Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
While the idea may not be on many IT radar screens yet, a few shops are beginning to implement these tools as a way of keeping their desktops inside the data center where they can be more readily managed, updated, and secured. The idea has some merit, particularly for those of us that began our…
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…
While market lamentations rattle forth from every industry and market segment, few would argue that the housing and relocations markets are the hardest hit. Among those straddling the widening gap between a profitable past and a promising future is SIRVA, a company that conducts more than 300,000 relocations per year, transferring corporate and government employees…
SAN FRANCISCO — What exactly is the cloud, and why should a company want to go there? That was the question put to four tech executives on a panel here at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday. Cloud computing, the sexy name for Web-based applications, is a hot topic that’s been heating up even more recently…
Storage vendors haven’t been able to completely escape the perfect financial storm threatening the global economy, according to a pair of surveys by financial analysts. Kaushik Roy of Pacific Growth Equities and Jayson Noland and Joel Inman of R.W. Baird have released their quarterly IT industry overviews, and both surveys found signs of slowing in…
The term “Green IT” summons two flights of thought: greenback savings and back to green environmental impact. But make no mistake, the pecking order is clear: “This is about doing what is right for the business, and the benefit to the environment, that is an added bonus,” said Jody Cefola, chief marketing officer at IBM…
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…