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A Cloud, by any other name, is how you tweet
Written by Doug Brockway
There are arguments about what’s in The Cloud or, said another way, what constitutes Cloud Computing. Some purists vociferously deny that there is such a thing as a Private Cloud . Others say the only reasonable way for large corporations to migrate to cloud... (2640 more chars)

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Grappling with the CIO-CFO-CEO Reporting Dynamic
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } A new report by Gartner and the Financial Executives Research Foundationsuggests that the CFO is increasingly becoming the top IT decision-maker in many organizations. The study, which is based on a survey of 482 senior finance executives, also fo... (2546 more chars)
Enterprise technical architecture management -- an old new idea
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Disk-To-Disk-To... What Next?
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
Backup has been evolving steadily for over 60 years. And just when we think we’ve solved every problem, new technology comes along to present us with new challenges. Tape was first developed in the 1950s to solve the storage problems of punch-card systems. This new technology prov... (4133 more chars)

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New Attack Said to Thwart Most Security Software
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s fairly common to hear about a new security threat emerging in the wild. But if you’re a typical computer user you simply wait for your particular brand of antivirus software to get on top of the threat and send out an update. Now comes word, however, that a new threat ... (2387 more chars)

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The Cost of Hyper-Productivity: Stress-Related Illnesses
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } Last week, The Wall St. Journal ran a very timely story on how the lingering recession and its aftermath “have brought an unprecedented surge in productivity” and how those gains could be harder to sustain “as they are built not o... (1991 more chars)
From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Written by Mel Duvall
What separates the merely ordinary organization from the extraordinary? According to a new study released by IBM, quite a lot. IBM surveyed nearly 300 global executives to find out what characteristics separate outperforming organizations from their peers. In the end, the study determined t... (2476 more chars)

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How not to run IT, courtesy of Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple
Written by Robert Lewis
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Smartphone Market is on a Tear
Written by Mel Duvall
Usually a perfect storm is a phrase used to describe a set of events resulting in a very negative outcome. But in the case of the smartphone market, it’s being used to describe a market that is looking very good, indeed – maybe perfect. According to research firm IDC, the worldw... (3022 more chars)
Process Improvement a CIO Priority
Written by laton mccartney
Process improvement is on a lot of corporate front-burners these days. For example, a just-released survey of 126 Indian CIOs by CIO Klub, an Indian association made up of enterprise IT chiefs, conducted in association with Ernst & Young, showed respondents listing “achieving efficien... (2403 more chars)
Legally Sound But Technologically Wrong (first of a two part series)
Written by Daniel Garrie
Legally Sound But Technologically Wrong (first of a two part series) By Daniel B. Garrie Esq., B.A. & M.A. Computer Science Bill Spernow, CISSP, CEH, PMP, Net+, Sec+, CHS III, GAPPI/GCP Today’s Judges face numerous challenges in determining the tr... (8820 more chars)

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Legally Sound But Technologically Wrong (secondof a two part series)
Written by Daniel Garrie
By Daniel B. Garrie Esq., B.A. & M.A. Computer Science Bill Spernow, CISSP, CEH, PMP, Net+, Sec+, CHS III, GAPPI/GCP In Part One of this article, the authors identified a test case, Trump v. Genger , supporting our thesis that technological misunderstandi... (8825 more chars)

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Electronic Discovery Standards
Written by Daniel Garrie
Today, multiple organizations are forming to develop knowledge standards respective to the field of electronic discovery. These organizations are seeking to define a baseline aptitude to independently gauge a technologist grasp of the core technology components involved different systems in... (4367 more chars)

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Smaller Organizations Feeling The Squeeze of 24-7 Business
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
Modern IT systems have enabled smaller companies to successfully compete against larger international competitors. Today, it’s not uncommon to see a company of less than 30 employees with offices in multiple countries... operating 24 hours per day, and 7 days per week. Of course, t... (3048 more chars)

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Will the EMR Push Really Generate 50K Jobs?
Written by Tom Hoffman
I was reading an article in Computerworld about how federal dollars being pumped into grant programs aimed at drawing students to pursue IT careers in the healthcare industry may generate up to 50,000 new jobs over the next five years, according to a top federal health official who spoke at a h... (3492 more chars)

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Google Uses Venture Arm to Play and Win
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s been just over a year since search giant Google launched its venture capital arm, and while the company has been active snapping up various startups, there hasn’t seemed to be any overreaching plan as to how the startups will fit into Google’s core business. That, in fact, se... (3027 more chars)

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Refurbished IT Equipment Has a Place in Your Data Center (and Budget)
Written by Richard Stasior
It’s no secret that data center managers are looking at every possible way to maximize budget without sacrificing services. One of the easiest ways to save between 50% to 70% on hardware acquisition costs is to buy refurbished IT equipment. Besides the obvious cost savings, there are o... (7619 more chars)

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Simple Steps Towards Greener IT
Written by Richard Stasior
Green IT isn’t just a buzzword anymore. It’s a business imperative. Nearly 80% of organizations mandate energy consumption audits as part of their standard facilities and IT management regimen. While environmental stewardship is a driving force, considerable business benefits can... (9048 more chars)

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Business Benefits of Cloud Computing and the Dynamic Data Center
Written by Richard Stasior
Cloud computing incorporates virtualization, data and application on-demand deployment, Internet delivery of services and open source software to provide significant business benefits. Through virtualization, cloud computing enables a dynamic data center where servers provide resources that ... (3009 more chars)

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Top Five Reasons for SMBs to Choose NAS
Written by Richard Stasior
What is the best storage solution for SMBs facing unpredictable data growth—all while providing adequate data protection and right-now access to critical files for users? Of the three most common storage architectures, direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS) and s... (6853 more chars)

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Alignment is a Two-Way Street
Written by Tom Hoffman
I was reading a global report on IT governance and management from Infonomics. The study, which canvassed the opinions of business and IT leaders in Australia, Europe, North America and other geographies, paints a rather dim view of the maturity and effectiveness of IT governance. T... (2674 more chars)

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The case for decentralized control
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SAP Getting its Mojo Back
Written by Mel Duvall
After months of hand wringing about the falling fortunes of enterprise software giant SAP, the company turned in first quarter results that signal management may be getting things back on track. It was three months ago that SAP founder and Chairman Hasso Plattner decided to take matters int... (3082 more chars)

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Future Enterprise-A Future Brain Architecture
Written by David Hunter Tow
Is today’s enterprise, including its IT acolytes, missing something very obvious and vitally important in its current management mindset or is it just an inability by a traditionally conservative constituency, to accept the radical paradigm shift involved? ... (8154 more chars)

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Sony Signs Death Certificate of Floppy Disk
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s official. The floppy’s days are numbered. Electronics giant Sony said this week that it would stop manufacturing the once ubiquitous storage medium likely by March of 2011. Few will notice its passing, given the fact that most computers haven’t included a floppy drive... (2083 more chars)

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The Challenges in Recruiting, Retaining Next-Gen Fed IT Workers
Written by Tom Hoffman
As the federal workforce grows older, government CIOs find themselves struggling with effective ways to retain highly-knowledgeable IT workers. They also face a tough time convincing younger workers – people in their 20s and early 30s – to not only work for a government agency but to... (3888 more chars)

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Web Application Developer Opprotunities in Oak Brook, IL
Written by HALO LeeWayne
HALO/Lee Wayne is seeking talented professionals with strong programming and design skills to augment our Web Services team. As one of the largest Promotional Marketing companies in the world, we have a broad range of development opportunities based on a similarly broad range of client ... (725 more chars)

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The PowerPoint Free CIO
Written by laton mccartney
If there is any truth in stereotypes, CIOs are generally left brainers, meaning they’re analytical, objective, goal-oriented and linear thinkers. Those qualities would seem ideal in anyone running an IT operation. Now, however, with the recession hopefully receding, there’s much a... (2799 more chars)

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This Data Center Gives Back to the Environment
Written by Mel Duvall
After writing a blog on Earth Day about my optimism for the technology industry’s ability to overcome the challenges associated with energy-hungry data centers, a CIOZone member forwarded me an article on an innovative project in Finland. A mobile telecommunications company called Eli... (2310 more chars)

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Five Paths to Project Success
Written by Tom Hoffman
Periodically, I’ll come across a story or blog like this one that offer suggestions on project management best practices. There are some sound recommendations here, including the need to factor changing requirements into project plans and timelines. These types of stories ofte... (3480 more chars)

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The Greening of the Data Center
Written by Mel Duvall
As the world celebrates Earth Day, it’s worthwhile considering the state of the IT industry’s Public Enemy No. 1 – the data center. Sure, on their own, data centers don’t seem like much of a threat to the environment. There are no billowing smoke stacks and for the m... (2799 more chars)

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The case for centralized control
Written by Robert Lewis
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4 Ways for Cloud Computing to Gain Legitimacy
Written by Doug Brockway
It says something about cloud computing when the NY Times, not often an information technology bellwether, not known for surfing on the bleeding edge of technology, publishes on its business pages an article on how mainstream companies are slowly but surely examining and adopting cloud computin... (8029 more chars)

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Marketing IT to the Enterprise
Written by Tom Hoffman
While reading an article in Computerworld about how to sell IT to the business, I was one again reminded about thescarcity of CIOs who take every advantage of marketing the full breadth of services offered by their IT organizations. This goes beyond selling the value of the IT organization to ... (2087 more chars)

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You are Doing Your Best
Written by Margaret Meloni
If you follow sports you have noticed that top athletes do not always perform consistently. A world class runner may break a world record in one competition and then not even place in the same event one week later. A champion weight lifter might break a record and then be unable to lift that same w... (2815 more chars)

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Technology Giants Fueling Hiring Resurgence
Written by Mel Duvall
While the on again, off again economic recovery has left doubts as to whether hiring will rebound this year, the big players in the technology sector are sending perhaps the strongest signals that yes, they are ready to recruit again. In recent weeks, several of the bellwether companie... (2653 more chars)

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IT Pay: Something's Gotta Give
Written by Tom Hoffman
The recession has affected everyone on some level (re: decimated savings and retirement plans). But surely it has impacted some much more severely than others. Six and a half million U.S. residents have remained unemployed for six months or longer while the national unemployment rate remains at 9... (2805 more chars)

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The Edison Ratio
Written by Robert Lewis
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IT Doesn't Want the Cloud
Written by laton mccartney
These days research analysts are falling all over themselves projecting how enthusiastically the cloud is going to be adopted by corporate America. Most recently, Gartner went to far as to assert that cloud computing will become so widely used that 20 percent of all businesses will have no IT asse... (2734 more chars)

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Follow-Up: What Adobe + Omniture "Should" =
Written by R. Matthew Gee, CFA
Last week I posted my disappointment regarding the as-of-yet seamless integration of Adobe and Omniture: http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/mamblog/view/7632/.html Re-reading my post, I know what I wanted to say, but I seem to have skirted around the true issue.Th... (1332 more chars)

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Putting Rogue IT Spending in Perspective
Written by Tom Hoffman
There have been a number of articles and blogs recently which question the future of the CIO, including this fine piece by CIOZone Contributing Editor Michael Neubarth. Another report, citing statistics compiled by Diamond Digital, claims that nearly one-third of IT spending occurs outside of the... (2086 more chars)
Avoiding Crashes: How One Airline Learned from Another’s Mistakes
Written by Mel Duvall
The problem with live TV is that anything can – and often does – go wrong. The same might be said for the switchover of large IT systems. There is a very real possibility that the exercise will encounter unforeseen problems and result in anything from minor challenges to a complete melt... (2942 more chars)

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IT Job Market Revs Up in Motor City
Written by Tom Hoffman
As U.S. auto sales continue to gain strength, automakers are beginning to add engineers and IT professionals to their payrolls as production of new vehicles ramps up. Continued business improvement by both Ford and General Motors are leading to increased hiring by both automakers, according to... (2065 more chars)
CA Getting “Interesting” Again
Written by Mel Duvall
There was some disappointing news at software giant CA (formerly Computer Associates) last week as the company announced it was going through a restructuring and cutting about 1,000 jobs. That’s why a news report from Bloomberg was surprising. Bloomberg noted that a number of big inv... (2479 more chars)

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What Adobe + Omniture "Should" =
Written by R. Matthew Gee, CFA
With today's momentum around the disruption of the Flash platform within iPhone OS4.0, I felt it necessary to comment on the more significant piece of Adobe's revenue generation. This is not to say that the iPhone OS is not relevant. On the contrary, the direction of the iPhone has obvious... (1683 more chars)

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ATT.NET and Hotmail/Msn Disconnected
Written by John Stevenson
Anumber of calls to me from other users of ATT's e-mail servicehas uncoveredwhat may be a universal disconnect between e-mail accounts at ATT and e-mail accounts at both Hotmail and MSN. All ATT.NETmessages to anyone at those ISP addresses are getting kicked back to the sender. It is difficul... (96 more chars)

