Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
We have all been deluged with suggestions on how to survive during the current economic slump. From admonishments to “weather the storm”, which, in the extreme, advocates hiding behind an equipment rack whenever the CFO was about and selling the conference table to save a few bucks and hoping to come out the other side…
With the number of chips per server and cores per chip increasing, future generations of servers may end up with way more processing power than the computer could possibly utilize, even under virtualization, Gartner has found. The research firm issued a report on the issue earlier this week. This doubling and doubling again of cores…
In 2009, expect a strong focus on IT management initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings in a tight economy; the continued deployment of technologies that enable IT to be managed as a business; and new management challenges introduced by the growth of emerging technologies. “While there are obvious concerns surrounding the global economy, we expect…
Columns like this are a bit formulaic. I know it, you know it, yet we all read them: “10 best movies of 2008”, “10 best books of 2008”, “10 worst technologies”, and on and on. Heck, Fox Sports devotes half of its programming to those annoying Best Damn countdowns. What most of us balk at…
The past and present drive the future, and IT executives are hyper-aware that 2009 will force change on individuals, corporations and companies large and small. As an industry, we are likely to see a repeat of the flat budgets of the early 2000s, and all eyes will be on hoped for improvements in the economy,…
As we enter 2009 in a financial crisis, companies may be tempted to scale back and wait for a better day. Is this the right approach? Perhaps not, according to Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. Cameron, who predicts the recession will end in the second half of 2009,…
How’s this for a simple way to trim your IT budget: use virtualization to reduce the number of servers in your data center and get your utility to pay for up to 50% of the project’s cost? Utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) are dangling rebates in front of their customers to help sell…
Hammered by the global recession, players in the IT industry will have to undergo radical changes to simply survive, according to research firm IDC. But that’s not bad news for everyone. Enterprises and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) may be poised reap the benefits of a transforming IT industry — in the form of new…
The Uptime Institute reports that 1U servers are consuming around $700/year worth of power and this cost is increasing at a time when budgets are either static or being cut. If left unchecked, power consumption will be funded at the expense of more important initiatives. In addition to cost concerns, some data centers managers are…
Nearly every CIO is squeezed between the urgent need to increase IT adoption vs. staving off rogue staffers hot after their favorite device or software. In this regard, the CIO both giveth and taketh away. But nowhere is that squeeze harder or more brutal than at the helm of high tech companies where staffers often…