John Bostick
John Bostick is president and chief executive officer of dbaDIRECT, which provides data infrastructure management services to Fortune 1000 and Private 500 firms including ABN-Amro, Warner Brothers, Brookstone and AlbertoCulver. He has more than 25 years of industry experience. Contact him at john.bostick@dbadirect.com.
Recent Stories From this Author
The Reality We Can All Agree On
March 13, 2008 Rather than rely on our own knowledge and experience the way the old encyclopedia-makers did, the wiki approach allows...
Trust is the New Money
January 22, 2008 Today, trust is the commodity that fuels business and decides who wins and who loses. In order to build a trust network with...
Give Yourself Some Wiggle Room to Drive Innovation and Change
November 29, 2007 Managed services are an often-overlooked yet critical tool in a CIOs portfolio for creating that little bit of wiggle room in...
The Five Stages of Data Infrastructure Management
October 29, 2007 The more effectively an organization is able to meet rudimentary data management needs, the more likely it is able to move up...
The Title is Information Officer ... Chief Information Officer
September 21, 2007 Today's CIOs need to branch out from their traditional roles in order to understand how technology applies to the financial,...
DBAs Fishing for an Elevated Role
July 17, 2007 A new model is beginning to emerge that is taking much of the drudgery out of the DBA position.
Defining the Next Paradigm of IT Outsourcing
June 29, 2007 Today's IT infrastructure world is in a state of turmoil. Will companies embrace the new paradigm or remain committed to...
The Soul Searching that Comes with Sole Sourcing: Safety in Numbers
February 1, 2007 The era of sole sourcing has played out, and the results have not been impressive. Multisourcing is the discipline of...
The Value of Value
November 21, 2006 The next wave of IT outsourcing must be transformational - not transitory.
Stop the Presses: Managing Data Infrastructure Comes into Its Own
October 14, 2005 Data infrastructure management keeps projects on track by bringing in outside help to provide monitoring, maintenance and...