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Core American Virtues
Written by Robert Lewis
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VMware: "Everybody Wants You" BUT do they also want EMC?
Written by Thomas DelVecchio
It's highly unlikely that the great Billy Squier was referring to VMware(VMW) when he wrote the 1982 hit Everybody Wants You , but it would have been appropriate. Not only is VMware the vendor that received the most positive spending intentionsout of the 95vendors included in... (5775 more chars)
The IT Job Market: A Glimmer of Hope
Written by Tom Hoffman
As I wrote in a recent blog , there are a lot of different indicators that can reflect the relative state of the IT job market. Some survey results can be misleading because they’re not statistically valid or they don’totherwise encapsulate what’s the hiring scene is for a deep ... (2193 more chars)
Tech Giants Call on President to Back Energy Initiative
Written by Mel Duvall
Here’s a different spin on the familiar refrain, ‘More Power to the People’. A group of technology companies and Green energy-related organizations have banded together to call on President Barack Obama to adopt the goal of giving every household the ability to monitor and manage ... (2812 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Rebirthing HAL
Written by David Hunter Tow
The arrival of super smart evolutionary computers, capable of autonomous reasoning, learning and emulating the human-like behaviour of the mythical HAL in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey 2001 is imminent. The Darwinian evolutionary paradigm has finally come of... (6541 more chars)

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Don’t Assume a Thing
Written by Margaret Meloni
In one of the first classes I taught, I had a student who was always scowling at me. It would have been really hard to miss that scowl. He sat in the front row and it was a small class in a small room. He was friendly enough when he entered the class room and when he left for the evening. ... (2563 more chars)
Reconsidering CIO Priorities
Written by Tom Hoffman
I was reading through the top 10 business priorities for CIOs laid out in Gartner’s 2010 CIO Agenda study and considering the order of these concerns. Obviously, every CIO faces their own set of priorities based on their organization’s pressing business and organizational needs; sha... (2459 more chars)

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The ethical world is far from flat
Written by Robert Lewis
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Pushing to Make New York’s 'Tech Valley' a Reality
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } No one is about to confuse the Albany, N.Y. area with Silicon Valley. But New York State’s Department of Labor is taking a series of steps to help generate a sustainable technology workforce for the Empire State’s capital region. It... (1661 more chars)
Windows 7 Early Adopters ‘Very Satisfied’: Forrester
Written by Mel Duvall
In another sign of momentum for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, a survey by Forrester Research shows that a majority of early adopters are “very satisfied” with the operating system and a surprising number of older PC owners are making the upgrade. Furthermore, For... (2459 more chars)

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Mobile Application Development Platform
Written by Saurin Mehta
I am very new to this forum.. and I need to take a very CRUCIAL DECISION!!!! This is regarding what development platform should we choose as an IT solutions company? What in your opinion is the next gen of Mobile device? WIll it be Blackberry, Android, iPhone or Window Mobile or any Nokia... (71 more chars)

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Unplucked Fruit: Contract Management Savings Opportunities
Written by Tom Hoffman
Since the recession kicked in last year – and, truth be told, almost consistently since 9-11 – CIOs have been under intense pressure to cut costs. No real news flash here. But after IT leaders quickly dispensed with the oft-mentioned “low-hanging fruit,” it became increasi... (3318 more chars)

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Computer Science Enrollments Surging
Written by Mel Duvall
In what is sure to come as a relief to chief information officers across the country, a new study released this week reports that the number of students enrolled in computer science undergraduate programs has risen for the second year in a row. In fact, the number of students majoring in co... (2647 more chars)

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The importance of being a person
Written by Robert Lewis
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A CIO's Worst Nightmare
Written by laton mccartney
Remember Albert Gonzalez? He’s someone whom CIOs, CSOs and anyone else involved protecting companies against identity theft aren’t likely to forget soon. On Thursdaya federal judge in Boston sentenced Gonzalez, the head of whatprosecutors call the largest identity theft ever,... (2655 more chars)
Web Ads Targeting Behaviors Twice as Effective: Study
Written by Mel Duvall
A new study has found that Internet advertisements that targetpeople's Web surfing and shopping habits are twice as effective as non-targeted ads. The study, which was conducted by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), a coalition of 40 online marketing companies, provides fuel for mar... (2500 more chars)
Where Do Our Technological Allegiances Lie?
Written by R. Matthew Gee, CFA
I'll open this post with a personal Technological Allegiance that is evolving, but then I'm going to 'Tarantino' this a bit by discussing the event that prompted the idea for this post. I'll conclude by returning to my opening example and posing a question to the reader about their personal experi... (2385 more chars)

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Making Sense of the IT Job Market
Written by Tom Hoffman
Maybe it’s just me, but sometimes I can’t help but scratch my head at some of the conflicting and often contradictory signals in the IT labor market. Some studies point to an overall uptick in hiring for full-time IT staffers. Other reports offer a tepid hiring outlook at best. ... (2316 more chars)

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Personal business strategy
Written by Robert Lewis
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What Free Time?
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } As a journalist, I’ve worked for a number of publications over the years that make annual predictions about technology and management trends. They’re intended to be thought-provoking, which they can be, though I personally enjoy reading ... (2349 more chars)
Open Source v. Windows...Again
Written by R. Matthew Gee, CFA
With the pervasive presence of Windows 7 in the marketplace, and many organizations contemplating an operating system upgrade after a well-documented pass-over of Windows Vista, the Open Source operating system question is once again brought to the forefront of spending decisions. While ma... (1602 more chars)

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Enterprises Set to Move to Windows 7: Study
Written by Mel Duvall
In what will be viewed as a positive sign for Microsoft, a survey out this week shows that companies are making firm plans to move to Windows 7. In fact, more than half of those surveyed say they plan to deploy Windows 7 by the end of the year. That is in stark contrast to the fate that met... (2148 more chars)

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Data versus information
Written by Richard D. Cushing
Writing in InfoWorld magazine (6 Jan 2003), Ephraim Schwartz said: "The goal of IT, since its inception, has been the timely (a relative term) delivery of information to those who need it. Behind this goal is an unspoken belief in technology: If IT could deliver to its internal enterprise c... (4327 more chars)

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Information is not knowlege
Written by Richard D. Cushing
"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge comes from theory." -- W. Edwards Deming When Sir Isaac Newton was conked on his head by the falling apple (as the story goes), he had information. The information was, "apples fall from trees" or, put more generically, "things fall to th... (3181 more chars)

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When Insourcing Makes Sense
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } Under the weight of enormous budget pressures like other states, New York recently decided to insource as many as 500 IT jobs which could save the state up to $70 million annually. On the face of it, the plan, which was approved by the state legi... (1639 more chars)
SAP Gets Agile to Spur Product Development
Written by Mel Duvall
Facing uncertainty over its plans to win back customer satisfaction, SAP Co-Chief Executives Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, arrived in Silicon Valley this week looking to set the record straight. Their joint appearance comes as the company tries to stem a sales slump which ultimate... (2238 more chars)

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Getting Serious With Google Apps
Written by Mel Duvall
Google Apps has been a great place to access basic applications such as programs for sharing documents, calendars, and of course, email. But it has been a work-in-progress in terms of getting full featured business applications. That appears to be quickly changing. In recent months the Goog... (2423 more chars)

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10 Inspiring Quotes on Leadership
Written by Ann Spoor
10 Inspiring Quotes on Leadership 1. The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves. --J. Carla Nortcutt 2. Communication seemed to me s... (1346 more chars)

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Examining Social Factors That Influence Engineering Choices
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } A Clemson University researcher has been awarded a $415,000 grant to study the social factors which influence under-represented students’ decisions to enter engineering fields. Clemson University assistant professor of engineering and scien... (2363 more chars)
The Paranoid CIO
Written by laton mccartney
A little known American poet, Delmore Schwartz once noted famously that “Even paranoids have real enemies.” Certainly, CIOs are subject to paranoia, especially these days when job security is a rarity. In fact, any IT chief who doesn’t look over his shoulder from time to tim... (1761 more chars)

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Who's a business and what isn't
Written by Robert Lewis
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Finding the Right Job Candidate
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s an interesting article on ITWeb about different techniques that HR professionals can use to identify the right candidates for an open position and to retain them. The article notes the potential for utilizing a third-party predictive index service to help match an individual’... (2537 more chars)

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Akamai Leading Race to the Bottom
Written by R. Matthew Gee, CFA
Last week, Dan Rayburn posted that Akamai is now offering premium pricing to large customers who utilize Akamai for greater than 50% of their distributed content ( Streaming Media blog ). The example Mr. Rayburn provided was Netflix, a notorious user of all three key CDN vendors (Limelight ... (1072 more chars)

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The Custom Infrastructure Wasteland
Written by Doug Brockway
An interesting article was recently posted at CIO Zone . The article was titled “ Cray Teams with Microsoft on Cloud Computing .” Apparently Microsoft and Cray plan to work together on cloud computing systems. Cray is a supercomputer company. Micr... (7713 more chars)

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The Internet Has Changed
Written by Mel Duvall
Cisco unveiled a new router this week. So what? It’s true that most of the time the unveiling of a new router doesn’t elicit much more than a yawn from the technology community. But this time is different. The new routing system promises to change the way we, and in fact, the en... (2161 more chars)

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Will Uncle Sam's Belt Tightening Hurt IT Recruitment and Retention?
Written by Tom Hoffman
In recent years, federal agencies have become more generous in doling out bonuses to recruit and retain top notch workers. In 2008 alone, 37 federal agencies laid out more than $284 million to more than 39,000 workers for recruitment, retention and relocation bonuses. Now, the Fed is b... (2117 more chars)

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IT Security Pros Fared Well in 2009
Written by Mel Duvall
The economy was tough on technology professionals in 2009 with most surveys pointing to no growth in salaries or even small cuts. However, at least one segment of the IT industry appears to have fared quite well and is in line for further gains in 2010. A survey released this week on inform... (2401 more chars)

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Educational Webinar
Written by catherine Booker
5 Strategic Challenges to Passing a PCI DSS Audit For a standard that has only formally existed for less than 4 years, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS, or PCI) is making astonishingly rapid progress.

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Governments Battling the Data Center Bulge
Written by Mel Duvall
These days it seems like data centers have become Public Enemy No. 1. From the east coast to the west coast, city, state and the Federal governments are declaring war against the rapidly multiplying and energy guzzling facilities. A couple of weeks ago California Governor Arnold Schwarzeneg... (2227 more chars)

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Utility, Service or Innovator: Where Do You Fit?
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } Capgemini recently released its fourth annual Global CIO Report . For some CIOs, the results are uplifting and downright encouraging. For others, well … For this report, Capgemini conducted 490 face-to-face interviews with CIOs from 14... (2744 more chars)
Microsoft Investing Heavily in Cloud for Future Payoff
Written by Mel Duvall
Software giant Microsoft says it is investing heavily in building a cloud infrastructure, but doesn’t expect to see serious revenues from the investment to begin flowing for two to three years. The company believes cloud computing will be a major line of business for the company in th... (2570 more chars)

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In defense of specialists
Written by Robert Lewis
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It's Not Personal
Written by Margaret Meloni
Sally looked at Mary Carol and said, "Wow how did you do that? How did you just brush it off, I mean Jim just got in your face and told you that he hates working with you. And you are just as calm and collected as ever." Mary Carol looked at Sally and said, "Well I am really not taking it personall... (2494 more chars)

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Be Impeccable with Your Word
Written by Margaret Meloni
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.” Do any of you remember that charming little childhood chant? It was meant to ward off the cruel verbal taunts we received from other children. Sometimes kids can be very harsh with their teasing. Sometimes adult... (3671 more chars)

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Green IT and Sustainability Conference at UN, 10/7/2009
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Green-Tech & Sustainability Conference at the U.N. - October 7, 2009 Organized by UN-GAID and AIT Global Video Produced by CIOZone.com Partners -CIOZone.com, WITI, SIM NY Chapter, CIO Executive Council Co-Sponsors: Cisco, S... (214 more chars)

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Fed Crackdown on H-1B Abuse a Start
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) contends that a Newark, N.J. software company named Peri Software Solutions Inc. has underpaid 163 workers on H-1B visas and owes them more than $1.45 million in back pay. The H-1B visa program allows employers... (2671 more chars)
Why the Cloud Is Good for SMBs
Written by laton mccartney
Running a traditional IT shop in an SMB is at best a thankless job. Typically the CIO – presuming there is one – necessarily wears several hats. In addition to managing IT, he or she may also be functioning as COO, CFO or even CEO. Or onoccasion, all of the above. ThereR... (2998 more chars)

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Observations From the Southern California Linux Expo
Written by Joe Conway
I am a long term advocate and contributor to the PostgreSQL database project. This open source community is not owned or even dominated by a single company. As such, this past weekend I spent pretty much all of Saturday and Sunday as a volunteer answering questions at the PostgreSQL booth in the ... (1402 more chars)

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The Cost of Cloud
Written by Art Sedighi
There has been lots of talk and discussion around external vs internal clouds over the past couple of years. Everywhere you look there is cost-benefit-analysis for cloud. We all know that cloud is just a new name to an old face, but do we have real metrics on the cost of using an external ... (2211 more chars)

