IT strategy

IT spending by the Middle East and Africa (MEA) government sector totaled $5.35 billion in 2010 and is set to see double-digit growth in 2011, according to the latest research from the Government Insights team at IDC.

With 1,000 cars managed on paper, Diamond Fleet Management, a car rental company in the Philippines, is prone to mistakes and losses. By integrating its front- and back-office operations, it boosted its process controls for improved revenue and made its operations more efficient.

From nine hospitals today providing affordable healthcare to lower-income women in India, LifeSpring Hospitals aims to expand the number of its facilities to 100 by 2015 and possibly across other states in India.

The Wuxi City in eastern China's Jiangsu Province lead the new wave of the "Internet of Things" in 2009.

The recent crisis made it very clear that for businesses, the key to success lies in having the ability to respond to changes with intelligence and agility. Only an adaptable IT landscape that is process-oriented can support business processes along the entire value chain.

Max Claps, research director at Gartner, discusses the way the GCIO office operates, its challenges, and how he believes the GCIO must evolve to thrive in a politcally-charge business environment.

There is growing interest in cloud but little substance outside of the general benefits the technology brings to the business. This CommScope whitepaper assesses the impact of cloud computing on existing data centers. Specifically how cloud computing will affect IT's ability to deliver on the requirements of scalability, flexibility, agility and adaptability. The paper focuses on how the new architecture impacts the underlying infrastructure on which most data centers are built upon.