December, 2011

It is that time of the year. You are most likely sitting down with each of your team members and are helping them with their personal development plans. On this episode of AlignIT Manager Tech Talk, Ruth and I talk with Stuart Ngai about the importance of training as part of personal development, as well as when and how training can and should be weaved into employees’ busy schedules. Watch Online...

Wilfred A. Peterson, author of The Art of Living, once said: Christmas is not the tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It’s lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It’s higher thought and a greater plan. It’s glorious dream in the soul of man. Perhaps he never met the owner of the Christmas Truck. All the best to you and yours this holiday...

I did an interview with Pekka and recently got an update from him that I wanted to share with you: --- “We have got hundreds of feedback from CEOs, Chairmans, middle management, politicians, researchers as well as digital cowboys. Based on all that we have tried to condense the most important findings to following document. My own background is from technology industry, but it seems that our storyline...

The final support date for Windows XP is just 840 days away and while that might seem like a long time, you and I both know that April 8, 2014 will come all too soon for some companies who are still reluctant to make the move. If you’re still on Windows XP and are planning to rollout Windows 7, here are 10 questions you’ll want to ask yourself while planning out your deployment: ...

The upcoming System Center 2012 product line is arguably one of the most anticipated releases of the coming year for many IT professionals and a slow month like December is the perfect time for you and your team to download the free pre-release products and start playing around with the latest features and updates. However, in case that’s not incentive enough, we’re handing out a limited...

Jonathan and I had a great time doing this episode with Mary Jo Foley. We did the broadcast live from TechDays Vancouver in front of a live audience as well as our usual online audience. Mary Jo was a great guest and even wrote a follow up blog post based on her experiences with us up here in the Great White North with tips for how IT mangers can keep up to date on the latest happenings in technology...

I recently had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with Mary Jo Foley in Vancouver during TechDays as she was our guest on a special edition of the AlignIT Manager Tech Talk series. She’s put together this guest post for the blog on what you need to know as an IT manager and shared her tips on how best to keep up to date. Enjoy! After having the opportunity to talk with a number of IT managers in Vancouver...

This came to my attention today from Yan Timanovsky, Education Manager at the ACM. Here’s a very interesting piece from the New York Times that worth looking at.  http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/the-future-of-computing/ Plus soaring registrations in the Webinar, “ The Cloud in Your Hands – Marriage of Cloud Computing with Smart Devices ”

I was talking earlier this week at the WatITis conference (a University of Waterloo IT conference for the 300 or so campus IT network and technology support staff) and one of the presentations I gave was on cloud computing – To Cloud or Not to Cloud . One of the things I always talk about is how cloud computing and the virtualization technology that drives it, is and will continue to change how...

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I recently got back from the very successful first World CIO Forum (WCF) where I was invited to Vice-Chair the International Advisory Board. The international forum was hosted in Shenzhen China , a city of 20 million, the first innovation center of the country, with almost the status of a province due to the importance of the city. During the WCF, I Chaired the session on Enterprise Architecture...