Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Business and IT leaders recognize the importance of big data. But putting it to work presents growing challenges. A new report from consulting firm Capgemini, titled “Successful Big Data Implementations Elude Most Organizations,” found that global organizational spending on big data exceeded $31 billion in 2013 and is projected to hit $114 billion by 2018….
By Shravan Goli Twenty years ago, I graduated from the University of Maryland with my Master’s degree in computer science. From my first days as a developer in the 1990s to my steps into management, I’ve always looked at my career as more than a series of steps up a ladder. I’ve viewed my career…
By Samuel Greengard CIOs can boost their odds of success by considering these five approaches: View resistance as an opportunity.By now, it’s clear that consumer technology has turned IT upside down. It’s tempting to bemoan the loss of control and complain about the growing challenge of dealing withshadow ITand ageneral defianceto abide by polices. But…
By Samuel Greengard These days, discussions about big data and analytics are inescapable. Virtually every field—from medicine and financial services to manufacturing and science—is being redefined and rewired by the ability to put ever-growing data sets, both structured and unstructured, to work. And we’ve only just begun. The deluge of data will become a flood…
By Samuel Greengard It’s time to pull out the crystal ball and examine some of the tech trends likely to shape the enterprise in 2014. Here are six trends that CIOs should keep an eye on over the coming months: Personal Clouds Roll Into the Picture.As adoption of mobile technology soars and the consumerization of…
The latest hot trend is Big Data. But you knew that already having heard the hype, oh, just about everywhere. So you’re ready now to take a look at the vendor lineup and hopefully pick a winner. Let’s break the contenders down then, take a look at who they are and what they’ve got, and…
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…
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…
The world is buzzing about Big Data and it begs the question: “How big is the Big Data market?” Unable to find any market size information, Wikibon, a open-source-style community of industry analysts, kicked off a project to study the size and forecast the market and report on market shares. The study, How Big is…
At a recent round table in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, EMA solicited inputs from a number of local IT managers, executives and professionals on topics of interest. While the range was wide and varied — from end-to-end e-mail and mobility, to APM and service management, to change, configuration and asset management — the No. 1 outstanding…