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  • Verizon Enterprise Solutions chief: 'We build infrastructure at scale'

    In the battle for the next generation of enterprise IT, John Stratton carries a lot of weapons. Stratton is president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, the nearly $30 billion unit formed just over a year ago to deliver networking, cloud, mobility, managed security, telematics and a host of other services in a more coordinated fashion for Verizon's top enterprise buyers. Building on a traditionally strong base of wired and wireless network services, Verizon Enterprise also blends in acquired assets like cloud hosting company Terremark, security company Cybertrust and Hughes Telematics. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Stratton spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about Verizon Enterprise's progress since its inception, including a dramatic streamlining of internal systems and processes designed to make life much easier for the company's customers. Stratton also discussed the company's suite of services aimed at simplifying life for IT teams struggling with mobility and the influx of consumer devices, and he talked candidly about the prospects for a third mobile platform to rival Apple's iOS and Google's Android. He also talked about how cloud is reshaping the IT landscape and hinted at a series of major upcoming cloud announcements from Verizon Enterprise. Also, he explained how the "Internet of Things" is creating powerful new business opportunities for Verizon and its enterprise customers.

  • 4 Ways Federal Fiscal Austerity Will Impact CIOs

    First there was the fiscal cliff. Now there's the sequester. Neither caused the sky to fall, but both will have a slow, steady impact on the economy. That means CIOs should tread carefully when crafting IT budgets for the next couple years--and shouldn't be surprised to hear 'No.'

  • Telecom Bill Cramming Impacts IT's Bottom Line

    In June, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) announced plans to propose new rules to increase transparency and disclosure on phone bills in order to help protect consumers from "cramming", the illegal addition of unauthorized fees onto a monthly phone bills.

  • Is in-house enterprise IT on death row?

    The latest news from HP should be chilling to IT employees: The company is eliminating 9000 IT positions. Forrester Research analyst James Staten told Computerworld US it is probable IT operations jobs such as systems administrators will bear the brunt of the layoffs.

  • Enterprise IT must prepare for iPad apps

    Apple iPad developers have jumped to quickly adapt enterprise applications for the new device, even as some analysts and IT managers say they don't find the iPad to be enterprise-ready.

  • Apple making inroads into enterprise IT

    Even without a strategy to push its computers into corporations, Apple has managed to nearly quadruple its share of the enterprise market in the past 19 months, according data collected from clients of research firm Forrester.

  • Five Web 2.0 development lessons for enterprise IT

    Yahoo's Flickr unit reported recently that the latest update to the photo sharing website went live just before 5pm with nine changes made by three of its developers. The "deployment" was the 36th new release in a week where 627 changes were made by 21 developers.

  • Enterprise IT managers buy company

    The management of Oracle specialist Enterprise IT has bought out the company’s former owner, Computer Brokers.
    Enterprise IT CEO Stuart Speers and board members Duane Mcleod, Peter Marks, Ian Taylor and Paul Steffensen have bought the shares formerly owned by Computer Brokers.

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