Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
IT organizations should get hustling on their Windows 7 rollout planning and testing and be off Windows XP by the end of 2012 due to third-party vendors abandoning the creaky old operating system at a rapid rate, according to IT research firm Gartner. While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said it would support Windows XP through 2014,…
Editor’s Note: CIOUpdate guest columnist Brandon Harris is a senior technologist for Logicalis, which sells remote monitoring, operational management, co-location, and full or partial outsourced partnering. Mergers and acquisitions always have an air of uncertainty about them. But when you combine longtime players in the enterprise computing space, users who have significant real dollars and…
Cloud computing is “buzz” concept of the year for 2009. It has its place, especially for high-risk/low-capital applications like startups or small business or websites, but for enterprise computing and―especially for improving existing core applications―I have a more jaundiced view. As a concept, Cloud computing is a pointer to the future, but there is much…