Posted by Eileen Feretic on May 14, 2012 3:32 PM in Culture, The Industry

By Samuel Greengard Optical scanning technology has come a long way in recent years. Flatbed and portable scanners, along with smartphone apps that snap pictures and convert the images to PDFs, have made it increasingly easy to crumple the paper...
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Posted by Susan Nunziata on May 10, 2012 8:57 PM in IT Strategy, Security

By Tony Kontzer With so much data about citizens at issue, not to mention a clear responsibility to be transparent in disclosing any potential risks, state governments have to ensure that they've dotted their I's and crossed their T's before entrusting systems to cloud providers.
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on May 9, 2012 2:07 PM in Culture, Social Media

By Samuel Greengard Right now, social media is all the buzz--and for good reason. It connects people in new and profoundly different ways, and it allows a fundamentally different type of interaction: bottom-up and side-to-side rather than merely top-down. Used...
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Posted by Susan Nunziata on May 7, 2012 6:43 PM in IT Careers, Regulation, Workplace

By Tony Kontzer It's quite possible that the steady rise of the CFO at the expense of the CIO can be traced to the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act in 2002. It created a huge burden on IT to develop systems that would ensure comprehensive auditing of accounting procedures in an effort to protect unwitting investors. It also, for better or worse, created much stronger ties between finance and IT -- which has apparently evolved into much stronger oversight of IT by finance.
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on May 7, 2012 9:07 AM in Culture, The Industry

By Samuel Greengard Digital technology is shredding the publishing industry. Newspapers are bleeding red ink, and book and magazine publishers are scrambling to find new ways to connect to readers and earn a profit. Remarkably, the publishing industry is following...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on May 4, 2012 10:59 AM in Culture, Security

By Tim Moran It's all in the eye of the beholder. A recent story from NYDailyNews.com covered Symantec's annual "Internet Security Threat Report." Clearly, this kind of report is not something Daily News reporters and editors are used to perusing....
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on May 1, 2012 6:29 PM in General

Overland Storage, the San Diego-based company that has had to reinvent itself to remain competitive in the midrange and SMB  storage markets, on May 1 announced the availability of its NEO 100s Linear Tape-Open autoloader for enterprise tape systems. LTO is a...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on May 1, 2012 11:45 AM in Culture, Mobile & Wireless, The Industry

By Samuel Greengard Airports and airlines offer what seems to be the perfect confluence of poorly implemented technology and really bad business processes. Case in point: The day before boarding a recent flight from Newark to Portland, Ore., I received...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 30, 2012 10:14 AM in Security

By Tim Moran Digital data and devices, which make much about the modern world easier and better, still manage to make life somewhat more complicated. Case in point: Have you ever disposed of, given away or sold anything that contained...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 26, 2012 12:12 PM in Cloud computing, IT Management

By Samuel Greengard Amid all the noise and chaos about cloud computing and how it is transforming the enterprise, it's important to ponder how significantly the cloud is altering the way people work and interact on a personal level. Over...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 25, 2012 9:50 AM in Culture, Social Media

By Samuel Greengard Social media is an amazing thing. Unfortunately, too many people and companies use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other services in an ineffective or obnoxious way. Here are some of the biggest faux pas: 1. By the Numbers:...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 23, 2012 10:13 AM in Enterprise Applications, IT Management

By Samuel Greengard I'm beginning to seriously question whether email is a useful way to exchange messages. Lately, about 25 percent of the emails I send out wind up in spam folders. I'm guessing that enterprise spam blockers intercept another...
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Posted by Susan Nunziata on April 19, 2012 8:44 PM in IT Careers, IT Salaries, Workplace

By Tony Kontzer Already pegged with a hazy future and little chance of rising to the CEO post, CIOs now can add disturbing compensation trends and an insulting perception of their value to the list of career obstacles they face.
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 19, 2012 4:07 PM in Enterprise Applications, Mobile & Wireless, The Industry

By Samuel Greengard Last year, Apple sold more than 40 million iPads. In fact, the total number of iOS devices in use (iPhone, IPod Touches and iPads) is now somewhere north of 156 million. At this point, you would think...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 18, 2012 4:02 PM in Culture, IT Management, Security

By Tim Moran IT has always been in a position of power, in the sense that those employed within its ranks often have access to the most sensitive company data. This isn't a problem when things are going well, but...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 16, 2012 10:34 AM in Culture, IT Management

By Sam Greengard A few weeks ago, my four-year-old laptop went DOA and, after much deliberation, I decided to buy the new iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard. When the unit arrived and I began installing apps, it immediately struck me...
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on April 16, 2012 9:50 AM in General

Data center systems provider SGI has introduced a new network-attached storage package, fully integrated with VMware's vSphere, that is aimed at IT systems with high-volume workloads. SGI hasn't offered virtualized-ready systems in the past, so this is a big step...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 9, 2012 10:04 AM in Culture, Mobile & Wireless

