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Survey Links Building Business Relationships, Bigger Bucks
My colleague Ann All last fall quoted executive recruiter Tim Cook from a silicon.com piece saying that IT has become "less about running infrastructure and data systems well, and more about IT procurement, vendor management, business-process change and information security." Wrote Ann: This kind...More >
Carl WeinschenkData and Telecom
“Whether it is a major challenge ... or a minor one as portrayed in the Localytics report, the key is that [Android fragmentation] shouldn’t be ignored.”
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Data center and networking architecture to keep your data safe and moving
02.01.12
PaaS and the Private Cloud
The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate versus private clouds goes something like this: Only the public cloud can provide the scalability to meet burgeoning data environments, so private clouds are a waste of money that limit you to your own finite infrastructure. Ah, but what fun we can... More >
1/31/2012 4:20:00 PM
Greater Efficiency Through DCIM
The first wave of data center virtualization and consolidation is largely complete, and as expected it was one of the chief factors allowing the enterprise to keep the lid on infrastructure costs in the face of rising data loads. And believe it or not, there is still a lot of excess capacity to be... More >
Expert tech insight and advice for small businesses with big goals
01.29.12
A Three-step Guide to Help SMBs Migrate to the Cloud
Given the heightened uptime and capital expenditure reductions that SMBs can enjoy by switching to the cloud, it is no wonder that forward-looking SMBs have become early adopters of cloud services. As with any project, however, a certain amount of consideration and planning will go a long way towards... More >
1/27/2012 9:27:00 AM
Cloud Storage and What SMBs Can Learn from Megaupload's Demise
The speed and abruptness behind the U.S. Justice Department's shutting down of Megaupload on the basis of copyright infringement last week caught many by surprise, considering that many of its servers, as well as alleged perpetrators, do not even reside in the United States. Indeed, it has triggered... More >
The real truth about technology and IT
01.31.12
Oracle vs. HP: Oracle’s Fraud Gambit Implodes
The litigation between HP and Oracle took another turn this week when the Superior Court ruled against Oracle on its claim that the contract between it and HP was void due to alleged fraud by HP. This fraud was the alleged cover up of the killing of Itanium. This position was a surprise to both Intel... More >
1/30/2012 11:35:00 AM
Security Report: Cyber Arms Race Real, Governments Unable to Respond Adequately
McAfee just released its global cybersecurity report, which was done by SDA (Security and Defense Agenda), an independent security think tank and the results are chilling. The majority of experts believe we are in a cyber arms race, over a third believe (given the threat) that cybersecurity is more... More >
Begin with business processes and then progress into leading-edge technologies
02.03.12
Exploring Hadoop's Real-Time Potential
One of the more promising applications of Hadoop and other Big Data solutions is the ability to deliver information in real time. It’s not mentioned often, which is unfortunate, because it’s really a game-changer for some organizations, with far-reaching implications for the rest of us. That’s... More >
2/2/2012 4:35:00 PM
Putting Big Data on Pause
Daniel W. Rasmus is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to be excited about Big Data. The intelligent systems engineer is a “strategist who helps clients put their future in context” using “scenarios to analyze trends in society, technology, economics, the environment, and politics in order to... More >
The more sensitive it is, the more it warrants discussion
02.02.12
10 Hot-Button Job Interview Question Areas to Get Ready For
If you’re not unemployed or underemployed, you may well be one of the millions of people who’ve managed to keep your job through the recession, but vowed to bail the moment things started to improve, because you’ve been disgusted by the way your bosses treated you and your colleagues when they knew... More >
2/1/2012 11:59:00 PM
You’re Not the Only One Who Wants to Choke the Jargon Guy
We all have our jargon pet peeves. Mine is “solution,” the word vendors use incessantly when they really just mean “product.” This perfectly wholesome word has been usurped and so bastardized by sales wonks that a lot of us consider it toxic. In fact, when I was at Computerworld, we banned it. If you... More >
Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
02.03.12
The Android Community Responds to Security Challenges
Android seems to be constantly in the process of discovering and defining itself. That’s part and parcel of both of the specifics of how open source works and, more generally, that a massive deployment of an operating system based on that approach to intellectual property is unprecedented and sure to... More >
2/2/2012 5:07:00 PM
Voice Over LTE Set to Roll in 2012
All of the hubbub about Long Term Evolution (LTE) during the past couple of years has been about data. Voice, to date, has not been part of the 4G LTE experience. That is about to change. The vendor and service provider industries are on the cusp of introducing voice to the platform, which has... More >
Securing your data and network, inside and outside the perimeter
02.03.12
Old Versions of WordPress Compromised
A new attack against old versions of WordPress is a reminder of the importance of always performing updates when prompted. We saw how using old versions of IE, IE6 in particular, led to all kinds of exploits and attacks, so you would think the lesson would have been learned at some point, but here we... More >
2/2/2012 2:10:00 PM
Have Cyber Threats Passed Terrorism as Top Threat Against the U.S.?
