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About this time of year, when many corporations are trying to close the book on 2009 while fine-tuning their budget forecasts for 2010, there is always a nagging feeling that money has been left on t... More >
The common wisdom concerning e-mail these days is that it’s all heading into the cloud. After all, it’s difficult to manage and, as a basic utility of computing, in and of itself it doesn’t provide a... More >
It’s unclear how much of the rise in articles across the Web that question the potential threat of a cyber-world dominated by Google is being orchestrated by media companies that fear Google. But whi... More >
While most IT organizations are comfortable these days with the concept of software-as-a-service (SaaS) , it turns out that they don’t necessarily trust providers of these services . In a recent su... More >
Though budget cuts in 2009 largely forced companies to lower the cost of enterprise computing, in the next year, IT organizations need to take a proactive approach to managing IT infrastructure and a... More >
There’s really no excuse any more for deploying insecure software. With the vast majority of software, especially Web applications, becoming blatant targets for hackers everywhere, it was until recen... More >
When we think about software-as-a-service (SaaS) , we tend to envision large-scale services such as Salesforce.com. After all, the conventional wisdom is that for providers to make money, they need ... More >
All too often, there is a tendency to measure security in terms of compliance. Unfortunately, the definition of compliance with any particular regulation usually comes down to meeting the bare minimu... More >
No matter what you think of global warming itself, one of the things to be lamented over the lack of a substantive global climate treaty backed by the United Nations is all the IT opportunities tha... More >
From the perspective of an IT manager, end users are always in a state of rebellion. But with the advent of Web 2.0 applications and the rise of employee-owned devices in the enterprise , the rebe... More >
One of the reasons that many end users are so keen on using their own machines versus the one the company provides for work is that they want real application independence. This is anathema to most... More >
With the proliferation of first smartphones and soon a whole new class of netbooks and ultralight notebooks, lots of end users are starting to dream about the day when they can access any file anywhe... More >
Despite all the hype about every application workload in the world moving into the cloud, some practical patterns are starting to emerge in the types of applications people are moving to the cloud. A... More >
The thing about any given business process is that it usually consists of machines and people in equal measures. Unfortunately, most of the focus on business process management (BPM) has been on mach... More >
The history of enterprise computing is rife with all kinds of marketing gimmicks, but rarely does an IT vendor put any cash behind its promises. But that’s exactly what Stratus Technologies has set o... More >
Despite these troubled economic times and the fact that the PC they get from their corporations is free, a poll of 532 information workers conducted by Unisys finds that 36 percent would prefer to ... More >
The advent of cloud computing is having a profound impact on how IT services companies operate and, more importantly, the relationship between them, their customers and the vendor community at large.... More >
One of the things touted most about cloud computing services is reliability. After all, they are managed by the best IT people in the business running the most state-of-the art equipment. Yet, we sti... More >
We all know how challenged IT organizations can be when it comes to making a case for their fair share of the corporate budget , but at least they don’t have to worry about building a financial appl... More >
Arguably, IT has been one of the most open industries on the planet when it comes to free trade. Software and hardware products from around the globe can be found in just about any enterprise, much t... More >
One of the assumptions about cloud computing is that it’s basically a simple matter of choosing an application workload and finding the best place to host it from a pricing perspective. But now all c... More >
As we begin to see an increase in the number of applications aimed at automating the management of marketing, we’re also starting to see a corresponding increase in efforts to integrate those systems... More >
When it comes to renewing applications on a mainframe, there are several approaches to the problem that vary widely in degree and scope. For many IT organizations, the concept of an application is li... More >
Any time IT organizations are confronted with a new challenge, the conditioned response is to throw software and hardware at the problem. In most cases that usually helps, but when it comes to busine... More >
Somewhere along the line, IT organizations somehow became convinced that managing their own phone networks and related applications was a good idea. You can see how it happened. The carriers were slo... More >
Intuitively, we all know that the next generation of enterprise software is going to be defined by business process management. But the real question is, how long is it going to take for us to get th... More >
Trash talking between vendor isn’t all that new, but we rarely get to see a vendor convincingly back up those claims. An internal memo penned by Al Zollar, IBM general manager for Tivoli Software, cl... More >
One issue that regularly confounds supporters of business intelligence (BI) software has been the general lack of adoption. BI software clearly adds value, but end users have been loath to give up th... More >
One of the reasons that municipalities specifically, and companies in general, operate so inefficiently is that they don’t have a holistic view of the way their equipment is being used. And while man... More >
The separation of management of data and its presentation has been at the root cause of many of an IT problem with the business. In an ideal world, IT would be left to its own devices to manage the d... More >
One of the ongoing debates concerning business intelligence software has been around how to drive more adoption. Obviously, there is a wide gap between the number of people using business intelligenc... More >
Every piece of technology ever deployed goes through cycles. When software-as-a-service first made the rounds, it came as point applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), most notab... More >
One of the most attractive things about cloud computing from the perspective of business people is that it provides an effective means to outsource IT. After all, IT all too often isn’t critical to t... More >
The latest round of server market share numbers for the third quarter brought the usual amount of vendor bragging; especially from IBM which, according to Gartner, gained two points of revenue shar... More >
This is the time of year when thoughts turn to staying home with the family, so IT organizations go with skeletal crews as employees take time off. But while the IT staff is at home getting some well... More >
Like most economic statistics, the rise of open source in the enterprise is a trailing indicator. Right now, we have some pretty compelling anecdotal information, even though hard data is still amorp... More >
The most important IT function of any help desk is that it shapes users' opinion of the IT department. And yet, it's the least important in terms of business value in that it doesn’t directly increas... More >
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