Many heads of state have said in detail that no one saw it the current recession coming. That belies the many signals of recession ahead of time that would have served as triggers for action among those properly prepared. The question is, what...
According to a recently released white paper written by IT Edge, understanding that the recession can actually be a strategic business opportunity and making the necessary adjustments, organizations can maintain business during a recession and, when it is over, emerge with more growth potential, loyal...
Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks “get” the business? How do we achieve “business-IT alignment”? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only “get” the business, they are the business. The business of IT is...
As the clouds started gathering over the economy this past fall and winter, I heard the drumbeat grow louder from my security contacts who all gave the same warning: layoffs are going to exacerbate security problems. As pink-slipped workers start thinking about looking after number one,...
CUPERTINO, Calif. — For the last nine months, Apple has refused to get into specifics about the well-being of its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, even as he said last month that he was taking a six-month leave of absence to deal with health problems. On...
Moral: don't dig yourself into a newsworthy tech hole. Online IT products and services reseller CDW ran a contest last fall called Project Upgrade, sponsored by HP and Microsoft. Small businesses with 50 or fewer employees entered the contest to win $50,000 worth of hardware and...
The best advertising for the high-end bicycles manufactured by Waterloo's Trek Bicycle Corp. is the fact that Lance Armstrong rode them to victories in the Tour de France, and Tim DeBoom relied on them on his way to victory in Ironman World competitions. But the...
Worldwide vertical market IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2009, a 0.5 percent increase from 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Utilities, Healthcare and Government are expected to be the strongest-growing segments of the market in 2009....
When Howard Rubin speaks, people listen. And when the subject is cloud computing, today’s IT leaders—many of whom are attempting to chart nascent cloud strategies—are bound to lean forward a little farther in their chairs. CIO Insight contributor Tony Kontzer recently spoke with Rubin, an IT...
As the federal stimulus bill steamed down the track in Washington, a separate and (much) smaller state bill leapfrogged from formal introduction to passage by the Legislature to being signed by the governor - all inside a week. In the state Capitol, where virtually every...