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The new IT manager, part 1: trends affecting IT in business

Summary:

The days of IT departments dictating which computing assets would be used and how are numbered, in large part because of three trends that are converging on organizations and their IT departments: cloud computing, mobile computing and the consumerization of IT. This first section of our three-part report describes and quantifies each of these trends, demonstrating that they are real now, growing rapidly and perilous to ignore.

  1. Table of contents
  2. Executive summary
  3. Cloud computing
  4. Mobile computing
  5. Consumerization of IT
  6. Summary
  7. About Larry Hawes
  8. About GigaOM Pro

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