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Specialists, generally speaking
Written by Robert Lewis
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Does a Single-System Image make sense for Grid?
Written by Art Sedighi
This is a loaded question with no right answer. Did you notice that I said no right answer as opposed to saying that there is no wrong answer? We discussed, to a small extent, the techno-political landmine of an enterprise Grid, but providing a Single System Image (SSI) is a whole other ba... (2500 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Model-Based Development
Written by David Hunter Tow
Software and system development needs to seriously grow up- and fast. It urgently needs to become far more rigorous and dependable if it’s to have any chance of meeting critical 21st century process engineering requirements. Model-Based Development- MBD might be the answer. ... (5742 more chars)

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IT or Business: Which Channel will Produce Next-Gen CIOs?
Written by Tom Hoffman
I was pondering this issue the other day after speaking recently with some CIOs who have come from different parts of the organization. Ultimately, I don’t think there’s a single answer to this question. But it’s worth considering. And there are certainly m... (2926 more chars)

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Dell Sees Demand Improve, But Margins Squeezed
Written by Mel Duvall
Dell reported a 4.8% drop in fourth quarter earnings last week, suffering from squeezed margins on personal computers. Investors responded by initially pounding the company’s shares on Friday. But what can we learn from the news? First, as suspected, netbooks are having a big effect o... (2547 more chars)

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CIOs on the Outs? Nah
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } I was reading a blog the other day in which the author implies that the CIO profession must be facing a crisis if big companies such as Harrah’s, News Corp. and ConocoPhillips are “getting rid of their CIO and then choosing to not to re... (3791 more chars)
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Written by sandeep sankhla
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Solar Energy solutions
Written by Bianca
Our green concept focuses on the use of alternative energy sources which is a very important issue nowadays due to the fact that more than 170 countries has signed and rectified the Kyoto protocol. Kyoto is a ''cap and trade'' system that imposes national caps on the emissions of countries. Our sec... (258 more chars)

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Update on the Large Grid Issue
Written by Art Sedighi
I wrote an article a couple of years back focusing on Large Grids (Developer.com). I made the following claim in that article: “A large Grid is any extension to the original and first application deployment on that Grid” I wanted to revisit this claim and focus o... (2180 more chars)

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Chasing the what?
Written by Robert Lewis
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The Fed's Newfound Financial Discipline
Written by Tom Hoffman
The buck stops with Vivek Kundra. The Federal CIO recently began conducting meetings with agency CIOs and other department officials to assess the status of IT projects. Kundra’s TechStat meetings are aimed at determining which projects are on course, which ones may need to be ... (2416 more chars)

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Netbooks Shaping Buying Patterns
Written by Mel Duvall
In many ways it still seems like the netbook is the industry’s unwanted child. At every turn, major PC manufacturer will take the opportunity to explain why the netbook is a poor replacement for a laptop, and yet survey after survey, shows consumers are snapping up the handy devices. ... (2256 more chars)

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Rock Icons and IT Thought Leadership
Written by Doug Brockway
Mechanical calculators or computers date at least as far back as the 150-100 BC with the creation of the Antikythera mechanism . In more modern times Charles Babbage created his mechanical difference engine in the 1800’s. John Von Neumann outlined the architecture of modern... (5405 more chars)

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The History of Social Media: Part I
Written by Doug Brockway
Early in Mel Brooks’ “The History of the World: Part I” Moses goes up the mount to see the burning bush and receive the word of God. Coming down with three tablets Brooks as Moses says “The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto... (6411 more chars)

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The Governator Takes on Data Centers
Written by Mel Duvall
You have to hand it to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He knows how to take a rather mundane topic like data centers and turn it into a man versus machines battle. In this case, the Governator has declared war against energy gobbling data centers. Under an executive order issued last week, Schwarzen... (2404 more chars)

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Red rover, red rover, let NASA come over!
Written by Robert Lewis
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The Barbie Effect
Written by Tom Hoffman
Mattel announced at the New York Toy Fair on Feb. 12 that more than 500,000 consumers from around the world selected computer engineering as Barbie’s next career. Apparently this will represent the 126 th career for the doll that turned 50 last year. She’s a regular r... (2132 more chars)

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CIOs as Babysitters
Written by laton mccartney
Afew days ago I was talking to Honorio Padron, the Hackett Group’s IT advisory practice leader, about how companies are attracting and retaining qualified IT personnel given the shortage in this sector of the labor market. The new generation of information technology workers differs ma... (2924 more chars)
Memory vs. CPU
Written by Art Sedighi
Many articles have been written over the years about the trend of CPU vs. the trend of memory; in terms of density, speed, die size, etc. We all agree that CPU speed has been increasing at a faster pace than DRAM access time, but what does really mean for an application running on the Grid? ... (2223 more chars)

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IT Careers Head Into Overtime
Written by Tom Hoffman
IDG posted an interesting article about older IT workers who are being forced to extend their careers as a result of their dwindling retirement savings and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Interesting both for what the article states and what it doesn’t. One of the data points ci... (2083 more chars)

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SAP Tries to Appease Customers
Written by Mel Duvall
This week SAP made a surprise move to oust its chief executive Leo Apotheker and replace him with two co-CEOs. Officially the word is that Apotheker has resigned, but the company also acknowledged that it decided not to renew his contract. The German software giant said the company would no... (2265 more chars)

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What to charge for?
Written by Art Sedighi
Clouds, Grids, shared infrastructures or any other of such technologies aims at lowering the cost of ownership for the end-users. There are fundamental questions that still need to be answered from a service provider and service user stand point: What is it that I am paying for? Or char... (2486 more chars)

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Third axle alternative
Written by Robert Lewis
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Cisco Offers Clear Signal in Murky Recovery
Written by Mel Duvall
The economic recovery has appeared a bit anemic of late. Positive economic news on one front seems to be met with less encouraging news on the next. Poor showings on the job market and the housing front, in particular, are troubling signs that the recovery may not be at hand. Providing a bi... (2238 more chars)

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Is your SLDC framework responding to the right issue for you?
Written by Peter Fitzgerald
Over my professional career, I've had the benefit of working through a number of different frameworks and methodologies to deliver software. For each one I've had to deal with enthusiastic idealists pushing the current approach as the epitome of successful delivery while another camp of equally ... (2041 more chars)

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The Big, Huge Data Center Dilemma
Written by Tom Hoffman
Symantec recently released a study in which half of the nearly 1,800 global respondents reported that their data centers are either ‘somewhat’ or ‘extremely’ understaffed. Downsizing is a factor but that’s only a piece of the puzzle. Three-quarters of the responden... (2701 more chars)

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7 Steps Roadmap for SMEs
Written by Suresh N
How to Fix Your Business [A Roadmap for SMEs: Lead Your Business Away from Trouble and Back to Success] Owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are entitled to the same turnaround help as large corporations. Unfortunately, they don't receive... (6201 more chars)

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Battle of the Fed IT Bulge
Written by Tom Hoffman
In reading Mel Duvall’s report on President Obama’s proposed federal IT spending plans, I was blown away by the following statistic: how the number of agency data centers has more than doubled since 1998 from 432 to 1,100 data centers last year. At a time when most IT org... (1764 more chars)

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Can Organizations Become Too Lean?
Written by Mel Duvall
Toyota is seen as the worldwide leader in lean manufacturing, of just-in-time supply chains that deliver parts to manufacturing facilities exactly when they’re needed. In fact, its lean manufacturing systems have been analyzed and copied by a wide range of manufacturers including some of Toyo... (2588 more chars)

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Will CIOs Become CPOs
Written by laton mccartney
Last week during a Web seminar, Salesforce.com’s Director of Platform Research Peter Coffee projected that the day may soon arrive when CIOs spend most of their time focusing on supervising business processes and less and less dealing with technology. This certainly isn’t a... (1621 more chars)

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The Other Offshore Outsourcing Gap: CMM Levels
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s an interesting article posted on CIO.com about how middle managers at both offshore outsourcing companies and within U.S.IT organizations (i.e. retail, banking, energy) often lack the necessary skills to manage the complexities inherent in outsourcing agreements these days. The a... (3089 more chars)

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The Intersection of EQ, Difficult People and You!
Written by Margaret Meloni
Question: What happens when you take someone with empathy and place them in a meeting with someone who is pitching a fit? Answer: The person who is pitching the fit gets lucky because they have someone in the room who understands that sometimes others get upset in the workplace AND someone... (2717 more chars)

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Has Technology Made Our Lives Better?
Written by Peter Rothman
Technology has definitely changed the world. We are more connected, have easier access to information, and we can be more productive. The question I pose: Is our quality of life better or worse? I remember as a kid growing up in the 1970’s. When my father came home from work ... (1461 more chars)

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Intel Powering Up Green Installations
Written by Mel Duvall
Intel is looking to put more green energy inside its operations, with the announcement that it plans to build eight new solar installations at sites in four U.S. states. The chip manufacturing giant said this week that the solar power projects will generate approximately 2.5 megawatts of energy. ... (1948 more chars)

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Smartphone applications market report 2010
Written by Robert Kuersten
research2guidance to publish comprehensive report on corporate mobile applications market. report identifies key trends and drivers, valuable guide for companies planning publication of smartphone applications. For further information comment here orvisit www.research2guidance... (24 more chars)

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JDK ??
Written by Suresh N
Oracle says there will be no license changes to any of the Java developer tools. In current scenario Java has no replacement; technology companies like us cannot get complete features from any other languages. My worry is what will happen to Netbeans vs Jdeveloper? JDK vs Jrocket

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Remote Endpoint Security Results
Written by Sean Wilkins
I was reading an article today that referenced some survey numbers completed my Check Point Software. For those who don’t know, Check Point is a leader in providing network security solutions. According to this survey, a shockingly low nu... (1964 more chars)

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Steering Kids Away from IT
Written by Tom Hoffman
According to university administrators, enrollment in computer science and IT-related undergraduate programs has dropped by 40%-to-50% over the past decade. There are plenty of reasons for this, including a steady rise among college students to pursue degrees in other disciplines such as Business... (2314 more chars)

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IBM Touts Wins at Competitors' Expense
Written by Mel Duvall
With each earnings release Oracle usually likes to take a poke at its arch-rival SAP by touting how many more customer wins it had in the quarter or how many SAP customers converted over to Oracle software. The self-promotion goes hand-in-hand with Oracle chief Larry Ellison’s charact... (2360 more chars)

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Debatable propositions
Written by Robert Lewis
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New to the group
Written by Art Sedighi
Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself -happy to be here and be part of the virtual team. My expertise lies in the middleware and Grid/Cloud computing world with an emphasis on High Performance Grids. I have been working in the field for about dozen years, and have been involved... (199 more chars)

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Intuit and Microsoft partner with the Cloud.
Written by Sean Wilkins
I saw an interesting story today that I thought could be one of the first major deals which could help small business gain access to a variety of different applications which have been developed through a verified channel and be hosted on high availability tru... (1946 more chars)

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CIO Pay: Will a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
Written by Tom Hoffman
Around the same time that I’d read Laton McCartney’ erudite article calling for CIOs to be compensated at similar levels as their C-level peers, I’d also come across a SearchCIO.com story on CIO salary expectations for 2010. Both stories got me thinking not only about compen... (2643 more chars)

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The next generation of college classroom
Written by Sean Wilkins
I thought I would take to the time to bring everyone up to date on the current technologies which have helped many colleges develop and run online degree programs which both meet the expectations of the accreditation boards and the general business community. Over... (3115 more chars)

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Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 4.6% in 2010: Gartner
Written by Mel Duvall
Research firm Gartner added its voice to those predicting a rebound in technology spending in 2010, forecasting that worldwide IT spending will grow by 4.6% in 2010. Gartner said a slow but steady improvement in the macroeconomic environment will support a return to modest growth. Worldwide... (2280 more chars)

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Let's Get Small
Written by Doug Brockway
After toiling in obscurity, learning the hard way about stand-up comedy and how to play the banjo, Steve Martin started catching on in the 1970’s hitting the big time with a comedy album titled “Let’s Get Small.” The title and the bit by t... (5334 more chars)

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A Cloud in time
Written by Robert Lewis
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Is the new IT PMO in over their head?
Written by Michael W Roberts
Thanks to those who have contributed to this. If you wish to be mentioned please respond and your name will be attached. There is a list of CIO, IT Attorneys, Directors, Project managers, Project leaders, Technicians and Users that have contributed. The PMO is running meetings, asking... (1290 more chars)

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Getting Girls Interested in IT
Written by Tom Hoffman
Purdue University recently announced a summer program it’s planning for high school teachers, guidance counselors and students that's aimed at encouraging more girls to consider computer-related careers. It’s a shrewd move which hopefully will have some impact. Many educa... (1740 more chars)

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IBM Makes Services Sing
Written by Mel Duvall
IBM released its fourth quarter results Tuesday and in yet another sign of the economy rebounding, it managed to come in at the top end of its earlier forecasts. Big Blue said fourth quarter profit grew 8.7% to $4.81 billion, or $3.59 a share, an increase from the $4.43 billion, or $3.27 a share it... (2100 more chars)

