There have been three core techniques for accelerating content and application delivery over the Internet -- caching ("classic" CDN), network optimization (think protocol tricks, like F5 Web Application Accelerator on the hardware side, or Akamai DSA on the service side), and front-end optimization (FEO, think content re-write, like Aptimize/Riverbed or...
Instart Logic launches a new kind of acceleration service
by Lydia Leong | June 17th, 2013
What your Chief Digital Officer will be reading this summer?
by Andrew White | June 17th, 2013
Book Review: Converge – Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology, by Bob Lord and Ray Velez, 2013, Wiley.
This is a slightly longer book review than I normally do since the topic of the book is relevant to parts of my coverage area, and also a hot topic...
Testing Multichannel Web Apps
by Danny Brian | June 17th, 2013
We'll be talking a lot about Web technologies and multichannel strategies like responsive design at the upcoming Catalyst conference. Here is a preview of that content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsd86hY-Q90...
A Day in the Life of an IT Grunt
by Jack Santos | June 17th, 2013
A group of us have enjoyed reading this recent missive from deep inside the bowels of Microsoft:
http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/8-months-microsoft/
Reaction to Mr. Balkan’s post usually ends up in one of two camps:
“Disgruntled Employee Land” – Can you believe this guy? He ain't working at Microsoft much longer
-or -
“What’s...
Don’t Just Cut "IT" Costs, Optimise.......
by Ian Bertram | June 16th, 2013
The GFC may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean companies have any less focus on cutting costs. With CIO budgets essentially flat, and demands for innovation increasing, IT cost reduction is on the agenda for many enterprises in 2013. Even in growing Asia Pacific economies like China, Korea and...
Two Inconvenient Truths about IT Compliance
by Erik Heidt | May 17th, 2013
I am very pleased to announce that my first document Achieving IT GRC Sucess has published this week and is now available to Gartner for Technical Professionals subscribers. The research and writing process led to many interesting conversations about governance, risk management and compliance with clients and colleagues. Let's examine two...
Event Summary : Gartner IT Operations Management Summit Europe (SDN,APM,NPM)
by Jonah Kowall | June 15th, 2013
Sorry for the delay in my last post, I assure you I will have much to say over the next few weeks, more on that later.
I was fortunate to attend and speak at the Gartner IT Operations Management (IOM) summit in Berlin, Germany. The event was wonderfully coordinated and...
Everything is better with cyber on it
by Jay Heiser | June 14th, 2013
Gartner security analysts are being bombarded with questions about CYBER security. Is this cyber reality, or cyber hype? A few years ago, we had seriously entertained the idea of creating a sort of ‘IT Buzz Term Hype Cycle’, that would map overused prefixes across trigger, hype, disillusionment, and productivity. At...
Navigating the Digital Marketing Metropolis
by Andrew Frank | June 13th, 2013
In 1849, the year of the gold rush, the city of San Francisco had about 1,000 inhabitants. By the end of 1850, its population had grown to 25,000. To accommodate the massive influx of prospectors, self-contained gold mining towns sprouted up around the region. As the surface gold vanished, deep...
Top 10 ways to kill a desktop virtualization initiative
by Gunnar Berger | June 13th, 2013
Presentations go through many updates and sometimes in an update an entire segment is completely cut for the sake of time. So I give you a section I wrote for Citrix Synergy, Gartner's Catalyst conferences and VMware's VMworld but ended up cutting. The top ten ways to kill a desktop...
TODAY'S FOUNDATIONAL CRM TOOLS ARE A BUST.
by Michael Maoz | June 13th, 2013
All right: that is enough of a nod to the US Navy's decision to eliminate ALL UPPER CASE in its messages. The past is the past and uppercase makes too many waves for sensitive young recruits. On the topic of the established order and its antiquated ways, it was disappointing...
