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New England Patriots' Winning Technology Plan
January 19, 2013
IT pros from Boston's professional teams -- the Patriots, Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox -- met at Gillette Stadium to talk tech, the future of live sports, and how to deliver real-time, high-definition video to a crowd of 70,000.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's MDM Experience
July 11, 2011
CIO Jerry Johnson shares master data management pros, cons, and lessons learned.
Following Uncle Sam Into The Cloud
June 27, 2011
Chris Poelker says enterprises should watch the feds' Cloud2 play.
Cloud Services, SaaS Pose WAN Bandwidth Challenges
May 17, 2011
Cisco exec Pat Calhoun discusses the challenges of ensuring enough bandwidth over wired and wireless networks to handle the needs of a modern enterprise.
McAfee, Intel Launch Cloud Security Platform
May 12, 2011
The security service uses data loss prevention policies to stop leakage of sensitive data via mobile devices, end users, social networks, and private cloud applications.
Storage Movers And Shakers
February 05, 2011
Find out what our poll respondents had to say about vendors in four areas.
Magellan Overcomes Distance
December 21, 2010
Magellan's nearly 300 employees produce four product lines at five sites on two continents.
Get Rid Of Old Desktops And Do Some Good
December 03, 2010
If you've wanted to donate outdated end-user devices but were thwarted by security, software licensing, or other concerns, the new Serious Good program by IT asset recovery company Redemtech might be for you. The program's ambitious: Provide a refurbished computer for every Habitat for Humanity partner family in the U.S. who wants one, a target that will require about 80,000 donated computers. But since U.S. businesses replace about 40 million PCs per year, 75% of them four years old or less, it's an achievable goal.
Mansfield Oil CIO: How IT Is Driving Revenue
October 09, 2010
After a major data center virtualization project, it has started selling IT services directly to its customers.
InformationWeek 500: Energy Companies And Utilities Aim To Squeeze Out More Efficiencies
September 15, 2010
With oil and gas prices down, companies are focusing on process efficiency and maximizing margins.
Storage Outlook: Cloudy, No Swimming
June 15, 2010
Earlier this month I sat down with Deepak Mohan, senior VP of Symantec's Information Management Group, and Anil Chakravarthy, senior VP of Symantec's Storage and Availability Management Group, to discuss the growth of digital information and topics that InformationWeek Analytics will be covering in the second half of the year.
The HiPPO In The Room
May 20, 2010
I attended the MIT Sloan Symposium yesterday, which largely focused on the democratization and decentralization of IT. "You're no longer in control," says Frank Moss, former Tivoli CEO and now head of MIT's media lab. "Get over it."
Cybercrime As An Economic Threat
February 03, 2010
Speaking on Good Morning America this morning during a report on the terror threat, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke pegged cyberthreats as just as, if not more, serious than the next iteration of the underwear bomber. "Every day major corporations in the country lose their intellectual property, their corporate secrets, without even knowing it, to successful Chinese hacks" says Clarke. "This is the real big threat, because it takes away our economic advantage."
Security: Exception to the Rule?
January 13, 2010
In his most recent column, Art Wittmann explained that we're not going to see a "year of the cloud" because cloud is an evolutionary process, and evolution takes time. In general, that's true, but there's one area where the pace tends to be quicker—security. Attackers aren't sitting back waiting for new techs to gain maturity. They're throwing everything they have at our networks, hoping something sticks and yields a payoff in stolen data.
Is Virtualization The Key To Continuity?
October 15, 2009
Business continuity and disaster recovery have long been sore points for enterprise IT. Can virtualization change all that and make true continuity a reality ... or at least, make recovering from disaster a faster and more thorough operation? That's the premise of our latest InformationWeek Analytics poll.
FTC To Bloggers: Gut Check Time
October 06, 2009
The FTC's new rules on what constitutes an endorsement should be required reading for anyone who renders an opinion on products or services, and for those of us who give these bloggers a venue.
Unified Communications, Take 1
September 13, 2009
The best thing about my job is hanging out with smart people. I had that opportunity last Friday when I attended the filming of a series of videos on unified communications.
The Encryption Gap
July 23, 2009
Things that make us say "hmmm" include these stats: The percentage of respondents to our 2009 Strategic Security Survey rating encrytion as effective in reducing risk dropped from 57% in 2008 to 48% in 2009. Use of disk, file and backup media encryption ALL fell year over year by at least five percentage points. Backup encryption usage is down 10 points.
Help Shape Our Win7 Coverage
July 20, 2009
Seems like every pundit has a take on the upcoming Windows 7 OS. But instead of squawking at you, InformationWeek Analytics wants to listen. And clearly, you want to talk: Our Win7 reader survey got more than 800 responses in just a few days.
Will 11n Ever Supplant Ethernet To The Desktop?
May 21, 2009
That's just one of the questions InformationWeek Analytics is looking to answer with our first-ever "Wireless Nation" report. Security and compliance are also high on our coverage list.
Yes, We're Talking Mainframes
April 23, 2009
Sure, much of our audience is thinking "Seriously dude? You're bumming me out. I've been working for a few hours and I almost have my iPhone virtualized. I'm gonna have, like, three iPhones running on one phone." But if you're one of the select few who sees the real future of virtualization, have I got a survey for you.
Plug Those Leaks
March 20, 2009
There's a spirited discussion going on among our technology editors over data loss prevention (DLP) technologies. Is DLP the new NAC? Sure, it's expensive, but could this keep data from walking out on thumb drives? Could we finally put a lid on the insider threat?
Can We Bridge The Security Divide?
March 14, 2009
This week I spent some time at the Boston Source Conference, attending Christopher Hoff's balanced discussion of cloud computing security and Jeremiah Grossman's take on making money the black hat way, among other sessions. Great quality content, well worth the time, and I'll never look at online banking the same way. This "a little knowledge equals a lot of fear" syndrome isn't new for me -- for years, I've edited security experts like Mike Fratto and Greg Shipley. But Source drove home just how wide the gap has gotten between those who know what goes bump in the dark reaches of the Internet, and everyone else.
Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste
February 25, 2009
At InformationWeek Analytics, we work with senior technology pros involved in government IT at many levels, from local (Jonathan Feldman, author of our latest governance report) to federal (Michael Biddick, who wrote our report on advanced virtualization management).
Is NAC Hot, Or Not?
February 23, 2009
This is InformationWeek Analytics' fourth year tracking the state of NAC adoption. It's been fascinating to see firsthand the arc of a technology, from media darling to sitting on the sidelines, watching as new starlets like cloud computing grab all the glory. Something like Etta James watching Beyonce belt out "At Last," but without the smack talk.