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Why Aren't CIOs Paid More?
Written by laton mccartney
How many CIOs do you know that make as much as, say, their company’s COO or CFO. For that matter how many IT chiefs do you know who sit on their company’s boardof directors. . You can pretty much do the math on one hand. Now a few years ago when chief information’s... (3280 more chars)

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SAP Looks Stronger, But Still Battling Headwinds
Written by Mel Duvall
SAP recently reported results that certainly look positive for the enterprise software giant, but it is far too early to say the company is out of the woods. In reporting its fourth quarter results, Germany-based SAP said its fourth quarter revenue dropped 9% - a smaller decline than the company ha... (2533 more chars)

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IE too vulnerable to be used?
Written by Sean Wilkins
In the last couple of days both German and French bodies have recommended against the use of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer at least temporarily until further patches are found to fix one of its current vulnerabilities. The vulnerability in question has been used in recent days to attack compan... (5365 more chars)

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Spreading Innovation Through Immigration
Written by Tom Hoffman
I was reading a story posted by eWeek which lists the top 25 companies that applied for and received approvals for H-1B visas in 2009. The list includes the names of companies that you might expect to see, including Microsoft (#2 with 1,318 H-1B visas); Intel (ranked 3 rd with 723) and Ci... (3836 more chars)

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Top sales guys as seen from top IT guys
Written by Gigi J Kizhakkechethipuzha
Top sales guys as seen from top IT guys Gary Beach of CIO.com writes about top 10 characteristics of Sales people as viewed by senior level IT folks. Here is the list " 10. Understand your business. 9. Possess competitive intelligence/knowledge. 8. Provide ongoing support af... (2338 more chars)

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Business Case for Cloud Computing !
Written by Mridul K Singh
Cloud Computing WHY? Lot have been written on cloud computing. But is it really a viable option? if yes. Then how do we assess it and measure the business value? What are the main challenges in the technology? In short lets break the problem in brief, like a Technology Consultant. T... (3486 more chars)

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The Tenured CIO
Written by Tom Hoffman
Up until a few years ago, the average tenure for a CIO in most Fortune 2000 organizations was about 3 years. For some IT leaders, the duration was much shorter. How things have changed. To be sure, there are still varying lengths of service for CIOs and these are influenced... (2671 more chars)

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The Decade of Smart
Written by Mel Duvall
By now you’ve no doubt seen any number of advertisements or promotional materials related to IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign. Blue Blue launched the campaign a little more than a year ago, based on its vision of a more richly interconnected network of cities, transportation networks, busi... (3315 more chars)

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Waterfall, RUP and Agile: Which is Right for You?
Written by mtrots
Streamline production with fast, effective Waterfall, RUP and Agile processes. Use mixed software development strategies to meet specific project needs. Despite signs of life in the economy, the realities of software development persist. Most companies and customers need their software y... (1177 more chars)

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The Social Butterfly
Written by Margaret Meloni
It seemed to John that Jane spent at least as much time away from her desk as she did at her desk. It seemed like every time he walked down the hallway he would see her speaking with someone. And she never made it through the company cafeteria without stopping to exchange greetings with several pe... (3018 more chars)

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Lawson's Healthvision Deal: An Rx for Growth
Written by Tom Hoffman
One of the things that I’ve enjoyed most about covering IT management issues for the past 20-plus years has been the evolving relationship between IT organizations and the businesses they support. It wasn’t that long ago when many IT organizations were looked uponas little more than ... (3502 more chars)

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Useful field devices from CES
Written by Sean Wilkins
I thought I would take the opportunity this week to mention two products which are being awarded at this week’s CES show that I thought were quite interesting and could potentially be products which could come in handy to those out in the field. ... (2483 more chars)

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Green IT on Rebound: Forrester
Written by Mel Duvall
The recession knocked the wind out of the sails of some organizations’ Green IT efforts, but there are signs of renewed enthusiasm, a report from Forrester Research has found. In a survey of enterprise Green IT practices, conducted in November of 2009, Forrester found that a wide rang... (2540 more chars)

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Cybersitter Sues over Stolen Code
Written by Sean Wilkins
Well in an interesting twist in the sage that is the “Green Dam” project. Cybersitter LLC is suing Sony, Acer, Asus, BenQ, Levovo and The Chinese government itself over the former (and still pending) requirement for machines to be pre-loaded with the... (1749 more chars)

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Operational BI
Written by Soumadeep Sen
The importance of understanding the nature of business anomalies as they happen and taking concrete steps to minimize adverse effects on the business is what differentiates between successes from failures. In recent times fierce competition and the volatile market envi... (1717 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Convergence of X-Reality
Written by David Hunter Tow
First there was Virtual Reality-the creation of simulated games, objects and avatars; narratives embedded in online virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, with 15 million subscribers. Then came Augmented Reality- created by integrating or ... (5282 more chars)

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Microsoft Fires Discount Salvo at Google
Written by Tom Hoffman
Under a promotional subscription program that Microsoft is offering through June 30, small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) are being offered half off on first-year licensing fees if they to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional and/or Office 2010. The program, called Microsoft’s ... (1825 more chars)

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10 Best Intranets for 2010
Written by Mel Duvall
Corporations are beginning to realize the potential of their Intranets as a source for communications and collaboration among employees, a report on the Top Intranets for 2010 has concluded. In releasing its annual report on the state of intranets, research firm Nielsen Norman Group noted... (3112 more chars)

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Nexus One, What does this mean?
Written by Sean Wilkins
I thought I would follow up to an article that I wrote a week ago amount the current smartphones and how they match up towards each other. (I don’t know if it has been posted yet). The question really is whether the new Google Nexus One phone really affect... (1931 more chars)

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Intellectual Media Property in the 21st century
Written by Sean Wilkins
Well I recently read an Op-Ed by Bono titled “Ten for the Next Ten” and one of the points that saw was about the continued contention that music piracy is hurting the small artist the most and should be tracked in some way to eliminate the issue. Now I... (2523 more chars)

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Creating wealth for fun and profit
Written by Robert Lewis
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Old School or 2.0? What Kind Of CIO Are You?
Written by laton mccartney
I’ve never met Dr. John D. Hamalka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School,. but from his blog and what I’ve read about him he seems to embody many of the characteristics of a new waveof CIOs that is has emerged in the past few years. What are the difference between old school IT l... (3306 more chars)

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Questioning the Substance of a MySQL Petition Drive
Written by Tom Hoffman
While officials at Oracle and Sun Microsystems continue to sweat it out while European Union regulators decide whether or not to bless this marriage on or before Jan. 27, the co-founder and creator of the open source database at the heart of the EU’s anti-competitive concerns, Monty Wid... (2684 more chars)

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GSM Weakness
Written by Sean Wilkins
Well I thought I would add a couple of words on the recent news that the GSM A5/1 stream cipher has been cracked. For those who don’t know A5/1, it is a steam cipher which is used to encrypt the dialing and voice coming from and going to GSM handsets. The ... (1642 more chars)

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Putting CRM and Social Networking in Perspective
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s been a tremendous amount of hype over the past year regarding the integration of customer relationship management (CRM) systems and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and how businesses can leverage the two to tighten their customer connections. Sa... (2125 more chars)

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Botnet Counterattack
Written by Sean Wilkins
In reading over the technology news in the last couple of days I saw an article about the actions of Fireeye , Inc a small security firm located in Milpitas, CA which is in the southern bay area. What Fireeye did was quite remarkable and is not something that has ... (2009 more chars)

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How Did That Feel?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Mary Carol arrived at the hospital too late, Lydia had just died. Mary Carol and her co-workers all knew that Lydia was dying. Lydia had been fighting cancer for several months and unfortunately she did not respond to the treatment. Mary Carol was coming to say goodbye. She said her good byes and h... (2536 more chars)

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Cisco's 802.11N Promotion
Written by Sean Wilkins
In an effort to spur the use of their 802.11n products Cisco is not offing some sweat special offers in order to help the transition to the higher speed wireless alternative. The special offer allows the purchaser to buy the Aironet 1140 access points for a new ... (1623 more chars)

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Five Game-Changers for Enterprise Software
Written by Tom Hoffman
Year-end is a popular time for journalists and bloggers to assemble ‘Best of’ and ‘Top’ lists (i.e. Top Ten Enterprise Trends to Watch; Nine Best Films of ‘09). I had intentionally shied away from adding one of my own since crafting yet another one seem like overkill... (5102 more chars)

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Is Data profiling enough ?
Written by Claeys philippe
Data profiling tools do two things: they discover facts about data values and they discover relationships between different data items. As I have commented before they are typically not very good at the latter, at least when those relationships exist across data sources rather than within a single ... (3000 more chars)

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Factors that SHOULD Influence Your Outsourcing Decisions
Written by mtrots
Considering outsourcing ? Beyond cost savings and the need to focus resources on your company's core strengths, there are other various reasons why you should - or should not - outsource. After all, not all outsourcing companies are created equal, and outsourcing, in general, is not necessarily th... (3040 more chars)

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Healthcare Reform?
Written by Sean Wilkins
Well only in the U.S. can we be finishing a bill on the eve of one of the largest holidays in order to save ourselves from further delay and unneeded debate. The senate finally passed their version of the healthcare bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act... (2386 more chars)

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Introduction and Internet filtering.
Written by Sean Wilkins
Well first I must introduce myself as this is the first of (hopefully) many blogs posts on here. My name is Sean Wilkins and I am a networking consulting/engineer/author. I have been in the business for about 15 years and have been around the U.S. several times ov... (2293 more chars)

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A holiday card to the industry, 2009
Written by Robert Lewis
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New Intel Atom Chip Adds to Netbook Momentum
Written by Mel Duvall
Ever since Netbooks arrived on the computer scene about two years ago, they have attracted either the praise or scorn of users. Netbooks are regularly dismissed by analysts and such high-profile industry people as Michael Dell as being too underpowered and too small to be taken seriously. ... (2182 more chars)

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How Your IT Dollars are Used by Tech Lobbyists in DC
Written by Tom Hoffman
The Recorder, a daily legal newspaper for Northern California, published a thought-provoking article on Dec. 22 about the rise of Silicon Valley’s tech giants as lobbyists in Washington. The story kicks off with an anecdote about how Oracle co-president Safra Catz held a fun... (2293 more chars)

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Vivek Kundra CIO of the Year? Not Yet
Written by Mel Duvall
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra was recognized this week by InformationWeek as the Chief of the Year. The magazine said it chose Kundra because he demonstrated “both a compelling IT strategy and an ability to deliver business benefits as a result of that strategy.” ... (2355 more chars)

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What an Enterprise Software 'Shoot-Out' Portends
Written by Tom Hoffman
p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } When it comes to commercial software, I’ve always felt that the particular system a Fortune 2000 organization ends up selecting through the RFP, bidding and evaluation process largely boils down to the functionality, price point, architectural fi... (3872 more chars)
What’s Your Motivation?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Jane had a tough decision to make. She had two strong candidates for her former Director of Software Development position. Newly promoted to CIO (Chief Information Officer) Jane needed to backfill her old position quickly. This was the first decision she would make in her new role, so selecting the... (2818 more chars)

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State of the industry, 2009
Written by Robert Lewis
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IT Departments Feeling the Strain
Written by Mel Duvall
A couple of new surveys out this week more-or-less substantiate what many CIOs and their staff are feeling. IT departments are overworked at a time when there is little room for improvement in hiring budgets. A report by IT hiring firm Robert Half Technology found that about 43% of chief in... (2676 more chars)

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Why Oracle's MySQL Commitments Should Satisfy EC Regulators
Written by Tom Hoffman
After rounds of verbal jousting between Oracle and the European Commission over the software giant’s nine-month effort to acquire Sun Microsystems and its hotly-contested MySQL open source database system, a treaty of sorts appears to be in the works. On Dec. 14, Oracle mad... (3121 more chars)

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Troubled Dreamliner Takes Flight
Written by Mel Duvall
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner finally took flight Tuesday, more than two years behind schedule. The Dreamliner, with its sleek composite materials structure, is destined to become one of the great achievements of aviation history. Airlines around the world have placed some $140 billion wort... (2272 more chars)

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Someone else's problem?
Written by Robert Lewis
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MySQL Founder Launches Web Campaign Against Oracle/Sun
Written by Tom Hoffman
Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, the founder of the same MySQL open source database that’s at the heart of the European Commission ’s concerns over Oracle ’s plans to acquire Sun , has made an impassioned public plea for developers and others to inundate the EC with e-ma... (2569 more chars)

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Benefits of e-Health Not all Dollars and Cents
Written by Mel Duvall
A study released last month raised a number of questions surrounding the government’s multi-billion dollar effort to spur the use of electronic health record (EHR) systems in hospitals and physicians offices. The study, which was led by the Harvard School of Public Health, compared 3,... (2400 more chars)

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The Slow Death of Premise-based ERP
Written by Tom Hoffman
It seems everywhere I turn lately I’m either reading or hearing about the death of the traditional premise-based ERP model. Case in point: there’s a terrific video that was recently posted on ZDNet of blogger Brian Sommer, former director of Andersen Consulting’s Software Inte... (2679 more chars)

