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- July 05, 2011
05 Jul'11
Hacking activities mean security risk is everybody's business
The LulzSec hacker group recently announced it was backing off its spree of network break-ins -- but only after making off with gigabytes of sensitive documents from large private- and ...
- June 30, 2011
30 Jun'11
How enterprises are testing the mobile business app waters
While you're debating whether to develop native mobile business apps, use HTML5 for mobile or take a hybrid approach using PhoneGap, one enterprise IT exec highly recommends asking for an ...
- June 30, 2011
30 Jun'11
Social media platforms boost spontaneity, but does business need that?
One of the great things about social media platforms is that they break down barriers, allowing easy, sometimes effortless communication among people. Given that we are social animals, social media ...
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- June 28, 2011
28 Jun'11
Even the Geek Doctor couldn't save Google Health
My first thought when I heard that Google Health is shutting down is, "what's the Geek Doctor going to do?" My second thought was shock. Dr. John Halamka, aka the "Geek Doctor," has been one of ...
- June 24, 2011
24 Jun'11
Vulnerability in Dropbox security leaves user accounts wide open
No bones about it: Dropbox security just took a huge dive in user confidence. This past Sunday, Dropbox user accounts -- all of them -- were open and accessible to the world, no password required. ...
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Server Security in the Era of ChatGPT
Sponsored by Dell Technologies and Intel - The importance of security and compliance to applications and data environments cannot be overstated. A GenAI platform deployment is different from a typical infrastructure as a service (IaaS) implementation in terms of who holds the keys and who can read the data. Research by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group has found that even cloud-first organizations are deploying some workloads on premises, rather than the cloud, due to concerns related to data governance and sovereignty (cited by 42% of respondents) and security (cited by 34%). These organizations understand the real potential for data leakage associated with GenAI. See More
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How to Maximize Agility, Simplicity, and Cost Control Through Application Deployment
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Who is driving DE&I - and why it matters
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Dell Technologies GenAI-validated Designs and Dell Reference Designs
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- June 23, 2011
23 Jun'11
Six tips on avoiding social media project meltdowns
You have to admire Kevin Jones, NASA's social media organizational strategist. He stood up at this week's Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston and laid bare his social media project failures. Jones was ...
- June 20, 2011
20 Jun'11
Load your iPhone 4 and iPad 2 with powerful database-building apps
Now that summer is officially here, you've undoubtedly been busy covering for vacationing co-workers or trying to squeeze a few hours of R&R in for yourself. Here's a quick rundown of the best ...
- June 16, 2011
16 Jun'11
Collaboration tool standardization prevents the death of ideas
When I covered Microsoft, I appreciated the grass-roots SharePoint efforts across businesses small and large. Unsatisfied with the capabilities of a given collaboration tool, knowledge workers ...
- June 16, 2011
16 Jun'11
Does your business know the enterprise can't be run on rogue IT?
The question to Warren Ritchie, CIO at the Volkswagen Group of America, was pretty standard: What was the biggest surprise he faced when he came into the IT world? Ritchie was speaking at the ...
- June 16, 2011
16 Jun'11
Public-sector CIOs leading IT transformation
I'm not sure about you, but my first impression of government's use of technology is that they are still working off VAX computers and dumb terminals. But, really, it's quite the contrary. Here are ...
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- June 13, 2011
13 Jun'11
TrueCrypt and Dropbox go together like peanut butter and chocolate
We've scoured the Web and compiled a crib sheet for the best and most interesting tidbits from around the IT blogosphere last week, including using TrueCrypt and Dropbox for data encryption, the ...
- June 07, 2011
07 Jun'11
Outsourcing services need the right mix of commodity and strategy
Discover Card has made a celebrity out of "Peggy," but despite the credit card provider's efforts to humorously discredit outsourcing services in former Soviet Bloc countries, Ukraine is seeing ...
- June 06, 2011
06 Jun'11
Virtual security and hackers: A match made in heaven?
While you were putting out fires in your computer room, we were scouring the Web looking for tasty bits for you to peruse. From ensuring virtual security to the workforce of tomorrow, check out ...
- June 03, 2011
03 Jun'11
Workforce of the future is in the hands of the CIO
You couldn't go far at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium held recently in Cambridge, Mass., without hearing about the workforce of the future and how the CIO will help develop what some people are ...
