Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
As both U.S. presidential candidates threaten more regulation on the near-horizon and the compressing world economy continues to pressure enterprises globally, many in the IT world are unsure how best to steer their IT plans forward. That is not to say, however, that IT movement has come to a standstill. Business must go on and…
For many companies the days of resolving tech problems through phone based help desks are long gone, being superseded by ever more advanced formers of remote tech support tools. In the growing world of virtual tech support, IDC Research Manager, Matt Healey, said increasingly advanced solutions mean that tech support personnel can take over the…
Virtualization is all the rage these days. VMware’s IPO last summer netted the company nearly $1 billion—the biggest IPO since Google. Fast forward a mere five and a half months, and VMware’s stock plunged, leading to such headlines as “VMware Smashed,” “The Party’s over at VMware,” and “VMware – A Wall Street Chainsaw Massacre.” What…
The Green CIO – November 13, 2006: Going green is easy and good for your company, your customer relations and the environment, writes CIO Update columnist David Thompson of Symantec. Data Center Optimization is Within Anyone’s Reach – April 16, 2008: You don’t have to be big to go green in the DC, writes CIOUpdate…
Black is the fashion industry’s never-fail color. For every other industry, green is the color that can’t lose—environmental green, that is. Once little more than window dressing for mollifying the environmental lobby, green has become big business. Despite the some governments’ resistance to environmental warnings, the business community and the public have caught green fever….