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Archived Since:February 3, 2010

Blog Post Archive

Technology center of gravity shifting to marketing departments

'The chief marketing officer has become the king of IT without you knowing it.'

To build trust in cloud engagements, ask these 3 questions

Cloud is a compelling proposition, but most business leaders are nervous about security and reliability. Here's a way to calm those nerves.

The 5 'supertrends' of enterprise IT

Rather than being captive employees, IT professionals are owners of their own individual brands, 'and sometimes lend out their brand to a large organization'

Catch 22: To avoid IT, end-users need IT's help

Application programming interfaces and cloud may represent this generation's 'skunk works,' but they're not ready to go it alone.

North Dakota among top states for IT spending: is it the oil boom?

IDC says four out of the 50 states will see growth in enterprise IT spending exceed 7% over the coming year.

Pricing out cloud computing? Look at your workloads first

New report suggests many cloud costs are underestimated due to variations in workloads.

Software-defined networking: 'virtualization’s last mile'

Next great frontier in IT: uncoupling the network from network hardware.

'One fraud event a week': survey finds internal data breaches all too pervasive

Sneaky, sneaky: organizations suffer 55 employee-related incidents of fraud a year -- mainly through employees getting hold of privileged users' credentials.

'Great coders are today's rock stars'

In a video intended to rev up the interest of young people in software development, industry luminaries make the case for 'an incredibly empowering skill to learn.'

More enterprise app stores on the horizon, Gartner says

Call it BYOA (bring your own application). Unlike BYOD, however, enterprises will take more control of the situation with sanctioned apps available for quick downloads and deployments.

5 top frustrations with mobile devices in the enterprise

Survey of 477 IT managers finds less IT involvement in BYOD decisions, and frustration with the inevitable support they will require. But users need to set the terms.

Agile gains, but executives are completely clueless, survey finds

Survey of more than 4,000 developers finds agile has reached critical mass -- but their executives still don't get it.

Pushback against 'Big Data' begins

Big Data is now overused and out; 'Smart Data' is in. What else is new?

Scrum: 'sometimes the slap needs to be harder!'

Agile and scrum need to be more than a set of rituals. Here's how to bake scrum methodologies into everything you do.

IT departments still 'fighting too many fires,' survey finds

Service modeling and management may help elevate IT service levels, but progress has been slow.

Work begins to standardize 'internet-of-things' protocol

OASIS launches technical committee that promises to have a widely accepted machine-to-machine connectivity protocol available in about a year.

Every cloud has a data center behind it

A reader sounds off: Cloud computing services don't magically materialize, 'they have to be on somebody's premises.'

Tech salaries 'see biggest jump in a decade': survey

Dice's monthly count of IT listings shows New York and Silicon Valley as top markets, big data the top skill.

Ponder this: traditional data center may rise again, thanks to cloud

Data centers were originally designed to efficiently run and protect core systems. Will cloud clear away two decades' worth of clutter?

Lean manufacturing may be a good fit for stressed-out software shops

Agile is good, but busy, widely dispersed software development organizations also need to keep re-assessing the way they do things.

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