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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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- Thanks & Turkeys 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

This week Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier has a LOT for which to be thankful. For these two hundred dedicated people working in the City of Seattle’s technology department, I give thanks. (My Now the first networks are under construction. But I also have a few turkeys to carve.

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- A Peek at the National Broadband Plan

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

As a CTO, I’m so immersed in technology that I’m not sure “broadband” means anything to the average American (if an “average” American exists). A significant fraction of people know about broadband and what it means. Admiral Barnett heads the Homeland Security and Public Safety Bureau at the FCC.