On Nov. 6, Sam Palmisano, chairman, president & CEO of IBM, made an important speech entitled “The Smart Planet: The Next Leadership Agenda” at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. That speech is only now getting public press ...
When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn't take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story of cloud computing. In my last article on cloud ...
It seems that every decade or so I get the opportunity to write an article on IT déjà vu. This time around, the topic is cloud computing, which is the latest IT buzz word. My first reaction to the term was confusion. The amorphous "cloud" has been used ...
For the past six months, our offices have been part of the brave new world of virtualization. Not of servers, storage or networks but of the next-generation desktop. The rationale for the original decision to virtualize the desktop was to offer the ...
For the first time in years, CIOs are becoming concerned that networking and inter-process latency is affecting IT performance. The new IT initiatives of the 21st century are based on the business process transformation within a service-oriented ...
The communications industry, as we once knew it, no longer exists. At its most recent industry-analyst meeting, Cisco stated quite emphatically that it was a "computer company," not a "communications company." As the market leader, Cisco realized that ...
With all the fanfare for Al Gore, receiving an Oscar, Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize all in 2007, one would think that global environmental concerns rank No. 1 on the list of "corporate social responsibility." Unfortunately, economics and internal ...
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