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“BYOD isn’t coming, it’s here “- @SimonBramfitt via @thelaurenfiles   Recently I participated in a great Twitter conversation regarding how IT...

Part 1 of a 2 Part Series It’s a well-known fact that most IT systems are operated as silos of activity where separate departments or divisions are each responsible for their own...

Since the very beginnings of public cloud, many have argued that on-premise computing was dead. That private cloud was an oxymoron. Their world view is that enterprises would eschew their...

Ever since e-commerce came on the scene, businesses have been cashing in. E-commerce is faster, cheaper, and secure (enough) for many types of goods and services. For many businesses, e-commerce is...

The complexity associated with patching, service packs, hotfixes, upgrades and firmware updates, defined as general life cycle activities, are nothing new to IT professionals. This has been an...

In his column When Disaster Thunders Through the Cloud , Rob Livingstone raises a point about IT disaster recovery - a point I wonder if many have thought through. That’s whether enterprises...

Executive Performance Management     Executives want and need to be able to monitor and execute based on strategies aligned to the organization especially when it comes to...

So there’s a problem in your IT infrastructure. Maybe a server crashed. Maybe a firewall just went down. Maybe a network segment is completely jammed up with traffic. Or it could simply be a...

  Much has been talked about how security and regulatory compliance are the twin bane of public cloud - especially when it comes to larger enterprises.   However, the lockout...

On Monday night at "Accelerate the Cloud Miami 2012," a CA Technologies MSP Symposium event, the team was very pleased to give out the first annual CA AppLogic Partner Awards to five...

I’ve spent a lot of time lately in front of customers trying to help them understand what cloud technology means and, more important, how it can help their businesses be more efficient,...

Circa 1993, when only the senior executives were lucky enough to have 17-inch monitors, businesses would buy floppy disks full of imagery called clip art. One of those images was a bubbly cloud....

Someone recently said to me, “With everything moving to the cloud, mobile device security really isn’t going to matter anymore. Sensitive data will never be stored on the device.” The thinking is that...

It’s generally been true that entirely avoidable IT attacks caused most data breaches in traditional infrastructure. And it’ll most likely be true that many successful attack techniques will...

In discussions with CIOs and CISOs about public cloud services, it seems, cloud services are something that are to be kept at a distance, rather than embraced. For higher value data they’re...

  When it comes to cloud computing, no matter how many benefits and how much flexibility it offers, the number one concern many CIOs still have is around the security of their data . ...

Some people like to start the New Year with predictions. I like to clean house, simplify, and make room for the new. So I've summarized my 2011 private and hybrid IaaS cloud thinking from...

Before you left click that mouse to go to that other “work related” page, wait a few seconds while I explain what I’m talking about. While there is a ton of hyped up, blown out and super...

The topic of IT consumerization in the enterprise - and what it means for data management and the role of IT departments - has garnered a lot of attention lately. Certainly, workers bringing their...

What I learned at Cloud Exchange 2011 Having completed my last road trip of the year, I dusted off the notes I took during this year’s Cloud Exchange events (and a few others) to see what I...