- May 31, 2011
31 May'11
A new home for Domino applications
Apple recently announced that it has approved its 500,000th app for the iTunes App Store. IBM Lotus developers say, "Call us when you get to 10 million." That's how many enterprise applications are ...
- May 30, 2011
30 May'11
Around the blogs: Release date of Windows 8 and losing talent
We've scoured the Web and compiled a crib sheet for the best and most interesting tidbits from around the IT blogosphere last week, including thoughts on the release date of Windows 8, the risks to ...
- May 26, 2011
26 May'11
The Windows 8 operating system: Is it time to move on?
It was customary during the Bill Gates era at Microsoft to surreptitiously dis the previous version of Windows when the next generation came out. "It's the best Windows operating system we've ever ...
- May 24, 2011
24 May'11
Failed promotion for Amazon cloud storage affects consumer confidence
It's one of those things that looks fantastic on paper: Introduce your cloud service to the consumer market by packaging it with a super-cheap, eagerly anticipated superstar's new album. Amazon did ...
- May 17, 2011
17 May'11
Technology conferences can still deliver for IT pros
I attended the "last" Comdex show -- the last great one, that is -- in the year 2000, right before 9/11 and the dot-com bust turned it into a shell of its former self, along with a lot of other ...
- May 13, 2011
13 May'11
Email attachment risks highlight value of collaboration tools
This week at Interop Las Vegas, I met Dusan Vitek, vice president of worldwide marketing at Kerio Technologies Inc., who said, "I feel guilty whenever I send an email with an attachment." I ...
- May 10, 2011
10 May'11
The sky’s the limit for cloud-enabled applications
Back in the day, the must-have feature for technology products was "Internet-enabled." (Remember when Windows became Internet-enabled? It meant sticking the browser in.) It got kind of sickening to ...
- May 03, 2011
03 May'11
CIO innovation is about getting ahead of the problems
My colleagues and I in the CIO/IT Strategy Media Group have spent much of the first half of 2011 talking with CIOs about innovation. So much time that I think I might go crazy asking another ...
- April 28, 2011
28 Apr'11
PlayStation Network breach is Sony's shameful nadir
Another week, another major hack. It seems these things go in cycles. There was a major breach at email provider Epsilon earlier this month. But the recent attack on the PlayStation Network is ...
- April 22, 2011
22 Apr'11
NASA takes off with an open government and cloud infrastructure plan
Don't be surprised if NASA's Nebula cloud becomes the model -- and maybe the mother -- of cloud infrastructure in the U.S. NASA is embarking on an ambitious plan to overhaul its existing data ...
- April 21, 2011
21 Apr'11
What does it mean that Wal-Mart is buying social media company Kosmix?
When I read the news that Wal-Mart is buying a small software company specializing in social networking, thoughts swirled. How they swirled! Kosmix upsets the Wal-Mart cosmos. All that stuff about ...
- April 19, 2011
19 Apr'11
Cisco killed the Flip camera and other surprises
The news last week that Cisco killed the Flip mini-camcorder -- or, as Cisco put it, restructured its consumer products division -- is full of surprises. First, I have to admit, even as a Cisco ...
- April 15, 2011
15 Apr'11
CIOs and facilities managers need to be BFFs with green IT practices
Green IT practices are a no-brainer, but is your company's effort thwarting your IT strategy? Your connectivity problems may be inside your walls.
- April 14, 2011
14 Apr'11
Cloud service providers urge lawmakers to postpone legislation
Only a science fiction writer might have imagined that consumer technologies like smartphones -- coupled with a cloud computing service like Facebook -- would be dissidents' weapons of choice in ...
- April 13, 2011
13 Apr'11
In the cloud, even custom apps will be a commodity
I'll make this short because God knows you've read enough about cloud computing and its software variation, SaaS. This concerns the cloud and custom apps, in particular the proprietary apps and IT ...
- April 12, 2011
12 Apr'11
What have we learned from the Epsilon security breach?
My wife and I started getting the emails April 4. Best Buy. Our bank. Other e-commerce sites we had shopped. The impact of the Epsilon security breach was far and wide. My first thought was that at ...
- April 08, 2011
08 Apr'11
Multi-tenancy leads to risky development on cloud platforms
Why buy when you can rent? It's the new credo among savvy spenders everywhere -- IT shops included. More and more companies are renting space on a cloud (Infrastructure as a Service) or paying for ...
