Consumer Driven IT in Review - 10th Edition

Jackie Kahle — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:24:00 GMT

Last Thursday we hosted an interactive panel discussion Consumer Driven IT: Thriving in the New Normal (click to watch the recording). The event was broadcast in 25 cities across North America and attended by more than 500 IT executives. We'd like to thank everyone who attended as well as our great set of panelists:

Tom Place - Vice President, Chief Technology Officer from Coca-Cola Refreshments
Scott Dresen - Vice President, Enterprise Technology Services from Spectrum Health
Laura Miller - Vice President, Global Product Development from First Data Corporation
Mark P. McDonald - Group Vice President & Garner Fellow from Gartner
Andi Mann - Vice President, Cloud Strategy from CA Technologies

We captured great information from the event, so keep your eye on this space as we'll be rolling out recaps and fresh insights gained.

Here's what else was in the IT consumerization news in the last two weeks:

February 15: Consumerization of IT and the CIO Role by Harvey Koeppel via SearchCIO. The founder of the Center for CIO leadership discusses how CIOs can leverage social media, cloud services and more to drive business value.

Consumerization of IT: preventing a security nightmare by Steve Durbin via WirelessWeek. Advice based on research on COIT from Information Security Forum

Mobile apps take data without permission by Nicole Perlroth and Nick Bilton via the NYTimes. This is more widespread than thought, particularly apps that take user contact information.

February 14: Does your enterprise need its own apps store? by Tim Kridel via Intelligence in Software. More discussion on the benefits of enterprise app stores to employees and IT.

February 13: Blackberry Season by James Surowiecki via the New Yorker. Consumerization of IT turns the world upside down - instead of corporate innovations spilling into the consumer world it is now the reverse, and RIM is the big loser.

February 10: Relax, IT - endpoint diversity is nothing to fear by Galen Gruman via InfoWorld Consumerization. More devices, tools, and platforms mean complexity for IT, but they can bring advantages and less IT work too.

February 9: Mobile developers ride "app economy" gravy train by Paul Krill via InfoWorld. 466,000 new jobs created in the US since 1997, leading city is New York.

Google near launch of cloud storage services by Amir Efrati via Wall Street Journal. There's a new competitor to Dropbox in the works, to be called "Drive".

February 8: Now mobile phones have viruses and malware too by Brian Madden via ConsumerizeIT. More challenges for IT coping with BYOD.

February 7: Enterprise cloud file-sharing apps gives IT more control over data by James Furbush via SearchConsumerization. More corporate file-sharing versions of consumer products that provide data protection, security, and uptime guarantees.

February 6: How to prep for Apple iOS device flood in the enterprise by Colin Neagle via NetworkWorld. Some compromises will be needed by end users, too.

NEW from CA Technologies This Week:

New Chuck & Chief cartoon! Don't be scared, it's a customer on a smart phone!
New blog post from Adam Famularo: The end of the beginning of consumer driven IT

CA Technologies Corporate Blog: Perspectives : Gartner, Consumer Driven IT, Coca-Cola

Consumer Driven IT in Review - 10th Edition