CIO Podcasts

  • Growing the Nationwide Development Center
    In this podcast, Srini Koushik, SVP and CTO at Nationwide Insurance, describes the driving factors behind the Nationwide Development Center, an innovative project that eliminates the need to outsource for application development as well as improves the IT experience for Nationwide associates and customers.
  • Glenn Schneider, CIO, Discover Financial on the Role of Technology in the Business
    Glenn Schneider, CIO, Discover Financial, Business Technology and Customer Advocacy, provides a rare glimpse behind the familiar Discover credit card to reveal a close alignment between business and technology to better serve customers.
  • Thought-leadership Series: Interview with Hal Zesch, SVP and CIO, Valero Energy
    Hal Zesch, a 30 year veteran at Valero Energy, kicks off ITO America’s Thought-leadership Series discussing BPM, ROI and getting through the recession. Valero Energy Corporation is based in San Antonio, and is North America’s largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer.
  • How CIOs Drive Innovation with Mykolas Rambus, Forbes
    Spend 10 minutes with Forbes' top IT executive and discover why IT Governance has moved way beyond a must-have compliance tool. Learn the details on how the transparency gained through comprehensive IT Governance gives IT a unique vantage point that reveals opportunities to eliminate operational weaknesses, cut costs, boost productivity, and enhance how your business serves its customers.
  • Performance Analytics in the Enterprise: Royce Bell, CEO, Information Management Strategies, Accenture Q&A
    Royce Bell, CEO, Accenture Information Management Services, discusses the role of performance analytics and how organizations are implementing successful information strategies to drive business in tough times.
  • Cathy Brune
    Catherine Brune, SVP & CIO, Allstate Insurance: Discusses IT Innovation within the Business.
  • Dick LeFave
    Dick LeFave, CIO, Sprint/Nextel Group: Talks About the Impact of IT on M & A Activity.
  • Patricia Morrison
    Patricia Morrison, VP & CIO, Motorola: Discusses Key Business Priorities in Developing an Enterprise Mobility Strategy
  • Jimmy Wales
    Glenn Willis, Publisher-in-Chief, ITO America, speaks with Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia about Wikia, Search 2.0 and Web Innovation
  • Accelerating Secure Business Applications
    Download this podcast and listen to Bob Gilbert who discusses with Mark Day, Riverbed's Chief Scientist, the details involving SSL encryption, SSL's impact on WAN optimization, and new WAN acceleration techniques that result in dramatic performance gains of SSL-encrypted applications.

 

Case Studies

Oracle Global IT (GIT) Streamlined Security To further enhance its IT system risk management capabilities, Oracle GIT has deployed an on-demand software vulnerability and compliance management solution that allows Oracle GIT to gain significant efficiencies and enhance the company's information security. In addition, Oracle GIT can now more efficiently manage the security of highly-sensitive vulnerability information throughout the deployment of its Security Operation Center.

Harry Fox Agency: Linking IT Investments to Business Value In a rapidly shifting business environment, the IT group at the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) was confronted with the challenge of aligning with this music rights licensing organization's strategic direction. To address this, the CIO instituted a disciplined project portfolio approach driven by metrics that linked the business heads into the IT planning process. In a market with declining revenues, this has allowed HFA to make the appropriate investment to capture new sources of revenue and stay ahead of the curve.

Customer-friendly Communications with HP Exstream at Health Net Customer-friendly Communications with HP Exstream at Health Net: Health Net needed a cost effective and efficient solution to provide members and providers with more customer-friendly communications...

HCL Case Study Read about how HCL delivered cost savings for up to 59% for one of the leading insurance service providers through data center services.

Insurance Solutions - 8x8 Hosted PBX VoIP Phone Service Insurance Solutions - 8x8 Hosted PBX VoIP Phone Service. How does an industry already stretched thin come up with new ways to capture business, win loyalty, and prepare for the changes that lie ahead without incurring significant added expense or implementing major changes to infrastructure?

Whitepapers

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Putting Cloud security in perspective The move towards Cloud Computing will be seen as one of the defining trends of 2010. There is growing acceptance that the Cloud delivery model offers real business benefits, however perceived security concerns threaten the general uptake of the Cloud Computing model. Many take the view that the Cloud Model is somehow inherently less secure than more traditional IT delivery models. This paper examines how organizations can take advantage of Cloud-based services while managing risk responsibly.

Ramp Up Your Virtualization Benefits Through in-depth interviews with numerous IT professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Forrester found that the companies that had optimized their infrastructure and that had more mature practices achieved higher return on investment, greater administrator productivity, substantially faster provisioning of new applications, and simpler problem identification and resolution.

Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare Data Sheet Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare combines a message gateway, service mediation engine and integrated security into a single, tightly integrated software appliance that carries the industry's best price-to-performance ratio.

Horizon Report 2009 The sixth annual report of Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.

 
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