I continue to encounter an interesting phenomenon regarding cloud computing as I speak at conferences, present to IT groups, and talk to businesspeople interested in the subject. Most people recognize the importance of cloud computing, acknowledge the relevance to their environments, and describe their initiatives.
The traditional IT outsourcing industry will be dead in five years, A.T. Kearney's Arjun Sethi predicted in a recent interview with CIO.com. The culprit? Cloud computing services. Sethi's vision of the future of the IT services industry is quite clear, but he's unsure of the specific implications this industry transformation poses to traditional IT outsourcing customers.
The collaboration landscape is no longer about isolated groups of people that work together to complete a specific job. Today, enterprise collaboration extends more broadly across the organization, encouraging partnerships across teams that might not have previously worked together. What's the reason behind this shift?
Jonathan Schwartz ended six months of silence on his Twitter feed on Thursday with the words "Started a new company."
Being flexible and looking at a variety of options is important for CIOs looking to move their data to the cloud.
There's a tremendous buzz today about cloud computing, but before outsourcing your critical business systems to the cloud let's review some security concerns.
I saw a fascinating interview on Forbes.com last week that implies the death of IT as we know it. In it, Michael Chui, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, described a trend that his firm views as the way IT will be done in the future.
Most outsourcing analysts and consultants will tell you that the future of the traditional IT services industry is uncertain.
Security managers can keep blocking Facebook, refusing to support mobile devices and vetoing cloud-based services, but they aren't going away.
The race is on to build a simple system that allows small payments to be made online for web content. The winner will make a fortune and the rest of us will lose our free ride.
When Rupert Murdoch took on Google by revealing plans to start charging web users for News Corporation's online content, he got everybody's attention. How would this work? Could this save the newspaper industry? But behind the headlines was another, potentially bigger battle that could bring about a second online revolution.
Finding out what the great and the good are going to do to the internet to curb copyright piracy is like Cold War Kremlinology, or deciphering Linear B.
Talks have been going on for two years now behind closed doors for an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. The 13 international participants so far include the United States, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and Korea but – remarkably – not China, the source of much pirated copyright material. But as these are trade talks, in which each country's agenda and negotiating position are necessarily secret, little has leaked out about what precisely is proposed.
Social networking tools have already had a dramatic impact on how we communicate with our friends and family, but as use of these technologies matures they have a major role to play in how businesses manage customer relationships and even the formation of government policy.
Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, chief information officer for New York State, was in Canberra last week to speak at a conference about how government can use wikis, blogs and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube to engage citizens.
Known as behavioural targeting, the practice has provoked a European Union lawsuit against the British government and sparked a number of US congressional hearings.
Speaking at a web conference in Madrid yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee added his voice to those concerned about the potential impact on privacy of behavioural targeting systems that attach directly to an internet service provider's network.
Jetset Travelworld and Qantas Holidays are counting on a pair of computing projects to give them a leg-up in Australia's burgeoning online travel industry as part of their proposed $800 million merger.
The projects include further improvements to a $4 million Qantas business travel system and a new Jetset online booking engine - both due for completion this year.