Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Thanks to 1.5 million volunteers who left their computers running when not in use and a little help from Big Blue, cancer researchers have announced significant progress in looking for new potential drugs in cancer treatment. The Help Conquer Cancer Project worked with the IBM-supported World Community Grid to send out protein samples for simulation…
Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platforms and tools provide organizations with new avenues for communication and information sharing. They can provide presence, messaging, video and community forums among other features with the promise of helping enterprises and their CIOs be more productive and efficient. But it is possible to actually quantify the benefits of Enterprise 2.0 collaboration…
A new survey of the IT employment marketplace released this week indicates that some job listings and wages are beginning to return as the economy begins to recover. However, the survey, by Janco Associates, found that work opportunities and compensation are not rebounding across the board. Bigger, it turns out, is better. “Even though many…
The PC of the future will be very different from the computers that have come to dominate so many desktops in the home and office today, according to a broad survey of 895 tech experts by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. By 2020 the…
The market for managed cloud services is predicted to grow at a rapid rate: Researcher Forrester predicts the cloud market hitting $217 billion by 2014, while IDC is also seeing strong interest in the cloud, reaching into the billions of dollars in spending by the same year. Of course, as enterprises move toward cloud services,…
When was the last time anyone chatted about the cool new PC in the office? Chances are it’s been a while. The new generation of smartphones and even newer iPad, tablet get most of the “oohs” and “ahs” around the water cooler these days while desktop computers have largely been a functional, if boring, commodity….
The race for faster networking speeds hit a major milestone this week as Alcatel-Lucent announced the commercial availability of its 100 gigabits per second equipment for telco service providers. The Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) solution provides a 100G wavelength using coherent technology that can provide transport for up 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles). The new technology marks the…
IT organizations should get hustling on their Windows 7 rollout planning and testing and be off Windows XP by the end of 2012 due to third-party vendors abandoning the creaky old operating system at a rapid rate, according to IT research firm Gartner. While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said it would support Windows XP through 2014,…
The third quarter figures to be a good one for skilled IT workers as CIOs begin to shake off some of the IT hiring rust that’s accumulated over the past three or four years and expand their staffs to take on key strategic projects put off during the recession. While it’s too early to declare…
As it continues to layer new social features onto its Web properties, Yahoo is expanding its partnership with Facebook to sync up the two services. Under the new arrangement, users will be able to couple their Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Facebook accounts so they can access their news feed, mail and other information from the…