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The IT department rises to the challenges of complexity.

VirtualWorks Editor  |  May 18, 2012

fists punching in the airEveryone agrees (or almost everyone) that the IT department is facing a tsunami of dramatic change over the next few years. Data is exploding exponentially. Whereas it used to live in structured warehouses and databases, it’s now buried in emails, intranets, collaboration tools and scanned files. More →

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Information Fatigue Syndrome: are you at war with your data?

VirtualWorks Editor  |  May 3, 2012

Woman staring at computerIf you’re anything like most companies, you have plenty of data. Did we say plenty? Ok, you probably have more data than you know what to do with. Data that is literally filling your servers and swamping your staff.

Today, for many employees, the sheer volume of data turns it into pure noise. They’re simply unable to process everything coming their way (let alone find the information they really need to make better decisions). It’s got to the point where it’s even been given a clinical name: Information Fatigue Syndrome (IFS). More →

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4 ways you can bring data sprawl under control

VirtualWorks Editor  |  April 27, 2012

Content VirtualizationThe volume of data is exploding. Estimates vary wildly, but you’re likely to see the quantity of business data you have to deal with double every two years. Whether inside the firewall or out in the cloud, there is no end in sight to this expansion. As we’ve shown previously, the amount of data inside people’s heads (wet data) will be eclipsed by that stored inside machines (dry data) in about 2075. More →

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How iPads are driving desktop virtualization

VirtualWorks Editor  |  April 17, 2012

Hand pointing at iPadFor a device that was supposed to be just for consumers, the iPad has certainly made an impact in businesses. Apple’s quarterly numbers regularly blow financial analysts’ socks off, and what’s clear is that a surprising part of that success has come from people using iPads at work.

While Apple doesn’t break out the numbers, industry analyst Forrester believes that enterprises spent $6 billion on buying iPads last year. And they expect that to grow by nearly 70% in 2012. Not bad, particularly when Forrester also predicts the (admittedly much more massive) market for Wintel-based PCs and tablets is set to decline by three percent this year. More →

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Why preventing user IOPS might just lead to IOPS killing your users (and your VDI project)

VirtualWorks Editor  |  March 30, 2012

Girl smiling in front of her laptopAre you letting your obsession with IOPS kill your VDI or published desktop project?

I thought about this question the other day, and a lame marketing joke came to mind about the difference between commitment and interest. The story compares the relative contributions of a pig and a chicken to a bacon and eggs breakfast: while the chicken might be interested, the pig in question is unavoidably committed. More →

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A Knowledge Management One-Two Punch

VirtualWorks Editor  |  March 22, 2012

Enterprise information management is getting swamped by two self-reinforcing trends: data sprawl and silo-ization. 

The challenges all enterprises face with knowledge management is spawning new tools, new roles and new ideas. At the heart of all of this discussion: How can we turn the rising tide of content into a force that helps us and drives us forward? More →

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Knowledge Management Equips Us for the ‘Anything World’

VirtualWorks Editor  |  March 15, 2012

Data Overload Illustration
Executives and thought leaders describe the collision between limitless information and limited human capacity. All the enterprise information management, knowledge management and content management in the world may not be the right tack.

Right now, the corporate masters of the universe are struggling with big data – making sense of “the firehose” of structured data. There’s a related – older yet even more formidable – challenge facing every knowledge-based organization: Knowledge management. How can individuals and teams make sense of all the unstructured information at their disposal? Some recent accounts answer: They’re not. More →

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CIO Corner: Are CEOs’ Technology Priorities Stifling Innovation?

VirtualWorks Editor  |  March 6, 2012

Is a strategic disconnect between CIOs/CTOs – who seek investment that accounts for the impact of mobile, cloud and social – and CEOs – who remain focused on ERP and CRM systems – dampening innovation? 

Last year, when Gartner asked 220 CEOs for their IT-related priorities for 2012, it uncovered a wide and rather odd discrepancy. CEOs, it transpires, aren’t interested in new technologies.

While their CIO counterparts are champing at the bit to get social, mobile and cloud-based systems bedded into the enterprise, CEOs have their minds fixed completely elsewhere. Total CIO quotes Mark Raskino from Gartner saying:

“Mobile, social, cloud, and the nexus [of the three] — CEOs in midsized to large global companies don’t understand those words.  They do not volunteer terms like ‘cloud’ or ‘social’, and they do not understand how such concepts transform the fortune of their company.”

It turns out that CEOs’ minds are fixed mainly on ERP and CRM – structured, monolithic systems that make the enterprise more efficient and keep all its activities and data regimentally ordered.  More →

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