It was a busy week for enterprise IT news with reports of interesting acquisitions, executive moves and regulatory rulings. It was also the fifth anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson, which was the first time I turned to Twitter for breaking news. I remember reading about a plane landing in the Hudson River in my Twitter feed, rushing to turn on the TV and thinking I had been tricked by social media because CNN was not yet reporting it. Turns out I wasn’t the only person with this experience. This week Twitter executives acknowledged that event went a long way to making the company a household name.
With all this, here are a few bits of Enterprise IT news that caught our eye which we wanted to bring to your attention…in case you missed them…
Bringing the New App Economy Into Enterprises: 10 Ways to Do It
eWeek
Chris Preimesberger
Great slideshow from Chris highlighting ways enterprise IT can think and act more like consumer IT. I’m especially fond of the idea to make software distribution like shopping. And his call for development processes and compensation models that support innovation and entrepreneurship make a bunch of sense to me. This seems like where IT is ultimately headed.
Is the PaaS market as we know it dying?
NetworkWorld
Brandon Butler
Large enterprises are just starting to embrace cloud and we’re already talking about the disappearance of a certain part of the industry? That happened quickly. In reality, I think Brandon’s piece raises interesting questions about the maturation of any technology market. Whether standalone PaaS providers remain, or the technology gets folded into IaaS or SaaS offerings remains to be seen.
For CIOs, the times they are a changin’
GigaOm
Barb Darrow
Speaking of market maturation and evolution, Barb Darrow briefly examines the changing role of the chief information officer (CIO). I’ve wondered aloud recently whether the rise of cloud technologies will transform the CIO in the CFO, with technology becoming a line item on an expense sheet. If there is no technology to manage, what’s next for the CIO?
So there you are, some of the articles we saw this week that piqued our interest or got us thinking. We are interested to hear if you had similar questions or reactions. And if there are related pieces we didn’t see by all means feel free to share.
