Enterprises live on the edge – and so must their data
Ted Schadler of Forrester says "Innovation happens at the edge of the enterprise." So true, and so different than in the past. Not that long ago, the really important new things were created at the center of the enterprise. Think Bell Labs, IBM, the...
Remembering tech changes and looking forward to a flexible future
Remember the late 1990s? Beanie Babies selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay, the Macarena was ranked the “#1 Greatest One-Hit Wonder of All Time”, and the Dot Com Bubble was still the Dot Com Boom. At the time, Microsoft dominated consumer tech and...
Keep an eye on your unintentional IT infrastructure
How much of your sensitive corporate data lives beyond your intentional IT infrastructure on your unmanaged, unintentional infrastructure? Your intentional IT infrastructure is the one you've invested in, built processes around, and have developed over...
“Social” impact on enterprise IT – is it the technology?
In a recent publication, the technology research firm Gartner, Inc., named “Social” as one of the four biggest trends impacting enterprise IT (for the record, the others are Mobile, Cloud, and Information). Certainly, recent news like Microsoft’s...