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Social Media Newest Playground for Cybercriminals: Cisco
Written by Mel Duvall
Bank robber Willie Sutton was once famously quoted as saying the reason he robbed banks is because “that’s where the money is.” It seems another form of criminal is adding new meaning to that old quote. Cisco Systems reported in its annual security report released t... (2568 more chars)

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SAP Rides the BI 'Wave'
Written by Tom Hoffman
In case you hadn’t heard, SAP is making preparations to release a decision-support tool called Constellation. SAP describes the forthcoming system as a ‘virtual war room’ that will enable users to collaborate in real-time and draw upon business intelligence from both the cloud... (2258 more chars)

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Are You in Control?
Written by Margaret Meloni
The scene below depicts Jane and her behavior while in a bad mood. In this potential scenario Jane is being really hateful: “Do you think you could stop surfing the web long enough to get me a latte? I would hate to think your horoscope for the day includes bad customer service.” For... (2802 more chars)

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A Guide for Project Managers
Written by Yuri Lits
A Guide for Project Managers "A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery What is it? Planning is a very natural process. Every day we all make lots of little plans (eg. what we will watch on tv tonight, what we will do at the weekend, what we will have for dinner,... (7245 more chars)

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Gartner Acquires AMR Research
Written by Mel Duvall
Consolidation is continuing in the IT research sector, with word this week that Gartner has entered into an agreement to acquire AMR Research of Boston, Mass. Gartner of Stamford, Conn. said it had reached an agreement to acquire AMR for about $64 million in cash. AMR, which has projected r... (2471 more chars)

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SAP Delays Maintenance Hike
Written by Tom Hoffman
Under pressure from user groups around the world, SAP has decided to postpone any decisions to increase support costs until early 2010. Under a program that the German software giant had unveiled in July 2008, SAP had planned to gradually increase maintenance costs over the next thr... (2655 more chars)

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The High Cost of Data Breaches
Written by laton mccartney
A non-profit group, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, updates corporate and governmental data breaches going back to 2005. What’s striking about this list is the number of major corporations and government agencies that don’t have even basic policies in effect to prevent breaches? What&... (2703 more chars)

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EU Sets Oracle/Sun Hearing for Dec. 10
Written by Tom Hoffman
According to Reuters , the European Commission has scheduled a Dec. 10 hearing for Oracle to make its case for acquiring Sun Microsystems . On one level, the move seems a bit odd given that Oracle recently asked for and received an extension from the EU to “further develop its argumen... (3063 more chars)

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How Agile Practices Reduce Requirements Risks
Written by mtrots
Agile practices in software projects help you to reduce requirements risks and deliver real business value. Every software project carries some risk, but many of these risks can be mitigated. That's true of problems related to product requirements – problems that are often cited as ... (1479 more chars)

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Oracle Gains Support of U.S. Senators, Users Group in Sun Bid
Written by Tom Hoffman
Time to break out the big guns. With Sun Microsystems losing an estimated $100 million per month (by Larry Ellison’s estimates, anyway) while the European Commission ponders the competitive implications of Oracle ’s $7.4 billion bid for technology-rich but financially-struggling ... (3741 more chars)

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Requiem
Written by Robert Lewis
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Will Oracle's Extension Make Any Difference?
Written by Tom Hoffman
On Nov. 20, the European Commission granted Oracle an extra week to “further develop its arguments” in response to the commission’s anti-competitive concerns regarding Oracle’s bid to acquire Sun. Oracle requested the extension from Jan. 19 to Jan. 27, citing disruptio... (2592 more chars)

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Leading without authority
Written by Robert Lewis
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Microsoft, SAP Team Up Against Oracle
Written by Tom Hoffman
According to The Wall St. Journal , SAP and Microsoft are planning to announce a partnership on Wednesday under which Microsoft will name SAP as the ‘preferred provider’ to customers for its budgeting, planning and forecasting software. The two companies have collabor... (2111 more chars)

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IBM Under Fire for Texas Data Center Project
Written by Mel Duvall
IBM is facing the heat in Texas over an $863 million government data center consolidation outsourcing project. An independent report on the seven-year project, commissioned by the Texas Department of Information Resources, says the project is “not sustainable” and that the state is a lo... (2986 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Evolution of Cloud 2.0
Written by David Hunter Tow
Director of the Future Enterprise Research Centre in Australia- David Tow, predicts a major shift in IT business models with the next incarnation of Cloud Computing- Cloud 2.0. The Cloud is a metaphor for shared infrastructure, software and data within the web. The original cloud c... (5546 more chars)
We Live in Interesting Times
Written by Peter Fitzgerald
"There is a curse. They say: May You Live in Interesting Times" - Terry Pratchett While I'm consistently entertained by Pratchett's works, I was reminded of this quote again this morning as I listened to the current economic situation being described as "unprecendented" in a discussion ... (2566 more chars)

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SAP to Hike Maintenance Fees
Written by Tom Hoffman
It seems that SAP is going beyond cost-cutting to strengthen its the bottom line. According to a German magazine report, SAP is planning to raise maintenance fees for hundreds of customers who use older versions of its software. The report, published by Wirtschaftswoche , claims tha... (2225 more chars)

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Are you Aware?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Scene One : “Do you think you could stop surfing the web long enough to get me a latte? I would hate to think your horoscope for the day includes bad customer service.” For some reason, snapping at the coffee house barista made Jane feel just a bit better. Jane slammed some money on... (1395 more chars)

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Report urges new procurement approach to large IT projects in Calif.
Written by Jeff Smith
California is continuing to look for ways to improve the procurement of large information technology projects. Last August, the Department of General Services (DGS) held a panel with senior officials from the Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and the state’s Consumer ... (3605 more chars)

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HP Deal Latest in Chain Reaction to Cisco Move
Written by Mel Duvall
The problem when you start a giant ball rolling, is that you never know exactly where it will stop and how many things it will roll over in the process. That, more-or-less is what happened when networking giant Cisco Systems decided earlier this year that it would enter the computer server market. ... (2403 more chars)

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Why Oracle Won't Ditch Sun
Written by Tom Hoffman
After the European Commission filed a formal objection to Oracle ’s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems , both Oracle and the U.S. Department of Justice defended the competitive aspects of the deal. The EC’s ‘statement of objections’ isn’t really ... (2585 more chars)

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Trip to Ukraine
Written by Yuri Lits
I'm back from the trip to Ukraine. Country is extremely damaged be financial crisys. Economy proped on 50%... But IT is still survive.

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Former Employees a Growing IT Threat: Survey
Written by Mel Duvall
A growing number of disgruntled former employees and a lack of adequate funding for IT security budgets are creating a case of double-trouble for corporations around the globe, a survey from Ernst & Young has found. In its 12th annual Information Security Survey, Ernst & Young found that co... (2306 more chars)

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Trading Up: SEC CIO Has His Sites Set High
Written by laton mccartney
In recent years the Securities and Exchange Commission has fallen far short in its mission of protecting Joe and Jane shareholder from the shady dealings that are all too common on Wall Street. It’s not just that the SEC failed to nail Bernard Madoff. It was clueless in overseeing an... (3082 more chars)

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Why Enterprise Software is Failing
Written by Tom Hoffman
Fortune 2000 companies spend millions of dollars each year to license third-party ERP and other enterprise software that’s poorly adopted by the end users it’s targeted for. I’m not revealing something that hasn’t already been known for years, but there’s still somet... (2819 more chars)

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JDA to Acquire i2: Again
Written by Mel Duvall
JDA Software group has announced it has signed a merger agreement to purchase supply chain software specialist i2 Technologies for $396 million. Now, if this all sounds a bit familiar, that’s because it is. It was 15 months ago, in August of 2008, when JDA announced it was buying i2 f... (2416 more chars)

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Need of EA
Written by Mridul K Singh
What is EA? Do we really need to answer this. Gartner, Forrester, IBM, Microsoft and almost every consultant firm has their own definition of EA. Let’s not put too much of interest needle into it but try to sew the picture instead. W hy do we need EA? For a moment let us assume the... (3909 more chars)

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Microsoft Cuts Cloud Pricing
Written by Tom Hoffman
Microsoft made a couple of aggressive moves this week that are aimed at wresting a greater share of the cloud computing market. On Nov. 2, Microsoft cut the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which consists of hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Live Meeting and... (2103 more chars)

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Upcoming open-source analytics offering on display in NYC
Written by Jeff Smith
The founders and co-lead of Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) are looking ahead when it comes to the next generation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), open-source BI software. In an event held Tuesday in New York City, San Mateo-based Actuate offered partners and analysts a peak at th... (4527 more chars)

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What if SOA is a mistake?
Written by Robert Lewis
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Russian Snag Further Complicates Oracle-Sun Deal
Written by Tom Hoffman
The latest obstacle in Oracle ’s $7.4 billion bumpy path to acquire Sun Microsystems involves gaining antitrust clearance in Russia. Oracle, which is awaiting clearance from the European Commission to close its long-delayed proposal to acquire Sun, was forced to withdraw an ap... (2124 more chars)

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Stimulus jobs report, new functionality added to Recovery.gov
Written by Jeff Smith
How many jobs does $36.6 billion buy? That was the question many were hoping to answer as the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board released reports detailing how and where stimulus dollars were being spent. According to data released on Friday, the answer is roughly 640,000, wi... (3587 more chars)

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What is EQ and Why Do You Care?
Written by Margaret Meloni
EQ is the acronym for Emotional Intelligence. So not only do you and I have an IQ (Intelligence Quotient), we also have emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is not about traditional intelligence. It is about our ability to handle ourselves and others. It is all about our ability to ge... (2307 more chars)

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King Co., Wash. renovates housing authority computer system
Written by Jeff Smith
The King County, Washington Housing Authority (KCHA) has tapped Agresso to manage ongoing changes for their new enterprise resource planning suite, the company announced yesterday. Under the terms of the deal, Agresso will assist the KCHA in their Moving-To-Work (MTW) program as federal complia... (2888 more chars)

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Missouri revenue Dpt. to find tax delinquents
Written by Arka Mukherjee
In late 2003, the Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR) decided to modernize their tax collections and department workflow processes. They knew there was a significant amount of taxpayers who were not filing or filing incorrectly, but due to the disparate nature of their data and tax systems the... (3107 more chars)
Managing the Recovery Act’s transparency expectations
Written by Jeff Smith
The metaphor that watching a bill be made in Congress is like watching a butcher make sausage may have a rival in stimulus funds reporting. According to one industry expert, high expectations and early setbacks in the Recovery Act reporting process have caused state and local recipients to worr... (5120 more chars)

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Pinching pennies through a streamlined procurement process
Written by Jeff Smith
As state and local government budgets across the country further tighten their already tight belts, there exists a growing need to look at how government operates on a line-item level. Now, more than ever, it is important that public sector institutions look at how they buy the everyday ... (3619 more chars)

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Driving priorities: IT Governance gains speed with state and local clients
Written by Jeff Smith
If you’re a public sector CIO, knowing how your IT priorities line up with your budget is a necessity. And in the post-Recovery Act world, having access to accurate spending data is more than just a smart business decision – it’s the law. Industry observers and major so... (4227 more chars)

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Offer gives public sector free software for six months
Written by Arka Mukherjee
A developer of on-demand e-procurement solutions has invited federal, state and local government agencies to use their spend management software free for six months. San Mateo-based Coupa Software, Inc. announced earlier this month they were extending a 30-day free trial period to six mo... (3110 more chars)
Lockheed develops open source, social media framework
Written by Jeff Smith
Lockheed Martin has announced the release of a proprietary social media tool, using an open source software license. The platform is one of a growing number of offerings meant to tap the power of collaboration between employees, while creating a secure environment to share content using blogs a... (3325 more chars)

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Social Networking Dinosaur Syndrome
Written by Robert Lewis
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U.S. Economy Fights Back: Where is IT?
Written by Mel Duvall
The U.S. economy roared back to life in the third quarter, with the nation’s gross domestic product rising 3.5% on an annual rate through the July-to-September period. This is certainly good news, but already skeptics have been raising questions about whether the possible end to the recession... (2311 more chars)

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Gartner to CIOs: Embrace Social Media
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Has someone been putting strange substances in the drinking water at Gartner’s Greenwich, CT. headquarters? Some of their analysts are beginning to sound like New Age gurus on a mission to bring peace, love and harmony to the corporate world. Consider these words of wisdom recently im... (2270 more chars)

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New York Database Takes Aim at Healthcare Costs
Written by Mel Duvall
Ouch. This one has got to hurt the nation’s major healthcare insurers. The State of New York announced plans this week to build a new, independent database that will provide information for reimbursement fees owed to consumers for out-of-network healthcare costs. Here’s the kick... (2313 more chars)

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Lessons from Offshore
Written by Tom Hoffman
While attending the annual conference for the Fairfield (CT) and Westchester (NY) chapter of the Society for Information Management in Stamford, CT yesterday, I had a chance to talk to a group of about a half-dozen CIOs and IT directors about their experiences with application development proje... (3060 more chars)

