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One Laptop Please, Hold the Bloat

(By Info-Tech Analyst James Quin - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) So, a little over a week ago, I had to buy a new laptop. As someone who analyses the IT market for a living, it probably comes as no surprise that ...

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Is the ITIL Empire Overextended?

(By Info-Tech Analyst Refael Keren - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) History teaches us that great empires’ overreaching growth is often responsible for their demise. Powerful armies, unable to defend distant b...

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Consumer Techs in Business: Be Cautious, But Not Close-Minded

(By Info-Tech Analyst Jayanth Angl - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). IT leaders don’t have it easy. Maintaining a secure and reliable IT environment, usually with an undersized team and limited financial resourc...

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Are Gut Instincts All Bad?

(By Info-Tech Analyst Gareth Doherty - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). Gut instincts have fallen on hard times. Evidence of systematic errors in human decision making and the success of analytical technologies hav...

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Don't Make Me Document It

(By Info-Tech Analyst Howard Kiewe - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). I hate paperwork, even if I'm doing it in electronic documents. You know, those administrative tasks intended to track, measure, and update, b...

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Laptops: Still Getting Stolen, Still Costing Organizations

(By Info-Tech Analyst James Quin- Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). About two and half years ago, Info-Tech authored a note entitled “Enough with the Stolen Laptops Already!” It posited that the theft of laptops...

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New IT Leaders: Don't Be a Snob

(By Info-Tech Analyst Bushra Tobah - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). After months of preparation and round after round of grueling interviews, you've finally landed that IT leadership position. You know that the r...

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Is Your Web Site User Hostile?

(By Info-Tech Analyst Howard Kiewe - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) I recently guest lectured on the topic of usability testing to computer engineering students at an Ivy League university. To give them some han...

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Extended Warranties on Desktops and Laptops is a Racket

(By Info-Tech Analyst Mark Tauschek - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) Have you ever wondered how much extended warranties on desktops and laptops cost the enterprise? It is becoming increasingly challenging to figu...

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Water Wheels, Cold Fusion & The Cloud

How will cloud computing impact enterprise IT? In answering this question, references to water wheels and modern electric utilities will sometimes come up. This is a useful, though deeply flawed, historical analogy. Don't think hydro turbines. Think ...