IT Blog Forrester's CEO took the stage at the IT Forum in Las Vegas today and outlined his bold predictions for the future of business technology -- and who will win and who will lose. Citing Moore's Law, which states that processing power will double every two years, and what he called "Hitachi's Law," th...
mobile applications, Salesforce.com, HP IT Blog IT cloud services are crossing the chasm, argues Frank Gens of IDC. But what do enterprises want and expect from the new paradigm in software delivery?Two distinct compute cloud offerings are emerging cloud as IT infrastructure and cloud as software services provider as noted by SOA Ta...
IT Blog Compute Cloud offerings can be broken down into two types, says Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst, Forrester Research. Defining the two types of Cloud offerings for attendees of a Webcast this week, the Forrester analyst said the firstfocuses on the software platform as a servi...
IT Blog For the record: Lest the blog title gives you the wrong impression, I'm not one of those crazy people who thinkgingers have no souls. Telecom companies? Another story (just kidding -- it was too easy). There are some pretty awesome gingers out there (and some pretty innovative telcos), but the "...
AT&T, hybrid cloud, virtual private cloud IT Blog Cloud computing platforms, low-cost application frameworks and more nimble development are among the top changes for application development in 2010, according to Forrester Research. The information is in a report written by analysts Mike Gualtieri, John Rymer and Jeffrey Hammond, among others. C...
IT Blog This post was written by Greg Ness. Last week we held a webinar on network automation with Forrester Senior Analyst Glenn O'Donnell and US Bank VP Eric L. Cummings. Stay tuned for the link and slides. In the meantime, Eric offered to answer the following questions from the audience via the infrastr...
Dynamic Infrastructure, Core Network Services, IPAM IT Blog This week featured millions of people glued to computer screens, waiting for all to be revealed, sharing their predictions, and crying when they finally saw the reality. Oh, yeah, and there was a Royal Wedding. But ten minutes before that (not that they were trying to hide anything, of course), Am...
amazon, ec2, disaster recovery IT Blog I caught up with Duncan Jones at the Forrester IT Forum in Las Vegas this week. Jones recently published some research on trends in software licensing and maintenance. In this video, he discusses why he sees some flexibility on the part of software vendors, what companies need to consider as they m...
license audits, software licenses, support IT Blog Did you know that the cost of not finding information is $3,300 per employee per year, according to IDC research? Thats crazy! IDCs research credits ineffective searches; poor, inconsistent access tools; re-created content; reformats; and revisions as factors in causing employees to not find t...
employee productivity, collaboration tools, IT/business alignment IT Blog Building a private cloud infrastructure inside your organization is not a trivial matter, so it's surprising to learn that a survey of senior-level IT pros found that an astounding 52 percent have cloud resources they rarely or never use. But the survey, which was conducted by Electric Cloud, a ...
IT Blog I came across an interesting post on the Cloudability blog the other day, the gist of which was that IT might not have a clue that their business users are accessing cloud services without their knowledge. The Cloudability blog looked at a recent study by 37 Signals, the Base Camp folks, which foun...
IT Blog This will come as no surprise to many of you, some of whom I may have interviewed for my cloud storage feature published this month: two new analyst research reports show that despite the hype around cloud storage, its actual uptake among enterprise users has been minimal. According to TheInfoPro's...
IT Blog Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath, which provides technology for virtualizing software applications and managing cloud and virtualized environments, has offered a five step strategy on how to ease into cloud computing, and a webinar on the topic on October 2. "Cloud Computing...
IT Blog It's no surprise that Cisco is making a lot of news at the networking industry's biggest show of the year,Interop Las Vegas. And,yes, a lot of it is enterprise-focused, but there are a few relevant news nuggets for cloud providers: Cisco carves its own SDN path: While the rumor mill has been ch...
cloud networking, Cisco, Cloud Connect IT Blog Remember when we didnt use cell phones or email? Its like wondering what we did before the ATM. Did people go around with big wads of cash in their pockets because they couldnt get a quick hundred whenever they wanted? As cloud computing asserts itself in our lives, try to imagine what we...
IT Blog Last week, the IT Watch Blog took a look at the first three of the Seven Deadly Security Sins. Today, we reveal the other transgressions that are costing companies millions of dollars and putting the privacy and security of their employees and customers at risk. Pride I've seen it happen again an...
Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010, Security IT Blog There are two camps out there, which hype the perils and advantages of social media for an enterpriseboth are gaining ground and visibility. The CXO suite is confused, and this leads to pendulum like actions (moving from one end to the other) on how they react to these prophesies and theories. In...
web 2.0 and the CIO, web 2.0 policy, CIO and the social media IT Blog Iron Mountain's $112 million acquisition of Mimosa Systems today is an admission by Iron Mountain that the concept of cloud archiving is not yet ripe.Iron Mountain bought Mimosa as an on-premise alternative to the cloud strategy it has been pursuing. "We cannot wait for data to come to us in the ...
data compliance and archiving, Cloud storage, Storage Software as a Service IT Blog As virtualization and cloud vendors make more acquisitions (see: Citrix buying Cloud.com) and dive deeper into IT infrastructure (see: vSphere 5), are the small guys getting squeezed out? Smaller vendors are trying to make a name for themselves and increase competition, which can only be a good thi...
IT Blog "We had the data, but we did not have the information." Forrester analyst Boris Evelson, quoting a bank CIO Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is predictive analytics. It's the crystal ball part of business intelligence. Pam Baker has a two-part overview on the issues facing Business Intelli...
Business Intelligence, Data analytics, predictive analysis IT Blog As 2009, which may forever be known as the "year of the cloud," draws to an end, Forrester Research has concluded that security is the major reason why enterprises aren't hopping on the public cloud bandwagon. In the survey of more than 2,200 IT executives, 49% of respondents from enterprises and 5...
IT Blog Moving software development and testing to cloud environments wasnt a hot topic at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles. Sure, there were some TechEd sessions on cloud computing, and Microsoft cloud computing evangelist Steve Martin talked up Azure; but a good number of attendees, particularly in...
IT Blog Dave West from Forrester Research and co-author of The Forrester Wave: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010, was one of four industry expertsparticipating in a panel discussion about agile trends held at Agile 2010. I was able to catch up with West for lunch the following day and pick h...
Agile 2010, Dave West, Agile ALM IT Blog I've had my head in cloud business practices on the brain lately, because of a project that I'm in the process of finishing up this week. If you're in the process of evaluating your own options, you should definitely check out some new data Forrester Research in the form of a report called "Hosting ...
IT channel products and services, cloud computing, Forester Research IT Blog Guest post by Lori MacVittie Training your data center "muscle memory" will ensure that when the pressure is on, your network will make all the right moves. If you've ever taken dancing lessonsor musical lessonsor tried to teach yourself to type, you know that repetition is the key to succe...
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