The first board member at your organisation to walk through the door with an iPad did the IT team a massive favour. Put bluntly, there was no longer an argument. They had to ease the purse strings on your requests to fund management and security systems to go with your enterprise mobility projects.
Data centre efficiency has become the holy grail of IT professionals. Virtualisation, together with public and private cloud and rising energy costs have changed the nature of enterprise IT, highlighting new opportunities and challenges.
Tough economic times seem to have quelled the worst excesses of IT vendor Greenwash, where every new product and upgrade was claimed to be saving the planet, much to most IT professionals’ relief.
Server virtualisation places significant new demands on traditional storage, says Terri McClure, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The standard storage architecture was originally designed for monolithic mainframes—not the abstraction and pooling of resources.”
Sometimes it is difficult to know where the responsibilities of IT departments should end. Electricity supply, for instance, is the responsibility of facilities management, but, if it is interrupted, it soon becomes an IT problem.
Many experts are touting encryption technology as the solution – offering robust protection against the rising cybercrime threat, giving only authenticated users access to enterprise data, and securing data to satisfy compliance requirements.
Given the upside of mobile and remote working, it is surprising that firms can still put up barriers to these arrangements, be they technical, logistical and cultural. A survey by Forrester showed just 13% of information workers believe their company encourages them to work remotely.
Any IT professional who has heard “send it to my Hotmail” or “popped it into Dropbox for you” echo across the office will know how impossible it is to keep employees from using outside applications for work when those provided don’t quite meet their needs.
Desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly attractive to enterprises, particularly mid-sized businesses that have achieved significant data centre efficiency improvements through server virtualisation.
The lines which once marked the boundaries between providers of software, hardware, services and business advice have all but disappeared.
This year will bring significant challenges to IT managers as enterprises face an increasingly tough economic climate. Several strong trends are emerging.
Enterprises and their customers increasingly expect business services to be available and responsive at any time, requiring the underlying technology infrastructure to be ‘always on- always available’. The themes currently driving technology trends for 2012 share this common goal of highly available and pervasive computing.
Social media has been buzzing around the IT agenda for some time, but it is about to become one of the main items of concern.
Not long ago the "app" was a shorthand that only IT professionals used. They talked about enterprise apps, personal productivity apps, or line of business apps. Now primary school kids know what apps are and the government seems anxious to get them writing their own… For the rest of the population, apps are everywhere.
Today's sophisticated cyber-criminals are finding new ways to plant their crimeware into business clients. The result is the most insidious and sophisticated malware that security experts have seen to date - and IT management must protect against.
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