“Unless you’re giving up completely, you have to plan for the future,” he says. Baschab spoke about coping during a recession with CIO Insight’s Online Managing Editor Edward Cone. - John Baschab

"Cloud computing services are still in their infancy and still have a long way to go before being ready for adoption in most IT organizations," says Jay Graham, vice president of infrastructure management services at Provali Group (www.provaligroup.com). "Right now, most IT organizations are asking if cloud computing is ready for enterprise use. However, only half of the equation is being addressed. The other half of the equation is: Are IT organizations and systems ready to implement cloud computing and related services?" - Jay Graham

You can’t possibly anticipate every potential problem when you move or reorganize your data center. Swastik Lahiri, principal at technology management solutions provider and consultancy Technisource (www.technisource.com), remembers a time when Technisource was moving a data center to a different location in New York City, and he and his colleagues discovered that the destination data center used organized labor. - Swastik Lahiri