- April 08, 2011
08 Apr'11
Mobile technology in health care now the answer instead of the problem
The first "mobile computing device" that I used was a 30-pound IBM "luggable" PC. It cost more than $4,000 and boasted the Intel 8088 microprocessor running at a blazing 4.77 MHz and ran off of two ...
- April 07, 2011
07 Apr'11
Are CIO leadership skills moot if the business has you pigeonholed?
Are you lacking in CIO leadership skills, or do you lack CIO leadership qualities because the business has boxed you in, pigeonholed you as the IT guy? The question came up at a private dinner for ...
- April 05, 2011
05 Apr'11
Are the Mozilla Firefox 4 and IE9 releases wreaking havoc on your old apps?
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 4 dropped within a week of each other, and now that the dust has settled, Internet users are finding that there are pieces of their daily lives ...
- April 01, 2011
01 Apr'11
Cloudsourcing and lean methodology tap customer input
Whether your IT organization is thinking about becoming lean or using cloudsourcing techniques, it all boils down to customer input. After all, they're the ones on the front line, with the best ...
- March 29, 2011
29 Mar'11
Why ‘IT innovation’ is less about technology, more about integration
What are we talking about when we are talking about IT innovation? The answers are as varied as there are people to answer the question. And the answers rarely have much to do with technology, ...
- March 29, 2011
29 Mar'11
The need for IT innovation leads to aggressive collaboration
IT innovation is what happens when there's no money for new equipment but plenty of fresh ideas emanating from all parts of the business.
- March 24, 2011
24 Mar'11
Does your executive networking strategy include Twitter?
This week marks Twitter's fifth birthday. It's a precocious 5-year-old, in that it has done in half a decade what most companies need 20 years to accomplish: become an integral part of our everyday ...
- March 22, 2011
22 Mar'11
CIOs looking for ways to say yes to the iPad in the enterprise
CIOs are looking for ways to say yes to the iPad in the enterprise, despite the technological and cultural challenges associated with new mobile devices.
- March 21, 2011
21 Mar'11
The opportunity cost of Twitter for business
Last week, SearchCIO-Midmarket.com Site Editor Wendy Schuchart did a nice job showing the upside of Twitter for business. "Social media presented an easy opportunity [for P.F. Chang's] to make the ...
- March 11, 2011
11 Mar'11
Why aren't more women in executive careers in IT?
Tuesday was International Women's Day. The United Nations' theme for 2011: "Equal access to education, training and science and technology." Last week at the FusionCIO conference in Madison, Wis., ...
- March 11, 2011
11 Mar'11
IT innovation isn't new, but essential to maintain a competitive edge
IT innovation: It's the buzzword of the year. But what does it actually mean? According to Dictionary.com, to innovate means to introduce something new or to make changes in anything established. ...
- March 08, 2011
08 Mar'11
Computer automation is already changing everything
I am a fan of the Science Channel shows "Factory Made" and "How It's Made." I find it fascinating how automated factories can do everything from build light bulbs and create fireproof suits or ...
- March 04, 2011
04 Mar'11
Companies eyeing cloud brokers to manage multiple cloud services
Some IT departments are aggressively adopting "cloud-first" strategies for new deployments. Instead of buying new servers, they're looking at Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); rather than ...
- March 01, 2011
01 Mar'11
What would an Internet kill switch really mean?
The Internet shutdown in Eqypt last month raised questions regarding whether the U.S. would be able to do the same with a so-called Internet kill switch bill. This is not the first time such a bill ...
- February 24, 2011
24 Feb'11
Phasing in desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization gives the business peace of mind. That was the bottom line when I asked Todd Bruni, director of client services for Christus Health, about the benefits of building a virtual ...
- February 22, 2011
22 Feb'11
Get cloud computing security in line with enterprise practices
You have been reading a lot about cloud computing on SearchCIO.com and SearchCIO-Midmarket.com lately. With good reason: The cloud is the latest game-changer in corporate IT. Sure, there's ...
- February 18, 2011
18 Feb'11
An IT exec's agile quest leads to cloud services
The IT department is moving at the speed of light. Performance monitoring tools enable IT managers to ferret out and fix network problems in seconds, tasks that previously would have taken days or ...
