Plenty of seismic shifts have IT in the past. Some big rumblings' epicenters had origins in an unstoppable technology shift; other fissures had nothing to do with PCs and servers. Consider the recent shocks: the Internet revolution and dotcom bust; Y2K and 9/11; the consumerization of IT; and the unstoppable broadband and mobile explosion.
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When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the database and storage servers from the business units into a single data center in Long Beach, Calif.
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If you didn't get the message with the release of the or the subsequent arrival of Android, then has to be your wake-up call. Mobile is no longer just the future; its time is now.
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I've had the opportunity to visit several infrastructure and operations industry events already this year. Each targeted the same basic message: a return to innovation. But I have to wonder, are we really ready for innovation The last 18 months have been marked by a consistent and constant effort to demonstrate return on investment (ROI). Why, as we now enter 2010, is there a sudden emphasis on innovation ...
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While Apple with its may be hogging all the headlines lately, a Microsoft official stressed Thursday that the Redmond, Wash. software giant should not be counted out when it comes to offering its own software on different types of devices.
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There probably isn't a week that goes by without an enterprise IT manager hearing one of their users lament "why can't I have one of those cool iMacs instead of this boring, grey PC" It's enough to make even the strongest IT manager run for the hills.
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CIOs and other IT leaders have long struggled to measure and then demonstrate the business value of IT investments, and that challenge has generally become more difficult during the recession of the last two years.
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The consumerization of IT, the rise of and the explosion of are three big trends that today's CIOs must embrace, a group of analysts at Forrester Research Inc. said Tuesday.
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The Google Apps hosted communication and collaboration suite, which packs e-mail, calendar, office productivity applications and a wiki-based Web site builder, among other applications, is gaining a new component: discussion forums with mailing lists.
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will grow a staggering 650% over the next five years, and that's just one of numerous challenges IT leaders have to start preparing for today, analysts said as the annual Gartner Data Center Conference kicked off in Las Vegas Tuesday morning.
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For years analysts have encouraged the consumerization of IT to enhance collaboration and productivity. It began with adoption of consumer instant messaging applications and continued with Web 2.0 technologies such as Wikis and social networking. Now, as employees start bringing their smartphones to work and request IT to provide access to email and other corporate applications, we are seeing the ...
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The good news for security teams is that they are more visible to the business than ever before. High-profile data breaches, costly compliance requirements, and a bleak economic market mean companies are more willing to invest in information security to protect their digital assets. But there's bad news, too: Security teams are more visible than ever. With visibility comes an increased set of responsibilities.
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If the economic downturn has proven anything, it's that many CISOs still struggle to articulate the value of their security programs and justify the security budget to business and executive management. Many helplessly watched their budgets slashed, their projects postponed, and their employees laid-off.
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Despite client virtualization becoming increasingly popular, there is still much confusion about the different technologies and how they will play out in the enterprise. Many firms still believe that client virtualization is a security risk or that a single technology will help them improve manageability, empower remote workers, and virtualize all their applications.
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Systems management appliance maker on Tuesday plans to unveil changes to its Kbox product line that it says will create a true cross-platform environment for managing Mac and PC systems. The announced changes will let IT administrators manage Windows and Mac OS X machines from a single interface on a single appliance.
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Enrique Salem, who took the reins of Symantec Corp. as president and CEO this month, sat down with Computerworld's Scot Finnie and Lucas Mearian at the Storage Networking World conference here to talk about how his company is dealing with the recession and his vision of the future of Symantec and the technology business.
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Enrique Salem, who this week took the reigns of Symantec Corp., spoke to a packed hall at Storage Networking World about his company's plans to focus on technologies like thin provisioning and data deduplication, which can help companies better utilize the assets they have in order to stave off purchasing more hardware. Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Scot Finnie and Storage Editor Lucas Mearian sat ...
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Issuing corporate smart phones isn't just about catering to the preferences of the next generation. As a lower-cost alternative to company laptops, mobile phones might be better suited to the current economic climate.
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