"IDG" news, interviews, and features

News about IDG

• Why partners must target the new influencers of IT

  While the role of the CIO remains relevant, partners must be conscious of the rising importance of line of business leaders when purchasing it.

• ​ARN Magazine - March Issue Out Now

  Check out what's coming up in the March issue of ARN magazine...

• EARLY ACCESS Q&A: New Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins heads into "hyper-connected" mode

  When Cisco employees head into work Monday they'll encounter something they haven't seen in two decades: A new boss

• Conventional IT security is failing: Continuous monitoring and mitigation can help

  Without a real-time, independent and comprehensive view of endpoint status, organizations have an incomplete understanding of their IT risk.

• Microsoft SharePoint coming up short for most enterprises, study finds

  SharePoint installations at enterprises have been doomed largely due to senior management failing to really get behind the Microsoft collaboration technology, according to a new ...

• Leaker claims only some Windows 8.1 users will get free Windows 9 upgrades

  For those currently running Windows 7, the upgrade will come with a price tag, according to tweets from "Wzor," a notorious spiller of Microsoft secrets.

Interviews about IDG

• Interview of Everything: Cisco CEO Chambers on white boxes, SDN, leadership and the Cloud

  Outgoing Cisco CEO John Chambers says Internet of Everything starting to live up to its promise

• Extreme Networks CEO touts open SDN strategy, robust wireless as key assets in changing net market

  How software-defined networking is reshaping the industry

Features about IDG

• Field Notes: 'Rogue' employees want IT to lighten up already

  Speakers at CITE Conference urge enterprise IT to give up on 'command and control,' learn to ride the BYOD wave.

• The worst tech predictions of 2013 -- and two that hit the mark

  From the social network in business to the 'success' of the Chromebook to the launch of iTV, the pundits got it wrong, wrong, wrong