Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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,…
With the business world being reshaped by mobile technologies, companies are moving to embrace the highly portable, Internet-linked tablet computer. Nearly half (49 percent) of CIOs in a recent Robert Half Technology survey said their companies will increase the use of tablets in the next two years. The survey was developed by Robert Half Technology,…
Call it heresy if you must but now may be the ideal time to hold off buying iPads for enterprise deployment and, instead, bring in tablets running Google’s Honeycomb, the 3.0 Android OS specifically crafted to power tablets. Outside of saying anything bad about Apple, the heresy part is that — as Apple recently noted…
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…
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…