This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team. In this video Microsoft CIO Tony Scott discusses budgeting, IT talent, data access and operations when moving to the cloud.

This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team. Join Microsoft CIO Tony Scott as he shares his insight on the various aspects of the cloud such as benefits, time to market, employee productivity and maintaining or reducing IT cost.

This is a guest blog post by Chris Slemp, senior solutions manager, strategic enterprise services IT within Microsoft IT. Chris works on an internal IT team focused on improving collaboration within Microsoft, with an emphasis on creating a social enterprise...

This is a guest blog post by Chris Slemp, senior solutions manager, strategic enterprise services IT within Microsoft IT. Chris works on an internal IT team focused on improving collaboration within Microsoft, with an emphasis on creating a social enterprise...

This is a guest post by Barry Briggs, Chief Architect and CTO, Microsoft IT. Register Today As use of social media explodes, the business value of leveraging social technologies inside an Enterprise has been hotly debated. Most CIOs agree that...

This is a guest post by Barry Briggs, Chief Architect and CTO, Microsoft IT. The other day I participated in a live webcast to discuss “the new world of data on-demand now.” In short, the importance of big data processing to organizations...

This is part 2 of a guest post by David Spinelli, intellectual property (IP) development manager, and George Anderson, IP architect, Enterprise Strategy Services team within Microsoft’s Services organization. In part 2, they discuss the elements...

This is a guest post by David Spinelli, intellectual property (IP) development manager, and George Anderson, IP architect, Enterprise Strategy Services team within Microsoft’s Services organization. In part 1, they discuss the demand for a common...

G uest blog post by Barry Briggs Join me and my colleagues in our upcoming executive webcast. Speak to any of your peers in the Enterprise and there is one thing in common: their businesses are awash in data and the trend is only going to accelerate...

This is a guest video post by Pankaj Arora, senior manager in the Global Strategic Initiatives team, Microsoft IT. See his prior post about the new book , “To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise.” Once you have envisioned the ways your...

This is a guest post by Bob Anderson, senior director for IT Business Value Evangelism in the Global Strategic Initiatives team, Microsoft IT. Like many of you who lead and work in IT departments, the leadership team within Microsoft IT regularly reflects...

Tony Scott, corporate vice president and CIO at Microsoft, talks about the role of cloud computing in emerging markets and provides some recommendations to CIOs based on material from the book, To the Cloud: cloud-powering an enterprise.

Tony Scott, corporate vice president and CIO at Microsoft, discusses how Consumerization of IT is changing the way we do IT at Microsoft, in particular in the areas of devices, security and management, employee productivity and application development...

This is a guest post by Pankaj Arora, Senior Manager in the Global Strategic Initiatives team, Microsoft IT. See his prior post about the new book , “To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise.” The first step to cloud adoption is to explore...

This is a guest post by Pankaj Arora, Senior Manager in the Global Strategic Initiatives team, Microsoft IT When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared “We’re all in” on cloud computing in March 2010, he wasn’t just referring...

I travel the globe speaking with a lot of CIOs, sharing best practices and learning what’s new. They tell me there has been a change in the importance of their relationship with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Today’s consumers want real...

Innovation is at the heart of business growth—accelerating speed to market, improving and developing business processes, partnering with business groups to develop new products/services, creating more customer value, and increasing profitability...

Relationships between strategic partners are often endangered by tension between two conflicting objectives: creating and capturing value. While IT may provide opportunities to create value by improving coordination, there is a risk that these opportunities...

Since the emergence of the industrial economy, we have not had the mindset to place a dollar value on many of the earth’s ecological resources: clean air, water, land, and a stable climate. As a result, the real competitive cost of these ‘ecosystem...

This is a guest post by Jacky Wright, Vice President of IT Strategic Services, Microsoft IT I recently joined Microsoft and Tony Scott’s team within Microsoft IT after several years at BP in London, as the VP/CIO Corporate Functions. I am excited...

We are all dealing with the consumerization of IT – the demand from employees to access corporate data using any device of their choosing, along with social networking and other “consumer” applications running inside corporate networks...

Microsoft Chief Technology Officer, Barry Briggs, interviews global health professor Dr. Hans Rosling. Rosling offers, with animated statistics and a provocative view of historical economic and social trends, a “mindset upgrade” for the emerging...

Technological and economic growth have the potential to lead the 21st century to being the best period of human existence on the planet, but there are challenges. The scale of issues with which we are faced is unprecedented, and understanding their influence...

This is a guest post by Barry Briggs, chief architect and CTO, Microsoft IT. This blog is an excerpt of a longer interview with Barry Briggs for an upcoming book by QS Advisory titled, “Emerging Models of Infrastructure Outsourcing.” Please...

This is a guest post by Bret Arsenault, chief information security officer, Microsoft IT A few months ago, a gentleman from Dell wrote a blog why CIOs can’t ignore consumerization of IT. I tell CIOs ignore at your own peril. The topic is a...