Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
CIO Update’s technology trends section keeps top IT executives abreast of the latest developments in enterprise technology.
Over the past thirty years I have been writing, speaking, and consulting about technology-driven trends that are coming but difficult for most people to see. Back in 2000, I wrote about one such trend that would hit about now, and here we are, on the brink of experiencing a technology that will provide new opportunities…
System management and monitoring – As systems become more automated and dynamic, system monitoring becomes more critical and potentially more challenging. A mature system management infrastructure is the key to smooth operation and to troubleshooting. Additionally, proper monitoring tools can provide objective measurements of performance in a dynamic environment. Service orchestration – Service orchestration is…
PaaS management of key applications – SaaS’s cousin, platform as a service (PaaS) solution liberate the deployment of applications from the details of the underlying hardware, software and provisioning capabilities, and support the complete lifecycle of building and delivering Web applications and services in the cloud. PaaS systems also simplify the deployment, scaling and management…
[Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a six-part series that looks at the primary considerations as well as the process of self-discovery that is required in the definition, development and implementation of private cloud computing. The articles were prepared by cloud experts at Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology…
Most of the tech press coverage of COBIT 5 so far amounts to little more than an announcement of its launch and a rehash of the press release. Such is one of the hallmarks of our age. But it isn’t all that helpful when you’re running an IT department at full speed half staffed. So…
Business intelligence is certainly a good area to be in right now, expanding faster than any other area of the enterprise application landscape. According to Gartner, the business intelligence market (including data warehouses and CRM analytics) is growing nine percent per year. While it was worth $57 billion at the end of 2010, it will…
The open source OpenStack cloud project has officially revealed its list of corporate supporters today and for the first time, both Red Hat and IBM are among the supporters. OpenStack is currently in the process of migrating from a loosely governed project to full open source foundation governance model. AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace,…
Like it or not, aware of it or not, your company now has a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) aspect to its mobility program. Employees are bringing in devices as quick as a manufacturer can pop out a new trendy, glitzy, always-on gadget. And that’s not going to stop anytime soon; not ever, actually. You need BYOD management…
In a big vote of confidence for OpenStack, HP today announced HP Converged Cloud, a suite of public and hybrid cloud services that incorporate the open source cloud platform. Amid growing industry support OpenStack, Citrix raised eyebrows recently when it announced that it was ditching its OpenStack-based Project Olympus project for its own open source…
Mobility is consuming significant IT resources For all of mobility’s perceived and realized benefits, the survey also demonstrates that it is also creating challenges for IT as they try to balance it with other critical focus areas. In fact, nearly half of the organizations who responded to the survey said they see mobile computing as…