Looking forward to a Harvey Nash webinar next week, October 27 1p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.  The title is “The Big Opportunities of Big Data”

We will be discussing the opportunity CIO’s have to innovate at their company by harnessing the power of digital machine data living and growing under their many business applications, systems, networks, and related infrastructure.  Please join us by registering here!

Presenters: Anna Frazzetto, SVP of Technology Solutions, Harvey Nash and Doug Harr, CIO, Splunk

When: October 27, 2011 1p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT

Length: One hour, including Q&A

For: CIOs, CTOs and VPs of Technology responsible for driving performance, innovation and revenue results

What You’ll Take Away:
• What big data is and…

For years we CIOs have been working with our teams to turn “data” into “information” and “information” into “intelligence.” We know how important it is for CIOs to lead our companies from reporting the past to monitoring the now, and even predicting the future.  This is our ultimate calling, and as luck would have it, we’ve just crossed into a new era where we can offer a new kind of analytics – an “operational intelligence” to our business customers.

We’ve spent the last 30 years perfecting the deployment and management of business application suites, from HRIS, to ERP, to CRP, and beyond. There is always more to do, but for many industries, these capabilities now approach “commodity” status. The new…

We CIO’s continually seek to refine the definition of our role, with an eye towards justifying the vaulted positions we hold and maximizing our impact on the success of the company. I’m always reminded of that line from the movie “Anchorman” where Will Ferrell‘s character Ron Burgundy is trying to impress the leading lady and says “I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal ….people know me.”  Comedy often comes with a shred of truth. Pick up any CIO related media, and you will inevitably find a lot of advice as to who we CIOs are – articles like “how to influence customers”, “how to gain competitive advantage”, and others…

By now, you may have already read the compelling story about web analytics and Splunk that seemed to make it to the ends of the earth last week. You can read it here and here. I’ll summarize the story for you: Splunking their web site gives a large media organization the ability to access, in nearly real-time, vital information about site visitors and listeners. If you thought Splunk was ‘just’ a security tool or ‘just’ a log manager, this story explodes that myth. This story is powerful because in one quick read it demonstrates the true power of Splunk. That is, if you’re in business, and your business depends in any part on IT functions, then…

Greetings> Am so happy and proud to be the new CIO at Splunk. I knew this was the right company during the interview cycle between the point when we went thorough an awesome product demo, and a point near the close, when I was informed of the need to move kegs and surf boards from my new desk area.  Not only was this going to be a fun place, but it was also apparent that Splunk had adopted a cloud and open source based approach to sourcing IT solutions, which is very much in line with my philosophy.

In this space I plan to discuss the world according to me, as our CIO, and focus remarks towards the new realities…