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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Monday, January 10th, 2011
WikiLeaks stands as a warning for all of us responsible for protecting the digital assets and intellectual property (IP) of our organizations.
It is tempting to think that WikiLeaks, and the explosion of similar whistleblower and vigilante sites, as only interested in information from government, military, or political organizations. But a recent Forbes interview with WikiLeaks [...]
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
A reporter recently sent me an e-mail asking the following question: What advice do you have for another company trying to rollout iPhone support in an enterprise — specifically related to data center issues? What steps should they take?
As I hit send on my message back to him, that included the response below, I realized it [...]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
You might have read how Delta Air Lines recently became the first in its industry to let customers book tickets on Facebook. With a population of more than 500 million, the Facebook community is now larger than that of the United States. Socially savvy Facebook users want to do business through Facebook and other social [...]
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Consumerization of IT isn’t about devices or computing platforms. It’s about enabling social interactions. But current hardware-centric IT strategies aren’t suited to supporting this emerging paradigm and capturing the true business value it generates.
That’s going to change over the next 10 years, though. The model based on controlling a complete computing environment from the data [...]
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