Monday, February 14th, 2011
The consumerization of IT is driving economic change at a level not seen since the global spread of industrial technology a hundred years ago. What was known as “Web 2.0” early in this century, and the business and consumer applications it wrought, continue to evolve at a blinding pace. Just last summer the world met [...]
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
Readying your data center to handle the changes wrought by the consumerization of IT represents a rare opportunity to rethink how your company chooses, uses, and pays for information technology.
I’ve written before that data center readiness is not just a matter of technology, but rather, one of process. Technologies — or should I say “computing [...]
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
The IT industry has gone through a fruitful period of innovation over the past several years. Those innovations continue with the growing adoption of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing, smart computing, appliances, and cyber security.
Now enterprise strategists and architects need to step back and help their organizations absorb these individual innovations and [...]
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
This week’s consumerization headlines have us looking ahead to 2011. How fast will tablets be adopted at the enterprise level? What will extensive use of consumer devices for work mean for enterprise security this holiday season? And what will the coming year bring in terms of SaaS and social software? Read on to find out.
Forbes [...]
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
I’ve blogged in the past about how crucial it is for organizations to have a well thought out strategy surrounding the adoption of new consumer technologies. IT leadership needs to decide why and where these disruptive technologies will be integrated, how they’ll coexist with existing platforms, and how investments should be prioritized.
So far most IT [...]
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