November, 2010

Social bots by 2015, and other technology predictions from Gartner

Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us. Time to bring out the 2011 technology predictions. Hot off the presses from the Gartner research files are the consultancy's top...

Talk like a CFO and give your CIO career a boost

Every C-position has its own argot, its own turn of phrase. CEOs are addicted to sports analogies and fighting words. A CIO career requires constant tactical maneuvers, as...

ISVs’ software licensing agreements bend with the times

Enterprises might not be rushing headlong into the public cloud -- indeed, most experts believe the infrastructure of the future will be a hybrid cloud -- but savvy CIOs are taking a page from the public...

Time will tell if social media platforms will work at work

An army of technology vendors is scrambling to sell you enterprise social media platforms, as I discovered in my reporting for a pair of stories on SearchCIO.com this week on

IT metrics, measurements and monitoring: It’s all about the numbers

A little while ago, I asked the CIO of a multinational distributor of electronics equipment what he most needed to read about. His answer? Application monitoring.

It's an area ripe for development, as I discovered this week while looking into

In the absence of spreadsheet management, horror lurks

Is the spreadsheet dead? Has the cockroach been eradicated? A half-billion people use Excel....

‘Trucknet’ to what’s next for cloud data delivery: WAN accelerators

The idea of a FedEx truck picking up your data for transport to a cloud provider might elicit either chuckles or groans, depending on your point of view. It's one solution to a bandwidth crunch, but what enterprises really need for enterprise-to-cloud deployments are wide area network (WAN)...

The eyes have it: CIOs need video content management — now!

I am entertained by a good video as much as anyone, I dare say, especially those made by a close relative in the science field, and any number of YouTube hits as well (for example,