Leadership

4 IT Career Tips: Advice from the Professionals

Posted on September 26, 2022July 20, 2022 by Amy Hedrick

What’s important to consider when starting an IT career? Who better to ask than people already working in the field? We sought advice from the…

Alliance News

Sometimes ‘Old School’ Is Okay or Even Better

Posted on May 23, 2022May 31, 2022 by Amy Hedrick

The 451 Alliance strives to collect reliable data on trends in IT and enterprise business, and surveys aren’t the only way we do that. In…

Business Trends

IT 2022: Are We Ready?

Posted on December 20, 2021December 7, 2021 by Amy Hedrick

IT – we’re still the heroes that made work from home happen almost overnight in 2019. We’ve been the technology lifeline that connects all our…

Leadership

What’s Next for IT After the Pandemic?

Posted on September 28, 2020September 29, 2020 by Amy Hedrick

This COVID-19 pandemic: it’s been a crazy couple of months for everyone, around the world, in every industry, in every organization. We’ve scrambled and managed.…

Tech Trends

2020 Vision: Seeing More for IT

Posted on March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 by Amy Hedrick

As 2020 gets underway, what can IT professionals expect more of? Here are some of the things IT professionals are talking about in in-depth interviews…

Emerging Tech

How to Respond to Technical Input from IT Outsiders

Posted on January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 by Amy Hedrick

[My users] are coming to us now… and they’ll say, “I read this thing in the weekend,” or, “My son works for a company that…

Cloud

Moving From Datacenter to Cloud: When Do the Cost Savings Start?

Posted on October 10, 2019March 21, 2022 by Amy Hedrick

[With cloud], it’s not that we’re not happy with the capabilities and the value. It’s simply that I think it would be hard for us…

Tech Trends

Who Needs IT Upskilling?

Posted on June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 by Amy Hedrick

“The company is not going to go and force you to do anything. So if you become obsolete because you haven’t kept yourself up, well,…

Leadership

5 Tips for a Better IT-Marketing Relationship

Posted on March 12, 2019March 14, 2019 by Amy Hedrick

Finding a meeting of the minds between Marketing and IT can be challenging. That’s not surprising, since the two groups can be so different in…

Digital Infrastructure

Sonnets from the Infrastructure

Posted on February 14, 2019December 19, 2018 by Amy Hedrick

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we present this offering based on the deep affection for datacenters we hear about when we talk to IT infrastructure…