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CIO Magazine's @maryfranjohnson: 34% of CIO's consider themselves "Business Strategists" - as opposed to traditional IT practitioners.

Nightingale uses pods for self contained environments within the same data center and in multiple data centers for redundancy # transformation

@joeweinman: Strategies for Customer-Centric IT: Information Excellence, Solution Leadership, Collective Intimacy, Accelerated Innovation

@maryfranjohnson is opening with points about the CIO and how they are refocusing their staff on customer-centric IT

Nightingale blueprints allows auto-scale, deploy use case machines faster than building from scratch. The goal is to autoscale for demand -- for when the clinics come online at 9 a.m. and then drops at 5:00 p.m. Anyone in the room use this capability?

Rapid changes, many of them without impacting their system, platform, their customers. The pod approach allows Nightingale to target to customers directly. Personalization and customization become possible.

Nightingale's Ijazz Ullah: moving from colo to cloud was a hard sell but beneficial to customers

Innovation is now about the Idea Market, Public Challenges and Contests? Who owns the IPR, companies, individuals or Patent Trolls? What about Google, Apple, Samsung etc. suing each other for patent infringement - is this the end of patents

@joelseisman - Shocking... in 2014 only 6% of lux retailers had an omni-channel strategy

Smart IT leaders embrace hybrid IT for the right mix of legacy systems and new platforms.