Don Tennant

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology If circumventing the IT department is “kind of a given,” as one executive from a cloud services provider put it in a post I wrote earlier this month, it may be just as much of a given that what business units are most […]

The Differences Between Hardware Design and Software Development Last month, in a post titled, “Who Knew Web App Performance Testing Could Stir Such Passion?,” I wrote about Appvance CEO Kevin Surace, a serial entrepreneur who talks about load testing Web apps the way Thomas Edison must have talked about incandescent light. Apparently, some kind of […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros Last week, I wrote about Carol Snell, a Silicon Valley boardroom veteran who last month joined the board of Push Technology, a UK-based application development services provider. That post focused on what, in Snell’s view, has and hasn’t changed over the years for women in technology. As enlightening as that […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros If ever there was a golden ticket in the IT profession, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that a degree in data analytics may be it. It’s hard to find a “hottest IT skills” list that doesn’t have Big Data front and center. IT recruiters search endlessly for data analytics […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Let’s face it: Whether or not policies are in place to prohibit it, business units frequently  circumvent the IT department and go out on their own to source the IT products and services they feel they need to stay competitive. So when that happens, who’s really […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros We hear a lot about gender issues from women in technology, but we almost never hear directly from a woman who sits on the board of a technology company, let alone a woman who has sat on more than a dozen boards of technology companies over the years. […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros Imagine you were a remarkably successful serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and that you now serve as a senior tech executive leading product strategy, product management, engineering and operations at a pioneering communications services provider. Imagine how many challenges you would have confronted, and how many obstacles you […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology In my post last week about Kevin Surace, the entertainingly outspoken CEO of San-Jose-based Web app performance testing company Appvance, I noted that I would follow that post up with Surace’s list of the top four reasons why companies fail in app performance […]

Nine Tips and Strategies for Remote Job Interviews Recognize that young IT pros aren’t necessarily at their peak from nine to five. Knock down the cubicle walls. And understand that millennials are unlikely to stick around very long if they don’t feel like they’re being given an opportunity to make an impact and a difference. […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps He was Inc. magazine’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year, and on CNBC’s list of the top 15 innovators of the decade. He’s been awarded 23 patents, and he was named a tech pioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos. He’s a serial entrepreneur, with […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros When Kira Makagon emigrated to the United States from Ukraine in 1977, she had no idea that she would be instrumental in blazing a technology career trail for women in this country who may face fewer challenges and obstacles than she did, but who still face far more […]

Seven Key Components to Start Your Incident Response Plan If you were to give permission for an ethical hacking team to try to penetrate your systems, how difficult do you think it would be for the team to get in? According to one IT security expert who specializes in this sort of penetration testing, it […]