/// Tag Archives: gartner
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Remote Support
February 01, 2012
The role of the CIO is evolving and will continue to do so over the course of 2012. Currently this evolution involves a major shift...
5 Reasons PPM Will Matter in 2012
January 30, 2012
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is set to be one of the hot IT topics for 2012. As a concept, it may sound like stating...
10 Tips For Bridging The Gap Between Business And IT
January 12, 2012
The IT landscape in many organisations is changing. Gartner has said that the consumerisation of IT will be the single most influential technology trend of...
Cloud Computing Predictions Have Never Been Livelier
January 10, 2012
Analysts, media and vendors have all been busy, offering their predictions about this year’s technology winners and losers. In making predictions however, it’s also important to...
Mobile Strategies Must Be Adopted For Business Success
December 22, 2011
Back in September there was a blog about the breakneck speed of mobile growth across the globe and how, from ownership figures to usage amounts...
Is Big Data Creating Big Issues For Storage Performance And Scalability?
December 13, 2011
Over the last decade there has been an explosion in the growth of data. According to a report released earlier this year from analyst house...
10 questions to ask when deciding on the right e-commerce software
October 27, 2011
When it comes to ecommerce software packages, buyers have basically 3 different choices on how the software is being made available to them; on-premises, hosted...
Good sense and demonstrable results make a winning proposal
October 17, 2011
Things have significantly changed since the recession affected companies’ budgets and made them re-think their needs and priorities – something IT consultancies have to take...
Consumer IT in the workplace is causing a data security nightmare
October 07, 2011
The implications of the latest Gartner predictions are clear: a string of user-empowering consumer IT technologies are steadily loosening the modern organisation’s grip on its...
Will digital marketing replicate the mistakes of CRM?
October 03, 2011
The nascent digital marketing industry is currently growing very rapidly (c. at 20% to 30%) and is attracting a plethora of competitors. But what can...
Is cloud computing a risky business?
September 28, 2011
The Liberal Democrats expressed fears about the future of cloud computing at their conference this week, urging the government to look into security around cloud...
“Insiders” leave organisations exposed to data risks
September 28, 2011
Every one of us is an insider. However, in addition to permanent employees there are contractors, business partners and auditors who are also considered to...
Security has to evolve to combat the increase in attacks
September 22, 2011
Own the vulnerability; don’t blame the threat, is Gartner’s advice. Fingers have been pointed at China and Russia (amongst others) for some of the recent...
Gmail is now a viable alternative to Microsoft
September 21, 2011
Google’s enterprise Gmail at five years old is building momentum with commercial organisations with more than 5,000 seats, and it now presents a viable alternative...
2011 is the year of mobile OS consolidation
September 08, 2011
Over the past two years every time a group of mobile developers gathered in the room, the topic of conversation often veered to fragmentation. Predominantly referring...
