Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Five years ago Gartner said the biggest trend affecting IT would be the consumerization of technology into IT; essentially, the development of technologies for the consumer market that find their way into the enterprise. In the last five years, quite a bit has happened. We’ve seen one of the worst recessions this country has ever…
The early November news had to rock the old computing industry titans: now Citibank and Bank of America both are eyeballing possible adoption of the iPhone. This comes on top of an already extraordinary year for Apple which, little by little, is sneaking into the biggest businesses. At Citrix Systems, for instance, employees who want…
iPhones and Droids may appear to be the alpha and omega of the smartphone revolution, but the upheaval is far from over. And no, the upcoming charge of change doesn’t have anything to do with Windows Phone 7 or any other late-to-the-fight contender. But Apple and Google can’t just sit back and claim to be…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (a very thick rock perhaps built of wireless signal blocking steel-reinforced concrete), you’ve noticed a recent explosion in the number of mobile apps. While most apps are targeted directly at consumers, many enterprises are beginning to see value in custom developed apps designed to increase employee productivity. According…
The war is over and, in case you missed it, IT lost. The once ferocious attempts to guard the corporate perimeters against unapproved devices and applications is sputtering to an end because, frankly, all but myopic IT diehards recognize this is battle that’s already over. “Workers are adopting the tools they believe will help them…
I know it’s beensaid many times in one form or another and it probably started right after Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1400s and then again when radio hit the scene and definitely TV but it’s still going on today and getting worse. What am I talking about?: too much information from too…
Microsoft updated its Bing search client for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad on Tuesday. The upgraded client, Bing 1.2, adds combined status updates for users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts within Bing, according to a post on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing Community blog. “Now when you search for something using our Bing app, you’ll…
Today we’re in the midst of several technology paradigm shifts that are spreading faster than anything we’ve seen before ― and that greatly impact organizations and CIOs worldwide. First, there’s the computing hardware shift. Previously, you could only use a computer by accessing a mainframe using a terminal. Then came desktops. Mainframes did not go…
Let’s face it, BlackBerry owns the enterprise mobile tech market. There’s no disputing that, but increasing numbers of analysts are raising the cry that RIM’s stranglehold is giving way to Google’s relentless Android charge. The headline news is that, by some counts, Android already outsells iPhone in all markets — Motorola happily reports it cannot…
When I was given this assignment it was posited as a question: Should a CIO consider implementing WAP? My immediate response was absolutely not. My experience with WAP was roughly eight years ago. Back then, it was a light-weight protocol for displaying modified versions of webpages on a small text only screen. To “WAP-ify” a…