Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
It’s been quite a long time since there’s been such a tectonic shift in service models and commercial forms within the IT Services industry. In my opinion, the last time we saw a “stand up and take note” change in how IT was delivered to enterprises occurred during the era of the dot-com exuberance. Coincidentally,…
In recent weeks, pundits and press have expressed concern about flat results at long-term winners including Cisco, HP, and Microsoft. None are remotely in extremis. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting moment to examine instances when IT firms have been revitalized following profound changes in technology and/or their industry’s business model. To start, pathetically few firms recover…
For every IT organization, IT asset management (ITAM) is truly a “need to have” these days for reasons including compliance and cost containment. A fundamental part of ITAM is software asset management (SAM). SAM applies to everyone from your regional bank to a Fortune 500 global company. Every organization is using some type of software,…
The sight of survivors circling the weak and dying is one of the surest signs of economic recovery and the tech sector is showing signs of just such a feeding-frenzy-in-the-works as its rate of mergers and acquisitions continues to increase. “Most tech segments have not seen this level of activity since the pre-tech bubble days,”…
A growing storm of enterprise apps is blowing in wind bringing with it new provisioning models. “We’ll see a move away from the ‘build’ to the ‘buy’ mentality, as many enterprises move away from custom to packaged applications,” said Rikke Helms, managing director of the Global Telecom division and vice president of the EMEA region…
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.1 percent increase from 2010, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. In 2010, worldwide IT spending totaled $3.4 trillion, up 5.4 percent from 2009 levels. Gartner has raised its outlook for 2011 global IT spending from its previous forecast of 3.5 percent…
A new survey from an important content management association finds that, although Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration and document sharing server is racking up sales, many deployments lack thorough planning. The report, from the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), queried some 624 of its members regarding deployment of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) SharePoint Server. “A recent…
Yes, the IT job market is tough these days. It’s a far cry from the late nineties, when just showing up with a pulse earned you a signing bonus. I’m told by top IT employment specialists that these days even highly qualified tech professionals can’t always find positions, at least not easily. Employers know they…
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s betting big that the iPad will be the next great “must have” consumer device. So far, that bet’s looking pretty good as Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) selling about as many iPads as it can make . But the tablet PC is finding a home in businesses too, with what one Google (NASDAQ:…
9. GDocs When you use Android, you end up being subtly pushed towards Google Apps. I never had a Gmail account, nor did I want one, until I learned the hard way that the HTC Sync program is terrible, and the easiest way for me to sync Outlook with my phone is through Gmail. Start…