Idiot-proofing the network
Enterprises with proper network infrastructure and the people to manage it, often forget that their mobile users connect from all sorts of less-than-wonderful places....
The great communications divide
The saying goes that talk is cheap. But when it comes to managing an IT project, the wrong talk can mean considerable costs and...
VMware hybrid cloud aims at silencing 'network trombones'
Cloud news at VMworld 2015 confirmed the currency of two themes that have steered the cloud discourse over the past couple of years: the...
VMware driving container coopetition
Is software really eating the world? Certainly a revolutionary conjuncture of trends would suggest this is so. While new digital models are displacing traditional...
Micro data centres doing the bridgework for IoT
The fight for data centre efficiency is a never ending one. Yet despite the best laid plans, data centre architectures continue to go through...
Feeding the output machines
One thing that's kept inkjet printers out of the enterprise is the simple issue of ink. It's expensive, it's a pain in the neck...
451 Research: Schneider Electric dances on its toes in response to changing datacenter demand
While the single cloud is no longer on the futurists’ radar, in their research into Schneider Electric’s evolving data centre strategy presented below, 451...
Building bimodal bridges
Gartner has applied a simple framework to complex IT reality. Separating the enterprise into “bimodal” IT operation, Gartner researchers claim that 75 percent of...
Beyond the numbers – tips on building cloud awareness
A web search on cloud adoption rates generates a dazzling array of charts and stats that for years have been telling a familiar story:...
Big Brother is watching
We tend to think of our phones and computers as personal devices. They live close to our bodies, and are privy to confidential information....
Is peer pressure the answer to addressing the gender gap in tech?
We might think the gender barriers are disappearing in the enterprise workspace, but not much seems to have changed. That was the general consensus...
Cisco building and branding its IoT portfolio
Nothing succeeds like success, but uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. For eight years now, Cisco has mounted an effective campaign to...
Interesting post on the business implications of IoT/Industrial Internet
There's no doubt that technology is driving fundamental changes in many different kinds of businesses. The public perspective on this has been evolving over...
Collabmobilicloud at the extreme edge – The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things continues to gain momentum – at least in the opinion of countless market forecasters. Counting the number of devices that...
Revisiting the open organization
As former president of IDC Canada and marketing director with the Canada Systems Group, reviewer Paul Kennedy has long term experience with both technology...
