Stuart J. Johnston

Call it yet another example of the consumerization of IT: the smartphone is now a leading tool of enterprise productivity. Once upon a time, app stores were places where smartphone users went to get apps for tracking rush hour traffic, playing the occasional game, or finding animated guitar charts that would play when you strummed […]

Apple announced on Wednesday afternoon that co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died. “Apple has lost a visionary and a creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being,” said a terse but emotional post on Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) website. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that […]

According to a new survey, more than 95 percent of IT organizations plan to expand or maintain their investments in software-as-a-service (SaaS), while a third have migrations to SaaS services underway. The survey, which was conducted in June and July by analyst firm Gartner, polled some 525 organizations across 12 industries in nine countries. Cloud […]

When hard times hit, IT organizations looking to cut costs and make expenses more predictable shifted more of the heavy lifting to outsourcing firms, yet once the economy started to stabilize that trend started to even out. That, at least, is one of the main takeaways from a new study by research firm Computer Economics. […]

Whether or not IT budgets have recovered to pre-recession levels, the pressure on IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers to maximize the work that can be accomplished by the least budgetary dollars will always be a given. Analyst firm Gartner plans to present an in-depth discussion on what steps leaders can take to help optimize […]

“Industrialized,” low-cost IT services (ILCS) are the future of the IT industry, according to a presentation this week at the Gartner Outsourcing & IT Services Summit 2011 in London. “While there are multiple ways to reduce the cost of IT delivery, as well as to increase the value of IT, the trend towards ILCS will […]

Less than three weeks after the ouster of its CEO, search and content giant Yahoo is looking at a range of options to turn the company’s fortunes around, including the possibility of putting the firm up for sale, according to an internal company email. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) senior executives informed employees of their intentions to […]

Wednesday, it was only a rumor that HP’s board was thinking seriously of jettisoning their CEO of a little less than a year and replacing him with board member and former CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman. Now, it’s official. HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) board announced Thursday afternoon that CEO Leo Apotheker could now add “former CEO […]

In what seems to be a game of musical chairs for tech CEOs, according to published reports, HP is close to firing CEO Leo Apotheker after less than a year on the job and, at least temporarily, replacing him with former eBay CEO and current HP board member, Meg Whitman, who made an unsuccessful run […]

Enterprises will be well on their way to adopting cloud-based email and collaboration services (CECS) by the end of 2014, but that date has been pushed back slightly from the end of 2012, according to a new report. Just over two years from now, CECS will have passed the “tipping point” of broad scale adoption […]