Mainframes Maintain Value in Today’s IT Market
Mainframes still play central role in large corporate operations 50 years of continuous, evolutionary improvement Ask most new millennium IT users what the most overused term in computing is and...
View ArticleCloud Computing Financial Fundamentals: Leveraging Economies of Scale
Developing an understanding of how “cloud computing” services fit into the larger scope of information technologies Examining the economies of scale that make cloud computing so compelling Ask most...
View ArticleCloud Compliance is Customer’s Responsibility
Compliance enforcement and penalties on the rise Compliant Providers don’t assure full customer compliance The challenges of compliance are actually somewhat simpler for those in the healthcare...
View ArticleManaging Working Data When You Can’t BYOD
Many people still work on different devices at work, at home, and on the road Increasing flexibility by leveraging cloud storage can also prevent errors Many corporations have decided to allow their...
View ArticleThe Importance of Email
It probably wouldn’t surprise you to learn that, in a recent survey of IT professionals, 71% describe email as mission critical, and 81% say it is their most important employee communication tool. It...
View ArticleLooking at Cloud Computing Pragmatically
There Is No “The Cloud” If someone is asking you, or if you are asking yourself “should we move to the Cloud” the universal answer is categorically “no.” There is no one single entity that can be...
View ArticleCloud Pragmatics: Higher Service Levels at Lower Cost
There Is No “The Cloud” Our last post began by pointing out that there is no single entity that can be identified as “the” cloud. We ended by pointing out that increasing service levels while reducing...
View ArticleCloud Pragmatics: Support from the Cloud
How Many IT People Do You Want to Hire? That’s one of the first questions you probably asked yourself when you started thinking about moving your information technology services to the cloud. Your...
View ArticleCloud Pragmatics: Servers, Servers Everywhere
Ask a roomful of business executives how many of them want to be in the business of managing network servers and it’s a good chance that no hands will go up. It’s not that managing servers is a...
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