By Sam Greengard You would think that by now we would know how to use email. Nope! Here are some of the most common and annoying gaffes, glitches and breakdowns: 1. Unsigned, sealed and delivered. Sending business email without a...
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on April 6, 2012 9:28 AM in General

The ante has been upped again in the storage capaciousness department. Western Digital's HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) division has produced the only 4TB, 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch enterprise-class hard drive currently available in the storage industry. WD's Ultrastar 7K4000...
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on April 2, 2012 5:55 PM in General

Time to celebrate another Wall Street-type victory for the NAND flash storage array sector. Mountain View, Calif.-based Violin Memory, which makes new-generation solid-state memory arrays, on April 2 banked a cool $50 million in Series D funding from SAP Ventures....
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on April 2, 2012 12:13 PM in Culture, Social Media, The Web

By Samuel Greengard If the Internet has proved one thing about human nature, it's that it's possible to hold a megaphone up to stupidity. Peruse discussion boards and reader comments at news sites, and you'll find a seemingly endless stream...
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on March 30, 2012 7:23 PM in General

They're doing some interesting things in new-generation storage IT in Pittsburgh. Noteworthy is Avere Systems, which on March 28 released a new network-attached storage architecture that magnifies the benefits of already speedy NAND flash. This in turn makes storage I/O...
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Posted by Susan Nunziata on March 27, 2012 9:45 PM in Globalization, IT Vendors, Mobile/Wireless

By Tony Kontzer In claiming to have experienced things he'd only heard or read about, monologist Mike Daisey has shined the spotlight on his half-truths, but here's hoping that attention eventually swings back to where it needs to be -- on exactly how the devices Americans covet are produced.
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 26, 2012 9:49 AM in Careers, Culture, Security

By Samuel Greengard It's disturbing--and creepy--to learn that a growing number of employers are asking job applicants for their personal passwords to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. The Associated Press (AP) recently reported that during in-person interviews,...
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Posted by Susan Nunziata on March 22, 2012 5:43 PM in Future of IT, IT Careers, Workplace

By Tony Kontzer A recent survey indicates that nearly 20 percent of CFOs in the U.K. believe the CIO role will cease to exist within five years, and given how many CIOs report to CFOs, it's a number that should get CIOs' collective attention.
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 21, 2012 10:33 AM in Cloud computing, Enterprise Applications, Social Media

By Eileen Feretic It's no surprise to me--and it's probably not a surprise to you either--that the cloud has enveloped another business function: Collaboration is the latest technology to be rolled into the cloud, joining such veterans as software as...
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Posted by Chris Preimesberger on March 20, 2012 3:47 PM in General

Nirvanix, one of the most progressive of the new enterprise cloud storage providers, has been making news lately. First of all, whenever a customer with the international reputation of the National Geographic Society decides to cast its lots with your...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 20, 2012 8:45 AM in Careers, Culture

>By Samuel Greengard Take a poll of your 10 closest friends and I'm willing to wager that, if they're working, they will complain about working way too much. Twenty years ago, we were reading about how technology could soon create...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 16, 2012 3:59 PM in Culture

>By Tim Moran November 17, 2011: A quartet of unmanned ocean vehicles, called Wave Gliders, were launched from San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club by Liquid Robotics, an ocean-data services provider and the developer of these marine robots. The mission...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 13, 2012 10:59 AM in Careers, Government IT, The Industry

By Eileen Feretic Why aren't Fortune 500 businesses hiring more staff when many of them are hoarding vast quantities of cash? That was a key issue raised at a recent Harvey Nash Leadership Lecture Series. The answer? They don't have...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 12, 2012 12:18 PM in Culture, Security, Social Media

By Samuel Greengard It's difficult to get through a day without encountering an article, news story or discussion about electronic privacy. Google reports that nearly 4.2 billion references to the subject appear on the Web. What's remarkable isn't that we're...
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Posted by Eileen Feretic on March 9, 2012 9:55 AM in Mobile & Wireless, The Industry

By Tim Moran Look out, because autonomous agile aerial robots are taking to the sky! At least, they did at a recent TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, where Vijay Kumar, deputy dean for Education in the School of Engineering and...
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Posted by Clint Boulton on March 8, 2012 12:01 AM in Off Topic

Clint Boulton is moving on from Google Watch.
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Posted by Clint Boulton on March 7, 2012 12:01 AM in Google Music

Google Play is replacing the Android Market as Google looks to streamline its content services, which should help market those products.
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Posted by Jennifer Lawinski on March 6, 2012 10:19 AM in Mobile & Wireless, The Web

By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth, and by 2016 there will be 1.4 mobile devices per capita, Cisco predicts.
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