As I was sitting in the sunshine sipping my coffee at a new neighborhood spot, I overheard several IT professionals groaning about changes and upgrades to software within their company. Their concerns and troubles seemed all too real, especially given the digital enterprise global security environment. Their biggest frustration seemed to be centered on simply keeping on top of it all – managing the abundant stream of new applications, ensuring software was current, keeping the network secure, and making sure the software worked seamlessly across devices.More...

What are the coming billion-dollar industries? In a recent webinar, Gartner said there is a set of forces coming together that are completely changing how we live and do business These forces are: More...

GigaOm recently released a free report, “Enterprise mobility perceptions among IT decision makers,” that examines cloud computing, big data, and enterprise mobility. The report highlights data collected by GigaOm from 304 enterprise IT decision makers.

The findings included an observation that, while 80 percent of all enterprises support mobile phones as part of their infrastructure, the size of the business seemed to have little impact on a company’s decision to support such mobility. The report also provides a glimpse into the market share for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows devices (I won’t spoil the suspense as I hope you’ll go grab your own copy of the report), as well as some insight into application support. More...

On the heels of our Sprint Complete Collaboration announcement last week, a top industry analyst group has come out with a memorandum on hosted collaboration that tells the strategic story concisely and thoroughly.

Titled Top 10 Reasons for Hosted Collaboration, the Yankee Group document is in the form of a presentation. It's really worth a few minutes of your time to take a look. More...

The BYOD movement is truly shaking up IT.  Now, more than ever, employees are bringing their own devices to work. Not only that, on average, employees carry more than two devices each. The proliferation of devices and the additional traffic are putting big demands on the corporate network, as well as increasing the risk of data security breaches. More...

While most of the corporate world went into Holiday Hibernation for the last two weeks of the year, we continued to scour the webscape on your behalf. And it’s a good thing we did, because there are at least a couple of interesting items you might have missed.

Both of these fit a common theme, and it’s something that should be on your front burner this year. In the face of increased cybercrime and intrusions, if there is going to be a Year of Security, 2012 should be it. More...

Meet two of today’s innovators – not ordinary innovators, in fact some might even say geniuses. These two young men haven’t yet reached 19 years of age. What unites these innovators is that they are tackling one of today’s biggest Internet problems: helping people search and use relevant data. More...

Today, tablets are the choice of executives and employees. Many employees even buy their own if the company does not issue one.  Everyone wants one, and with good reasons. What can enterprise IT take away from the rapid adoption of the tablet over the past year and a half? More...

Techspeak:  A language and set of vocabulary, including slang, specifically used to communicate within the technology industry (as defined by this blogger).  While techspeak has not yet made it into The Oxford English Dictionary, or Wikipedia, more than 400 new words did in 2011. We talk about the speed at which technology changes.  It makes sense that a new vocabulary of words and acronyms would flourish too. More...

The paradigm shift is happening right before our eyes. The Consumerization of IT, as we’ve called it, is where technology originating in the consumer market integrates itself into the enterprise as employees bring these advances into the corporate work environment. We’ve sounded the alarms for security and compatibility. But maybe IT should be relieved and even thankful. It’s time to embrace this movement for an enterprise advantage. More...