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Bouncing Back From Disaster... Getting Your IT Environment Running Quickly and Efficiently

It is almost inevitable that a company at one or another will face the unfortunate task of recovering from some type of unforeseen downtime. This could be anything from a natural disaster to a power failure. However, what sets the leading organizations apart from their peers is how quickly and...

Tags: IT Environment, Information Technology, Downtime, Disaster, Technology Executives Club, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2009-08-05

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: What the Smart IT Executive Needs to Know

This webcast introduces the concept of IT-Centric Business Continuity Planning (IT-BCP) as an appropriate parameter of accountability for IT leadership in today's contingency planning environment.

Tags: Information Technology, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Technology Executives Club, Business Security, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

Webcasts 2009-02-25

Ensuring Business Continuity & Streamlining Backup and Recovery of Critical Data Systems

Confused by how often terms like disaster recovery, high availability, data protection and business continuity are used interchangeably to describe what one should do to protect the applications and data? If yes, view this webcast will help.

Tags: Recovery, Business Continuity, Technology Executives Club, It Services, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-09-10

Business Success Through Project Governance

This webcast discusses the key role governance and project management play in achieving business value.

Tags: Governance, Technology Executives Club, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Webcasts

How Is IT Governance Evolving?

This webcast discusses the following topics: how important is the use of an advanced toolset to the success of project governance in an organization?; is EVM being used in the organization?; and does a person or his or her organization value the PMP?

Tags: IT Governance, Governance, Information Technology, Technology Executives Club

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Surprise! As HDTVs price rise, sales drop and Vizio becomes the biggest brand

Surprise! As HDTVs price rise, sales drop and Vizio becomes the biggest brandRecent HDTV purchaseNewEgg.com recently had an LG 42LGX on sale for $1000 (w/ free shipping). And so I bought one. :)I've been waiting for sets to stabilize in regards to contrast ratios & refresh rates &...

Tags: Sales strategy, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio, HDTV, sales, HDTVs price, brand

Discussion threads 2009-05-10

Women Tech Executive Roundtable: What’s Top of Mind in 2009

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, tech leaders talk about the current trends and the business environment for female technology executives. Ann Winblad, partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, moderated a panel with the following speakers: Janaki Akella, Principal, McKinsey &...

Tags: Women, Podcasts, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing; Takes next step in its enterprise evolution

Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web Services--especially when they have tight budgets. Amazon on Thursday announced reserved pricing for its EC2 instances (blog,...

Tags: Instance, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Enterprise, Pricing, Marketing Research, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs

Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-05

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who’s buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Podcast: Churchill Club women in technology

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of executives talk about the critical factors in their success and how they overcame the obstacles of the fast-paced tech industry that is often considered to be dominated by men. Speakers include: Gina...

Tags: Women, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Wayback Machine: Microsoft's shot to kill Quicktime video

Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, Compaq Computer Corp., Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern, Digital Media, Digital Music, Microsoft Corp., Personal Technology, Software, Video

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Green tech: What's changed?

At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners moderates a discussion with executives about new developments in energy efficient materials over the last 15 years. The panelists are Mike Biddle, CEO at MBA Polymers; Jennifer Fonstad, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Dirk Michels,...

Tags: Green Technology, CEO, Business Structures, Finance, Green

Videos 2008-01-30

Is there a green tech bubble?

At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners moderates a discussion with executives on whether a green-technology bubble exists in the clean-tech investment community. The panelists are Mike Biddle, CEO at MBA Polymers; Jennifer Fonstad, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Dirk Michels, partner...

Tags: Green Technology, CEO, Business Structures, Finance, Green

Videos 2008-01-30

What CIOs really want

My Between the Lines partner Larry Dignan attended Hewlett-Packard’s analyst meeting in New York today where CEO Mark Hurd stated the obvious--all CIOs want to cut costs and simplify. It's an oversimplification, but Hurd excels at reducing problems to their bare essentials, with all the metrics needed to make...

Tags: CIO, Technology, RFID, Web 2.0, Strategy, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Internet, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-11

PCs - How low can they go?

PCs - How low can they go?Message has been deleted.was the sub $200 a PCWhat made PCs what they are is the ability to install standard hardware and software. In the case of the sub $200 box, performance level you can expect from it make it almost impossibile in to...

Tags: Desktops, Games, Operating systems, PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Watch out for falling technology: Wal-Mart's IT issues

Wal-Mart has been having some travails in the market, which the retailer's executives blame on an oversaturated US market and economic uncertainty. But lurking behind the scenes may be some major technology issues. In a recent article, CIO's Thomas Wailgum observes that the retailer has another anchor...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Information Technology, Retail Company, Wailgum, Retail, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Analysts debate role of governance and 'total management' in the dawning era of SOA

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Tidal Software. I recently had the pleasure of participating in a live discussion now a podcast at the Harvard Club of Boston with Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analyst firm ZapThink, on the current state and future outlook for...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Survey, Management, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: language matters

As we approach the second Office 2.0 I find myself troubled by the lack of concrete examples of how Web 2.0 technologies are impacting the enterprise. There are a good number of small, tactical case studies out there but you have to ask if anything is really changing. Dave...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, CIO, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-06

The future of movies

At a Churchill Club event on July 27, a group of movie industry executives discussed the emerging digital age of cinema. Issues surfaced included the changing relationships between studios, filmmakers, and the audience, as well as major trends and new business models driving the future of cinema. The panelists...

Tags: Cinema, Movie, Senior Vice President, Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-08-08