- February 10, 2011
10 Feb'11
Effects of the Egypt Internet shutdown
It's a sign of how dependent our lives have become on the Internet, or more accurately, of "being connected." News of Egypt cutting off Internet and cellular service for five days this week shocked ...
- February 08, 2011
08 Feb'11
Software tools can be basis for successful ITIL strategy
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) can be a useful tool -- for those who have ventured into it. Just 40% of 169 IT managers at midmarket firms surveyed by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com last year ...
- February 04, 2011
04 Feb'11
The Feds tap NIST to accelerate adoption of public cloud standards
How serious is the Obama administration about cloud computing? Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has assigned the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the task of "accelerating" the ...
- February 03, 2011
03 Feb'11
Is there an iPhone business app for that?
I’ve had an iPhone 4 for a few months now and I haven’t even begun to tap all the things I can do, and I’m nowhere near taking advantage of all the iPhone business apps. I know this because the ...
- February 01, 2011
01 Feb'11
IT innovation is just a matter of time
Innovation is a popular topic among IT professionals and media. It's also one of the more misunderstood concepts. If you ask 10 CIOs what IT innovation means to them or to their companies, you will ...
- February 01, 2011
01 Feb'11
IT offshore outsourcing markets, options on the rise, Gartner says
The never-ending quest to cut IT costs is opening up new IT offshoring markets. Here are a look at Gartner's latest assessment and a new index from IT advisory firm TPI Inc.
- January 28, 2011
28 Jan'11
Converged infrastructures promise to simplify private clouds
Just when you thought you understood private clouds, along comes converged infrastructure. You wouldn't be wrong to wonder, are they the same thing? A private cloud, most people agree, is a ...
- January 27, 2011
27 Jan'11
Offshore outsourcing: China runs the sun, will it rule the cloud too?
Gartner came out with its annual list of the top 30 countries for offshore outsourcing. Despite my complicated relationship with lists (totally sucked in and deeply skeptical), I've found the ...
- January 25, 2011
25 Jan'11
IT salary survey numbers may obscure still struggling economy
Reader Jim Dries offered me another point of view on the SearchCIO.com salary and careers survey, which was completed late last year. In our 2010 IT salary survey, all signs point to increased ...
- January 21, 2011
21 Jan'11
Get started on XP migration to Windows 7 by 2012
I remember talking to an IT manager about his XP migration plans to Vista, and he said that he was going to hold on to XP come hell or high water. Mainstream support for XP had ended and extended ...
- January 20, 2011
20 Jan'11
The enduring value of starting cheap in offshore IT outsourcing
Being the lowest-cost service provider of offshore IT outsourcing pays off in ways that go beyond being -- well, the lowest-cost IT service provider. Rock-bottom prices attract new customers, who ...
- January 13, 2011
13 Jan'11
IT salaries creeping up in 2011, mood mostly positive
The average IT salary in 2010 for senior IT executives, mid-level IT executives and IT managers was $121,797, according to our annual CIO Salary and Careers Survey, taken in November. This is a ...
- January 13, 2011
13 Jan'11
Data center transformation: Evolution or revolution?
As we continue to chronicle the "disappearing" data center, we have to consider the ongoing transformation of the enterprise application. Software as a Service, Web-based applications, cloud ...
- January 07, 2011
07 Jan'11
CIO resumes: Passing the eyeball test and the black ink test
Judging character and qualifications is a tough thing. The annual debate over the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting is going on, following the announcement of the two newest members, ...
- December 23, 2010
23 Dec'10
Post-WikiLeaks computer security measures include hired hackers
Those of you who find the Wikileaks story fascinating, as I do, might enjoy zooming through Red's Query, a fictional piece of work by technology media executive Eric Lundquist. The last quarter of ...
- December 22, 2010
22 Dec'10
Spreading cheer and good health through a virtual reality game
We got Kinect. For Christmas and the winter ahead, my husband said. For when the house is empty again and the weather outside is frightful. It will be good for our health, he told me. I do not play ...
- December 17, 2010
17 Dec'10
WikiLeaks shines a light on corporate security policies
The WikiLeaks debacle has put a spotlight on the need for better corporate security policies and new technology approaches. But even these safeguards are no guarantee in an age where data is so ...
- December 16, 2010
16 Dec'10
Forget virtual machine management -- go to the cloud
There are still many IT shops that have not virtualized the majority of their servers. Many still haven’t moved virtual machines (VMs) to a production environment yet. In fact, some may sidestep ...
