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Cloud Computing Success Factors from CIOs

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The 2013 CIO Executive Forum in Charlotte, NC was a great event. Seldom do you get to rub elbows with top company C-Level executives, and less often do you get to hear what they really think about the most pressing matters in IT today.

Cloud computing was the over riding theme of almost every presentation and discussion. I can paraphrase the cloud conversations pretty simply, “It’s not a question of if, but rather how to adopt cloud successfully.”

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The Sum of its Parts Understanding the True Value of Accounting Certifications

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According to a recent Manpower Group survey, in the last two years accounting and finance jobs were the fifth hardest positions to fill in the U.S. This is not surprising. Highly specialized fields, like accounting, provide many challenges for human resource executives who do not come from accounting backgrounds. As a result, many struggle to match a candidate’s qualifications and skills with the requirements of open positions.

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Exchange 2013: New Features and Changes, Part 3

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Microsoft recently released Exchange Server 2013, an improved messaging platform that provides quite a few interesting features at various levels. There are major changes, and organizations will have to rethink the way they plan to maintain or integrate messaging in their infrastructure. The level of changes is not as dramatic as those seen between 2003 and 2007, but as you will see, certain things are dealt with differently. As of now, very few organizations have Exchange 2013 running, so it is certainly going to be interesting to see how this iteration of the product will interconnect with existing messaging solutions soon.

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