OPINIONS

Which Workers Are the Best Fit for BYOD?

What kinds of workers should be allowed to use their smartphones and tablets on the job, in a growing trend called "Bring Your Own Device," or BYOD? Opposing sides are forming about two distinct groups: hourly workers and salespeople.

cio.com

How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics

The traditional assumptions of IT-stable workloads and predictable growth-are no longer tenable.These trends threaten the established IT economics and present IT groups to topple their position as monopoly supplier of computing to the larger enterprise.

Bernard Golden Cloud Computing Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell

In the Year of the Cloud

Over the past few years, cloud computing has matured from being an ‘emerging’ trend to a necessary technology. Be it increasing efficiency or saving costs or improving productivity, the cloud can help different organizations in different ways. Here are some best practices organizations need to follow in order to get the best out of the technology.

Balwant C. Surti,Infosys Industry Principal and Lead-Enterprise Architecture and Solutions, Finacle

Indian Leaders are Forcing the World to Sit Up and Take Notice

They’re argumentative, they’re aggressive, but what makes Indian leaders stand taller than their western counterparts is a different set of attributes: Soft skills.

Manallack Pty Ltd Managing Director

Chasing Unicorns: How to Find 'Blended' IT-Business Pros

These days, the ideal IT manager is seen as someone deeply technical yet business savvy, wonderfully communicative and, of course, a strategic thinker. In other words, as mythic a creature as a unicorn.

Maryfran Johnson Author, CIO

How Big is Cloud's Impact? Depends On Who's Asking

Not surprisingly, vendor surveys point to higher adoption than independent researchers.

Brandon Butler Author, Network World

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.

Bernard Golden, Vice President Enterprise Solutions for enStratius Networks

5 Lessons for IT from the Boston Marathon Bombings

The CIO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center learned a few things last week

John D. Halamka CIO, CareGroup Healthcare System

Making Safer iOS Apps

There still seem to be a lot of security flaws in iOS apps, but new tools could help fix that.

Kenneth van Wyk, president and principal consultant KRvW Associates

Gauging BYOD Acceptance

The bulk of the shops (two-thirds) that allow BYOD let employees bring in and use what they want, while roughly one-fifth say they give employees an allowance to buy the tools they like.

John Dix, Editor-in-Chief Network World, Inc

Social Relationships, Social Returns

Calculating the ROI of social media business is tricky for most enterprises. Knowing what to track can be a good start.

Gunjan Trivedi executive editor, IDG Media

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

It looks like the Akash tablet project has been put in the trash, where it belongs. Now let’s hope they don't plan to aren’t going to recycle.

Arun Kumar, Executive Editor IDG Media