Calculating the human cost of cloud
Cloud business value has become axiom in the discourse around new computing models. Beyond the potential cost savings associated with more efficient use of...
Beyond client management
The enterprise mobility trend is a firestorm that shows little sign of fizzle. Driven by more pervasive cloud deployment, greater acceptance of mobile work...
Enterprise cloud adoption
Fact or fiction: enterprises are spending more than ten percent of their IT budgets on the cloud.
That's fact for almost 60 percent of the...
An SDN primer
Much like cloud in the data centre a half decade back, software defined networking (SDN) is poised to revolutionize networking. A programmable interface that...
Earth Rangers Centre tour 2014
Back in the 60s, a famous Canadian media philosopher coined the phrase "the medium is the message" to suggest that the delivery technology is...
Bleeding Hearts
So much can change in a week. A scant few days ago, people believed that seeing that little padlock on a website's address bar...
Big Data facts, myths and eventualities: 8 insights and implications
Eleven years ago, Nicholas Carr published a Harvard Business Review article entitled "IT Doesn’t Matter" (followed quickly by a book with a slightly more...
Ever wondered what Interop looks like?
Interop Las Vegas is the flagship event in UBM Tech’s global conference and expo series. Held each spring, this "independent" technology conference aims to...
HP on the creative cusp with SDN
LAS VEGAS — SDN is a moving target that has inspired varied interpretation based on the interests of different communities in the IT world....
The Internet Manifesto
The Internet is a mixed blessing. It connects us to the world, and the world to us. That's good. And that's bad. Like any...
Dell security chief on the "three Cs"
Very few IT interviews begin with a discussion of hermeneutics, but Dell’s chief security officer is not your average corporate officer. A onetime student...
CenturyLink Technology Solutions moving "up the stack"
A way to separate the providers from the players, solutions focus enables vendor organizations to move up the value chain to client conversations around...
Visualization & unlocking the power of analytics
InsightaaS: We have seen a surge of interest in analytics as organizations come to appreciate the power of applying data-driven analysis to business decisions....
HP and NEC join forces to drive SDN
Designed to deliver flexibility and choice in networking gear to enterprise IT, software-defined networking (SDN) has generated a good deal of buzz in the...
Forget the do-it-all OS
On a technical level, Windows 8 is a tour de force. On paper, at least, it’s an incredible business tool. Its tile-based interface is...
