Tablet PCs are Taking Over

by Mitch Cline of Accenture To take full advantage of what tablet PCs can offer in competitive advantage and delivering the highest possible ROI, it is vital that enterprises act now to address the opportunities and challenges ahead. According to investment bank Morgan Stanley, tablet computers are poised to become the fastest growing category of…

Software Can’t Keep Up with Chip Speed

With the number of chips per server and cores per chip increasing, future generations of servers may end up with way more processing power than the computer could possibly utilize, even under virtualization, Gartner has found. The research firm issued a report on the issue earlier this week. This doubling and doubling again of cores…

Soft Economy Will Drive New Technologies

Hammered by the global recession, players in the IT industry will have to undergo radical changes to simply survive, according to research firm IDC. But that’s not bad news for everyone. Enterprises and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) may be poised reap the benefits of a transforming IT industry — in the form of new…

Dell’s Trademark for ‘Cloud Computing’ Raises Ire

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new Cloud Computing site. Netizens have uncovered a Dell trademark for the term “cloud computing,” uncorking fears of another attempt at co-opting a popular industry term. In 2006, for example, CMP Media and publisher Tim O’Reilly acquired a service mark for the popular term “Web…

Earth Day is for IT Too

The Green CIO – November 13, 2006: Going green is easy and good for your company, your customer relations and the environment, writes CIO Update columnist David Thompson of Symantec. Data Center Optimization is Within Anyone’s Reach – April 16, 2008: You don’t have to be big to go green in the DC, writes CIOUpdate…