Welcome to The Cutter Edge. In each free issue, you'll find research, insight, and advice crucial to helping you navigate the spectrum of challenges technology change brings.

Looming Threats in Cloud Computing

by Vince Kellen, Fellow, Cutter Consortium

When I talked about cloud three years back, I got frownie-faces from my peers. Skeptical looks that belied a deeper-seated fear or trepidation, probably having more to do with their internal image of what a CIO should be than the promise or peril in the new technology. Now, enthusiasm runs ebulliently through the vendor community, animating the animal spirits and spurring on entrepreneurs in search of profits and glory. More ...

Does the Business See IT as Delivering Value?

Figure 1 -- Respondents who agree or strongly agree that managers believe IT delivers value to their organization.

According to Dennis Adams who has analyzed Cutter's IT budgeting survey for the past 10 years, IT managers believe thatsenior corporate-level managers and senior business unit–level managers regard IT as a partner. But he identifies an area for concern "in the steady difference over time between what senior executives and business unit executives see as the value of IT. In each survey, the manager of a business unit, presumably that leader closer to the customer (or to the product) than the senior executive to which he or she reports, appears to be slightly less satisfied with the value that IT delivers. More ...

* Excerpted from "IT Budgets: A Decade of Data," () Cutter Benchmark Review Vol. 15, No. 2

 

Mobile Security and the IoT

Editor's Pick, Kara Letourneau

The ubiquity of mobile devices within company walls demands their inclusion in any serious security strategy. In this advisor, Brian Dooley helps you get started by identifying six vulnerabilities inherent to mobile devices -- some of which you may have not yet considered. 

 

IT Budgeting 2015: Folks, It's Time to Remodel

Editor, Joe Feller

This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, the 10th and final installment in our annual IT budgeting series, can be summed up by the subtitle: "Folks, It's Time to Remodel." This theme manifests itself in three ways. The first two relate to IT budgeting practices; the third relates to CBR itself. More ... 
 

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