Latest Enterprise Opinion

• 17 May 2013

• Opinion: Noisy neighbors in your cloud

  As data-transfer shifts increasingly to the cloud, the servers stacked in datacenters handling the data become increasingly crowded. Virtualization means multiple users can share a single server.

• 09 May 2013

• Opinion: Xerox scanner grades handwritten tests, scolds you for dangling modifier

  We're now one step closer to a completely automated classroom. Xerox recently pulled the wraps off a new program called Ignite that will turn photocopies into test grading machines.

• Opinion: How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics

  The rapid rise of cloud computing means corporate IT may no longer be the cheapest purveyor of application hosting, infrastructure, storage and other services. The sooner IT leaders come to terms with this, the better.

• 01 May 2013

• Opinion: Amazon Web Services Will Continue to Disrupt Enterprises, IT Vendors

  Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market--and if current trends hold, the competition may not even be close.

• 22 April 2013

• Opinion: How OpenStack Should Prepare Itself for the Enterprise

  With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there.

• 17 April 2013

• Opinion: Viewing project-related email archives

  Reader Cathron Brewton, like many of us, would like to organize her old email in an efficient way. She writes:

• 11 April 2013

• Opinion: Dropbox for Business launches, offering single sign-on

  Cloud-storage provider Dropbox announced today the introduction of Dropbox for Business, a team-oriented version of the service with a particularly IT-friendly feature: single sign-on (SSO).

• 09 April 2013

• Opinion: Wrangling email: How I keep my inbox under control

  Though specialists have devised myriad systems that purport to achieve Inbox Zero. I'm not that ambitious. I just want a system that keeps the number of unread messages in my inbox as small as possible, doesn't treat my inbox as a to-do list, and doesn't require me to spend hours sorting and archiving my mail.

• 26 March 2013

• Opinion: Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

  Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it--and he doesn't feel fine about it.

• 11 March 2013

• Opinion: Microsoft gives away three months of Office 365 to college students

  Just in time for term papers, Microsoft is offering three-month trials of Office 365 University.

• 07 March 2013

• Opinion: VMware Tantrum Shows It's Not Connecting With Cloud Buyers or Sellers

  At a recent partner conference, VMware executives threw a fit about the firm's inability to 'own corporate workload' and its partners' inability to beat a 'bookseller' at the cloud computing game. The outbursts show is that VMware isn't connecting with application groups, who are increasingly driving cloud buying decisions.

• Opinion: Tackle overloaded Google Apps Gmail accounts with FreeSpace

  Google Apps offers cash-strapped small businesses a lot of bang for the buck, but one app that can cause problems is Gmail.

• 11 February 2013

• Opinion: ATMs: convenient, but a security risk

  It's hard to remember life without ATMs. In Hong Kong, we can transfer funds, pay our utility bills and even settle tax demand-notes using an ATM. And they even dispense cash.

• 08 February 2013

• Opinion: Discuss and organize team projects with Dispatch

  If there's one thing the Web probably doesn't need, it's another project-management tool aimed at teams. I mean, hello? Basecamp? Bitrix24? Yammer? How the heck does start-up Dispatch hope to compete?

• 07 February 2013

• Opinion: Setting up email on your Mac

  If you're new to the Mac but something of an iOS veteran, this lesson will be a snap. And it should be, because Apple modeled Mountain Lion's Mail, Contacts & Calendars system preference on the setting of the same name found on today's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

• Opinion: How Cloud Computing Is Driven by Mobile, Media and Marketing

  Defenders of enterprise computing are in for a rude awakening. Mobile, media and marketing applications are poised to flock to the cloud, which is far better suited to handle load variability, latency and change management. As end users and executives demand more flexibly business applications, they will soon follow suit.

• Opinion: Free Microsoft quick-start guides teach you the Office 2013 basics

  The other day I offered four reasons you don't need Microsoft Office 2013. However, if you fall into the camp that does need it, or you just decided not to follow my advice (it's been known to happen), Microsoft wants to help you get started using the new suite.

• Opinion: Get notified when a site's terms of service change

  You know those lengthy terms-of-service (TOS) agreements everybody ignores when installing a piece of software or registering for a new Web service?

• 05 February 2013

• Opinion: Four reasons you don't need the new Microsoft Office

  As you've no doubt heard by now, Microsoft Office 2013 has arrived. So has Microsoft Office 365. Some would argue that the latter is the better deal, but I'm here to tell you don't need either one.

• 04 February 2013

• Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: PDFs saved from the web fail to open

  Recently, I tried something that had always worked before. This time, it didn't.

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