Moving to a career in IT security
Jobs within IT security are hot at the moment and recently a number of people have asked me what it takes to get into this sector. For some people IT security is a world of hackers and data leakage....
View ArticleSnapshots have a visibility problem
There's a fantastic bakery in my neighborhood where everything is terrific. Whether you're getting bread or cakes or cookies, they are the best in town. Unfortunately, there's one problem. Nothing is...
View ArticleThe world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators
Every year, we see a number of publications issue their Top 50 lists of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. In recent years, there have been rankings issued by Forbes.com, Fast Company, and MIT...
View ArticlePutting the C in CIO: Calm, cool and connected
The role of the IT department and the CIO is undergoing a dramatic shift.
View ArticleClear skies or stormy weather? What's in the clouds for 2013.
Here is where I see the cloud headed in 2013.
View Article5 top resolutions for IT in 2013
What would a new year be without the inevitable list of resolutions? Here's a quick five that any IT person should consider when thinking about their work related new year's resolutions.
View ArticleComplexity: How solutions end up as problems
Last time out I wrote about how snapshots have a visibility problem, meaning it’s difficult if not impossible to tell what’s inside them without having to look into each one. Yet snapshots are a very...
View ArticleAverting SaaS-astrophe with a dose of reality
Balancing this risk-reward equation is a tricky operation, but eminently achievable if vendors and enterprise IT leaders collectively embrace the new realities of doing business in today's mobile,...
View ArticleEmbrace comprehensive security, not just the 'Top 10'
Instead of focusing on the Top 10 vulnerabilities, let's chant the mantra of necessary security controls.
View ArticleOptimizing IT for 2013
A major push for chief information officers (CIOs) in 2013 will be the development or refinement of a new end-state vision for IT that anticipates the challenges of the rapid growth of data and...
View ArticleBig data intelligence: New opportunities for collaboration
In a previous post – “Big data deluge: new challenges for collaboration" – I discussed the vital importance of managing explosive volumes of data to ensure effective collaboration. In reality, that’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft earnings report show the future of the company: Enterprises first,...
If you want to see Microsoft's future, take a look at its just-released earnings report. It shows a company increasingly reliant on selling to enterprises, and less tied to more fickle consumers.
View Article5 steps for evaluating your IT infrastructure
In the pursuit of optimized IT models, chief information officers (CIOs) need to carefully evaluate their existing IT infrastructures and make choices that cut costs and streamline processes.
View Article3 CIO considerations from IDC’s 3rd platform
Here are three areas I believe the 3rd platform, and hence the combination of cloud, mobile, social and big data, will be critical for CIOs in 2013
View ArticleWindows Phone's presence in the enterprise: Dead in the water, says a new report
As bad as Windows Phone's market share is among consumers, it's even worse in what you would expect to be Microsoft's strength -- the enterprise. A new report finds that in the fourth quarter of 2012,...
View ArticlePost-PC Microsoft signs its death warrant -- with an iPad
A leaked report claims Microsoft intends bringing Office to Apple iPads (and Android slates) -- but not until 2014. Meanwhile IDC informs us that PC sales have slumped to a 20-year low. In the Post-PC...
View ArticleThe unintended consequences of IT transformations
Momentous, earth-shattering changes in IT have proven to be a divisive factor for many companies. Over the past four decades, these moments of change, or inflection points, have turned the industry on...
View ArticleWWDC: Apple's iOS 7 moves even closer to the enterprise
The focus at WWDC may appear to be on consumer markets, but Apple has also made major improvements to its offering to enterprise users with a range of iOS 7 features that should maintain the maker's...
View ArticleIf you're an iPad using BYOD convert, you might want NoteSuite for project...
A high standard for consumer-focused personal and project organization apps for Apple platforms has been set with the introduction of NoteSuite, a powerful iOS/Mac notekeeping solution that integrates...
View ArticleMicrosoft kills the enterprise cloud
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may be taking a page from the Apple playbook in repositioning his corporation as a "devices company", but that's just smoke and mirrors to disguise a firm that's lost its...
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