Earlier this week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that cyber threats against the country are going to surpass terrorism as the top threat facing the United States. Those cyber threats could come in the form of cyber espionage, threats against critical infrastructure like utilities or... More >
Revealing the Business Value of Innovation
02.03.12
Tracking Super Bowl Sentiment in Real Time
There’s obviously a lot riding on the outcome of the Super Bowl game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday night. But what’s at stake goes well beyond who gets to claim the Lombardi Trophy and the rings that go with it. There are millions of dollars in endorsement... More >
2/3/2012 7:20:00 AM
Making Hadoop an Integral Part of the Enterprise
While there’s obviously a lot of interest in the Hadoop data management framework as an alternative approach to storing massive amounts of data, more than a few enterprises have found the fact that Hadoop currently requires dedicated storage systems a bit troubling. What they are typically trying to... More >
From regulatory compliance to corporate governance structure, everyone is involved
02.01.12
European Commission Looking into Samsung's Patent Licensing Practices
As if Samsung doesn't have enough on its plate right now, considering the international litigation with Apple and other smartphone makers over patent infringement, the European Union announced Tuesday it is launching an inquiry into the company's 3G patent licensing practices. The Los Angeles... More >
1/31/2012 9:13:00 PM
Consumers Should Be Informed of Monitoring Software on Mobile Devices
For months now, privacy advocates and regulators alike have been concerned about the fact that wireless providers have the ability to collect data from user devices. In the U.S., Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) chaired more than one hearing on the issue. Regulators in the EU engaged in similar inquiries. ... More >
Alignment, staffing and culture are often more critical than software and apps
01.17.12
BPM Is Key to Proactive CRM
As useful as business process management has been in helping companies improve and streamline their internal processes, I think it holds even more promise as a way for them to perform the same kind of magic on their customer-facing processes. Lots of experts seem to feel the same way. A few months... More >
1/6/2012 11:19:00 AM
Analysts Air Concerns Over Salesforce.com's Outlook
Wall Street analysts usually welcome news of acquisitions, seeing them as a sign that companies are gearing up their growth plans. CRM giant Salesforce.com has been gobbling up smaller companies for the past year, among them platform-as-a-service provider Heroku, email contact management startup... More >
01.31.12
Study Finds Integration Big Challenge for Analyzing Big Data
Integration is a major issue when it comes to analyzing Big Data, according to a recent report by Ventana Research. Almost two thirds of participants in the benchmark study said integration is a major obstacle to analyzing data. While there are third-party solutions that claim to help access and... More >
01.30.12
Report: Cloud to Create 'Significant' Job Opportunities
As noted a couple of weeks ago, more than 10,000 job ads have been posted online in the past three months that include requirements for cloud computing skills, an increase of 61 percent over the same period last year, according to talent-market BI vendor Wanted Analytics. Cloud computing is... More >
01.31.12
Oracle vs. HP: Oracle’s Fraud Gambit Implodes
The litigation between HP and Oracle took another turn this week when the Superior Court ruled against Oracle on its claim that the contract between it and HP was void due to alleged fraud by HP. This fraud was the alleged cover up of the killing of Itanium. This position was a surprise to both Intel... More >
02.01.12
Project Management Meets CRM in the Cloud
More often than anyone cares to admit, salespeople are selling a services capability that doesn’t exist — at least not yet. This is usually because the customer has asked for something unique or the services group within the organization doesn’t have the capacity available to support that particular... More >
02.01.12
Just the Stats: Building Better Business Intelligence
Organizations are keen to make smarter decisions, and to do that, they’re focusing on the data served up by business intelligence solutions. The question is: Are these BI tools and the infrastructures that support them up to the tasks? Absolutely — assuming, of course, we can get around to it. ... More >
01.31.12
Fight for MDM and Governance: Your Job May Depend On It
You want one reason to get serious about information governance? Here’s one: your job. Twenty percent of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs because they failed to successfully implement information governance, according to a recent Gartner press release summarizing a new report... More >
01.31.12
Greater Efficiency Through DCIM
The first wave of data center virtualization and consolidation is largely complete, and as expected it was one of the chief factors allowing the enterprise to keep the lid on infrastructure costs in the face of rising data loads. And believe it or not, there is still a lot of excess capacity to be... More >
02.01.12
Majority of IT Managers Want to Improve Risk Management
So often we hear about the things employees do to put enterprise security at risk. In a survey of IT managers, Courion Corporation asked what some of those risks were. The answers weren’t too surprising, as the top risks included the potential losses of sensitive data, corporate reputation,... More >
01.30.12
High-Capacity SSDs Pushing to Tier 1 and Beyond
Flash storage has taken a kind of top-down approach when it comes to the enterprise. From the beginning, its chief benefits were transfer speed and lower operating costs, which made it an ideal solution for Web serving and other Tier 0 applications. It was for that reason that most storage experts... More >
02.01.12
PaaS and the Private Cloud
The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate versus private clouds goes something like this: Only the public cloud can provide the scalability to meet burgeoning data environments, so private clouds are a waste of money that limit you to your own finite infrastructure. Ah, but what fun we can... More >
02.01.12
