and treating IT like a supply chain.

How CIOs are Maxing the Cloud

This month, CMP Media & Computer Associates published the long-awaited new issue of their business-technology print magazine Smart Enterprise. Targeted for CIOs and business technology execs, Larry Lange has written an important in-depth feature for the issue—which is a must read on the subject of the Cloud.

The comprehensive article, The Cloud Walkers, discusses how leading CIOs are deploying the latest in innovative Cloud technologies to gain greater agility and efficiency to drive business growth. The three tiers of Cloud deployment are explained: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS—as well as how they're deployed: Public, Private and Hybrid.

CIOs: Time To Get Practical!

For CIOs, innovation is as perennial a topic as "aligning IT with the business." So what's new about Practical Innovation? Plenty. Practical Innovation (or PI for short), involves the harnessing of both existing and emerging technologies to meet today's most important business challenges.

PI can also empower CIOs to optimize business processes, deliver real value and emerge as business visionaries.

Larry Lange's cover story for Smart Enterprise—called Get Practical!—gives CIOs all the details.

Intuit Gets "SaaS-y!"

Everyone knows Intuit for their packaged software like Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax. But led by CIO Ginny Lee—the company is quickly developing its online-only product offerings and its connected services as an integrated package of software and services in one offering.

Larry Lange's cover story for Smart Enterprise—called Intuit's New SaaS—gives all the 'SaaSy' details.

IBM White Paper: Best Practice Process Guidance: Turning Guidelines Into Action

Larry Lange was recently asked to write an in-depth white paper for IBM and CMP's joint IT Service Management Center resource site.

The 5000-word white paper (in finished PDF format) is called Best Practice Process Guidance: Turning Guidelines Into Action. It discusses how IBM's best practice process guidance can help companies achieve service management results faster while reducing or eliminating the islands that isolate various IT and business groups from each other and impede progress.

Further, the paper also looks deeply into IBM’s unique portfolio of frameworks, tools and capabilities that can make best practices truly actionable through an integrated and flexible approach.

Larry is Writing for Forum Nokia

Forum Nokia is the world’s largest mobile developer community, where professionals from all aspects of the industry come together with insights, ideas and inspirations.

Larry Lange has been chosen to help write for Forum Nokia's e-mail newsletter. Published every other week, each edition delivers the latest tips, updates, developments, and relevant news for the worldwide mobile-developer community.

Write the Winning White Paper

Tech execs: Would you like to create a white paper even Bitpipe would award? Larry Lange shows you how. For his in-depth series for CNET, Lange asked the top experts in the field (including one from Bitpipe), what it takes to write a winning white paper. Their advice will surprise you.

Mind Over Matter: The New Reality?

In 1998, Larry wrote a forward-thinking article for EE Times on the subject of mind-matter interaction, a subject only then being discussed by so-called "oddball" quantum physicists.

But take a look at the recent breakthough reported in Scientific American entitled Tiny Chip Converts Paraplegic's Thought into Action. And even USA Today ran a fascinating story on mind-matter interaction: Computers Obeying Brain Signals.

Shape of things...