Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platforms and tools provide organizations with new avenues for communication and information sharing. They can provide presence, messaging, video and community forums among other features with the promise of helping enterprises and their CIOs be more productive and efficient. But it is possible to actually quantify the benefits of Enterprise 2.0 collaboration…
The market for managed cloud services is predicted to grow at a rapid rate: Researcher Forrester predicts the cloud market hitting $217 billion by 2014, while IDC is also seeing strong interest in the cloud, reaching into the billions of dollars in spending by the same year. Of course, as enterprises move toward cloud services,…
It wasn’t until a year after Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007 for consumers that it started talking seriously about promoting the device to businesses after it added software support for Microsoft Exchange as well as security features favored by IT. Consumers are still Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) prime focus, but a growing ecosystem of software…
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony has the wonderful potential for cutting communications costs and delivering additional features. But making the switch isn’t a slam-dunk, and you could have potential problems that could end up costing you more money and time in the short-term as you try to adapt your infrastructure technology to handle voice…
The handheld is becoming the desktop. That’s the reality of today’s mobile workforce and, increasingly, we all need ready access to our networked world from handheld wireless devices and this means CIOs, too. The good news is the flurry of new apps that continue to avalanche into the marketplace on multiple platforms. But, in this…
The iPhone needs a new battery. HP needs an acquisition. Nokia needs a new design. These suggestions and more were detailed in a whitepaper issued by ABI Research analysts who listed what ideas they’d implement if they were in charge of some of the companies they cover. HP would do well to consider buying or…
While the idea may not be on many IT radar screens yet, a few shops are beginning to implement these tools as a way of keeping their desktops inside the data center where they can be more readily managed, updated, and secured. The idea has some merit, particularly for those of us that began our…
Computer services and hardware giant HP just got bigger. The company announced today it plans to buy networking player 3Com in a $2.7B deal that aims to turn HP into a forced to be reckoned with in networking. HP will pay $7.90 per share of 3COM. A premium above today’s close of $5.69. The purchase…
An effective national energy policy will be a greater challenge to the U.S. government and technology sector than some of the country’s most storied scientific achievements, venture capitalist John Doerr said Wednesday. As part of a day-long blitz of Capitol Hill offices, Doerr and other members of TechNet, a nationwide network of tech CEOs, introduced…