Don Tennant

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals Last week, I wrote about the concept of crowdsourcing innovation, having had the opportunity to speak with the chief technology officer of a company that specializes in bringing that concept to fruition. I found it to be a fascinating topic, and one that warrants […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals To say that a woman has to be incredibly driven to become highly successful in a male-dominated industry like technology, let alone start and run a fast-growing tech company, is a huge understatement. But here’s an understatement that’s even huger: Joanna Weidenmiller is driven. […]

IT Focus Shifting to New ‘Smart’ Technologies, BPM and Security If IT professionals are to maintain their relevance as influential, strategic leaders in an organization, they need to do a lot more than just ensure that the lights are kept on—they need to be drivers of innovation. And the best way to accomplish that just […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals I’ve had the good fortune of meeting with a very large number of IT luminaries, CEOs, CIOs, company founders and others over the years who have had an enormous impact not only in IT, but in business, education, government and society as a whole. […]

Getting Ahead of Your Organization’s IT Skills Gap With all of the data analytics technology providers out there, how on earth are companies in that space supposed to differentiate themselves? One company is doing it by claiming to have come up with an entirely new way of approaching data analytics. Called “data algebra,” the approach […]

Five Tips to Rev Up Your Mobile Job Search If you’re an IT pro who went to a college that isn’t a household name, and your GPA at that obscure institution was nothing to write home about, take heart. According to the results of a recent survey of hiring managers, as long as you can […]

Why C-Level Execs Should Care More About IT Security Preventing data breaches in an organization requires a strong collaborative effort between the HR and IT departments—a collaboration that may even involve a blurring of the line between those traditionally separate functions. That’s the assessment of Jacqui Summons, international HR director at Clearswift, a provider of […]

A 2012 report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology found that the United States would need to increase its yearly production of undergraduate STEM degrees by 34 percent to match the demand forecast in the work force for these professionals. With the explosion in data around purchase history, customer experience and […]

5 Tips to Retain Your Top IT Talent Last month I wrote a post about Brienne Ghafourifar, a remarkable tech entrepreneur who, among other distinctions, became the youngest college graduate to raise $1 million in venture funding—she was 17 at the time. In that post, I focused on Ghafourifar’s experience as a female tech entrepreneur, […]

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths If the prosecution rate of white-collar crime is relatively low in this country, it’s not because of a lack of will on the part of law enforcement officials to get the bad guys. It’s because of a simple lack of sufficient IT resources to get […]

Given the pervasiveness of SaaS applications like Office 365 and Salesforce, you’d think we’d have a pretty good handle on SaaS data protection by now. But according to Jeff Erramouspe, we’d all probably be surprised by how many IT departments, users and executives have failed to fully understand the nuances of proper SaaS data backup […]

5 Big Mistakes New Employees Should Avoid Let’s say you’re a system administrator, and the CEO comes to you and says he wants you to try to hack into a competitor’s email system. Let’s also say you don’t particularly want to go to prison, nor do you want the CEO to fire you. What do […]