One of the most contentious problems in the IT industry is the fact that applications have always been the driving force behind infrastructure. The advancements in hardware or infrastructure have always been held back or limited by the desire to be backwards compatible which is why majority of datacenters these days are a melting pot of specialized legacy systems. According to VMware CTO Steve Harrod, this shouldn’t really be seen as a problem...

In today’s Silicon Valley, engineering talent is as sought after by companies as gold was by the first prospectors in the Wild West. Talent is a company’s most important asset, so we decided to use LinkedIn’s data insights to discover which startups are grabbing the attention of San Francisco Bay Area engineers...

A major shift is underway in data center infrastructure procurement and design....

A recent slew of surveys about the bring your own device trend portray a topsy-turvy computing world shaping up in the enterprise. The CIO's ultimate challenge is to prevent the very real world of BYOD from becoming surreal. Employees want to use unapproved apps for things like social networking, a highly controversial worker-productivity killer. They want to read, send and store documents using cloud-based email or a cloud-based storage service provider, which is an IT security nightmare. They want to communicate over their personal IM that is presumably outside IT's purview...

I want to start this blog post by stressing that, like all of my posts, according to Gartner’s policies, it is strictly personal opinion. But I feel like this issue is important, and that I can say something constructive in the conversation around the role of women in technology and the culture of technology as it relates to women...

Mayank Kapoor, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said that top tier service providers currently have the required technology, security and infrastructure to support the migration and running of mission-critical applications on public cloud platforms.

However, there are still technical and non-technical challenges that need to be overcome before more companies dare to move their critical apps and data on these services, he said...

#1 You need to think about big data...

#2 Useful data can come from anywhere (and everywhere)...

#3 You will need new expertise for big data...

#4 Big Data doesn't require organization beforehand...

#5 Big Data is not only about Hadoop...

Big trade shows like Interop can be confusing. So many vendors, so much noise, so much spin, so little clarity. Searching for technology trends among the tchochke seekers, spokes-models and aggressive PR reps can feel like a hopeless task.  But after dozens of meetings and a slew of informal conversations, here are five key takeaways from Interop 2012 that CIOs should be aware of...

Cloud computing has spawned a provincial language all of its own with terms like 'elastic scaling',  'agile re-provisioning' and of course 'virtualisation' now being unexceptional to the commonly understood lingua franca of the industry.The upshot of cloud in deployment terms has meant that the back office or even the 'server farm' as we once knew it has transmogrified into the so-called next-generation data centre or NGDC.So what has changed?...

As security pros wait for more details about the VMware ESX hypervisor source code leak, should they be panicking? Well no, not yet, anyway. Without knowing exactly what source code was leaked, it’s hard to know the extent of the threat, security experts have said. However, the answer may come soon...

January 2012 had a series of major IT executive moves to kick off the year and, in February, the pace of major C-suite and channel chief changes only slightly slowed. Here's a look at major moves for the month of February, which included a number of big moves at major IT distributors and vendors such as Dell and Google...

January and February were busy months as far as IT executive movers and shakers were concerned and March continued that trend, with some big announcements out of HP, Google and RIM -- and the departure of a major, well-known channel chief -- topping the list of notables. Here's a look at 30 of the biggest IT executive moves in March, from all over the industry...

Following a particularly eventful March in the IT channel , April had a few more surprises in store for solution providers paying attention to major companies like HP, VMware, Cisco and Ingram Micro. Here's a look at some big changes that happened in the last four or so weeks, or that we're just getting caught up on...

IT engineers are studying what may be an easier way to fix a long-existing weakness in the Internet's routing system that has the potential to cause major service outages and allow hackers to spy on data. The problem involves the routers used by every organization and company that owns a block of IP addresses. Those routers communicate constantly with other routers, updating their internal ...

Hillary Martin, Chief Scientist for Bit.ly says that it seems that the markets are as much in love with "Big Data"—the ability to acquire, process and sort vast quantities of data in real time—as the technology industry. However, according to a report published last year by McKinsey, there is a problem. "A significant constraint on realizing value from Big Data will be a shortage of talent, particularly of people with deep expertise in statistics and machine learning, and the managers and analysts who know how to operate companies by using insights from Big Data,"...