Tag: IT

  • Cloud Dominates IT Priority List for 2011

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    Cloud remains the top priority for IT this year, according to new research released by Unisys. And, it’s not just public cloud space that’s holding the attention of IT professionals looking to reduce costs and ease management—the survey points to a desire for adoption of private clouds as well.   Unisys conducted the poll on… Read more

  • An Antenna Fix

    An Antenna Fix

    Don Reisinger

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    An Antenna Fix First and foremost, Apple must deliver a fix for its antenna. When the company launched the iPhone 4, it was revealed that when the smartphone was held in a “death grip,” users would lose signal quality. Apple tried to say that it was one of many companies experiencing the problem — and… Read more

  • Business Leaders Looking for IT to Drive Revenue Growth: Survey

    Nathan Eddy

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    CIOs must re-imagine IT to support growth and competitive advantage, based on results from the 2011 CIO Agenda survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). CIOs reported that their organizations are emphasizing growth, in addition to continued vigilance on cost and operational efficiencies.The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to December 2010… Read more

  • Your IT Infrastructure: Shining Example or Picture of Neglect?

    Dave Sobel

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    I spent a good portion of last week shouting “Cobbler’s Kids” down the hall to my staff. We’re knee deep in an infrastructure refresh for Evolve, retiring several older virtual machines from the network to replace them with new Windows Server 2008 R2 systems. Our SQL Server is moving from SQL Server 2005 to SQL… Read more

  • Storage Growth Spurs Demand for IT Pros, Certifications

    Chris Talbot

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    Nine out of 10 organizations expect their data storage capacity to increase by at least 10 percent in the next two years, according to a September 2010 CompTIA survey. And one-third of organizations expect their data storage capacity to double in that same timeframe. The number of people needed to manage that growing storage is… Read more

  • Accelerating Software Sales to Spur IT Consulting, Systems Integration Demand

    Jessica Davis

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    While global IT purchases will rise 7.1 percent in 2011 to $1.7 trillion, don’t count on heavy hardware sales to fuel that growth, according to Forrester Research. That’s because the computer "restocking and replacement boom" that fueled market growth in 2010 is coming to an end. Hardware sales growth is slowing to 7.4 percent, the… Read more