CIO Perspective: Traditional Strategies Still In Place
Social enterprises, enterprise collaboration, bring your own device (BYOD), new development methodologies are the changes that the affect the organizations as a whole and the IT departments is no exception….
Why Office 365 Is a Better Choice for Your Business
After more than two years in the field discussing and implementing Office 365 and Google Apps, trying to decide between the pros and cons of both, I can say that…
End User Support: Excuses From The Userland
No matter where you worked in IT support – enterprise, remote, online, consultant, friend, whatever – you have heard many excuses from the end users. When you thought that you…
Enterprise IT In The Post-PC Era
As I have discussed extensively in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) series of posts, and considering the current consumer trends, we are living in a post-PC era. People no…
Enterprise Mobile Application Launch: Strategies For The IT Managers
Almost all IT managers know the application deployment and implementation cycle in their companies. But many of them fail to fully understand the issues that come with the mobile applications,…
Let’s admit it. We all commit stupid sins and hope that nobody catches them. We do it in our own computers, sometime in our friends’ computers (and spend hours trying…
CIO Perspective: Defunding and Refunding Initiatives
IT always had a notoriety for high acquisition and implementation costs and therefore almost always the first items to be considered for defunding. For the past years many IT departments…
The spread of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, their connection with all types of computing devices from personal computers to mobile phones and their ability to save data directly to the…
IT is about day to day challenges. Most seasoned IT professionals have learnt how to deal with those challenges, which are all resource drainers. Here is my take on the…
Most Common Unrealized Data Center Mistakes: #3 Lack of Proper Business Mind
I am always amazed that the IT people operate in a very disciplined, task-oriented manner but fail to understand how people think and work, let alone working in harmony with…
Most Common Unrealized Data Center Mistakes: #2 Lack of Proper Operations
I have spoken about the most common mistakes in the planning phase in my previous article. Although there are companies that have correctly passed through the planning phase, they make…
Most Common Unrealized Data Center Mistakes: #1 Lack of Proper Planning
When I visit my clients’ data centers, I often see the same mistakes repeated over and over. When I find the time to speak with the IT managers – or…