IT Transformation: Opportunities & Challenges

So where do the roots of this disbelief in IT and Cloud come from?

Vincenzo Messina — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:42:00 GMT

Sometimes I look back at the IT industry's claims and I ask myself what was wrong? Things like "unify-simplify", "lean IT" or, more recently, "cloud computing", still seem to me to be reasonable and compelling ideas, yet adoption in the market of these approaches has not been as enthusiastic as expected, and they've ended populating the dictionary of...

Without strong authentication, there is a significant risk of data loss

Patrick Debus-Pesquet — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:52:00 GMT

The recent breach of a well-known online gaming platform has raised significant concerns about the security of customer's data. The damage a breach can do in terms of brand degradation and to customers trust in a company is immeasurable - but enough to impact revenue. The requirement for strong authentication is one of the issues raised by such breaches and, in my view, has been...

Governments Evaluate Cloud

Sevi Tufekci — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:05:00 GMT

Recently I have attended various conferences and customer meetings across Eastern Europe and Turkey where the focal point of discussions - in one way or another - has been cloud for governments. As cloud computing enters the adoption era, government executives are taking a serious look the possibilities cloud offers to to lower costs, increase efficiencies and create a more agile IT...

Don't forget the "Service" in Cloud

Valentin Galan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:31:00 GMT

As with any team or department, over time, the IT department has worked hard to progress or change the way that they work to improve processes and efficiencies- after all, we all learn as we mature. So the IT department has evolved and developed through automating processes and breaking down different technology stacks (amongst other things). The IT department has also had another...

The industrialization of IT - thanks to the Cloud

Jan Juul — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:36:00 GMT

Today, IT is considered mature and well defined with its own evolutionary path. The history of IT is often described through the evolution from Mainframe to Distributed computing -the Internet and now Cloud. Over time, we have also seen a trend in terms of who is driving this evolution, from the technology providers in the beginning to now where; business and user communities...