Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to IT seems to be growing. Back in December, Network World published an article titled National Science Foundation commands artificial intelligence revolution. Apparently, NSF funds AI research to the tune of $90 million annually as part of its Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) grant program. Researchers can…
Industry groups and advocacy organizations are heartened by the Senate’s passage of the economic stimulus package, and appear hopeful that key IT provisions will remain intact as negotiators work swiftly to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bill in conference. The Senate version of the bill, which carries a price tag of $838…
I wouldn’t be alone in telling you that investment in IT is still a good bet in 2009. Many are even saying that technology will play a strong role in the economic recovery. In my opinion, this could very well be the case. Research data collected by EMA as recently as October, 2008 shows no…
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The financial crisis, now officially a recession, isn’t slowing some tech giants’ interest in acquisitions. Investment officials from a cross section of tech heavyweights agreed in a panel discussion here that the economic downturn isn’t swaying their interest in doing deals. “We won’t shy away from deals because of the…
Storage vendors haven’t been able to completely escape the perfect financial storm threatening the global economy, according to a pair of surveys by financial analysts. Kaushik Roy of Pacific Growth Equities and Jayson Noland and Joel Inman of R.W. Baird have released their quarterly IT industry overviews, and both surveys found signs of slowing in…
The term “Green IT” summons two flights of thought: greenback savings and back to green environmental impact. But make no mistake, the pecking order is clear: “This is about doing what is right for the business, and the benefit to the environment, that is an added bonus,” said Jody Cefola, chief marketing officer at IBM…
We are not quite at the point where Microsoft feels desperate enough to loudly license the Rolling Stones’ “Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud,” but the headline news is that, truly, data are galloping from the desktop into the “cloud” and this heralds a new day dawning in IT management. “Cloud computing is now…
Five major Linux supporters are backing a new company whose goal is to acquire patents and offer them royalty-free in order to extend open source operating systems worldwide. The Open Invention Network (OIN) launched today with undisclosed financial backing from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony, according to the companies. The company’s members said…