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• Enterprise collaboration: 4 ways to achieve more

  By Kristin Burnham | 24 March, 2011 06:28

  A new report from Forrester Research finds that while businesses continue to adopt enterprise collaboration tools in 2011, they're not seeing a wide range of benefits from them.

• Apocalypse: 52 percent of CIOs plan to blow up IT groups

  By Thomas Wailgum | 24 July, 2010 09:00

  The saying goes something like this: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The statement is, of course, embraced as dogma by those fearful of change and by automobile owners praying for a reasonable bill of charge while waiting at the mechanic's garage.

• Where is Your Cloud? Four Compliance Best Practices

  By James Staten | 19 April, 2010 06:50

  If you think the phrase "It's in the cloud" means that your data resides on the Internet and is thus accessible everywhere equally, think again. Most infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services share the same residence model as traditional hosting and outsourcing deployments -- they live in specific data centers in specific geographies. This means that customer data is generated and most likely stored in this physical location, giving it legal and privacy implications.

• Who should own your smartphones?

  By Galen Gruman | 24 March, 2010 21:15

  It's time for IT to face facts: The great corporate barrier against employees using personal smartphones has been breached.

• 5 Reasons Businesses Still Hate Enterprise Software

  By Thomas Wailgum | 05 March, 2010 04:59

  Got Issues? Enterprise software sure does.

• SOA: Think Business Transformation, Not Code Reuse

  By Randy Heffner | 23 February, 2010 06:11

  The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is thinking of it as only another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good, its business impact goes much further: In Forrester surveys, 38 percent of Global 2000 SOA users say they are using it for strategic business transformation. SOA's true source of power is in its business design models, not its technology - and this means that SOA provides a broad foundation for a much larger shift in business technology (BT) architecture that goes far beyond SOA itself. By correctly understanding SOA, CIOs can lead their organizations on a solid and well-managed path toward a strategic technology future and greater business value.

• Business Technology Management Challenges

  By Bobby Cameron | 27 January, 2010 06:21

  CIOs are reworking how they manage IT to address business technology (BT)--pervasive technology use accompanied by increased direct engagement of non-IT business leaders.

• Office 2010: The pros and cons for businesses

  By Shane O'Neill | 15 January, 2010 07:36

  With Office 2010 set to launch in June, businesses of all sizes are considering if it is worth the money and hassle to upgrade, especially for small and midsize companies that never moved from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

• Blog: Forrester bucks wisdom on cloud computing

  By Bernard Golden | 30 June, 2009 01:54

  A couple of weeks ago Forrester released a report on cloud computing, based upon a survey of small and large enterprises located in North America and Europe. I was particularly interested in its findings as it addressed the question of private (internal) cloud computing.

• Forrester: Deep Packet Inspection As An Enabling Technology

  By Chenxi Wang | 10 June, 2009 00:36

  Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a technique that has seen success in traffic management, security, and network analysis. It is a technology that performs content analysis of network packets at line speed but is different from header or metadata-based packet inspection, which is typically performed by switches, firewalls, and IDS/IPS devices. A general DPI solution provides deep packet inspection for different applications.