Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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by Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation It’s nearly impossible to pick up a technology magazine or sit through a strategy meeting without encountering a reference to what some consider the next and greatest wave in enterprise computing: “The Cloud.” “Cloud” is a fitting term for something shrouded in mystery and hard to grasp. We’re not…
Very successful adopters IT organizations that seek cloud with objectives prioritized in terms of improving the range and quality of services first are more likely to be very successful than those that prioritize costs first — not that both don’t factor in, but the patterns here are pretty clear. Very successful IT organizations are also…
I’m waiting for the time when it becomes a “groan” to talk about cloud computing, but that time clearly isn’t yet. As of last December, 48 percent of our surveyed respondents from our February report, Optimizing Cloud for Service Delivery, viewed cloud as essential to their business (among cloud adopters that is) versus 33 percent…
by Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek For today’s companies, information overload is a fact of life. By all indications, the problem is only going to get worse. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe study estimated that by 2020, the amount of data in the world will grow 50-fold from its 2010 levels of 1.8 trillion gigabytes. The…
Free has always been the golden ticket to bigger sales: free samples, free trials, free points, free delivery, free shipping, free anything and free everything. Since the earliest retailer first thought to lure a shopper by greed alone, the well-delivered freebie has snagged more sales than possibly any other marketing tool. In the software business,…
Editor’s Note: Recovery Point is a national provider of integrated business continuity solutions for government agencies and a broad array of commercial and non-profit organizations of all sizes. by Dick Fordham of Recovery Point With the rapid maturing of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services enabled by the convergence of virtualization, highly efficient disk-based backup…
by Madeline Weiss, Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council Although the number of non-IT business executives who can describe the value of their firms’ enterprise architecture (EA) is probably quite small, Chubb Insurance executives are not in that group. Chubb’s 10-year journey towards comprehensive EA that enables the firm to move confidently into a…
by Mike Alley of Logicalis The term service level agreement (SLA) has been around since the 1920s when it was used to hold data processing departments accountable for providing financial reports on a regular basis. That was back when data processing (the forerunner of IT) was considered an adjunct of the accounting department. Now that…
CompTIA projects a worldwide IT industry growth rate of 4.5 percent in 2012, with upside potential of 7.6 percent. The forecast for the U.S. market is slightly lower, according to the IT Industry Outlook 2012 released today by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry. IT industry executives are most bullish on IT services…
by Rob Vandenberg, president & CEO of Lingotek “Ich bin ein Berliner.” John F. Kennedy announced this famous phrase in Germany on June 26, 1963. Kennedy’s statement, which translates to “I am a citizen of Berlin,” has since become a symbol for international unity. These days, U.S. based multinationals could be saying the same thing:…