CIOs faced with the encroaching issue of ‘big data’ should look to investing in real-time platforms in order to remain competitive in the future, according to IBM chief scientist, Jeff Jonas.
Imagine this -- a typical Tuesday morning, the corporate network is down. A few years ago, this would have sent offices into panic mode, leaving employees helpless to act until the IT department fixes the problem. Not anymore -- today’s employees have their email and diaries on their smart phones, client lists on their Blackberrys and documents on their iPads. What started as organisations tolerating the odd iPhone and Tablet at the workplace is rather reluctantly evolving to a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) culture.
In a recent issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, Google CIO Ben Fried penned an ode to letting go.
I recently met with rock star CIOs at a conference focused on enterprise mobility. Here's a snapshot of what I learned:
In the last 18-months, the mobile computing landscape has changed completely. People are bringing their own computers to the office and carrying smartphones and tablet devices that are as powerful as desktop computers were only a short while ago. Here’s how to make sure these devices don’t compromise your organisation.
A new survey has found only 10 per cent of large Australian enterprises prefer bring your own technology (BYOT) schemes, as opposed to other mobility strategies.
Fleet leasing company, Orix, is set to create smartphone applications for Android and iOS, following major enterprise resource planning (ERP) and disaster recovery (DR) projects.
Australian IT managers are struggling to deal with social media in the enterprise, with more blocking Web 2.0 sites despite their status as being “critical” to company development, a new report has found.
Global IT association ISACA has issued a new guide outlining how to implement effective controls and governance for Cloud computing.
The worldwide social customer relationship management (CRM) market is forecast to reach over $US1 billion in revenue by year-end 2012, up from $US625 million in 2010.
Victoria’s Centre for IT Excellence, or CenITex as it is most commonly known, has been hailed as a shared services success story despite the mixed history of shared services within Australian government.
According to some estimates, 2011 has become the year of billion-dollar natural disasters. With floods, storms and fires now a top-of-mind business risk concern, IBM has announced six tips that individuals, businesses and government agencies can use to help prepare their IT environments for natural disasters and a wide range of other threats.
Customer-focused mobile implementations are more likely to be driven by marketing than IT. But cluey CIOs are beginning to understand the power of aligning external and internal strategies.
Customer-focused mobile implementations are more likely to be driven by marketing than IT. But cluey CIOs are beginning to understand the power of aligning external and internal strategies.
The move to Cloud will be accelerated for Telstra’s (ASX:TLS) enterprise customers following the opening of a product innovation lab with its US-based consulting partner, Accenture, in Melbourne this week.