Every sporting event needs a halftime report& and that includes the high-tech industry. Now that IT managers and administrators are just about halfway through 2010, here are the trends that are shaping this year. So get ready for this halftime show, and lets hope there are no wardrobe malfunctions. – …
eWEEKs Eric Lundquist is at 2010 CTIA show in Las Vegas. Its the 25th anniversary of the show, which has turned, in his words, from an it’s like wired but slower, more complicated and more expensive event to a showcase for the future of consumer and business digital communications and data flow. The business aspect of wireless has lagged the consumer in Lundquists opinion. The carriers are partly responsible in that they pursued the consumer revenues. The business execs are also partly responsible in that they never envisioned an era when 75, 80 or maybe a 100 percent of their workers and customers would operate solely in the mobile environment. Not surprisingly, Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT T Mobility and Consumer Markets, stated in his keynote that by 2013, 75 percent of workers will be mobile workers. With that in mind, Lundquist looks at how IT managers can take five simple steps to turn their enterprises into dynamic mobile workplaces.
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As 2009 comes to an end in a few weeks, eWEEKs Eric Lundquist is contemplating the 10 technology strategies that IT managers and administrators can use to help cut costs and improve their companys business outlook for 2010. Some of the technologies and strategies that Lundquist sees making a big impact next year include cloud computing and virtualization, social networking, and whether or not to upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7.
– The end of the year approaches, and you have spent way too much time on
Facebook and Twitter and worrying about little things like keeping your
company in business in 2009. However, despite a once-gloomy economy now
showing some sun around the edges and an interest in social media bordering on…
OK, I’m ready for the e-mails asking me why I picked this one and not that one as I look back at 25 years of both PC Week and eWEEK to find those men and women who have had the most influence on the IT industry and who are still influencing this industry today.
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