Articles
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL, Pros & Cons
HD-video of Ed Boyajian, CEO of EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise Postgres company, demonstrating why Postgres is better than MySQL to the NYC MySQL Group at the NY headquarters of Oracle.
Building Sustainable IT ROI
The ROI of IT initiatives can vary dramatically during a project's lifecycle. This MIT CIO Corner article (reprinted with permission) explains how to establish solid IT ROI that is sustainable.
How to Prepare Your Tech-Company to Get Funded or Acquired
Mike Dunn, CTO of Hearst Interactive Media, Founding-CTO of Dell Online & Former-CTO at Time Warner teaches tech-entrepreneurs how to get funded or acquired in Hi-Def 720p video.
Legal & Tax Tips for IT-Startup Entrepreneurs
You spend your nights and week-ends coding and/or developing the technology, develop an alpha-stage model and decide to start marketing it. Then someone asks you: have you set up the apparatus to be a company? Learn the fundamentals of establishing a tech-startup in this article + audio-podcast.
Shaping the Future, Leadership for IT Executives
Larry Bonfante, Chief Information Officer at the United States Tennis Association (USTA) presents in High-Definition 720p video: Shaping the Future, Leadership for IT Executives
So you want to become a CIO? Be careful what you wish for!
Jane Landon, Chief Information Officer of the NYC Department of Finance & former-CIO at both Microsoft and Prudential shares her insight on becoming a CIO (in Full-HD 720p video.)
10 IT Management Predictions For 2010, We Asked The Experts
It’s that time of year again when we look back at what happened this year and try to predict the coming one. Rather than just coming up with our own predictions, we decided to reach out to 10 experts in IT to get insight into what trends will emerge in IT Management in 2010. We received excellent responses from experts covering a wide range of IT Management fields.
How to Get Your Tech-Startup Taken Seriously by a Big Company
Tammy Hepps, CTO of NBC Universal iVillage presenting to the NYC MySQL Group at Sun Microsystems: How to Get Your Tech-Startup Taken Seriously by a Big Company (Full-HD 720p video)
CIO Advice: IT Strategies in a Bad Economy
During this podcast, SearchCIO.com Executive Editor Karen Guglielmo interviews Pamela Rucker, vice president of IT at Phillips Services Corp. (PSC) about how to keep projects alive during tight budget times and ways to help CIOs stand out as technology innovators.
Managing a Next Generation Data Center
During this podcast, SearchCIO.com Executive Editor Karen Guglielmo interviews Ben Grimes, Avocent Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy about designing and managing next generation data centers.
MongoDB, High-Performance SQL-Free Database
Video in Full-HD of 10gen CEO & DoubleClick Co-Founder Dwight Merriman presenting MongoDB, High-Performance SQL-Free Database to the NYC MySQL Group at Sun Microsystems.
Quick Wins: Performance Tuning + 3rd Party Patches for MySQL
HD 720p video of Percona Expert Morgan Tocker presenting MySQL Performance Tuning & 3rd Party Patches to the NYC MySQL Group at Sun Microsystems
Keeping the Technology Troops Motivated
Keeping your information technology teams focused and engaged is increasingly challenging in these economic times. CIO's and their IT management teams need creative employee motivation strategies and tactics to meet the challenge.
HuffingtonPost CTO on Enterprise MySQL: Heavy-Traffic Management and Ultra-Availability
Video of Paul Berry, Chief Technical Officer of the HuffingtonPost presenting strategies for survival under high-traffic along with Jim Bartus, HuffingtonPost Lead System Administrator.
Open Source Enterprise Content Management is Growing Up
I recently had the chance to interview Aleksander Farstad, CEO of the Norwegian company eZ Systems. eZ is the company behind the open source products ‘eZ Publish’, an enterprise content management system and ‘ezComponents’, a component framework for PHP developers.
Collaborative Leadership: An Overview
It's no longer enough to respond to change—organizations must lead change or be left behind. How responsive is your organization to the new ideas that will improve operations as well as develop breakthrough product lines and services? And how do you foster innovation and creativity in your company to increase productivity and profits?
Turn Lemons into Lemonade: Increase IT ROI when Resources are Reduced
IT can thrive by embracing Enterprise 2.0 and utilizing new trends to improve business processes, even while many CIOs are enduring a reduction in resources. This is the beauty of IT; success often correlates more with technological ingenuity than the quantity of resources available.