Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The postulation is not academic: millions of dollars in upcoming IT budget now ride on this question: Can (should) CIOs start cutting netbook budget allotments in favor of tablets? And that in turn raises a more foundational question: What has shifted the once derided and certainly ignored tablet into the category of must-have technology? First…
In a tradition as ingrained and heady as a toast at midnight, every New Year begins with a deluge of predictions. It’s refreshing that many of the prescient claims this year are optimistic, albeit guardedly, after so many years of recession-cast gloom and doom. “To play off Coca-Cola’s slogan, the recession was the pause that…
2. Facebook’s prominence will spark privacy concerns – One area that could spark some regulation, though, is privacy. As social networking continues to rise in importance, with Facebook now driving more traffic than Google, don’t be surprises if privacy concerns continue to ramp up. A friend of mine just got engaged, mentioning this in her…
6. Smart grids actually get smart – If you’ve followed tech trends even casually the past decade or so, you’ve been hearing about smart power grids for years. Nothing much has come of it. A recent New York Times story summed it up well: “A popular dictum from the power industry: if Alexander Graham Bell,…
It’s prediction time again. Looking back on last year’s prediction column, I had one of my best years (as far as predictions go anyway) yet. Last year I forecast a continuingly troubled economy, slow growth for IT spending and a mostly jobless recovery. According to Gartner, enterprise IT spending grew by only 2.9 percent in…
It is an odd fact of nature that sometimes actions in a certain direction really do produce opposite and equal reactions. In a blog on the EMA website titled Contrarian Accelerators I looked at the cloud in terms of actually accelerating service management adoptions. There are lots of reasons for this, not least among them…
Like the Buddhist mantras of old, IT vendors appear to be unified in their messaging — the incessant chant of the moment is: “Move to the cloud now.” So should CIOs be listening? Here are ten cloud caveats to consider before embarking upon the journey. 1. Define your terms – Recent IBM prime time ads…
Five years ago Gartner said the biggest trend affecting IT would be the consumerization of technology into IT; essentially, the development of technologies for the consumer market that find their way into the enterprise. In the last five years, quite a bit has happened. We’ve seen one of the worst recessions this country has ever…
I was in the lobby of a client in Houston, cooling my heels waiting for an appointment, and then I noticed the pattern of phone calls coming into the receptionist: “No, I’m sorry, our CIO [insert name] is in a meeting. Leave your name, number and why you want to talk with him and I…
Like lions laying in wait for the herd at the watering hole, cybercriminals are crouched and ready to spring on unwary shoppers queuing to buy online. This is not news to the cyber-savvy but even they can fall victim to the ever changing threat these criminals represent. Sure, the litany of “don’t click links in…