8:00 AM -- Have you tried buying a cellphone without a camera lately?
If you're like millions of consumers, you may have been pushed into buying a camera phone despite your puzzlement. But the campaign hasn't worked. According to a report from the NPD Group, cellphone operators are extremely disappointed that people are just taking pictures and then using their phones as glorified photo albums instead of forwarding the pics to friends, families, ex-bosses, and the like. Apparently, the average consumer doesn't perceive an image in the same way as a text message, and that means less revenue per subscriber.
The fact that any customer, whether the product is a cellular phone or networked storage, just wants data to be available when they need it should come as no surprise. Consumer or corporate users all have to choose between nice to have versus need to have. IT vendors need to pay attention.
Four-gig Fibre Channel vendors, are you listening? The same goes for you purveyors of information lifecycle management (ILM) suites and other storage resource management (SRM) schemes. And let's toss in the mostly very pricey CDP packages while we're at it.
It's dangerous to get too enamored of one's many marvelous wares. The risk is that you wind up in an alternative universe -- one not peopled by your customers.
With the move to the cloud, CISOs must shift priorities from operating security programs to overseeing (monitoring and auditing) outsourced cybersecurity programs.
2022 was a boon year for IT salaries. 2023 came in like a beast with layoffs, raise freezes, and ChatGPT, but that beast has few teeth.
Age is only a number. Don't let a high number cancel your career.
