To be clear, we are not in the mobile (or even wireless) healthcare market, but the IT security trends exemplified within it cross boundaries into related trends of other market segments. I hope you find the infographic interesting and useful. Summary post by Fred Donovan in FierceMobileIT. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Infographic: Mobile …
IT Execs: Are You Leading or Just Trying to Catch Up?
The news below is revealing and sobering: not only is IT spending going through the roof (hooray!) but who is driving that spend is diversifying and becoming less coordinated. Presumably good intentions abound but all the same there are likely redundancies, gaps, divergent paths, and unchaperoned and undocumented new rivers being formed. This begs the question: are you taming the …
EMEA IT Infrastructure Spending Up 4.1%
Did you know that in 2012, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) plus Latin America accounted for only 5% of all cloud traffic on the Internet? That’s according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Despite EMEA accounting for 21%of the IaaS and PaaS cloud market (per Synergy Research Group), 5% is pretty dang tiny. Come on, friends …
Hey, This Is Important. C’mon Guys, Pay Attention!
When passwords can be reset and online accounts simply accessed from another connected device, who cares whether this little handheld thingy gets lost or stolen? Besides, isn’t that what insurance is for? My contacts and calendar are available to me elsewhere. What’s that? Oh yeah… I guess there is indeed corporate data that’s also on the phone that someone else …
Shadow IT Yields Scary Silhouettes
Unintended consequences — that’s what happens when employees use unauthorized external IT resources without IT’s knowledge. It’s not that IT won’t allow it; heck, they might have a better option available…but neither will know without mutual awareness. Shadow IT is a growing problem for organizations of all sizes and types. So do yourself and your company a favor: get approval …
Safe Sex Recommended to Avoid HTML?
My Fellow Americans: You rock! News reports like the one below make it harder for The Onion to find ways to make us all laugh. Summary article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR, original story by Salvador Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —— 11 Percent of Americans Believe HTML …
Opinions on Snooping, Passwords, Personal Info
Non-news flush: According to the Fortinet survey results below, Millennials and Gen-Xers have pretty much the same opinions when it comes to passwords, online marketing practices, email snooping, and the value of their personal data. In other words, there is NOT a generational divide on these topics as expressed in this survey. Still, though, the results are interesting in and …
We Don’t Use Google Glass
Part of me wants to poo-poo the “look at me” crowd playing with GG — and yet part of me recognizes that there are indeed (most likely) measurable benefits to be gained from this and other wearable technologies. But what I really wonder is whether wearers of GG utter “be right back” (or type “brb”) when they need to disconnect …
IHS Cloud Claims: Up 20% in 2014, 200% by 2017
All boats rise with the tide — and the cloud tide is rising quickly. While revenue growth has not yet caught up with cloud’s marketing hyperbole and obsessive fanaticism, it is certainly pointing in the (up and to the) right direction. Up 20% in 2014, up 200% between 2011 and 2017. Cheers! By David Hamilton in The WHIR. Emphasis in …
Tell the Truth: Would You Lie to CEO?
A good manager does not “freak out” when an employee presents bad news…sometimes really bad news. Don’t shoot the messenger — or else the remaining messengers learn to sugarcoat, skew, or filter the information and their communicated opinions and recommendations. We’re all in this together; let’s start by assuming the good intentions of our fellow employees and then address the …
