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Meet Goog-Azon, world dominator

Giants such as Yahoo, Google, eBay and Amazon and their ilk are going to control 50 percent of all consumer purchases by 2016 and wreak havoc on consumer businesses. These stats are tossed out by Gartner to get folks thinking. That...

Tags: Amazon, eBay, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner Symposium, General, Google, Innovation, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Data center cooling: The bright side comes in 2011

Worried about power costs in your data center? Feeling squeezed by the power company? Dreaming of modular designs and airflow at night? Well, relief is on the way--in four years or so. This is the bright...

Tags: Datacenter, Gartner Symposium, General, Green Tech, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Are businesses getting complacent on security?

Security has fallen out of the top 10 business priorities and complacency may be setting in without big attacks grabbing headlines. That was the message from Gartner security analyst John Pescatore, arguably the best observer in the firm. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Pescatore raised...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Security, General, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Green IT: Why it matters

Theres an environmental storm about to hit the technology industry. Information and communication technology accounts for 2 percent of global CO2 emissions, according to Gartner. Thats the equivalent of the airline industry. The big question: What are technology executives going to do about it?...

Tags: IT Management, General, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Big computing plans means big privacy issues

The future of computing will feature devices that monitor you, anticipate your actions and chronicle your life. The problem: Privacy concerns. Eric Horvitz, principal researcher at Microsoft Labs, demoed the software giants "life browser" effort, which puts memories, images and other items in a...

Tags: General, Future in Review, IT Management, Innovation, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-25

A look at your IT department's future (or lack of it)

Do you need a traditional information technology department? That question was at the heart of a Gartner debate on the future of the IT departments. At issue at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo: Is IT about keeping the lights or enabling a...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Will voice make Second Life more business friendly?

Phillip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Second Life, said Tuesday that the company plans to roll out 3D voice applications in the next few months. And more business applications could arise with voice in Second Life. According to Rosedale, Second Life is developing a voice application that will...

Tags: Gartner Symposium, General, IT Management, Second Life, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Virgin America's CIO gets an IT greenfield

Few CIOs get to build a technology infrastructure from scratch. In that regard, Virgin America CIO Bill Maguire is a lucky man. Virgin America is expecting to go "wheels up" at the end of June pending Department of Transportation approval. The airline is looking...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Outsourcing, Open Source, Offshore outsourcing, Linux, IT Management, Innovation, General, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-24

The next frontier: Infrastructure as a service?

Jeff Lucchesi, CIO of Building Materials Holding Corp., is looking to build his technology infrastructure on a services model. In other words, he wants someone else to provide most technology services. The weak link in Lucchesis master plan: Infrastructure. Lucchesi,...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Hiring talented tech workers: Easier said than done

Hiring technology employees isnt as easy as it used to be. In fact, its getting downright confusing. Crosscurrents abound, says Gartner analyst Diane Morello. To wit, Baby Boomers are nearing retirement. Teens brought up with MySpace will be entering the...

Tags: General, IT Management, Innovation, Gartner Symposium

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Gartner Symposium ITxpo: A quest for rapid results

Gartner Symposium ITxpo: A quest for rapid resultsSurvey is correct...IMHO the survey of the CIOs is right. The business is moving even faster or wants to but the finance department does not want to release funds for creating a more agile infrastructure. So the pressue is really on to do...

Tags: Marketing research, Gartner Symposium ITxpo, Gartner Symposium, Gartner Inc., survey

Discussion threads 2005-10-18

Additional Resources

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

TechRepublic's CIO Jury finds that IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google as a technology partner, but tune in next year. Jason Hiner outlines the latest findings in the TechRepublic CIO Jury. In a nutshell, it looks like this: So...

Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise, Jason Hiner, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Data center design 101

I don't have to design data centers, but I do have to play a knowledgeable wonk on the Web from time to time. With that in mind, I attended two data center presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium to see what I could learn. My knowledge about...

Tags: Data Center, Tiers, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-23

RightNow Technologies CIO talks datacenters, ERP and Windows 7

While attending Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009, I spoke with Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow Technologies, about the company's IT plans for 2010. Olson discussed RightNow's plans to consolidate and rework its datacenters, an upcoming ERP implementation, and the company's migration to Windows 7. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Data Center, ERP, RightNow Technologies, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows, Storage, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

How to know when to send your email to the cloud

Email will ultimately move to the cloud/software as a service model, but the math may not add up for larger companies. How do you know when to make the jump? Gartner analysts Matthew Cain and James Lundy went through the cloud vs. on-premise email conundrum, but what...

Tags: Gartner Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing

At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure in the future. However, with more than 1,000 hacks a day, security creates an important need on differentiating what they put in public versus private...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, CEO, Firewalls, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Network Security, Security, Networking, Hardware, HP

Videos 2009-10-21

Google CEO Schmidt: Microsoft's Bing-Twitter pact 'a smart deal for them'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that Microsoft's Bing-Twitter deal "is a good deal for them." But he also hinted that Google isn't going away quietly. "Watch this space," he said referring to real-time search. Speaking at the Gartner IT Symposium 2009, Schmidt Google can rank real-time...

Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Google's Schmidt makes enterprise app case as consumer, corporate lines blur

In a room full of chief information officers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made his case for the search giant's enterprise products adding that the boundary between a corporate user and a consumer "is becoming less and less." Speaking at the Gartner IT Symposium 2009 in Orlando in...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

VMware posts solid third quarter, tops estimates

VMware's third quarter financial results were better than expected based on maintenance renewals and federal IT spending. The company reported net income of $38 million, or 9 cents a share, down from $83 million, or 21 cents a share a year ago. Non-GAAP net income of $95...

Tags: Revenue, Quarter, VMware Inc., Operational Accounting, Virtualization, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21