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Before agile development was the go-to methodology for achieving continuous improvement, software development was an expensive, time-consuming, often arduous process. It could take months or even years to get a new product out to the market, by which time consumer ...
Migrating from dedicated hardware to public cloud servers can, under the right circumstances, yield fruitful benefits for midsize IT groups. Cost savings - the most often cited of these benefits - can free up crucial resources for midsize IT professionals ...
The ability to implement innovation strategy that allows an organization to become more efficient, transparent, and collaborative is more critical than ever for midsize businesses operating under tight budgets and in need of lean operations. To this end, agile methodologies, ...
Project management is under greater scrutiny than ever in midsize businesses, especially for IT staff. Not only have admins seen their budget and staff numbers slashed, but they are expected to deliver on every dollar and dime given. As a ...
Samsung is testing a brain-controlled interface as part of its research into developing new ways for people to communicate and interact with their mobile devices.According to an article in Technology Review, Samsung and a team from the University of Texas ...
Tablets will overtake PC shipments in a few years, according to Gartner. Based on the analyst firm's latest numbers, one day employees will be content using a tablet for all of their computing needs.Device Market NumbersThe device market is hot. ...
Until recently, the field of software development has been an area of IT reserved for only the toughest professionals for many reasons: scope creep, impossible project deadlines, tedious debugging routines, and much more. Despite these difficulties, software project benchmarks have ...
In 2008, IBM launched it's Smarter Planet campaign, which outlined the company's aims to help improve global systems, empowering a new generation of leaders to anticipate rather than react to business challenges. The initiative has been far-reaching, from supporting Technology, ...
Business process management (BPM) allows you to monitor work flow, but you have to go beyond monitoring to problem-solving to achieve real business process improvement. BPM models your business processes with software, based on sequences of activities with employee input ...
In the past, performance web hosting involved long term contracts, steep setup fees, and high costs; however, thanks to cloud web hosting, midsize companies no longer have to deal with these issues. Today, midsize companies that embrace cloud hosting receive ...
Until recently, when midsize companies needed high performance server configurations to meet short term or specialty needs, often their only option was to lease dedicated servers. Although the solution provided large amounts of performance, it often required customers to sign ...
Offsite backup solutions are advantageous for midsize businesses seeking the security, convenience and performance of the cloud. offsite backups not only save the company money, but also make it convenient for the IT manager to back up all the data ...
Cloud storage is big business. The rise of cloud computing in all its forms - public, private and hybrid - has led to a related obsession with storage. Companies looking to manage expenditures are coming to realize the benefits of ...
Ready to move to the cloud? Midsize businesses without the resources to host their own cloud system must be able to find cloud providers that support businesses requirements and secure data. With so many cloud provider resources, it can be ...
Midsize IT workers hear a lot about big data: why it's necessary for their company, why they need structured and unstructured sources, and why they should invest in a strong business analytics solution. But making best use of this growing ...
Software development remains a cornerstone of midsize company IT efficacy. As the role of technology professionals shifts away from ticket-based troubleshooting - in large part thanks to increased cloud computing and virtual machine (VM) deployments - time emerges for other ...
In the past, software development was a daunting process that often demanded project managers and IT teams make far reaching predictions in order to draft software specs. Once those specs were made, development teams often went full speed ahead to ...
As the midsize business grows, its server space must expand to support the accompanying increase in storage requirements. Storage space can be in the cloud, using a public cloud host, or added storage capacity can be mounted in a current ...
IT investments are top of mind for CEOs today. As a result, CEOs are changing their minds about how they view the roles of their IT pros, according to a new survey by Gartner. With this new focus, IT will ...
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the COMMON User Group Annual Meeting and Exposition in Austin, Texas, my first chance to spend several days talking with IBM i clients and partners – I came away far more impressed ...
Smartphones that can fix themselves. That's what researchers envision for the future, thanks to the development of self-healing integrated chips. This technology advancement would be a big boost for midsize firms that seek the most effective, high-performance devices on the ...
Startup company Everpix announced an image analysis software platform that automatically organizes digital photos into broad categories. According to an article in MIT Technology Review, the software is machine vision based; the company used crowd sourcing to help tag thousands ...
Human resource management solutions are important for midsize companies today. Growing businesses must be organized with the right software to meet hiring and retention needs and to inspire a work force that will help it succeed. It's the responsibility of ...
The IBM Voices activity stream promises to tap into the wisdom of the crowd by delivering insight not only about ...
Virtualization is often associated with cloud computing, and indeed it is largely virtualization that made the cloud a practical business model. But for many midsize businesses, virtualization is not just servers in the sky.Virtualization in the on-premises back room can ...
The past few years have seen virtualization grow from a fledgling technology used by just the biggest companies into one of the industry's hottest trends. Now, new insight from IBM shows how this technology has progressed to become not just ...
A new study shows that mobility is a top priority for CIOs because it has become an important factor in increasing revenues. The results show the importance of tackling the challenge of creating viable mobile solutions for the enterprise. Midsize ...
The tech support market is set to boom among small and midsize firms according to a new study. Thanks to network complexity, cloud computing and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, technical support services are predicted to skyrocket to 25 billion in ...
No, IBM is not planning to put mainframe computers in trucks and send them out on the road. Mainframes, however, are by no means a holdover from computing's past, as some believe. IBM mainframe technology may soon find a place ...
Agile methodology typically refers to a form of software development in an organization, though it can be applied to any project a company wants to undertake. This methodology focuses on iterative and incremental development instead of large, sequential stages to ...
IBM today accelerated its strategy to drive big data and cloud computing adoption with the addition of new Power Systems ...