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Sites Hit by Fake Advertising Scares
Written by Mel Duvall
In what appears to be an alarming trend, several more sites have been tricked by cybercriminals into running their advertisements for fake anti-virus software. It’s difficult to know how often perpetrators of such “scareware” tactics have been able to get their ads on site... (2025 more chars)

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Subject-oriented business process modeling
Written by Dmitry Kozhevnikov
Last week I've participated in a conference dedicated to subject-oriented business process management (mainly - modeling) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Unless it was a BPM event, it was properly organized and orchestrated. So we really considered the subject. The idea is to give a participant of the BP ... (500 more chars)

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Citizen Developers Growing Force in Business Apps
Written by Mel Duvall
Where will the next great business application come from – SAP, Oracle, Microsoft? If research firm Gartner is correct, it could very well come from a growing legion of so-called citizen developers. In fact, Gartner has gone so far as to predict that by 2014 as much as 25% of new busi... (2686 more chars)

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Study: Open Source Code Quality Keeps Improving
Written by Tom Hoffman
I’m usually a bit leery about placing too much weight on research studies that are conducted or paid for by vendors. After all, they’re not likely to report any findings which reflect poorly on them or their area of focus, right? But a recent study from Coverity on the in... (2354 more chars)

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IT's hidden face
Written by Claude Roeltgen
I am happy to announce the publication of my new book "IT's hidden face". Please find below more information about it (as published on my webpage): IT’s hidden face an excerpt from the new book Everyth... (15335 more chars)

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Where Social Media Generation Leads, Companies Must Follow
Written by Mel Duvall
Social media has arrived. Get over it and get on with it. That at least seemed to be the message futurist Don Tapscott held out to a gathering of technology executives this week. And he's not alone, in what seems to be a growing acceptance of the use of new social media forms in the workplace... (2300 more chars)

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Issue Management: What the methodologies leave out
Written by Robert Lewis
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Turning Business Intelligence into a Blockbuster
Written by Mel Duvall
Thomas Tileston is in the business of making Hollywood blockbusters. He doesn’t do it from in front of or behind the cameras, however. He does it by using business intelligence software to predict the right number of DVDs that need to be manufactured and shipped to retailers around the globe.... (2871 more chars)

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Achievement Diary from RS World
Written by aionsale
For those players who like to explore what’s available in a specific area, that is time for Achievement Diary from rs world. It's the turn of Ardougne to come under the all-seeing-eye of the diary runescape money taskmasters. From the Legends' Guild to Castle Wars, and from the Combat Tr... (216 more chars)

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Oracle Gets Dinged by Software Groups on MySQL Bid
Written by Tom Hoffman
Three software groups which support Open Source have sent a letter to the European Union commissioner who is investigating Oracle’s $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems, imploring her not to permit Oracle to acquire MySQL due to anticompetitive reasons. The letter, dated Oct. 19... (2650 more chars)
Seven Principles for Securing the Enterprise
Written by laton mccartney
At a conference in London earlier this week, Art Coviello, the keynote speaker and president of RSA, the security division of EMC, all but brought the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse out with him on stage. Now, it's not uncommon for IT security types to project doom and gloom as an inc... (3434 more chars)
Enterprise IT Service management solutions
Written by Sue Ben
I amcurrently looking at some enterprise service management solutions for my organization ,BNC Remedy and CAUnicenter. Whatare your thoughts on thesesolutions, pros and cons?

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Crossing The Chasm Part 1: Delivering Strategic Value
Written by Wayne Eckerson
TDWI’s Maturity Model is represented by a bell curve spanning five stages of maturity. The curve, which represents the percentage of companies at each stage, is broken in two spots. The first is the Gulf and the second is the Chasm. (See figure 1.) The Gulf and Chasm represe... (4140 more chars)

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When to Be Aggressive
Written by Margaret Meloni
Is an aggressive communication style always bad? Sometimes it appears that much of the information about aggressive styles or dominant personalities is presented using fairly negative words. Or is it that I interpret these words as negative? Here is a list, what do you think? •Dom... (2226 more chars)

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Helping Your Partners Help Themselves
Written by Mel Duvall
There are a number of great examples of companies using business intelligence and analytics to gain a competitive edge in their respective fields or markets. But what about putting BI to work to help your business partners use less of your products or services? That seems to be the unlikely a... (2182 more chars)

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Letter to Larry: Don't Disregard Services
Written by Tom Hoffman
Larry: I’ve been reading about comments you made to analysts and press at an Oct. 15 briefing about how Oracle isn’t planning on acquiring any services companies in the near term as it focuses its attention on growing its software revenues and the soon-to-be-added hardware and s... (2719 more chars)
Majority of Today’s PCs Can Run Windows 7: Study
Written by Mel Duvall
If you’ve ever attempted to upgrade your computer from an older version of Windows to a newer version, chances are you’ve sworn to never do it again. One of my previous attempts was so disastrous that I ended up having to purchase a new PC just so I could continue working. That&... (2141 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Network Science- Next Management Paradigm
Written by David Hunter Tow
Network science will be a critical enabler of advanced enterprise management in the 21st century. Major advances are already being made in applying the principles of network science to social, technological and business systems and it will be vital for the fut... (5684 more chars)

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New Wi-Fi Spec Opens Exciting Possibilities
Written by Mel Duvall
It may be possible in the not-too-distant future for Wi-Fi enabled devices to communicate wirelessly with one another without the need of a hot spot. The Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organization which aims to steer the world towards the adoption of a single standard for high-speed wireless network... (1949 more chars)

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Making Peace with Spreadsheet "Jockeys"
Written by Wayne Eckerson
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Software Guru Introduces SaaS Bill Of Rights
Written by Michael Hickins
Enterprise software guru Ray Wang, who crafted the enterprise software buyer's Bill of Rights during his days at Forrester Research, is now trying to do the same thing for corporate buyers of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Wang argued for the need for such an IT buyer's bill of rights on h... (1123 more chars)

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In Search of SAP Skills
Written by Tom Hoffman
Ispeak often with recruiters, headhunters, CIOs and corporate hiring managers about the types of IT/business skills that are in top demand across different regions and industries. For at least the past 18 months, ‘ SAP ’ has been the top response echoed by hiring managers. Demand for... (2492 more chars)

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Dissertation
Written by Yuri Lits
I have chosen subject for my MBA dissertation work. Project Efficiency and Effectiveness: The IT Project Management. I hope, it will be interesting for many people. U will share it in my blog.

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Don't Bank on Windows
Written by Mel Duvall
There have been a number of high-profile cases recently of cyber criminals breaking into the bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses and stealing what amounts to million of dollars. The most damaging part of this increase in criminal activity is the fact that in many cases the funds are not... (3024 more chars)

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Surviving the Information Tsunami
Written by laton mccartney
A recent story in the New York Times Business Day section focuses on the problems American university students are having siftingthrough and analyzing the overwhelming amount of data that's stored on huge databases. In the past, the article says, students have used relatively modest com... (3850 more chars)
Threat management - the political plan
Written by Robert Lewis
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Behind Capgemini's ERP+ Scheme for SAP and Microsoft
Written by Tom Hoffman
On Oct. 9, Capgemini and Microsoft jointly announced a new initiative called ERP+ that’s aimed at helping customers to better integrate Microsoft and SAP software. The multimillion euro program is aimed at improving the interoperability of SAP’s ERP and NetWeaver middleware softw... (1225 more chars)
Comcast Launches Service for Infected PCs
Written by Mel Duvall
That urgent notice you receive from your cable company may not be related to an overdue bill. Cable giant Comcast announced this week that it has rolled out a new service initially in the Denver market which can detect if a customer’s PC has been infected by malware. If it does detect... (1857 more chars)

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Lack-of-analysis paralysis
Written by Robert Lewis
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Costly Lesson in Canadian E-Health Record Initiative
Written by Mel Duvall
As the Obama administration presses ahead with plans to implement electronic medical record systems in the nation’s hospitals and physician practices, it would be wise to take note of a costly tale from north of the border. The Canadian province of Ontario was embarrassed this week wh... (2540 more chars)

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Where are the DBAs?
Written by Michael S. Menefee
What I really want to know is this: Where are the Database Admins (DBAs) these days? I cant tell you how many times in the past 18 months that I’ve found real enterprises running vulnerable databases with default passwords, weak passwords and no real permissions management. I... (1987 more chars)

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Google’s Android to Take Over the World - Almost
Written by Mel Duvall
It may only be installed on 2% of mobile devices today, but by 2012 research firm Gartner believes Google’s Android mobile operating system could leap into second place globally. In fact, Gartner believes Android will enjoy such a surge in popularity that it will capture 14% of the global sma... (2384 more chars)

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The Battle for Enterprise Control
Written by Tom Hoffman
The wires and blogosphere have been buzzing since The Wall St. Journal reported on Oct. 5 that executives at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. are considering putting the maker of data center networking equipment up for sale. Since the article was published, other media outlets and pundit... (2629 more chars)

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Whistle, But Don’t Tweet, While You Work
Written by Mel Duvall
Employees who like to share the latest news with their Facebook friends or tweet their followers while at work, run the risk of losing their job, a survey suggests. Technology recruiting firm Robert Half interviewed 1,400 chief information officers and leading technology executives to get t... (2368 more chars)

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Flog or Blog? Bloggers Must Now Disclose Freebies
Written by Mel Duvall
The Federal Trade Commission took steps this week to rein-in bloggers who flog products or accept payments from advertisers for positive reviews by issuing new guidelines that come with fines of up to $11,000. The revised Guides take aim at what has become a disturbing practice on the Inter... (3182 more chars)

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Why IBM's New e-mail Service is Good for the Cloud
Written by Tom Hoffman
IBM today announced a new low-cost hosted Lotus Notes e-mail service that’s aimed squarely at Google’s browser-based Gmail offering. And while that’s bad news for Google, it’s good news for cloud computing. IBM’s LotusLive iNotes, which works with Lotus ... (2170 more chars)
Two Rudes Don’t Make a Right
Written by Margaret Meloni
When you were a child, did a parent or a teacher every say to you “Two wrongs don’t make a right”? I was listening to a teleseminar on business etiquette and I heard a variation of that saying that I really liked: “Two rudes don’t make a right.” I... (2034 more chars)

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Software Will Help Grocery Giant Reduce Footprint
Written by Mel Duvall
As part of an ambitious plan to halve its carbon emissions, British grocery giant Tesco has announced that it has deployed software from CA to automate and manage its efforts. The company says it has implemented CA’s ecoSoftware to help track its carbon emissions and to develop strategies to ... (2193 more chars)

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Why Patent Reform Must Occur
Written by Tom Hoffman
On Sept. 29, a U.S. District Court judge in Providence, R.I. overturned a $388 million jury verdict which claimed that Microsoft had infringed a patent held by anti-piracy software company Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. In 2003, Uniloc USA sued Microsoft in federal court in Rhode Island, cla... (2154 more chars)
New Dell Laptop Features Inductive Charging: Huh?
Written by Mel Duvall
Dell announced a new addition to its Latitude Z business laptop lineup, a new machine that among other things features a wireless charging capability. First, let’s get the humdrum business out of the way. The new device is being billed by Dell as the world’s thinnest, lightest 1... (2029 more chars)

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The paths you didn't take
Written by Robert Lewis
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Xerox Buys ACS: So Who’s Next?
Written by Mel Duvall
Xerox joined the growing list of hardware manufacturers deciding to get into the IT services business, when it agreed to scoop up Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) Monday in a $6.4 billion cash and stock deal. The buy immediately makes Xerox a major player in the IT services sector and provides it... (2008 more chars)

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Five Steps to Self Service Nirvana
Written by Wayne Eckerson
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Taking a Sledgehammer to Fixed IT Costs
Written by Tom Hoffman
One of the biggest burdens faced by CIOs is overhead. Plenty of CIOs talk about their desire to run an agile IT operation that can react quickly to changing business needs. Problem is, many IT leaders have their feet stuck in the cement otherwise known as fixed IT costs or the day-to-day co... (2315 more chars)
The Myth about IT Risk Assessment
Written by sumitro sarkar
RISK is by far another misused term after ROI in IT. It is often used to describe "the probability of the unknown" - maybe I am giving too much credit to the ones who use it! It is also used to make IT decisions most ambiguous. La... (5122 more chars)

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HP Gives Upbeat, But Conservative Outlook
Written by Mel Duvall
HP Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd stood before a group of financial analysts this week and gave an upbeat, but somewhat muddied look at the company’s fortunes for the year ahead. Hurd touted the company’s portfolio of products and its broad IT services reach, thanks to its ac... (1860 more chars)

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Bank Frauds Putting Businesses on Edge
Written by Mel Duvall
Over the past several weeks a number of disturbing reports have surfaced concerning an increase in electronic bank fraud against businesses. One warning from a high profile industry group went so far as to urge businesses to set up a stand alone computer for business banking – one that could ... (3563 more chars)

