All stories in ‘Analysis’
Data in the cloud
Cloud and big data are two big trends influencing the current business landscape. However, they have yet to have been spoken of as a service together. Andrew Sutherland, senior VP [...]
Video for the enterprise
Much has been spoken of the benefits of using Facebook and Twitter for a company to reap the rewards of the social revolution. However, YouTube also has great potential as [...]
Does the iPad cannibalise Apple’s laptops?
The question – whether the company’s tablet cannibalises sales of its own portable computing line – is ultimately impossible to answer, or at least quantify: One can’t look into a [...]
From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by pundit Nicholas Carr called “IT Doesn’t Matter.” The gist of [...]
The road less travelled
V. C. Gopalratnam believes ‘chief innovation officer’ is a better title for today’s CIOs. “The role is all about innovation. The heart of innovation comes from technology. Information is just one [...]
BYOD battle: A tale of two opposing IT viewpoints
EdSouth is a bank holding company active in the student-loan arena, and Arrow Container Corp. manufactures cartons and containers. Their ideas about letting employees use their own mobile devices at [...]
Dell’s Wyse buy a hedge against slowing PC sales
Dell’s plan to buy Wyse Technology is an effort to boost its client hardware portfolio and protect the company from the effects of the recent slowdown in PC sales, according [...]
Windows 8 update: Back up Windows Server 8 to the cloud
Microsoft is offering free tests of online backup for Windows Server 8 via its Azure cloud storage service, which could be a convenient way to protect data without having to spend a lot of [...]
New iPad vs. iPad 2: Which is the better deal?
Everybody’s raved about the new iPad’s display and gauged its graphics prowess in benchmark testing. But it’s not the only iPad in town: Apple continues to sell brand-new iPad 2 models, and at a [...]
What will Google gain from an online tablet store?
Will an online store selling Android tablets help Google compete against the market-leading iPad and the less-expensive Kindle Fire? A few analysts are divided on the value of the move, [...]
Geared for cyber war
The crux of the discussions at the Kaspersky Lab cyber conference in Mexico last month focused on the eventuality of cyber war and how best the world could avoid it. [...]
AMD’s acquisition of SeaMicro puts Intel on the defensive
Intel suffered a setback in the server market with the news that its former partner, SeaMicro, is being acquired by AMD. But the world’s top chip maker said it was [...]
Tubulent turnover
CIOs lament twenty – something techies who quit after a year Louis Trebino, CIO and senior VP at the Harry Fox Agency (HFA), is experiencing significant turnover on his Web [...]
Cloud app integration: the best path
Cloud-based or SaaS applications need to live in an ecosystem, integrated with the rest of your infrastructure and enterprise applications. Sure — but what integration strategy actually works best? There’s [...]
