Mark Gibbs

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Mark Gibbs offers expert commentary and analysis on hot consumer technologies, tech trends, products, and services and explains the business implications to help keep you ahead of the consumer IT curve.

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Mark Gibbs

Bio

Mark Gibbs has been in the IT industry for over 30 years. He's run companies, started companies (he conceived of and was a founder of Netratings, Inc.), consulted for all sorts of companies on everything from technical marketing strategies to product development and written books, columns, and features as well as developed software, and lectured on technology. He is vastly underpaid. He is also British and owns a corgi named Stella.

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Latest Posts by Mark

Talk to the Teleworker!

|   You can rely on technology to tell you how well your telework infrastructure is working but are your teleworkers happy? You wan't know until you talk to them ...

How to Make Telework Work

|   Teleworking, or telecommuting, has the potential to save money and the environment, but it's still underused. CIO.com blogger Mark Gibbs discusses what IT needs to do to make teleworking work.

Night of the Zombie Databases

|   Zombie movies have been a big sell over the last few years. They can be kind of scary or kind of amusing but one thing they always are is gross. Much the same could be said of end-user created databases ...

Behringer iNuke Boom: The $30,000, 10,000 Watt iPod Dock

|   CIO blogger Mark Gibbs wants one of Behringer's new iNuke Boom iPod docks for Christmas…though it's unclear whether or this mother of all media player docks will even fit through the front door

Better Workgroup Notes

|   You're part of a workgroup that wants to share notes about a project you're working on but it's obvious that email is not going to work well. On top of that you probably don't have time to wrestle with IT or have time to really research your options ... so, lucky you, I have a really great solution...

Finding Yourself With a Bad Elf

|   So, you bought an iPod Touch or a Wi-Fi-only iPad. These gadgets are way cool devices but what if you want to use one of them for navigation on, say, a car trip? Sorry but you won't know where you are because these devices don't have built-in GPS receivers. You're going to need to an add-on and CIO...

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine: When You Just Can't Take Any More Social Media

|   Had enough of social networking? CIO.com blogger Mark Gibbs offers up one way to end it all.

Simple Tech Tasks Made Easy with "Ifttt"

|   Looking for an easy way to get simple technology tasks done, that doesn't require any IT intervention? CIO.com blogger Mark Gibbs has a solution: Ifttt.

Down with PowerPoint? Never!

|   In most organizations PowerPoint is a primary way to deliver information, but how should it be used and managed? CIO blogger Mark Gibbs has an answer, and it's a good one.

SecureSheet: Turning Boring Spreadsheets into Hot Business Apps

|   Are you drowning in spreadsheets? CIO blogger Mark Gibbs has a service that will tame the sprawl and new value to that pile of digital documents.

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Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
Read the white paper to see how IBM helped Citigroup deliver new services and enhancements to their 200 million customers faster.
There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
Accommodating specific lines of business can result in a hybrid ecosystem of applications and servers. The resulting complexity of this architecture makes for an environment that is costly to maintain and difficult to change when addressing new challenges.
This whitepaper will help you to define a mobile device passcode policy. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must: 1) create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while: 2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.

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