Enterprise interest in Windows 8 half that for Windows 7 in '09
Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7, according to an analyst.
Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7, according to an analyst.
The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from the beginning. Here are some steps you can take to avoid big data pitfalls.
Workers bringing their own devices to work was one of the biggest challenges IT departments faced in 2011... and in 2010... and in 2009 as well. And guess what? It's going to be one of the biggest challenges in 2012 too.
Forrester Research this week published a report that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/110911-banks-hacker-raids-252944.html">advises security professionals</a> not to jump the gun on fixing security deficiencies immediately after a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/tech-debate-data-breach">data breach</a> is identified since that could destroy valuable evidence needed to prosecute cyber-criminals.
It's time for enterprise IT to wake up and smell the coffee, an analyst said today, and help workers who have spent their own money on Mac laptops to access corporate resources.
The consumerization of IT is old news at this point, since workers have been bringing their iPhones and Android-based devices to work for years now.
Disrupting the way employees interact is often risky. And deploying <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/686657/Social_World_Law_Firm_Taps_Cisco_Quad_to_Unify_Global_Workforce">unified communications (UC) tools</a> can be riskier than other enterprise software rollouts because it affects employees' ingrained habits. "People move at their own pace around [this] technology," observes Barry Libenson, CIO of Land O'Lakes. "It's not like a new ERP system."
More workers use iPhone and Android smartphones combined than BlackBerry smartphones, according to a survey of 1681 U.S.-based workers by Forrester Research.
The days of IT workers going to the same office for work every day are apparently over, according to a new survey from Forrester Research.
Despite the increasing use of smartphones at work, more than one-third of companies still don't provide any support for personal phones or outright prohibit their use at the office.
Market researcher Forrester has some unpleasant news for those of you running iPad apps in your enterprise. Forrester's iPad take: Chances are good that commercial apps don't protect sensitive data on an iPad or iPhone.
A new "geosocial" app called Sonar is getting the attention of Steve Peltzman, CIO of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
More than ever, workers want to take advantage of the <a href="http://www.theinfoboom.com/articles/the-complicated-new-face-of-personal-computing/">technology they use in their everyday lives</a> to help them do their jobs better. Forrester Research's first-quarter Forrsights for Business Technology survey shows that although the practice isn't widespread, employees are increasingly using applications and devices for work that have not been approved by their companies.
Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype could profoundly influence a set of collaboration and conferencing technologies called Unified Communications (UC) that have taken years to catch on, analysts said Thursday.
Facebook's start-up days are long behind it.