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One of the biggest concerns customers have when it comes to software-as-a-service applications in particular and cloud computing in general is storing sensitive data in the cloud. But what if IT orga... More >
A lot of IT time, effort an money goes into managing documents. IT organizations have thrown everything from high-end document management systems, databases such as Lotus Notes and portal software su... More >
A growing disconnect between the way IT organizations deliver IT support and the way end users actually use their machines is quickly emerging. Back in the good old days, IT organizations could prett... More >
Two of the most popular cloud computing applications at the moment are backup and recovery followed by security. As neither function is particularly appreciated within IT circles, moving these proc... More >
If you have not noticed, just about everything that IBM is doing lately in software revolves around cloud computing. Today, IBM announced that it has signed a pact with Ariba, under which that comp... More >
When people don’t realize how much something truly costs, they generally don’t appreciate it. All too often, that’s the case with enterprise IT. Business executives don’t understand how much it costs... More >
No matter whether you think the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a positive or a negative, the one thing that everybody can agree on is that it’s expensive. Between securin... More >
Vendors such as Cisco, EMC, IBM and HP for the last several months have been advocating for the adoption of a new class of servers that tightly integrates servers, storage and networking functionalit... More >
When all is said and done, most providers of IT hardware and software don't do a particularly good job of serving the needs of the midmarket IT organization. Most vendors typically use large-scale IT... More >
When vendors talk about cloud computing services today, they do their level best to try to create as much differentiation as possible. That usually results in talking about infrastructure delivered a... More >
One of the first uses of virtualization tends to be the consolidation of IT infrastructure used for application development. After all, most of these systems are used intermittently, so there’s no re... More >
We all know that the amount of data that needs to be managed is spiraling out of control. Between the size of the applications being used to comply with increased regulations, the amount of data av... More >
Figuring out the real cost of IT and the projected return on those investments has never been very easy. And with the rise of cloud computing services where pricing can change on a daily basis, it'... More >
Although Windows 7 is giving Microsoft something of a renaissance on the desktop, IT organizations will have to accept that there will be a lot more diversity in the coming years. With the popularity... More >
Among the bigger concerns about cloud computing relate to data governance and regulatory issues about where data can legally reside. For example, a lot of countries in Europe and Asia prohibit stor... More >
When it comes to public cloud computing, the single biggest concern for most IT organizations is security. When it comes to security, not all public cloud computing services are created equal. But ... More >
One of the fundamental problems with business intelligence, argues Cloud9 Analytics CEO Swayne Hill, is that we give end users BI tools rather than actual applications they can readily use. That’s th... More >
When it comes to saving money on IT energy costs, a little awareness can go a long way. That's the fundamental message that Neil Rasmussen, chief innovation officer for APC by Schneider Electric, del... More >
A name change, especially a third one in space of a few years, might not normally be worth any notice. But in the case of CA, a new CA Technologies moniker that was announced today at the CA World... More >
The battle for the hearts and minds of business executives stretches all the way back to the early days of time-sharing. There has always been an external IT services provider telling the business th... More >
Now that a comprehensive energy bill has been formally introduced in Congress, it’s only a matter of time before some form of increased regulation and scrutiny comes the way of IT. The question is ... More >
As business processes move out to the Web, they become more complex. Companies are saving millions of dollars by doing this because in most cases they are eliminating tons of overhead. But as more bu... More >
When it comes to telemedicine, the conventional wisdom of the day is that it requires expensive, high-definition video conferencing systems running on top of dedicated hardware to make these types of... More >
As Microsoft gears up to the launch of SharePoint 2010 , more than a few IT organizations are taking a moment to reflect on the benefits and drawbacks of one of the fastest-growing applications in t... More >
As the economy begins to rebound, manufacturing activity is starting to accelerate. Unfortunately, most of it is taking place in relatively small companies with little access to sophisticated managem... More >
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing senior IT directors is how to pay for the reinvention of their enterprise IT operations as a private cloud computing service. After all, when 75 percent of the IT... More >
With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010, many enterprise customers will have to do some soul-searching about how they want to manage a document repository system that in many cases is out of c... More >
One of the first areas that any company applies virtualization to is the IT infrastructure associated with application development. But once they start going down this path, it become apparent that t... More >
A huge part of the IT ecosystem consists of local IT service providers that are in effect the IT departments for hundreds of thousands of companies that either can’t afford or don’t want to manage th... More >
Just about everywhere you turn, vendors are trying to carve out a piece of the cloud for themselves. Unfortunately, while cloud computing capacity might be infinite, demand for these services may not... More >
Any cloud by definition is amorphous and prone to dissipation. So some folks are starting to ask when cloud computing will become so pervasive that it just melts into the enterprise. Clearly, we’re s... More >
At its Impact 2010 conference in Las Vegas this week, IBM is encouraging attendees to play computer games. IBM is giving away the third iteration of a gaming series the company developed to help bo... More >
In the wake of the recent economic downturn, tensions between vendors and customers over software licensing run high. In the absence of real sales growth, vendors have launched software licensing aud... More >
Despite all the warnings concerning Internet security, most users are pretty confident of the security of their information when using a mobile computing device. A new global survey of 9,429 indivi... More >
One of the things that is increasingly driving IT organizations to distraction is how to invoke compliance policies in a world where electronic mail is only one of many mediums used. Today, proprieta... More >
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