Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Technology executives are signaling a readiness to make critical IT investments, a new survey shows. More than one-third (37 percent) of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed said, post-recession, they plan to implement software and hardware upgrades deferred due to the bad economy. Others foresee moving forward with virtualization projects (16 percent) and website design initiatives…
The Cloud Design Service, released this week, follows HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) Cloud Discovery Workshop and Cloud Roadmap Service. Whereas Discovery Workshop was more educational, designed to help people learn about Cloud computing, and Roadmap Service was a planning service to help plan a future deployment, Design Service actually gets into the nitty gritty of implementation….
IBM has rolled out improvements to its IBM Cognos financial analysis applications that it said will help customers keep pace with the lightning-quick macroeconomic events that impact their annual budget and sales projections. The upgrades, released Tuesday for its IBM Cognos TM1 in-memory analysis tool, add support for unlimited, dynamic hierarchies allows for greater flexibility…
“I just got my people trained on SOA,” I heard someone say recently, “and now they want to go off and learn about Cloud computing. When are they ever going to do some actual work?” We in IT are lucky that the big new ideas keep coming in, even if it can be hard sometimes…
Today’s software industry buzzword is “Cloud.” We all know what it is, and some of us are already leveraging Cloud platforms to reduce resource consumption on-premise. Right now, many ISVs are making a black-and-white distinction between Cloud and on-premise platforms. When you’re evaluating software platforms, there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground because many…
Money talks, you know what walks but focus on this: 2010 is the year when enterprise gets real about using mobile data for substantial business processes beyond email and calendaring. This is because mobile data access now equates to dollars; Smartphones are powerful; enough employees out of office, away from their desktops; and, lastly but…
It’s prediction time again. Looking back on last year’s prediction column, the hits narrowly beat out the misses but they did beat the misses so we’re going to expand on last year’s efforts with five more predictions for 2010 (besides, as writers, we like the way the numbers line up in the headline!). A Look…
While the haze around SOA is yet to settle, organizations are still toying with the concept and asking fundamental questions around its need, perceived benefits and application. In the meanwhile, another cloud is being formed over SOA―that of Cloud computing. How do the two relate? Are they parts of the same paradigm shift or only…
While you may be reading and hearing about positive financial and the economic analyses regarding the benefits of Cloud computing, those analyses are based on unrealistic total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI) and misinterpreted CapEx/OpEx calculations. Indeed, these calculations are missing a complete understanding for the value of the Cloud in the…
Cloud computing is the most significant development for IT since the invention of the PC. It’s impact on IT will be similar to the paradigm shift Apple’s iTunes caused in the music industry, namely selling music by the song instead by the album. (In IT’s vernacular: the ever-elusive consumption of services by-the-drink or utility computing…