Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Gartner this week confirmed what the rest of the IT industry has known for years: the cloud is the next sure-fire growth market for hardware, software and services providers around the world. In a report released this week, Gartner is now projecting worldwide cloud services revenue will soar to more than $68.3 billion this year,…
Thanks to 1.5 million volunteers who left their computers running when not in use and a little help from Big Blue, cancer researchers have announced significant progress in looking for new potential drugs in cancer treatment. The Help Conquer Cancer Project worked with the IBM-supported World Community Grid to send out protein samples for simulation…
The PC of the future will be very different from the computers that have come to dominate so many desktops in the home and office today, according to a broad survey of 895 tech experts by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. By 2020 the…
The third quarter figures to be a good one for skilled IT workers as CIOs begin to shake off some of the IT hiring rust that’s accumulated over the past three or four years and expand their staffs to take on key strategic projects put off during the recession. While it’s too early to declare…
FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Offloading IT infrastructure to a cloud-computing provider can result in great cost savings and more streamlined, flexible operations. Need more compute power or storage? Cloud systems like Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) readily scale so there’s no need to go through a time-consuming purchasing process or scrambling to find more room for an…
In what might be viewed as a victory for Microsoft and a loss for Google, the Kentucky Department of Education has signed up 700,000 students, faculty, and staff for free e-mail, instant messaging, and online storage running on the software giant’s cloud services. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) officials in a statement called the agreement “the largest…
They should have re-named this year’s Interop “Up in the Cloud” because the dominant theme at this April’s business computing show was the time has come for Cloud computing. And yet there remains so much that many of us — CIOs very much included — still don’t get about this fundamental shift of computing out…
It appears CIO jobs are the least satisfying―so sayeth leading surveys and the gossip around many a water cooler. As a result, and despite record unemployment, a large number of currently employed CIOs are out shopping for new opportunities. Since this is hardly a good time to go on a job hunt, what’s driving the…
Just like the late winter sky outside the Paul G. Allen building on the campus of the University of Washington, Microsoft’s future is in the clouds–Cloud computing to be exact. “For the Cloud, we’re all in,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to students in his first-ever speech on the campus that sits just across Lake…
Whether the Cloud is the next big thing or simply an extension of how we work today, one thing is certain: it can optimize service delivery and support with transparency into the processes and metrics surrounding those services. Cloud computing changes the landscape for service consumers, service providers, and the businesses that rely on them….