 This CIO Minute is sponsored by Tejial Systems. The CIO role itself is changing quite a bit. Universities are looking to CIOs for just general strategic advice and support and increasingly CIOs are part of a general strategic conversation. Any more, as a CIO, you really do deeply understand the university and you're just valued as a sort of thinker and strategist, you deal with a lot of change. I was a CIO in 2000 for the first time and so this is my 14th year in the business. I think back then we were at the dawn of the internet age and we were really building out the internet rapidly. I mean the web browser was only a couple years old and the internet was growing very rapidly and so at that time it was a lot about provisioning services and provisioning resources and building infrastructure. Then it went to a phase where it was more about building applications and dealing with information. And now we're in a phase where I think it is dominantly about transforming the institution because the core business underneath is transforming. And so we're spending a lot more time in teaching and learning spaces and research IT support spaces but not to do infrastructure building that's been there for years. It's now about their business model is changing and we have to help them change it. I think that is something that's been on my mind a little bit is what is this role really becoming. It's becoming something that just doesn't solely have to do with technology doesn't solely have to do with supporting the university and technology spaces. It's becoming a general strategist role. This CIO minute is sponsored by Tegile providing flash driven enterprise storage arrays for virtualization file services and database applications. Visit www.tegile.com