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We recently hosted a CIO panel with four IT leaders to discuss the evolving role of IT amid the pressures of mobile and cloud adoption in business today. Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital) represented an eclectic mix with backgrounds in consumer goods,…

The barrage of articles and blogs that cropped up following the personal identity hack on Wired’s Mat Honan got me thinking about the importance of security in the cloud. In my experience, what happened to Mat is not a unique issue. In fact, it’s actually a somewhat typical downside to – what I call – consumer cloud services. It was, no doubt, a…

If one of your many usernames and passwords hasn’t been hacked lately, consider yourself lucky. Just this week, two more companies — Yahoo and the social question-and-answer site Formspring — announced major security breaches. The New York Times reported that 450,000 Yahoo accounts were comprised and according to CNET, Formspring had more than 420…

I wrote a piece, which ran this morning on Fortune, about why all business leaders need to start thinking -- today -- about how mobile will drastically change their businesses. Change happens fast, and in just a few years the enterprise will look vastly different from how it looks today. I'll also discuss this topic during next week's Fortune…

At Okta, we work with some of the most innovative CIOs out there. Some have led their companies almost completely to the cloud, and others are helping balance a mix of cloud and on-premises apps, accessible from every device. Dan Petlon, CIO at Enterasys Networks, one of our earliest customers, certainly falls into the first camp. Dan and his team…

As 2011 comes to a close, it’s clear that cloud computing will soon be ubiquitous across the enterprise. As IT departments adopt the technology, they must also adapt their roles and responsibilities in order to manage the business’ cloud services for security, stability and productivity reasons. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking around the idea…

Earlier this week on the Okta blog we talked about how the cloud is molding a new kind of CIO and IT leadership team. With greater cloud standardization and adoption processes across the enterprise, IT must empower employees through well-managed and secure app access. Part of what this new role for IT will look like is cloud management. Cloud…

Joe McKendrick, writing for Forbes, offered an interesting take on how CIOs and their IT departments, at least those who embrace the change the cloud has brought to IT, directly benefit from cloud adoption. McKendrick writes: But rather than replace IT jobs, cloud may be having another effect. In many cases, it is elevating the role of IT-savvy…

It’s an understatement to say that IT has undergone a number of significant changes in recent years. Still, breaking away from the past and into the present requires leaving certain technologies of the past, well, in the past. The most successful CIOs are masters of managing this change. They know how to evaluate it, assess the risks and rewards,…