CSC’s IT-Business Predictions for 2012

by Lem Lasher of CSC With 2012 now in full swing, it’s already looking to be an exciting year for enterprise IT. As consumer products evolve at the speed of light, the technological line between personal and work continues to blend, and the role of the IT professional continues to evolve. Now more than ever,…

Fortinet’s Top 8 Security Predictions for 2012

Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs, the research arm of Fortinet, the saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently taken off line, 64-bit rootkits advanced (TDSS), source code was leaked for the Zeus and SpyEye botnets , and Anonymous hacktivists…

2010 is the Year Mobile Data Gets Real

Money talks, you know what walks but focus on this: 2010 is the year when enterprise gets real about using mobile data for substantial business processes beyond email and calendaring. This is because mobile data access now equates to dollars; Smartphones are powerful; enough employees out of office, away from their desktops; and, lastly but…

2010’s Ten Hot Trends

It’s prediction time again. Looking back on last year’s prediction column, the hits narrowly beat out the misses but they did beat the misses so we’re going to expand on last year’s efforts with five more predictions for 2010 (besides, as writers, we like the way the numbers line up in the headline!). A Look…

Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010

Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. These technologies impact…