It’s an understatement to say that IT has undergone a number of significant changes in recent years. Still, breaking away from the past and into the present requires leaving certain technologies of the past, well, in the past. The most successful CIOs are masters of managing this change. They know how to evaluate it, assess the risks and rewards,…

Last week there was an interesting article in the New York Times by Kevin J. O’Brian about the challenges to rolling out the cloud in Europe, and how it is happening despite them. The biggest issue is that data privacy laws severely restrict transferring people’s personal information outside of the 27 countries that form the European Union. This…

IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market trends, especially the cloud, that had analyst James Kelleher of Argus Research bullish about the…