Listen Up. VDI May be the Answer to Your IT Budget Crunch!
Did I hear someone say VDI?
Creative Carving of the IT Budget Pie
“The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.” Former Defense Director Frank Carlucci was talking about government spending when he made this comment but he may as well have been referring to those days leading up to the start of a new IT budget year. It’s that time when executives go…
Can You Count to TEM?
If you’re like me, you probably learned to count to ten in kindergarten. But when it comes to a company’s telecommunications infrastructure, you’d be surprised how many corporate executives have trouble with simple addition. As a company grows, telco, like other IT investments, often gets treated as the necessary evil. “The new guy needs a…
Top 5 IT Trends for 2017: VertitechIT Experts Look into the IT Crystal Ball
What’s hot, what’s not, and what never will be? The Kardashians may be the barometer for teenage fashion trends, Apple may set the bar on things like wearable gadgets, and festivals like SXSW may determine what you will be listening to for the next twelve months. But where are things going in the exciting world…
Spring Cleaning. The Perfect Time for an IT Assessment
Here in the northeast, a good dose of early spring rain is helping to wash away what we hope will be the last vestiges of snow and winter. That fifty-degree liquid sunshine is enough to get us all thinking about cleaning out the garage and getting things together for some summer fun. But what’s so…
Hyperconvergence: The Difference Between High Availability and Disaster Recovery is Smaller Than Ever
“No one ever understood disaster until it came.” Controversial writer Josephine Herbst penned that phrase decades ago when the words “information technology” were still tucked away in Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s little garage. But as our dependence on IT and the mass amounts of data it generates became the center of our business and…
Healthcare Technology Trends: Is Tech Making the Quality of Patient Care Worse?
Late last month, 45 thousand of the brightest minds in healthcare technology gathered in Orlando for the annual gathering of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS). IBM CEO Ginny Rometty talked about how artificial intelligence was ushering in a new golden age for healthcare delivery. Several companies marched out amazing 3D imaging software…
ROI of IT: How to Calculate, Measure & Improve ROI on IT Investments
Measuring ROI for IT Investments can be Alphabet Soup…
HiMSS 2017 Full of Interesting Technology Stories
Industry gatherings are always a great chance to renew old acquaintances, share war stories, get in on the latest industry gossip, and try out that new pair of sneakers on the exhibition floor. And HiMSS 2017, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual gathering of 40,000 healthcare IT professionals didn’t disappoint. IBM CEO Ginni…
Beating the System: How IoT Cybersecurity has Become a Matter of Life or Death
There have been some wild, if not downright ridiculous examples of security breaches in the news over the last year. Remember the vulnerability in a certain low power model FM radio transmitter that allowed hackers to “take over” a radio station and broadcast a rather nasty song about our current commander in chief? How about…