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Why CIOs Know the Way
Written by laton mccartney
We’ve been through this before, a number of times. Some new technology comes thundering over the horizon, and CIOs understandably ask themselves: “What does it mean for me and my job?” Go back to PCs. For years IT managers were guardians of huge mainframes that had to be k... (4585 more chars)
Humpty Dumpty and the CEO
Written by Wayne Eckerson
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HP Completes EDS Integration with Name Change
Written by Mel Duvall
HP made a huge bet when it plunked down nearly $14 billion a year ago to acquire Electronic Data Systems. But now, with the economy struggling to get back on its feet, it looks like the gamble turned out to be a shrewd move. HP announced today that it is officially renaming EDS to HP Enterp... (2016 more chars)

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Fine-Tuning the ERP Play List
Written by Tom Hoffman
One of the upsides of a weak economy is that it forces vendors to identify new revenue (re: profitable) opportunities, which translates into additional product options for buyers. This includes efforts by software heavyweights such as IBM , SAP , Oracle and Microsoft to scour the market for... (2336 more chars)

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Perot Buy Gives Dell Edge on Health IT Dollars
Written by Mel Duvall
With its deal to acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 billion, Dell puts itself on a more even footing to compete with HP and IBM for projects that involve IT services. But rather than becoming just another me-too player in the IT services field, Dell may be gaining itself a bit of an edge in a red-hot m... (2193 more chars)

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May the best panacea win
Written by Robert Lewis
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I Already Know That!
Written by Margaret Meloni
“I already know that.” Now there is a phrase that does not encourage conversation. In fact if someone approaches you to speak with you and you hit them with an “I already know that”; you might as well say “Go away” or “I don’t care what you think.R... (1778 more chars)

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Behind Oracle's 1Q Numbers
Written by Tom Hoffman
For many companies, a 4% rise in quarterly net income would be encouraging news in the midst of a global recession. But not at Oracle . The main reason Wall St. analysts were disappointed by Oracle’s first quarter earnings report is that the company saw new licensing revenues ... (3003 more chars)

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From Data Warehousing to Performance Management
Written by Wayne Eckerson
Next year marks the 15 th anniversary of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), an association of data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) professionals that has grown nearly as fast as the industry it serves, which now tops $9 billion according to Forrester Research. In 1995,... (4921 more chars)

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Cognos Two Years Later
Written by Wayne Eckerson
IBM Cognos laid out a roadmap for the future and provided a deep dive into the elements of its next major release (due Q2, 2010) in its fourth annual Industry Analyst Summit in Ottawa this week. Due to confidentiality agreements, there is not much I can discuss publicly about future r... (2986 more chars)

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Google Makes Puzzling Acquisition
Written by Mel Duvall
Have you ever tried to sign into a Web site or sign up for an online service and been asked to retype some form of distorted text? Like millions of other Web users, you have just completed a very simple puzzle involving a CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans... (2259 more chars)

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Escaping Vendor Lock-In
Written by Tom Hoffman
Fed up with spiraling enterprise software licensing fees and maintenance costs ? It could be quite some time before you see any relief, depending on the software and IT services strategy that your organization is willing and able to take. Last week, BusinessWeek published an... (2958 more chars)

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Feds Launch Cloud Computing Storefront
Written by Mel Duvall
The federal government has launched a new online storefront for agencies to browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, clearing the way for wider adoption of cloud services. In an announcement Tuesday, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, said the Apps.gov Web site will help lower... (2085 more chars)

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New York Times Falls Prey to Rogue Anti-Virus Scam
Written by Mel Duvall
We all know the Internet is a dangerous place. It’s littered with ads for software to make your PC run faster, speed Internet downloads, screensavers with adorable pictures of kittens or puppies, and offers for free anti-virus protection. Unless the source is trusted, most people know to avoi... (2869 more chars)

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What Oracle's WSJ Ad Really Means
Written by Tom Hoffman
Talk about advertising traction. After Oracle ran an ad in some editions of the Sept. 10 The Wall St. Journal, the technology media and bloggers have been buzzing about what’s contained in the six-sentence annnouncement and what isn’t. ... (2918 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Social Computing
Written by David Hunter Tow
Social computing is the crucial next step following the rise of personal computing in the evolutionary computing stakes. The term Social Computing has many connotations. It has come into prominence over the past few years due to the growth of dozens of hugely successful so... (4507 more chars)

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Microsoft Tries to Make Nice With Open Source
Written by Mel Duvall
So Microsoft has set up a nonprofit organization to foster increased communication and collaboration between open-source communities and software companies. The software giant announced this week that it has contributed $1 million to form the CodePlex Foundation, which aims to smooth things over be... (2470 more chars)
Health Insurer Taps Social Media
Written by Mel Duvall
Got a question about how to get rid of that roll of fat, or what foods are best to maintain a sharp mind? Why not fire off a tweet to your healthcare provider. Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about how corporations are experimenting with various forms of social media to reach out to c... (2091 more chars)

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IT: Spport or Growth
Written by Mridul K Singh
Support and Growth can be mapped to Present and Future. For long we have lived in the myth that IT is a support function. Anything not comprising core business is always looked upon as a support. In this article my aim is to confront this myth. Will Give direction, How to make IT a Profit center... (33 more chars)

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Apple Faithful Relieved at Jobs Return
Written by Mel Duvall
The Apple faithful gave Steve Jobs a heartfelt welcome back to center stage Wednesday, five months after the iconic chief executive received a life-saving liver transplant. Looking gaunt but well in a loose fitting pair of jeans and his trademark mock turtleneck long sleeve shirt, Jobs took... (2068 more chars)

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Avoiding the Midmarket Squeeze
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s been a lot of buzz over the past few months regarding how enterprise software vendors such as Oracle , SAP and IBM are directing more of their sales and marketingmuscle at midsized companies. It’s hardly surprising, given how other technology vendors similarly pushed the... (2494 more chars)

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Why the EU Should Endorse Oracle/Sun
Written by Tom Hoffman
Last week, the European Union’s antitrust arm announced that it intends to investigate Oracle ’s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems , citing anti-competitive concerns over the software giant’s potential absorption of Sun’s MySQL open source database. A... (2474 more chars)

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7 Things You Need to Know About Development Project Estimations
Written by mtrots
Whether you are a project manager planning for a smooth implementation of a plan or a project sponsor on whose decisions a project depends, you cannot escape from the fact that project estimation is essential to its success. In the first place, there are three basic requirements that a project m... (4584 more chars)

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IT Project Management
Written by Yuri Lits
A recent Gartner study found that although most companies aren't planning to hire IT workers any time soon, those who are find it difficult to attract talent in a few key areas -- enterprise architecture, database administration, ERP programming and analysis, project management , Internet a... (679 more chars)

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Visit a Theme Park, Learn about Life
Written by Margaret Meloni
Right now in this corner of the world, students have gone back to school. And a popular first week of school assignment is to write an essay on your summer vacation. Popular titles include ‘What I did on my Summer Vacation’ or ‘What I Learned on Summer Vacation’. In keep... (1415 more chars)

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GEM Island 3D website. Status Development on Sep 6th 2009
Written by Augusto
Dear colleagues, My company, GEM Lifestyle, is building a 3D Virtual World and Social Networking website called GEM Island ( http://augustoyingguo.gemisland.com ). Watch this video http://is.gd/2gM9W I would like to quickly talk you about my company, and hopefully convince you of registe... (2834 more chars)

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What Can We Learn From the U.K. About EHR?
Written by laton mccartney
Memo to President Obama: Mr. President, as your administration pursues its objective to achieve full digital health records by 2014 at an estimated cost of $10 billion a year, you might want to look closely at what other countries have experienced in pursuing similar goals. Beginni... (3304 more chars)
Corporations Capitalizing on Web 2.0
Written by Mel Duvall
CIOs that have pushed for the early and enthusiastic adoption of Web 2.0 technologies by their organizations, have been rewarded for their vision, a survey by McKinsey & Co. has concluded. According to the consulting firm, those companies that can be categorized as heavy users of Web 2.0 are derivi... (2504 more chars)

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Phone meetings
Written by Yuri Lits
I had meeting with about 10 people today. It is regular meeting and we have this number of participants every time. So what could I say... Only about 5-6 people could really discuss topic, other participants are just listaned. But during "live" meetings, when all participants are in one room, it is... (98 more chars)

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Salesforce Aims to Get Bigger by Thinking Smaller
Written by Mel Duvall
While enterprise software giants SAP and Oracle struggle to figure out a way to compete against Salesforce.com for mid-sized businesses, the software-as-a-service pioneer is moving ahead on an entirely new front. The company announced this week that is introducing a new contact manager product for ... (1600 more chars)

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Returned from vacation
Written by Yuri Lits
I am back again! :) I have a lot of energy to finish Office upgrade project! I had vacation in Manchester (England) to see soccer game MU vs. Arsenal. Now I have some ideas about teams in business and soccer, which I will publush here soon.

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IBM Wins Server Share in Ugly Market
Written by Mel Duvall
The worldwide server market continued to decline in the second quarter of 2009 research firm IDC reported Tuesday. It was the fourth consecutive quarter of revenue declines and the lowest quarterly server revenue total since IDC began tracking the server market on a quarterly basis. There w... (2449 more chars)

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Why `Tech Commons' are Finally Viable
Written by Tom Hoffman
I’ve been doing a lot of research and reporting lately on how a growing number of CIOs are actively exploring the possibility of sharing software, infrastructure and IT services with their peers as another path to cost savings and efficiency gains. While the notion of inter-enterprise share... (2963 more chars)

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Long Delayed Flight: Dreamliner Chief Retires
Written by Mel Duvall
Another chapter closed on Boeing’s much-vaunted and problem-plagued 787 Dreamliner program this week with news that Scott Carson would retire. Carson, 63, has led Boeing’s commercial division and has been the chief point-man on the Dreamliner program since 2006. The news does no... (2215 more chars)

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Low-Hanging Fruit for Multinationals: Vendor Consolidation
Written by Tom Hoffman
BP made headlines last week when the energy giant awarded $2.5 billion in application development and maintenance contracts to IBM, Accenture and three Indian outsourcers. The deal is expected to help BP save roughly $500 million by consolidating from 40 outsourcing partners to five, includi... (2701 more chars)
Cloudy disruption
Written by Robert Lewis
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What strategy to align with
Written by Paul Matthew Alexander
A specific challenge that seems to face all IT practitionersis that of aligning your ICT activities with your corporate strategies.In particular this even more of a headache whenyou are not in an industry wherethe application of ICT and related innovation is directly related to the organisation... (885 more chars)

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Electronic Discovery in 2008
Written by Daniel Garrie
Electronic Discovery in2008 January is always a time for reflecting back on the previous year, but picking the judicial top cases for electronic discovery is a complex and perhaps insurmountable task. My key picks for 2008 are just a small sampli... (4542 more chars)

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Facebook Agrees to Privacy Changes
Written by Mel Duvall
It seems Facebook and the Canadian Privacy Commission have come to an understanding. On one side, Facebook has agreed to limit the amount of personal information third-party software developers can collect from members. And on the other side, the privacy commission appears to be willing to wait for... (3327 more chars)

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No Such Thing as a Safe Place to Browse
Written by Mel Duvall
A report issued by IBM Wednesday warns there is an “unprecedented state of Web insecurity” on the Internet as cybercriminals and hackers take advantage of new exploits to gain data and access to personal information. The X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, found that th... (2411 more chars)

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Oracle's Bid for Sun Hinges on EC
Written by Tom Hoffman
After the U.S. Department of Justice approved Oracle ’s plans to acquire Sun Microsystems on Aug. 20, the only obstacle standing in the way of the transaction is the consent of the European Commission . But it’s far from a done deal. Reports indicate that the antitrust gro... (2305 more chars)
Yahoo Gets Serious About Being Social
Written by Mel Duvall
Yahoo launched a major upgrade to its popular email service this week, in an effort, as it says, to be at the center of people’s online lives. The funny thing is, you could be mistaken for thinking you had logged onto your Facebook account rather than Yahoo Mail. The upgrade includes ... (1916 more chars)

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Microsoft Brings Rich Web Apps to Low-Tech Phones
Written by Mel Duvall
While Apple and Research in Motion battle to see who can launch the most feature-rich smartphone, Microsoft is moving forward with an initiative aimed at the opposite end of the spectrum. The software giant announced Monday the launch of OneApp, new software that enables standard cellphones... (2320 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Natural System Computing
Written by David Hunter Tow
Natural system computing is the field of research that investigates and applies computational techniques modelled on the information processing and self-organising operations of nature and organic systems. The new paradigm of Systems Biology seeks to map the networks and information flows t... (5612 more chars)
CPR for EMR
Written by Tom Hoffman
Vice President Joe Biden today announced that $1.2 billion in federal stimulus money will be set aside to help hospitals implement electronic medical records (EMR) systems . The program is expected to award twenty grants to hospitals and clinics in the first quarter of 2010, with... (3541 more chars)

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Salesforce Turns In Another Winning Quarter
Written by Mel Duvall
Saleforces.com continues to defy the economic downturn, racking up another quarter which saw the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor increase sales by 20% on a year-over-year basis. The San Francisco company reported that sales for the quarter ended July 31 came in at $316.1 million, up 20%... (2053 more chars)

