The Seamless Enterprise

Ran across an interesting Gartner survey of CIOs the other day, regarding their technology priorities for the coming year. Coming in at the top three spots were virtualization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0. (more…)

It’s that time of year to look into the crystal ball and make predictions for 2010. One of my favorite forecasts is that by Gartner. What I find most interesting is that it’s the users of technology, who are driving these technology trends in a big way. Did you know…

…that in less than five years, the growth of enterprise data is projected to be 650%! And, 80% of that data will be unstructured. We are sending and accessing data like never before, and enterprises need a way to manage and store this explosion of data. Look to such technologies as virtualization, automated tiering, and data duplication. (more…)

Jeff Pulver made what I thought was an interesting observation in a recent conference call. We were talking about my guest blog over at Pulver.com, and he happened to comment about how in his pre-social media guru days, he was an IT guy at a brokerage house. (more…)

For most businesses today, social media is an enigma. It’s something they would like to figure out, but they’re not sure they can. For them, it’s in the category of puzzlements such as “how the Bowl Championship Series really works” or “who thought it was a good idea for toys to come wrapped in plastic packaging that is impossible to open without at least minor injuries.” (more…)

On November 9th, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Let’s look astoundingly at how our world has changed since 1989. We are communicating in ways never before imagined. To experience this in our lifetime is remarkable. To think about bandwidth and network requirements to meet our insatiable demand for voice, data, video, and the web, is mind-boggling. Remarkably, as far as these technologies advance us, some parts of the world still face hurdles to be a part of this communication phenomenon. (more…)