NEWS
Lenovo to buy IBM's low-end server unit for $2.3 billion
By Paul Carsten and Soham Chatterjee via Reuters
10 years after Lenovo purchased IBM's Personal Computing Division, they go back to scoop up the low-end server operation, increasing their market share from 2% to 14%.
Target CFO to testify before Senate on big data breach
By Rick Wilking via Reuters
After the security breach of about 40 million credit and debit cards and 70 million other records with customer information, Democratic lawmakers called for a congressional inquiry into the hacking of the No. 3 U.S. retailer during the holiday shopping season.
Dropbox Tweaks Consumerization Model
By Michael Hickins via WSJ
"The rising prospects for Dropbox Inc. (a $250 million funding round completed last week values it at $10 billion) illustrate why CIOs are increasingly bowing to internal pressures to allow consumer applications behind the firewall (or what’s left of the corporate moat these days). Joseph Schmitt, CIO of Pitney Bowes Inc., tells CIO Journal that employees, especially salespeople, are demanding business applications with “the same look and feel and ease of use that they have at home.” He says Pitney Bowes is now allowing them to use Dropbox, and he isn’t alone. Rob Koplowitz, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc., says “shutting it down is very difficult for the CIO to justify” because “sharing is a very compelling business functionality.” Dropbox has over 200 million individual users and four million businesses using its cloud-based file storage and sharing service."
ARTICLES
Is Your Super Bowl Team Analytically Aligned?
By Thomas H. Davenport via WSJ
"Boasting an all-star analytics team in the back office doesn’t necessarily result in a lock on the Super Bowl or World Series, but teams that do best with analytics tend to be high performers. The same focus applies to non-sports businesses, says Guest Columnist (and Patriots fan in mourning) Thomas H. Davenport. “If you are aligned, your organization won’t win every game or be the champion every year, but overall it’s likely to do well,” he writes."
Profiling the Top Business CIOs Across the Americas
By Claire Simmons via i-cio
Who are the biggest names in IT management across North and South America? i-cio ranks the CIOs at the continents’ largest businesses — executives with challenges and budgets to match. 30% of the top 20 Americas region CIOs are women.
What's Next in IT - And How Do We Get There?
By Terry Halvorsen via Department of the Navy
It comes as no surprise that the Navy is facing the same budget cutbacks that many of the other government offices are facing. Terry Halvorsen, CIO, of the Department of the Navy is adjusting to the new normal by asking, "Now what?" Instead of cutting back to save money, he looks to use cutting edge technology to transform his business processes.
INSPIRATION
The Enterprise Architecture Paradox
By Martha Heller via CIO.com
Ivan Lazarov, Chief Architect of Enterprise Business Solutions at Intuit, uses Martha Heller's CIO paradox statements to translate them into enterprise architecture paradox statements. It may confirm that there is a reason CIOs feel like they are between a rock and a hard place.
