Symposium Times

By Jim Grodnik, Gartner With 3 billion mobile phones on the planet, mobile devices have become mainstream to business, said to Ken Dulaney, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, in his Thursday presentation at the Yacht & Beach.

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By Alan Quale, Gartner Enterprises and CIOs should look at new financial reporting regulations as an opportunity to gain competitive advantage rather than as costly obstacles, said Michael Smith, Gartner Research vice president, during his this morning’s session “How 21st Century Financial Reporting Requirements Will Impact Enterprises and CIOs,” held in the Swan.

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By Randy Frey, Gartner Defining the relative importance of different elements of an organization’s strategy is a necessary first step to prioritizing investments, said Gareth Herschel, Gartner research director and lead analyst on the use of analytics to drive improved business performance in the area of customer relationships.

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By Mike Hill, Gartner Nobody can blame today’s IT operations group for feeling a bit strained. Issues ranging from sourcing options and cloud computing, to cost management and process improvement, have steadily increased the demands placed on the operations staff in recent years.

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By Jim Grodnik, Gartner Gartner can’t predict the future, but it can help you prepare for it. “If there is anything we learned from the recession that started in December 2007, it is that many people in positions of leadership in government, industry, academia and nonprofits asked themselves why they didn’t see it coming,” said [...]

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In case you missed the packed house this morning for Carl Claunch and David Cearley’s presentation, here’s an overview of the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for next year: Cloud Computing Advanced Analytics Client Computing IT for Green Reshaping the Data Center Mobile Applications Social Computing Flash Memory Virtualization for Availability Security – Activity monitoring

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By Mike Hill, Gartner These days, you’ll find cloud computing somewhere near the peak of the Hype Cycle. That may seem appropriate enough. Using the power of the Internet to free the enterprise from the expensive burden of maintaining IT hardware while providing all the value of computing has the kind of appeal that produces [...]

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By Michael Gomez, Gartner Are some of your enterprise technology assets getting a little long in the tooth? If you think so, how do you actually know? All IT product and services have a finite life. But few enterprises know when to retire their IT assets, according to Gartner analyst Brian Gammage, yesterday’s session on [...]

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By Alan Quale, Gartner “The role of CIOs will change in their individual enterprises due to the current economic recession,” said Kurt Potter, a research director for the IT finance and metrics team, within the Gartner CIO Research Group. “Most IT organizations were caught by surprise by the sudden ‘meltdown’ in the economy,” he said [...]

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For those attending under our CIO program, please note a program title correction on page 118. The title for today’s 5 p.m. exclusive CIO workshop (CW20) in Europe 11 in the Dolphin should be “What CEOs Want From CIOs,” presented by Mark Polansky, Managing Director, Information Technology Center of Expertise, Korn/Ferry International.

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