The next big trend sounds nebulous, but it's not so fuzzy when you view the value proposition from the perspective of IT professionals Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a familiar ...

Two and a half years ago we described eight technology-enabled business trends that were profoundly reshaping strategy across a wide swath of industries. We showed how the combined effects of emerging Internet technologies, increased computing power and fast, pervasive digital communications were spawning new ways to manage talent and assets as well as new thinking about organizational structures. Follow th ...

While when it comes to cloud computing, no one has entirely sorted out what’s hype and what isn’t, nor exactly how it will be used by the enterprise, what is becoming increasingly clear is that Big Data is the future of IT. To that end, tackling Big Data will determine the winners and losers in the next wave of cloud computing innovation. Data is everywhere (be it from users, applications or machines) and a ...