- December 15, 2010
15 Dec'10
Can the use of social media skew sales forecasts?
Best Buy uses social media like a pro, or as professionally as a business can, given the newness of the communication mode. The company's Twelpforce service enlists the passion of Best Buy's entire ...
- December 10, 2010
10 Dec'10
Budgets, big data and staffing among top CIO concerns
There's good news for CIOs who need to find a way to do more with less: most IT budgets will stay flat or even increase by as much as 10% in 2011, according to a live survey of more than 2,000 ...
- December 10, 2010
10 Dec'10
Outsourcing vs. insourcing: The line's not so clear
An important part of a CIO's job is understanding which IT functions are best handled by others and which should be kept in-house. But the answer is not always so clear-cut in the outsourcing vs. ...
- December 02, 2010
02 Dec'10
An old data center infrastructure looks new in a coat of green
Thinking about heading out to Gartner Inc.'s 29th annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas next week, I'm reminded of how much data center infrastructure has changed since the mid-1980s, when ...
- December 02, 2010
02 Dec'10
How do you know if your SaaS provider is healthy? Here's the scoop
How do you know if your SaaS provider is a good choice? A session at the recent MIT Sloan CFO Summit provided some insight that might prove useful the next time you're vetting a SaaS provider. The ...
- November 30, 2010
30 Nov'10
Social bots by 2015, and other technology predictions from Gartner
Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us. Time to bring out the 2011 technology predictions. Hot off the presses from the Gartner research files are the consultancy's top ...
- November 19, 2010
19 Nov'10
Business is accountable for changing the IT culture, too
Alice, from the comic strip “Dilbert,” asks IT nemesis Wally to make a change to a report. Wally’s response: “I need a business plan for your request.” The exchange is telling of an IT culture ...
- November 18, 2010
18 Nov'10
ISVs' software licensing agreements bend with the times
Enterprises might not be rushing headlong into the public cloud -- indeed, most experts believe the infrastructure of the future will be a hybrid cloud -- but savvy CIOs are taking a page from the ...
- November 18, 2010
18 Nov'10
Time will tell if social media platforms will work at work
An army of technology vendors is scrambling to sell you enterprise social media platforms, as I discovered in my reporting for a pair of stories on SearchCIO.com this week on enterprise ...
- November 11, 2010
11 Nov'10
Political underpinnings of data governance
I asked Gwen Thomas, founder of the Data Governance Institute, how businesses’ data management plans were changing , and she started to explain why “The Tragedy of the Commons” summed up the ...
- November 10, 2010
10 Nov'10
In the absence of spreadsheet management, horror lurks
Is the spreadsheet dead? Has the cockroach been eradicated? A half-billion people use Excel. For a story this week on spreadsheet management, I not only learned that the spreadsheet is alive and ...
- November 05, 2010
05 Nov'10
'Trucknet' to what's next for cloud data delivery: WAN accelerators
The idea of a FedEx truck picking up your data for transport to a cloud provider might elicit either chuckles or groans, depending on your point of view. It's one solution to a bandwidth crunch, ...
- November 03, 2010
03 Nov'10
The eyes have it: CIOs need video content management -- now!
I am entertained by a good video as much as anyone, I dare say, especially those made by a close relative in the science field, and any number of YouTube hits as well (for example, Hahaha and David ...
- October 29, 2010
29 Oct'10
Why some IT executives are gung ho about cloud computing technology
If the turnout at the recent Society for Information Management (SIM) meeting in Boston is any indication, IT executives are seriously interested in cloud computing technology. And although ...
- October 28, 2010
28 Oct'10
Agile adoption basics, and basic mistakes
I came across a helpful post on the Edge of Chaos/Agile development blog on the 10 most common mistakes for agile adoption. No. 1: Don’t start with a tool. Choosing a tool will only slow down agile ...
- October 28, 2010
28 Oct'10
Business intelligence technology 3.0 is all about control, but whose?
In search of information for a story on business intelligence technology 2.0, I was informed politely by the head of the BI practice of a global IT provider that I was at least six years behind the ...
- October 22, 2010
22 Oct'10
Unlikely to join Twitter, IT would rather be 'LinkedIn', guru says
Those of you trying to figure out how to back up a virtualized environment efficiently ought to check out Greg Schulz's blog about data footprint reduction. The 1% of IT staffers who join Twitter ...
