Opinion
The taxman, the cloud, and you
Few institutions in the UK could be more conservative than Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, so when the HMRC proudly declares it has signed a major cloud services contract, you know the world has changed.
Few institutions in the UK could be more conservative than Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, so when the HMRC proudly declares it has signed a major cloud services contract, you know the world has changed.
There is big hype being generating around the topic of Big Data, but there is no doubt that data volumes across global enterprises are ramping up exponentially.
With alarming regularity supposed experts and commentators predict the demise of the chief information officer (CIO) role. Yet if they were to listen to the leading CIOs present at a recent round table dinner hosted with Intel, these commentators would realise just how far off the mark they really are. The evening's topic was Big Data, and the Business IT Hub could summarise the thoughts shared in just two words - big opportunity.
Security is no longer a function that can be restricted to just one group within the organisation. Up to now, the IT department has been afforded the luxury of seeing themselves as the guardians of corporate data, shielding the innocent employees of the organisation, behind the scenes and without their knowledge.
A Computerworld UK colleague recently had a discussion in San Francisco with Facebook's former CRM and platform applications architect Mike Leach, who warned of the 'reality' of the shrinking role of the IT department, but these assertions are wide of the mark.
The business benefits of sourcing platforms, infrastructure or applications via internet-based public services or private enterprise services have been much hyped over recent years. Dubbed cloud computing public and private cloud computing is a major topic in enterprise technology at present. However, there can be no doubt adoption of both types of cloud services has reached the corporate mainstream.
The bewildering pace of change of mobile devices and formats has kept application developers on their toes. It has also forced businesses to limit the range of platforms they can support, and sideline other, perhaps more innovative ones.
The mobile device market has always been a vibrant place, but up to now has been the playground of a number of very successful specialists. Successively, the market has been dominated by the likes of Nokia, Motorola, RIM and Palm. These hardware specialists had their day and sank back, some disappearing altogether from the market.
Technology media coverage has been somewhat dominated in recent months by industry giants slugging it out over who copied who with their touchscreen electronic rectangles.
Cloud computing is becoming a mainstream technology. However, cloud providers are beginning to see price pressure to reduce their costs to remain competitive.
Cloud computing is reaching the stage of maturity. Across any vertical market and at varying degrees of uptake organisations are taking off to the cloud, whether for test and development, email, collaboration, sales automation, HR or more bespoke applications.
The mobile world has become highly fragmented, with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) challenging IT departments to create order from chaos.
There is lot of CIO and business discussion on the subject mobile end user experience taking place at the moment. This has been spurred on by trends such bring your own device (BYOD), cloud computing and increasing levels of mobility enter the enterprise.
Enterprises today have to cope with powerful and demanding online communities, round-the-clock customer contact, ubiquitous mobile and tablet usage, and multiple customer touchpoints.
Today's sophisticated cyber-criminals are finding new ways to plant their crimeware into business clients. The result is the most insidious and sophisticated malware that security experts have seen to date - and IT management must protect against.
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