Innovation Insights

The last couple of decades has seen a great push towards the democratization of the internet and thereby the availability of the online information to all. There were great strides taken towards an open gardens approach and the closed wall …

There’s something about robots that stirs the imagination in all of us. However, a cool robot that plays games only gets you so far. It’s better to be a useful robot that gets real work done and frees people up …

The iPad mini will further stimulate a transition from the employee-led deployment approach to an enterprise-led approach, where the enterprise seeks to gain the maximum possible efficiency by support tablets or where the tablet is a central part of the …

The impact of gene patents on fostering innovation is a highly debated topic. Several compelling arguments have been put forward to support the notion that gene patents will promote innovation and banning gene patents will hamper current and future investments …

If 2012 was the year of the mobile consumer than 2013 looks to be the year of the mobile enterprise. Businesses large and small are embracing “bring your own device” (BYOD) and increasingly enabling employees to leverage their personal devices …

If the projections are right, by the end of this year there will be millions of dissatisfied users of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Why? Because — despite the promise of LTE networks consumers will continue to suffer from …

Everyone is talking about BYOD (bring-your-own-device), with most people finding that security is the biggest issue with BYOD programs. As the BYOD conversation begins to dwindle, the discussion will turn to the next wave in mobile trends: COPE (corporate owned, …

We are addicted to instant gratification. Everything from on-demand movies to music-streaming to instant messages has heightened people’s sense of urgency. We wanteverything right now. Application developers are no exception. They have little patience for slow-moving bureaucracy, protocols, resource constraints, …

Few things scare an online retailer more than website downtime during the holiday shopping season. During the 32 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas retailers will ring up about one-third of their total revenue for the year. Online shopping carts will …

One of the more popular arguments made against cloud computing is a perceived lack of useful standards, with assertions that the notion of portability from one provider to another is complex and not without significant work and cost considerations. While …

Hurricane Sandy restarted the conversation about emergency preparedness in the public forum, but safety and security directors around the world perpetually consider how to best prepare their institutions for the hour of disaster. Many are finding that cloud-based solutions enhance …

It’s that time of year when we all pull out our crystal balls and make predictions about what events and trends will emerge in 2013.  Some are pretty obvious.  For instance, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, companies will review …

Social media is a treasure trove of insights and useful information, but most people have realized that the path from hype to reality is hardly straightforward or easy to implement. At the heart of the matter, information gleaned from social …

Tasked with ensuring the success of business-changing IT initiatives from mobile and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to virtualization and cloud services, IT security is finding that existing security controls and processes create complexity instead of reducing risks. At the same time, highly …

Unless the moblie apps industry is able to effectively police itself and provide parents the information they need to make informed decisions about their children’s digital privacy, more regulations are needed.

Agility and speed are two of the most coveted superlatives in today’s competitive business landscape, as companies aim to continuously create new offerings to remain ahead of the competition and retain customers. Not surprisingly, these adjectives also apply to organizations’ …

In most IaaS cloud computing environments, the unit of deployment is the image that gets deployed (or runs) on a virtual machine.  Each image typically comprises operating system software, dependencies, libraries, and utilities, and also the application middleware and software.  …

With Steven Sinofsky out, Microsoft should now scale the touch-friendly Windows Phone 8 operating system up to bigger tablet form-factors, writes Doug Miller.

With its recent acquisition of Nicira, VMware has done it again — they have take a space and made it an overnight success.  The first time they did this was when EMC floated the IPO of VMware in 2007.  A company …

Big Data, cloud computing and mobile devices continue to be the business IT megatrends of the 21st Century’s second decade. Intimately linked to all three, as it turns out, is a technology with its roots stretching all the way back …