The Role of the CIO in an IT Factory
Many chief information officers are really CIOs in name only. Far too many of them spend most of their time managing infrastructure rather than actual business information. In effect, the CIO is really the chief "infrastructure" officer.
In Search of a More App-friendly Cloud
When you get right down to it, the cloud isn’t about speed or flexibility or scalability or any of those infrastructure functions that IT worries about. It’s about applications.
Security ‘is not the only concern when conducting email marketing’
Firms in New Zealand that rely on email marketing strategies are among those to have been warned of some of the factors they must address when operating such a system.
Russell Parsons, writing for Marketing Week, explained security is the obvious item on the agenda, but there can be several others.
He noted there are numerous benefits to email marketing, such as reliability, a low carbon footprint and the ability to target the right audience.
Why Microsoft and Google Are Fighting Over Uncle Sam
Cotendo Offers a CDN for the Future With Cloudlet
Heroku Grows Up Under Salesforce.com’s Wing
Cost is no longer main driver for cloud adoption
Just 16 percent of UK firms consider cost to be the main driver for initial cloud adoption, a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has found.
The majority of respondents (53 percent) said that the flexibility that cloud services enable in a business is now more likely to encourage them to start using cloud computing. This was particularly true for businesses with fewer than 20 employees.
Enterprise Cloud Storage and the Consumerization of IT
There are multiple productive and desirable use cases for cloud storage for the enterprise. This spans many use cases, including specialized applications that use programmable API cloud storage, file server replacement solutions, backup and archive solutions and what we call "Personal Cloud Storage." (Personal Cloud Storage, or PCS, is the use of PC, tablet, mobile clients and web browsers by an individual to access a pool of storage.) As opposed to a long discussion about all these, let’s focus for a moment on the phenomena of the "consumerization" of IT and what if really means in the context of enterprise IT, and specifically as it relates to PCs…
Cloud Scalability Spurring Interest in Object Storage
Data loads are increasing and, consequentially, so are storage requirements. Fortunately, we have the cloud, which is designed to provide the scalability we need to handle anything the digital universe throws our way, right?