CAPEX for IT: Why So Painful?
CAPEX dollars reserved for investments in plant, property or equipment (including IT) are notoriously hard to secure. In fact, IT…
Bring Your Own Software
For the last few years, it’s become very difficult for IT to police who brings personal devices into the enterprise…
Salesforce Fills Out the “Marketing Cloud”
Salesforce.com announced its intent to acquire email marketing and marketing automation vendor ExactTarget for ~$2.5B or $33.75/share, ending a few…
BYOD: An Unstoppable Force?
There are not many amongst us who would even consider leaving the house without some kind of mobile device in…
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Changing Role of #CIO: Chief Information to Chief Insights Officer
There was a time not too long ago (late 1970s to be precise) when companies used to have an Electronic…
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The True Value of the Private Cloud [INFOGRAPHIC]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s your private cloud! Right now it is all about the cloud, but not all…
3 Big Data Milestones
If you were asked to name the top three events in the history of the IT industry, which ones would…
Welcome to the Cloud Neighborhood
Your system is mission critical. It has hundreds, thousands, or even millions of daily users and it must continue to…
Social Collaboration Is in Finance’s Future
Finance departments don’t immediately come to mind in conversations about social collaboration technology. Most of the software used for social…
