IT Management | Guest Opinion | Costas Galonis Friday, November 18, 2011
If you are wading through the sea of words that has been written about cloud computing in the last few months, you can be forgiven for being a little confused. Not only is cloud computing a new concept, the literature about it is weighed down with new ideas and words such as virtualization, multi-tenancy etc. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Elias Terman Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Social media has become a valuable source of feedback for businesses that are wise enough to leverage the data it produces. For example, sales teams can keep an eye on their happy customers and their competitors’ unhappy customers. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Phil Neray Thursday, November 3, 2011
Life for security professionals used to be simpler. You could stop outsiders from accessing your data by establishing perimeter defenses such as firewalls and anti-virus systems, and by having on-site security guards and identity checks at the entrance to your corporate data center. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Rajini Padmanaban Wednesday, November 2, 2011
“Geekdom” in the the U.S. has gained a revered status due to the technology and financial successes of so many. People respect the complex brains of the geeks and have learned to respect their business-savvy as well. Then there is Geekdom in India, halfway around the world, where many differences and similarities exist. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Robert Greene Monday, October 31, 2011
Big Data is currently the talk of the town, and for good reason. McKinsey & Company best quantified everyone’s excitement in a report earlier this year noting that, for example, the U.S. health care system could realize $300 billion in potential annual value by leveraging data more effectively. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Louis Imershein Wednesday, October 26, 2011
High-performance storage is a key enabler for mission-critical applications in the enterprise today, particularly in the areas of database indexing, online transaction processing, desktop and server virtualization, front-end Web serving, and key infrastructure (such as email and messaging). Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Mukesh Sharma Monday, October 24, 2011
Exponential growth is nothing new in the information technology industry. The relatively short history of IT is rife with revolution. Think the microchip, super computers, power PC chips, the personal computer, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence and so on. All have had transformative effects on people and businesses. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Teresa Worth Friday, October 21, 2011
Solid state drive (SSD) technology, long touted for its high speed, is a staple in the consumer market, appearing in such varied applications as digital cameras, USB sticks and MP3 players. But increasing adoption of data-intensive applications that require high performance has brought SSD data storage to the enterprise. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Adrian Cho Thursday, October 20, 2011
If an organization is run like a black box, only those within that organization know its internal workings. People outside the organization know only what goes into the organization and what goes out. On the surface, this doesn’t seem unreasonable. As long as the organization gets its work done, does anybody need to know how it achieves its goals? Continue Reading »
