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The role of the modern CIO is being reinvented, today's CIOs must be aligned with business initiatives for productivity, growth and profit to be successful. This is in addition to core initiatives such as supporting the successful adoption and implementation of emerging technologies, driving continued improvements in operational efficiency and end user experience. As we approach the last days before we break for Christmas let's talk about a category of product that lots of folks seem to be rushing out and buying, and after Christmas there are likely to be sales getting even more of you to buy a 4K TV. Virtually all but one size of 4K Vizio sets (they provide the best value at the moment) at Costco are sold out in the on-line store, but they still had some in store when I last checked. Costco is a good place to start if you want to see what something should cost because they price both consistently and aggressively. It's a busy time at the Federal Communications Commission. Not only is the commission working to fill out its ranks, it's negotiating the delicate task of setting rules for and auctioning spectrum, reviewing industry M&A proposals, trying to figure out how best to guide the industry in its migration to newer technologies like IP, pushing to close the digital divide between rural and urban/suburban, and rich and poor, and modernizing E-rate. Oh and, by the way, it also continues to grapple with the complex issue frequently referred to as net neutrality - a topic about which industry debate never ends. For most broadband Internet subscribers in the United States, the top of the heap is somewhere around 10 Mbps. Sure, there are other options, and sometimes it seems like service is getting faster, but for most people, the idea of Internet that goes as fast as, say, Google Fiber just never comes into play. Gigabit Internet access in general, meanwhile, just never seems to enter the equation, not even as a thing that's vaguely been heard of like a character in an old fairy tale. A new study from Pivot Group and Telecompetitor, meanwhile, shows just how far divorced from people's perception the idea of actually having gigabit service is to most consumers. 2014: The year of the data breach. Although technically the trend started with the massive credit card heist at Target last holiday season, 2014 really saw the perfection of the art, with big hits at Home Depot, Sally Beauty, Michael's, and yes, the celebrity iCloud photo leak. As bad as it's been, 2015 will see no slowdown in incidents-but rather, will feature a few key evolutions in strategy and purpose on the part of criminals, as indicated by the latest high profile attack, on Sony Pictures. Frequent readers of my periodic postings on cyberattacks know that I receive literally hundreds of emails from various members of community every time there is a major event. The ongoing hack of Sony has created a treasure trove of opinion on the matter. Without going into all of the ramifications of the latest cause celèbre, especially the ones about the role of the press in publishing the leaked materials and the decision of theater owners to not show the movie The Interview, which apparently set off the attack, I wanted to share some of the observations from my go-to experts on such matters.
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