OC CIO Minutes December 8, 2011

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table
December 8, 2011 meeting

Present: Joe Desuta, Jennifer Curlee, David Mann, Jeff Hecht, Sean Brown, Keith Golden, Jim Sutter, Dave Phillips

We started the meeting by developing the Round Table list of topics, speakers and dates for 2010. The following is a list of topics and speakers through August:

1/12/12 CIO Survival Tips Jim Sutter, Peer Consulting Grp.
2/9/12 10 Career Management Mistakes Susan Howington
3/8/12 New Security Challenges Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown
4/12/12 Mobile Device Security David Mann, Neudesic
5/10/12 Global Company IT Challenges Rich Hoffman, Avery Dennison
6/14/12 Big Data Paul Gray, Claremont (Emeritus)
7/12/12 Developing IT Teams Jon Grunzweig, Majestic Realty
8/9/12 Mobile Application Development Carmella Cassetta, Corinthian Coll

Topic: Google Apps

Joe started by giving us a brief introduction to First Team Real Estate – 2,300 employees of which 1,800-2,000 are independent agents. When he took over as CIO they were having problems with email reliability, and he choose Google over Microsoft because of the availability of tools, reliability and cost. He had just attended, by invitation, a Google conference in Mountain View with 350 other users and much of his material is from that conference. Google apps is cloud-based email, productivity and collaboration software. He mentioned the challenges for messaging, collaboration, remote and mobile access. Google offers a new approach – cloud + Internet + web browser. The tools for today’s worker include gmail, talk, groups, calendar, docs, Google cloud connect, sites, video, and Postini. Google apps keep getting better with more frequent releases, improved productivity, and dramatically lower costs. Reliability in 2010 was 99.984% . He listed a selection of the businesses, which have gone Google. Joe’s slides include more information for each tool and more detail regarding First Team Real Estate. His slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

This was a good presentation and a very interactive session. I encourage you to read Joe’s slides again to get more of the details.
See you on Jan 12, 2012 at 7:00 a.m. in the RJTCompuquest conference room at 18301 Von Karman, Suite 5000, Irvine, CA