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While the consumerization of IT is happening all around them, internal IT departments appear determined to ignore this trend and all the implications this movement has on managing IT in the future... More >
Now that Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced its intention to make data storage available as both a private cloud computing service managed by HDS and a public cloud computing service managed b... More >
One of the things that end users like to use analytic applications for is to investigate various pricing models and the impact they might have on profit and revenue. After all, the whole point of ana... More >
There's obviously a tremendous amount of interest in building mobile computing applications for the latest and greatest smartphones. But as IT organizations rush to embrace these platforms, many wi... More >
There’s a potential treasure trove of information in all those messages being exchanged on social networks. That’s what IBM believes as the company pushes new social analytics tools specifically desi... More >
One of the things that tends to confuse a lot of business people is the notion of business process management (BPM). They are generally aware of the fact that they have business processes that need t... More >
While it’s been established that different business intelligence agendas are at work between the IT department and the end users , it also turns out that the end users of these applications are some... More >
If IT organizations want to run IT like a business, they need to manage it like one. But the first thing anyone running a business understands is that you can’t really manage what you can’t really se... More >
With the formal launch of the Chatter social network surrounding Salesforce.com, there’s obviously been a lot of chatter about the role of social networking in business. But if we take a step back... More >
It’s hard enough to manage one data center successfully, but as cloud computing evolves, it appears that IT organizations will have to learn how to manage application workloads running across multipl... More >
One of the biggest challenges that any IT organization will face when it comes to cloud computing is moving an existing application into the cloud . While theoretically virtual machines solve this p... More >
There's a lot of back and forth these days about what is the best approach to cloud computing integration . But while most of that conversation focuses on applications or specific types of data, muc... More >
RSA , the security division of EMC, today will ofer guidance on how to leverage a partnership with First Data Corp . under which the global provider of merchant services will deliver a service for c... More >
In some form or another, more aspects of application testing will become increasingly automated. While there is a general bias toward manual testing, IT services companies such as Infosys increasin... More >
When starting from scratch, something new such as MapReduce technology is a relatively easy option to consider. After all, you have no major investments in SQL and there’s not a lot of existing dat... More >
Just in case you have not been paying attention to every little nuance in the world of mobile computing, things are pretty chaotic. While there’s not much an IT organization today can do about the ... More >
When it comes to new technologies, the financial services sector is usually first in line in adoption. But a new survey from LogLogic , a provider of log analyzer software, shows that financi... More >
As a provider of a free file transfer service that is easy to use, YouSendIt.com is widely viewed as a Web 2.0 application for consumers. But it turns out that one of the company's fastest growing ... More >
When it comes to IT, sometime less is more. That's part of the thinking behind a workflow application from PerfectForms that allows end users to build and create their own business process wor... More >
For all the advances in predictive analytics lately, it won’t amount to much if businesses don’t have enough people with the necessary expertise to gain value from it. IBM announced today that it is ... More >
It’s pretty clear at this point that the consumerization of IT is spinning out of control. At most companies, workers use a variety of services with little to no input from IT, not only raising the... More >
There are really two kinds of processes when it comes to business: machine driven processes, such as order-to-cash, and daily human processes, such as customer service, that get wrapped around those ... More >
Any marketer will tell you is that the end goal is to create a positive customer experience that is both memorable and enjoyable. Internal IT organizations faced with a plethora of third-party compet... More >
Most people intuitively recognize that among the reasons that health care costs are so high are that labor-intensive paper-based processes still dominate the industry. The offices of many primary ca... More >
There’s an old saying that that there’s nothing going on in your office that your customers or shareholder care about. What they really want to know is what are you doing out and about in the world t... More >
The folks at Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) think that most vendor and IT services companies have it wrong when it comes to cloud computing. Rather than focusing primarily on infrastructure or applica... More >
If Apple has shown us anything, it’s how just about anything can be connected to an application running in the cloud. Yet building these types of applications has been beyond the resources of most co... More >
There’s growing tension among proponents of business intelligence solutions as new offerings based on open source software and software-as-a-service solutions gain traction. A recent worldwide survey... More >
Business executives always lament not being able to harness the knowledge that already exists inside their companies. In fact, all the interest in business intelligence these days could be summed up ... More >
Hewlett-Packard wants to change the way IT organizations go about building applications. We all know that too often security is an afterthought when it comes to building applications. That invariably... More >
Everyone hates spam, but no one is quite sure what to do about it. We can obviously deploy anti-spam software to stem the tide. But invariably, it seems like the spammers find a way around the spam f... More >
Like it or not, the need to count carbons is going to be a business requirement for just about everybody. As a comprehensive energy bill moves through Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency... More >
IBM officials like to talk about the need for smarter cities as part of the company’s ongoing Smarter Planet campaign. Now the company is helping to build a smart city from the ground up. IBM is wo... More >
Unless you travel the back channels of enterprise IT, chances are good you never heard of companies such as Ingram Micro or Tech Data . And yet both of them, along with other distributors such as ... More >
When you look at the myriad processes involved in building any product, it’s a wonder that companies ever bring anything to market. A big part of the problem in terms of building products inside a mo... More >
It’s generally an article of faith that the data being presented in an application is actually the latest version. It's a dirty little secret of IT that little checking takes place. But as compliance... More >
Most IT organizations don’t give a lot of thought to managed file transfer, yet most of them are struggling with the file-size limitations of their e-mail systems while individual files keep getting... More >
We all know that the basic problem with passwords is that to remember them, we have to associate them with something easy to recall. Of course, that’s what makes it relatively easy for hackers to fig... More >
Advocates of business intelligence software have long argued that users' attachment to spreadsheets is one of the biggest hindrances to BI adoption. For many users, spreadsheets provide all the BI ca... More >
When it comes to cutting IT costs, the fact of the matter is that most of the easy things, such as consolidating file servers, have already been done. Now IT organizations are being asked to take on ... More >
In the wake of the economic downturn, more companies than ever are looking toward collaboration applications to help boost productivity at a time when there are fewer people on the job. In fact, a ne... More >
When the whole concept of cloud computing first came to the fore, Amazon was clearly one of the pioneers. It correctly surmised that it could defer much of the associated expense by getting as many c... More >
Chances are good that many users accessing corporate applications with their smartphones will be replacing those devices over the next 12 months because of mounting security concerns. Thus far, smart... More >
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