- October 21, 2010
21 Oct'10
Where’s the love for Microsoft technologies?
Remember when Microsoft’s marketing machine could make up a word like goodness to describe a new software feature, and people would eat it up like, well, chocolate? The ooohs and aaahs at shows -- ...
- October 14, 2010
14 Oct'10
Virtual data center: A panacea for governance
Virtualization, to me, is in many ways like vitamin supplements: Whether you want to save money, pool resources or make employees more productive, there’s a virtualization pill for that. What I ...
- October 12, 2010
12 Oct'10
Mobile workforce will soon demand iPad-type tablets
If ever there was a no-brainer reason to get an iPad, or some kind of equivalent thin tablet computer that will be coming soon from HP or Dell, it's as a journalist covering a remote assignment. ...
- October 12, 2010
12 Oct'10
Mobile data security spans policies, budgets and backups
A proliferation of mobile devices in the enterprise forces CIOs to reassess policies, budgets and backups for mobile data security.
- October 11, 2010
11 Oct'10
CIOs feverishly working on mobile strategy
It seemed no matter how a conversation started out with IT executives at this year’s Society of Information Management national event in Atlanta this week, it somehow wound its way back to ...
- October 07, 2010
07 Oct'10
Wit and wisdom from the world of disaster recovery solutions
For those of you who spend your days thinking about business continuity, and your nights tossing around disaster recovery solutions, I thought I would share some of the wit and wisdom gleaned from ...
- October 06, 2010
06 Oct'10
How to use Twitter, if you're a CIO? With discipline
How do you tweet? I'm supposed to use Twitter for work, but I don't. Now I believe I know why. According to two CIOs who do, David Buckholtz and Ralph Loura, tweeting requires first, "a moment" ...
- October 05, 2010
05 Oct'10
Social media may not be a revolution, but it's in your enterprise
The social media multiverse is all a Twitter about the fact that one of today's most popular intellectuals has written an article saying that the revolution will not be tweeted. You should read his ...
- September 30, 2010
30 Sep'10
Managing expectations for DR in a virtual server environment
We've been looking at evolving technology strategies around disaster recovery in a virtual server environment this week at SearchCIO.com, but some of the best advice I heard came down to managing ...
- September 16, 2010
16 Sep'10
Supporting cloud services is a quandary for IT
A CIO was recently approached by a business line manager about a problem with a cloud service. The manager asked if the CIO could help resolve the issue, and the CIO gave him a flat-out “No.” It is ...
- September 16, 2010
16 Sep'10
Mobile phone security policies give IT some control over the influx
There's no turning back mobile devices' invasion of the enterprise. CIOs need to put mobile phone security policies in place to control these uninvited guests.
- September 09, 2010
09 Sep'10
Women in IT band together at VMworld 2010
Navigating the crowded halls of VMworld 2010 in San Francisco last week, I couldn't help feeling drawn to the signage developed for this year's event: "Virtual Clouds, Actual Roads. " The backdrop ...
- September 08, 2010
08 Sep'10
Meditating on Harvard's mobile strategy, Eric Schmidt and "Lost"
Harvard in the palm of your hand! Just in time for the start of classes, the most Ivy-ed of the ivory towers has launched a mobile initiative that delivers university content -- campus maps, the ...
- September 07, 2010
07 Sep'10
Improving business services management, one vehicle at a time
It's funny the places where you can gain some insight about business services management. Last week, I spent two hours waiting at my local Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to exchange a ...
- September 02, 2010
02 Sep'10
Mobile application development made easy … eventually
A while back, I checked in with a few IT managers about their mobile application development plans. I was wondering if business intelligence applications were making their way on to their users’ ...
- September 02, 2010
02 Sep'10
ITIL books don't mix with cloud? 'A massive cop-out,' ITIL guru says
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) books -- 30 years in the making and regarded by many as the industry's bible for managing IT services -- do not at first glance seem like such a hot match for ...
- September 01, 2010
01 Sep'10
VMware luminaries say virtualized environments lead to IT as a Service
Hall D in San Francisco's Moscone Center was an electric mecca this week, as tens of thousands of IT professionals gathered to hear VMware Inc. luminaries discuss the future of IT as a Service at ...