Dumb and Dumber: No Voter ID Required, No National ID Allowed
I have a hunch that the people who argue against requiring voters to prove their identity are pretty much the same crowd that argues against the idea of having a national ID card. Neither argument makes any sense to me. In fact, it seems to me that being required to prove your identity when you vote... More >
01.27.12
Pixar Animates Cloud Computing
One of the more interesting attributes of cloud computing is the ability to invoke compute-intensive resources as a service. Rather than having to acquire and deploy IT infrastructure to handle peak loads or processing requirements, IT organizations can “rightsize” their IT investments to handle... More >
02.01.12
European Commission Looking into Samsung's Patent Licensing Practices
As if Samsung doesn't have enough on its plate right now, considering the international litigation with Apple and other smartphone makers over patent infringement, the European Union announced Tuesday it is launching an inquiry into the company's 3G patent licensing practices. The Los Angeles... More >
02.03.12
The Android Community Responds to Security Challenges
Android seems to be constantly in the process of discovering and defining itself. That’s part and parcel of both of the specifics of how open source works and, more generally, that a massive deployment of an operating system based on that approach to intellectual property is unprecedented and sure to... More >
02.03.12
Exploring Hadoop's Real-Time Potential
One of the more promising applications of Hadoop and other Big Data solutions is the ability to deliver information in real time. It’s not mentioned often, which is unfortunate, because it’s really a game-changer for some organizations, with far-reaching implications for the rest of us. That’s... More >
02.03.12
Old Versions of WordPress Compromised
A new attack against old versions of WordPress is a reminder of the importance of always performing updates when prompted. We saw how using old versions of IE, IE6 in particular, led to all kinds of exploits and attacks, so you would think the lesson would have been learned at some point, but here we... More >
02.03.12
Tracking Super Bowl Sentiment in Real Time
There’s obviously a lot riding on the outcome of the Super Bowl game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday night. But what’s at stake goes well beyond who gets to claim the Lombardi Trophy and the rings that go with it. There are millions of dollars in endorsement... More >
02.03.12
Survey Links Building Business Relationships, Bigger Bucks
My colleague Ann All last fall quoted executive recruiter Tim Cook from a silicon.com piece saying that IT has become "less about running infrastructure and data systems well, and more about IT procurement, vendor management, business-process change and information security." Wrote Ann: This kind... More >
02.03.12
Making Hadoop an Integral Part of the Enterprise
While there’s obviously a lot of interest in the Hadoop data management framework as an alternative approach to storing massive amounts of data, more than a few enterprises have found the fact that Hadoop currently requires dedicated storage systems a bit troubling. What they are typically trying to... More >
02.02.12
10 Hot-Button Job Interview Question Areas to Get Ready For
If you’re not unemployed or underemployed, you may well be one of the millions of people who’ve managed to keep your job through the recession, but vowed to bail the moment things started to improve, because you’ve been disgusted by the way your bosses treated you and your colleagues when they knew... More >
02.02.12
Voice Over LTE Set to Roll in 2012
All of the hubbub about Long Term Evolution (LTE) during the past couple of years has been about data. Voice, to date, has not been part of the 4G LTE experience. That is about to change. The vendor and service provider industries are on the cusp of introducing voice to the platform, which has... More >
02.02.12
Putting Big Data on Pause
Daniel W. Rasmus is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to be excited about Big Data. The intelligent systems engineer is a “strategist who helps clients put their future in context” using “scenarios to analyze trends in society, technology, economics, the environment, and politics in order to... More >
02.02.12
Have Cyber Threats Passed Terrorism as Top Threat Against the U.S.?
Earlier this week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that cyber threats against the country are going to surpass terrorism as the top threat facing the United States. Those cyber threats could come in the form of cyber espionage, threats against critical infrastructure like utilities or... More >
02.02.12
Zen and the Art of IT Infrastructure
Like any complicated ecosystem of machines, the art of managing a well-run IT environment comes down to maintaining balance between all the elements of the environment. Unfortunately, thanks to the rise of virtualization and a massive spike in the amount of data that needs to be managed, achieving... More >
02.02.12
Time to Rethink IT Systems Management
Managing IT on a daily basis has never been more challenging. With the advent of virtualization, the number of virtual and physical servers that IT managers are being asked to regularly manage is increasing by a factor of 10 or more. There are, of course, plenty of tools to manage those servers, but... More >
02.02.12
IPO Filing Provides Peek at Facebook Culture
I've written a lot about how companies try to build a culture where engineers want to work. We've had glimpses before of the Facebook culture, though the social network's IPO filing lays that out in more detail. It mentions its "hackathons," short, intense (often overnight) sessions in which... More >
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This white paper reviews the business value of IT security, illustrates the business case for security-as-a-service (SaaS) over "do it yourself" premise-based solutions, and outlines what to look for in SaaS solutions you can adopt with confidence and count on as you grow.
Information Integration: Effective Data Governance at the Speed of Business
In this webcast, join experts from IBM as they discuss information-intensive solutions that enable comprehensive data discovery and delivery to leverage information assets and better align IT with the needs of the business.
