All that talk about CIO-CMO collaboration? Good luck with that.
CIOs and CMOs say all the right stuff about working together, but when the rubber meets the road, little has changed.
Enterprise software spending will set pace of IT spending in 2014
It may not be as glam as the latest phone apps, but boring enterprise software — CRM, SCM, ERP — will power IT growth in 2014, says Gartner.
PRISM fallout could cost cloud companies up to $180B
An earlier ITIF estimate that NSA-gate could cost U.S. cloud companies $35B over three years is far too limited an assessment, says Forrester Research analyst James Staten.
Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers
Industry giants are adding more development and platform goodies for mobile app developers. This may have the more targeted MBaaS providers a little perplexed.
Will “hybrid public” cloud give VMware its mojo back?
VMware is banking that its brand and customer base will make it a power in public cloud infrastructure. Others bet that VMware’s “hybrid public” cloud plan is too little too late.
Bringing data loss prevention to the little guy
Companies of all sizes worry about theft of key information but until recently, the use of data loss prevention technology was too rich for their blood. The adoption of cloud technologies to enable DLP managed services like Verdasys is changing that.
This week in cloud: Red Hat snags ManageIQ; Amazon builds on devs’ devotion
Red Hat’s $104M buyout of ManageIQ gives it a stronger cross-cloud management story; Developers love their Amazon EC2 instances and will likely use more of them next year, according to new Forrester research.
BYOD blowback drives more IT underground
Enterprises unnerved by the bring-your-own-device movement that many had promoted are now trying to lock down employees’ own devices for security purposes. The unintended consequence is that many of those employees, frustrated by these restrictions, just use unsanctioned devices instead.
Content, not hardware, has made tablets the current king
Tablets may be a hot item now, but they’re just getting started. At paidContent 2012, Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey noted that it’s not just a “tablet or iPad world” coming, but an “everything world.”
Want to see your SaaS valuation skyrocket? Specialize
If you’re a Software-as-a-Service provider and want to wring the richest rewards out of what is already a lucrative gig, you should “verticalize” your services. That’s according to a newly published report from Forrester Research analyst Liz Herbert.