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I have a combo dictionary & thesaurus that I carry (lug) around because I am interested in words – meaning, derivation, subtleties. Recently I removed the word “should” from my dictionary. I took a Sharpie and blacked it out as a ceremonial commitment to removing “should” from my vocabulary. I am fascinated with human potential, […]

I have a deep interest in comparative religion. It’s fascinated me for years and I’ll often get up at 4 a.m. just to study, read and learn. I find it fascinating to understand what people believe and why. I love coming to see what different beliefs have in common (a lot.) This is a lifelong […]

Last Sunday I drove to a local farm that’s about 15 miles from our house. There are two ways to get there – 70 MPH highway all the way, or turn off onto this no-name dirt road. Either way gets me there. Sunday I took the dirt road. I immediately noticed how rough the road […]

 Do you know Harry Max? If you don’t, I recommend you find an excuse to meet him – fascinating guy who I now get to call my friend (i.e., I’m pretty sure he would come get me out of jail at 3 a.m., which as I’ve said in an earlier post is my definition of […]

With the continued increase in criminal and activist hacker attacks, Wisegate polled CISO’s and other senior-level IT Security leaders to find out what they think the best preemptive measures would be to reduce the frequency of attacks. The top two answers, each with about 50% of  respondent voting were 1) Infosec professionals collaborating more to [...]

Wisegate Member Gram Ludlow, Manager of Global Information Security for AGCO, shares the biggest surprise to him about Wisegate since joining – namely the fast and practical responses he gets from his peers relative to other information services.   “I think the most surprising thing about Wisegate is the velocity of responses…”

This free report provides a snapshot view of how one CIO leveraged the Wisegate community to shape his cloud deployment strategy based on insight and lessons learned from the experiences of his peers. For anyone just getting started with a public cloud-based application deployment, there is a steep learning curve. Cloud computing introduces new challenges that [...]

Wisegate members are all senior-level IT leaders, and have a ton of challenges in their job.  We polled members on Wisegate to see what they thought was their biggest challenge. The biggest response with 38% of respondents voting, was “Dealing with Politics”, which seems to be a common theme for most of us in the [...]