Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation Change comes slower in the public sector and government is generally 10 to 15 years behind the private sector in its use of enabling technologies. President Barack Obama speaks often of the “immense transformative power of technology and innovation” and how they can improve the lives of Americans. Old…
In a big vote of confidence for OpenStack, HP today announced HP Converged Cloud, a suite of public and hybrid cloud services that incorporate the open source cloud platform. Amid growing industry support OpenStack, Citrix raised eyebrows recently when it announced that it was ditching its OpenStack-based Project Olympus project for its own open source…
I’m not alone, I suspect, in continuously seeing applications for the old adage – “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” In preparing for this column on executive dashboards I have to admit that it came resoundingly to mind again. With growing attention to IT delivering value to its business and organizations,…
A growing storm of enterprise apps is blowing in wind bringing with it new provisioning models. “We’ll see a move away from the ‘build’ to the ‘buy’ mentality, as many enterprises move away from custom to packaged applications,” said Rikke Helms, managing director of the Global Telecom division and vice president of the EMEA region…
On October 20, 2010, Microsoft signed a headline-grabbing deal with New York City that may be a bellwether for how Microsoft technology will be purchased in 2011. During the press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stood shoulder to shoulder with Mayor Michael Bloomberg to announce a $100M, 100,000-user deal with the city. Surprisingly, while the…
Enterprise IT decision-makers who have been waiting to deploy Windows 7 until all the bugs are shaken out of the new operating system are already beginning to get off the fence, Tami Reller, CFO of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, told investors Wednesday. Now it’s time for Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) sales force to focus…