Report: Good Monitoring Tools Could Be Key in Mobile-Cloud Shift

Posted by on Apr 17, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

A recent study by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) looked at the big concerns facing CIOs today, and not surprising cloud and mobile were near the top of the list — with big concerns about how to deploy and monitor mobile and cloud apps. According to the summary of the study on the EMA website, one of the technologies that could relieve the strain is Applications Performance Monitoring. Let’s start by looking at the lay of the land. It’s nothing you haven’t heard before. Issues around the Consumerization of IT are having a profound impact on enterprise IT. Users...

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Gartner CIO Survey Finds Flat IT Budgets for 2012

Posted by on Apr 5, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

In spite of the fact we seem to have left the 2008 recession long behind us, a new survey of CIOs by Gartner finds that IT budgets in some parts of the world will remain effectively flat or even decline for 2012. Gartner reports that overall there will be just a 0.5 percent average budget growth worldwide with numbers actually declining in North America and Europe. Latin America was reporting the largest IT growth with an impressive 12.7 increase in IT spending. Asia/Pacific was reporting a more modest 3.4 percent increase. I can understand the continued belt-tightening in Europe where the...

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Shifting Roles in the C Suite Put Pressure on the CIO

Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

As consumerization rolls across the enterprise, it’s having a profound effect on IT of course, but the changes are actually rolling all the way through the executive suite as roles shift to account for new ways of operating in the enterprise. The was the conclusion of Microsoft COO Kevin Turner when he spoke recently at the CeBIT Trade Fair in Hanover, Germany. Turner said over the years, he’s watched as his role has changed and gotten more difficult in many ways.  And one of the main factors driving that role change is the fact that consumers have more technological capability...

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