Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Our colleague Sid Pearl, Global Industries director of Risk Intelligence Solutions Management at Unisys, recently shared his views on the Unisys Security Index blog about the top threats IT will face in 2011. At the heart of Sid’s outlook are several risk factors driven by consumer-powered IT. Sid covers these issues and, more importantly, suggests [...]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
In my previous blog posts, I concentrated on how the consumerization of IT has changed many facets of enterprise IT. These transformations stem from the evolving technology preferences of today’s end users. C-suite executives are now becoming more aware of the extent to which end users are shaping enterprise IT — including ways to measure [...]
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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 28th, 2011
Mobile devices and other consumer-driven technologies are set to increase transaction volumes by an order of magnitude. Now is the time to start preparing your data center and enterprise applications for this shift.
But be forewarned: The challenges you will face are not necessarily technical in nature. Technology is the easier part. But before you can [...]
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
As I said in my post about data center readiness — there’s a lot more to preparing your data center and enterprise apps for growth in mobile transactions than just technology. To adequately transform the IT infrastructure to meet new requirements, IT needs:
An efficient, streamlined process
A plan for communicating with each constituency
Well-defined SLAs for different [...]
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