Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The nonprofit sector is in a bit of a technology evolution/revolution. As the industry looks to reduce costs, increase efficiency and engage with constituents that are living lifestyles that embrace mobile, digital and social technologies as never before. It is here that the benefits and options that cloud computing brings to the table are clear….
iPad love is everywhere — even in corporate America. Apple claims 80% of the Fortune 100 are at least testing the device but the real headline news is that suddenly, undeniably, we are in the era of the tablet. Analysts predict tablet sales may hit 242 million by 2015, up from 20 million in 2010,…
Who was responsible for Stuxnet? This was a question I asked a number of security pros at the 2011 RSA security conference last month in San Francisco. The leading contenders were the obvious ones: the U.S. and Israel. However, a very good case was made (off the record, unfortunately) for a surprising dark horse: China….
Of the incidents listed above, three of them have one thing in common: they were logic bombs. The fourth incident, Texas Auto Center, didn’t even need logic bomb capabilities because the system itself was already pretty much designed to be a logic bomb. The conditions: a disgruntled employee with system access and ill intent. The…
There are often a few white elephants lurking in the corners of the corporate data center; they need to be addressed. This article looks at how to keep legacy systems from standing in your way to a converged infrastructure. The logical place to start a converged RISC/x86 infrastructure initiative is with the easy stuff: those…
With their location based services (LBS), mCommerce (mobile commerce), GPS-coded pictures, and applications as-yet-unseen, these smartphones and tablets are in the vanguard of a revolution in computing. These tiny devices with their touch screens, motion sensors, cameras, Internet access and always-on presence have infiltrated our everyday lives. That, of course, is the very nature of…
But there are other obstacles for enterprises to overcome as well. “Although, the retail and the entertainment industries are embracing this technology, there are inherent challenges in adoption of pervasive computing in commercial enterprises,” explained Sunil Bhatt, CTO at Allied Digital Services, a global IT solutions and technology services provider. The issues are as follows:…
Cloud computing seems to have struck a chord in a way that application service provider (ASP), On Demand, SaaS and all the previous incarnations never have. Every analyst is blogging and tweeting about it not to mention a slew of conferences around the topic. A surprising number of books have already been published on the…
Here are the stereotypes: Business executives think IT is a socially awkward group with zero business savvy. IT, meanwhile, is amazed when business executives can successfully power up their PCs and open a browser. So many projects depend on IT-business alignment, yet so many fail because that alignment is like Bigfoot — plenty of people…
The 20th annual RSA Conference, which took place Feb. 14-18 in San Francisco, was a huge success this year. Over 20,000 practitioners, corporate buyers, and security vendors gathered to smooze, sell their wares and talk security. This was definitely the most crowded and most upbeat RSA conference I’ve seen in the past several years. Dare…