Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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…
Depending on whom you ask the IT market is up, down or holding steady. Cisco publicly warned of a slowdown and Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent reported earnings that clearly indicate the braking system is engaged but not screechingly so. Gartner says down, CDW says up Gartner keeps readjusting its 2012 IT spending forecast downward but according…
Although details may vary from platform to platform, SDN essentially involves abstracting the network control plane from underlying hardware — a truer form of network virtualization than many of the technologies that have adopted that term in the recent past. The practical benefits here are twofold: it makes the control plane remotely accessible, providing greater…
The more enterprises come to rely on cloud computing, the more they will see the dynamics of long-held systems and infrastructure development shift. The cloud provides virtually unlimited storage and processing capability, so it is expected that building and maintaining these resources will diminish, for the enterprise at least. Networking will be a challenge in…
While many businesses struggle to make the most of their technology assets, Cisco is overcoming this challenge by embracing the idea of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) — focusing their thinking not on technology but on business impact. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby outlines the company’s efforts in this CIO Update exclusive. by Rebecca Jacoby of Cisco As one…
LAS VEGAS: How do you transform IT, when your business is already IT? That’s the task that faces the CIO of Cisco. Rebecca Jacoby has been at Cisco for the last 16 years and has been the CIO for just over four years. During an in-depth discussion at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas…
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…
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…
Vendor lock-in possibly reached its zenith in the late 1990s and then began fade in part because giants like CA and IBM gained a reputation for charging hefty support fees that kept rising year over year for a customer base that, in many cases, had little option other than to keep paying. With mission-critical applications…
Virtualization isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a technology that can potentially help to save thousands of dollars for CIOs and enterprise IT managers. To properly harness the economic benefits of virtualization, furniture retailer Slumberland teamed up with Cisco Systems and its Unified Computing System (UCS) platform. The move to UCS-based virtualization has saved Slumberland’s CIO…