By Adam Boone This week a court ruled that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can sue companies that do not deploy an adequate security…
Enterprise wake-up call: if you’re not doing enough to protect your customer information, the feds might come after your company for unfair and deceptive practices.…
Is Paris Hilton a celebrity socialite or a hotel in France? The answer depends upon the context, perhaps from a Web page, magazine article, or…
By Sacha Nasr There’s a kernel of good thinking in the Bimodal IT concept. Different applications of information technology require different approaches. Product development may…
By Martin Heller What does “big enough” mean? It’s sometimes useful to argue by reductio ad absurdum. Hello, world doesn’t need to be broken down…
By Arthur Cole One of the key advantages that the mainframe has in the Big Data era is the difficulty in migrating large workloads off…
Brands are more than the sum of their brand elements – logos, colors, shapes, and the like. Brands are promises. Promises from a company to…
There are two kinds of enterprises in today’s world: the ones that know they’ve been hacked, and the ones that don’t know they’ve been hacked.…
Contrary to what passes for popular wisdom these days, migrating enterprise applications off the mainframe is often a fool’s errand. That’s the word from the…
The Dark Side of the Frictionless Enterprise During the seventy-year history of enterprise information technology, generation after generation of IT have transformed the nature of…
