Terreece Clarke is the newest member of the IT Martini team. She has been a freelance journalist/writer since 1999 for a variety of magazines, Web sites and newspapers. Terreece is a nationally published freelance writer, whose work has appeared in Columbus Parent, ThisWeek Newspapers, Freelance Writing Gigs.com - the #1 Freelance Writing Website, Common Sense Media.com and more. She is also the new Columbus Ohio guide for About.com.
Most organizations think about licensing their VDI as an afterthought - a simple administrative task. For Steve Covert, manager of Vendor Services at Highlights for Children and speaker at IT Martini 22: Infrastructure We Trust, it is a passion.
“VDI is a virtual desktop running in a
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In just two weeks, on May 23rd & 24th, IT professionals from all over the world are descending on the Arena Grand Theater in Columbus for the The Path to Agility conference - the largest Agile conference outside of San Francisco. The conference and signature IT Martini 21: Agile IT
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Jurgen Appelo, author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders and How to Change the World is a keynote speaker at The Path to Agility conference on May 24th. His presentation, entitled ‘How to Change the World’, suggests that it takes a broad
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Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, software expert, author of Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship and Path to Agility Conference keynote is still excited about coding. After 35 years in the business, he's focusing on a 'back to basics' approach of getting software developers back on
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Over the last several months, nearly a dozen industry leaders were profiled in IT Martini Weekly. The goal was to connect your IT community on the web, by seeking the unique perspective of IT industry leaders with questions from IT Martini - and questions from you.Several themes emerged from
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For Zahid Afzal, executive vice president and CIO of Huntington National Bank, innovation is a life-long pursuit.He started out running the family construction equipment rental and sales operation in Pakistan and said he "fell into" taking IT courses. After reading an article in a British
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Jeanne Gokcen didn't set out to be an entrepreneur. With a B.S. and masters in speech-language pathology, and a Ph.D in speech science, Gokcen envisioned her career taking her down a few narrow paths: academia, clinical practice or research.It was Gokcen's husband that suggested she start a
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The new CIO and Vice President of Motorists Insurance Group is not the new kid on the block. In fact, John Kessler started at Motorists 27 years ago as an entry-level programmer and worked his way up through the ranks. Kessler's tenure, while an exception the IT industry, is the norm at
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Marc Canter is probably best known for creating MacroMind - the company that eventually became Macromedia, the creators of Flash. MacroMind, created in 1984, got its start by developing software for the brand new Apple Macintosh.
Arguably, Canter is the most exuberant father of
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When a company experiences rapid growth, people take notice. When a company lands on Inc. Magazine's Fastest Growing Companies list five years in a row, people sit up, take notice and take notes."Business has been good," Jeff Sopp, President and CEO of Expesite, said.That is an understatement. Sopp
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