In the first part of this discussion, I looked at the trends behind the opening session conversations at this year's Future in Review Conference. The trends I'll discuss in this week's issue tend to be broader in scope, and occasionally deeper...

In the overlap of technology and economics, we are describing a new regime of thought and action which we think is necessary for the global system to continue its growth.

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Training is essential to improving IT staff's current performance, as well as adding new skills for future promotion opportunities.

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IT organizations, even those not undergoing major changes, must invest wisely in the ongoing training and development of their permanent staff. The training is essential both to improve staff competency in current or proposed areas of...

There are many times when it is difficult to appreciate how essentially stupid - and technically primitive - our computing tools are.

Around us, we see Europe disintegrating, currencies manipulated, a cleanly split U.S. economy (predicted a year before it happened), and the dramatic rise in tension between China and the U.S. caused by the former's organized theft of...

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A wireless access network is indispensable in the modern business, but not every business needs to make it their primary access layer, nor are they prepared to. Use this tool to determine if your organization has the drivers and readiness to...

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It's time to cut the blue cable and make the move to a primarily wireless access network. Look at upcoming network trends, and how they enhance the benefits of a wireless access network. Then learn how to implement a network that is more...

These days I have almost no use for politics; I consider those who believe in Party Before Country as likely to be guilty of treason, and my younger-year dreams of public service in elected office have been replaced, in general, with a deep...

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Use this tool to find the best roadmap to your consumerization strategy. It will then provide the optimal roadmap to consumerization success, with detailed steps to follow that path.

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Learn about the implications of a broader roll-out by using this template to ask participants questions about the consumerization pilot project.

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The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

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The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

Every year, around this time, I publish an estimate of what Q4, the "Christmas Quarter," will look like, particularly from the perspective of technology markets. For almost all vendors, it represents the busiest quarter of the year, often by...

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Explosive data growth, cloud computing, virtualization and consolidation, mobile computing; these are all major technology trends that are having a large impact on IT departments today. For infrastructure professionals, these trends are top of...

In this piece, the authors attack a key question that faces the United States today: should we let anti-immigration feelings, fired up by the 9.11 attacks and fueled by the invasion of southern border "visitors," affect our global international...

Sixty-four years after India's independence in 1947, middle-class Indians are gripped by fears about the future. No, it is not the pathetic performance of the Indian cricket team in England this summer that is the cause - though that rankles....

Steve Jobs calls this the "Post-PC Era," so maybe it's all his fault. On the other hand, Gartner ought to take its share of the blame, since it was the first to start putting out misleading titles about PC vs. pad and netbook sales suggesting...

Technology and Education: two ideas that cannot be separated, and that have yet to be properly merged. In the firmament of veterans in this sector who have the combination of history and technical chops to properly assess our current situation,...

The basic aspects of this theory have the potential to affect computing, communications, photonics, materials science, and many other sectors we follow daily. For that reason, although it may seem abstract to some, it should be considered...

In the early days of the personal computer software industry, there were all kinds of products that, it turned out later, were destined to be features. My favorite from that era was a standalone utility called Sideways that let one print - yep -...

We have now been warning members of the dangers of a cyber attack on their corporate Intellectual Property for several years. We think the current level of threat has stepped up so quickly as to warrant a warning through this Special Alert. Here...

The purpose of this group was to find a few technology stocks that provided long-term growth and a minimum of risk: what are sometimes called "shoebox" stocks, in the sense that one should just buy them, put them away, and forget them for 5-10 years.

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies while discarding obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies while discarding obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies, while discarding obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

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To maintain parity with competitors and especially to exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of exciting new technologies, while discarding obsolete ones.

London, ON, January 3rd, 2011 – Businesses have been slow to trust the innovative technologies of the past few years, but according to a new study by Info-Tech Research Group, 2011 will be the year of mass adoption. The growing pains have...

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Each year there are numerous technology developments that provide IT with opportunities to offer extended value to the organization. Some simplify IT's work. Others are just plain cool. And some create challenges for IT in its traditional role...

Sentilla, one of several vendors in a growing category of off-the-shelf data center energy measurement solutions, recently announced the release of Sentilla Energy Manager 3.0. This release introduces several features and enables energy...