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Don't Go Down When Your Vendor Tanks
Written by laton mccartney
Even in the best of times, technology services and solutions companiescan beforced to shut down, sometimes leaving their clients in a lurch. This year, in the space of several months, technology giant Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection, as did BearingPoint, once one of the leading tec... (3102 more chars)
Corporate Policies, Procedures and Compliance
Written by Arka Mukherjee
If you believe what Delloite is saying in their ‘ The 2009 Shift Index ’ then harnessing the flow of knowledge and information is the primary determinant of achieving and sustaining long-term success. A large factor in that equation is the ability to attract and retain the smart... (5783 more chars)
Blogosphere bites back at Whole Foods CEO
Written by Matthew Quinn
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey loves him some blogging. He has used it to tout his company’s virtues and defend his business tactics. But following an op-ed he wrote on health-care reform that appeared in traditional media outlet the Wall Street Journal last week, he struck a nerve with... (1530 more chars)

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Employers Know What You're Saying on Facebook
Written by Mel Duvall
Here’s a factoid that will cause you to shudder if you’re the type of person who likes to vent their frustrations in social networking forums. According to a survey released today by CareerBuilder, some 45% of employers are now perusing social networking sites to research job candidates... (2930 more chars)

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Why Vendors Should Embrace Open Source
Written by Tom Hoffman
The last blog I posted focused on continuing complaints by customers (and pundits) about how packaged business software is so poorly designed. Even when third-party software has been customized, it rarely meets all customer needs. I went on to press the case for open source software (OSS) as ... (2235 more chars)

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Authorities Fooled By Heartland Hacker
Written by Mel Duvall
By now most people will have read the stories about the arrest of the Heartland Payments Systems hacker. Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami was arrested for being the alleged ringleader behind a strong of cybercrimes which resulted in the theft of some 130 million credit and debit card numbers. ... (2743 more chars)

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What’s All the Huffing-ton About?
Written by Mel Duvall
The Huffington Post, the unabashedly liberal Web site which offers a combination of news and advocacy journalism, has launched an initiative with social networking venture Facebook. In editorials on its home page Monday, the Post touted the partnership as a collaboration that would “t... (2228 more chars)

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A modest proposal
Written by Robert Lewis
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The Open Source Alternative
Written by Tom Hoffman
I’ve been seeing a lot more articles lately about how packaged business software is so poorly designed. It’s an age-old complaint, to be sure, but it got me to thinking about the ramifications and ripple effect of the shortcomings of third-party software. Some organizatio... (2077 more chars)

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Federal CIO Battling More than Technology
Written by Mel Duvall
It seems that from the day Vivek Kundra was named to thepost of Federal Chief Information Officer, he has had to keep one eye looking over his shoulder for attacks. As if the job of being the first Federal CIO isn’t tough enough, Kundra has had to be on guard against attacks that go well bey... (2251 more chars)

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Cisco Gets Social With Music Industry
Written by Mel Duvall
Cisco has been making a lot of noise lately about expanding beyond its traditional networking equipment base into other products and services. Most notably, it has begun selling servers which puts it in direct competition with traditional partners like IBM and HP. But could Cisco also be looking to... (2230 more chars)

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20 Strangest Employee Complaints
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s the middle of summer and time to take a break from all the technology wheeling and dealing. CareerBuilder released a survey today designed to “bring a little levity” to the midst of a very stressful working environment. The national job site surveyed 2,600 hiring mana... (2153 more chars)

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VMware's 'Spring'-board to Platform-as-a-Service Growth
Written by Tom Hoffman
VMware struck an interesting deal on Monday when it announced plans to acquire enterprise application and Java developer SpringSource for $362 million in cash and equity. SpringSource, which is privately held, has already approved the deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter, accor... (2152 more chars)
Lost and found
Written by Robert Lewis
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IT Jobs In Medical Simulation
Written by Stefanie Lynn Schumann
My colleague Mike Bryan, Hudson IT recruiter, just blogged on IT jobs in the medical simulation industry. You can check it out – www.ITHireWire.com.

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HSBC Leverages Social Media in 'Soapbox’ Campaign
Written by Mel Duvall
With the explosion of social media many companies are attempting to figure out how to take advantage of the desire by people to chat, complain, gossip and opine online. The challenge has been in figuring out a way to allow the free flow of conversation while at the same time attaching value to a br... (2342 more chars)

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Planning for the non-planned items
Written by Patrick Turner
Budgeting is going to be tight for the next year or so. Who am I kidding, budgeting is aways tight, thats why its a budget.We as top level management have to keep things moving within our company andneed to set some money aside for emergency itemsthat come up that we didn't think of while we w... (202 more chars)

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Meckler Sells Internet.com for $18 million
Written by Mel Duvall
At times it seems Internet entrepreneur Alan Meckler has always been able to stay one step ahead of the game. Back in 1998 when the world was awash with money looking to invest in Internet plays, Meckler was able to sell his Mecklermedia Corp., a collection of technology trade publications,... (2203 more chars)

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Enterprise Security: Who Should Be in Charge?
Written by laton mccartney
You’ve probably noticed that IT security, risk management, governance and compliance have begun to converge recently, or at least overlap more then in the past. The reasons for this are varied, and probably go back to the Sarbanes-Oxley push. By necessity this needed to be a team eff... (4050 more chars)
Why an SAP/Tibco Deal Makes Sense
Written by Tom Hoffman
According to reports which surfaced over the weekend, SAP is in ‘very advanced talks’ with Tibco about a possible acquisition. SAP officials haven’t commented on the report but an SAP/Tibco deal would make a lot of sense for SAP for several reasons. Although SAP... (2269 more chars)

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What Should Supervisors Do To Sustain Pasison at Workplace?
Written by Rajesh Kumar
The Human Machine, like every other earthly creation, requires maintenance. Passion cannot be created when none exists. However, when and if you ever stumble upon passion in one of your employees, it might augur well to remember a few thumb rules: Passion... (1227 more chars)

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Is Business Intelligence Outsmarting Economy?
Written by Mel Duvall
As the results continue to flow in from reporting season, one area that was expected to hold up fairly well in the recession was the business intelligence sector. After all, what better way for companies to look for ways to trim costs or generate new revenues than by figuring out how to better use ... (2451 more chars)

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Cisco’s new management structure: Building a slower mousetrap?
Written by Matthew Quinn
I love a good committee as much as the next guy. But Cisco currently boasts nearly 60 internal committees to help steer its strategy, according to a Wall Street Journal article on the tech giant’s new management structure. Mull that over. And while you could call such groupthink a more d... (2200 more chars)

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Why SAP is in No Hurry to Join SaaS Race
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s been almost two years since SAP first announced its Business ByDesign initiative and by most accounts it has either been a dud, or a non-starter. When the company first announced the service, it said its goal was to have 10,000 clients using the service by 2010. But so far, the company r... (3070 more chars)

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Is Salesforce.com Set to Invade Healthcare?
Written by Mel Duvall
An interesting deal was struck Wednesday by software-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce.com, to grab a piece of a company providing cloud computing services for the healthcare arena. Salesforce has purchased a minority stake in Practice Fusion, a San Francisco startup that provides electronic medical ... (2287 more chars)

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SAP Treads Cautiously on SaaS 'ByDesign'
Written by Tom Hoffman
Late last week, SAP introduced a feature pack for its SAP Business ByDesign on-demand ERP software. The so-called Feature Pack 2.0 provides some useful features, including integration with SAP’s BusinessObjects business intelligence software as well as functionality to support busines... (2038 more chars)

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Government 1.0
Written by laton mccartney
In the early days of the Obama Administration a mini-revolution was seemingly underway. The old school way of operating was on the way out. The monolithic, slow acting – or more accurately, reacting – bureaucracy was being replaced by an agile, transparent, collaborative and streamlined... (2991 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Complex Event Processg & the Smart Enterprise
Written by David Hunter Tow
Complex Event Processing, or CEP, is a technology in transition - a precursor to more sophisticated autonomous decision-processing emerging within the future enterprise. CEP systems collect data from numerous sources and raw events within an environment such as a physical emergency situation o... (3906 more chars)
Pentagonalitil
Written by Robert Lewis
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Cloud computing: Are we headed towards end of IT as we know it?
Written by Vish Agashe
Vish Agashe 8/3/2009 Every technology innovation changes the way we do things. Cloud computing is creating inflection point with the way business applications or solutions are delivered. With the obvious advantages offered by cloud computing, are we ... (2331 more chars)

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Microsoft: Not a Rebirth (Yet)
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s been a ton of buzz since Microsoft and Yahoo finally announced their partnership last week. Many Wall St. analysts seem underwhelmed by the agreement, mainly because Google continues to dominate with a hefty 65% of the global search business and the deal doesn’t have t... (2386 more chars)

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You ARE at Work
Written by Margaret Meloni
“I am so glad I am not at work, now I can relax and say what I think, I don’t have to be nice to everyone anymore”, said one of my students as she sat down and leaned back in her chair. Right away I looked at her and said, “Who says you aren’t at work anymore? You a... (2347 more chars)

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Are you ready for move to Cloud and PaaS?- What you need to know?
Written by Vish Agashe
Article by Vish Agashe These are exciting time for computing in general and specifically for Cloud computing. There are several vendors offering cloud computing followed by many services (PaaS, SaaS). Recently Informatica (The data ... (5475 more chars)

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Midsized Companies Targeted by Major Vendors
Written by laton mccartney
Arguably CIOs of midsized businesses have one of the toughest jobs in IT. They often not only serve as their company’s CIO, but pull double and sometimes triple duty, acting also as the firm’s CFO and/or COO. This means that at most they can devote about half their time and energy to th... (3776 more chars)

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Security Spending Takes a Dive
Written by Mel Duvall
It has always been one of the ironies of technology spending: in survey after survey, CIOs and IT professionals will say that security is either their No. 1 priority, or near the top of the list. Yet, when the economy is in trouble and budgets are being squeezed, security spending is often one of t... (2119 more chars)

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Office 2007 Commercial - i've sent it to all Office 2007 U*p[grade project members :)
Written by Yuri Lits

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There is Light Ahead for Software Spending
Written by Mel Duvall
The results are now in for enterprise software’s big three, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, and the results are not pretty. As a whole the companies managed to stem the bleeding through a series of cost cuts, including some of the worst layoffs the industry has seen to date. But while the ... (2312 more chars)

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The Battle for BI Wallet-Share
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s been a flurry of acquisitions recently among enterprise software vendors, with much of the focus centered around business intelligence and analytic software. SAP recently snapped up SAF AG , a provider of Web-enabled demand forecasting and replenishment technology for retail, who... (1890 more chars)

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IBM Unveils Smart Analytics Strategy
Written by Mel Duvall
Hot on the heels of its $1.2 billion purchase of predictive analytics and data mining company SPSS, IBM has launched a series of ‘Smart Analytics Systems’, designed to get customers up and running on analytics in a matter of days. The company announced early Tuesday morning that... (2297 more chars)

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HBR still thinks we don't matter
Written by Robert Lewis
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Your Computer Is More Secure Thanks to Us: Microsoft
Written by Mel Duvall
It may be difficult to realize it, given the almost daily security warnings and virus threats, but it turns out your computer is a lot more secure today than a year ago thanks to your friendly neighborhood software giant. That’s right, Microsoft declared at the Black Hat conference in... (2423 more chars)

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Weighing the TCO of On-Premise Vs. SaaS
Written by Tom Hoffman
TechTarget.com recently posted a thought-provoking article which explores whether Software-as-a-Service applications might actually cost enterprises more in the long run versus traditional premise-based apps. While the upfront costs of deploying SaaS apps are cheaper than premise-based system... (1903 more chars)

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Microsoft Ruins a Good Week
Written by Mel Duvall
All signs were pointing to a definite turnaround for the technology industry earlier this week, as the sector’s leading companies pulled out a steady stream of better-than-expected results. Then Microsoft came along and took a big dump right in the middle of the parade. The software g... (2091 more chars)

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No Clear Picture on Outsourcing
Written by Mel Duvall
The tech sector helped lead Wall Street to gains this week as a steady stream of companies from Apple, to IBM and EMC posted solid results. The overlying message from the heads of the bellwether companies seems to be that budgets have stabilized, and growth may not be far off. The picture, ... (2289 more chars)

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Nortel Going Out With a Bang
Written by Mel Duvall
It looked for a while that the once proud telecommunications giant that was Nortel, might quietly fade into memory as its assets were auctioned off one-by-one to the highest bidder. Now, thanks to an escalating battle featuring BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), Nortel is once again in the ... (2443 more chars)

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California Electronic Discovery: I'll Be Back
Written by Daniel Garrie
The new California Electronic Discovery Act was signed into law on June 29, 2009 by Governor Schwarzenegger. Although the new law generally tracks the 2006 e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), we want to focus on electronically stored information (ESI) that is not ... (3406 more chars)

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Will Microsoft's Azure Lure Enterprises Into the Cloud?
Written by Tom Hoffman
To date, many enterprise IT organizations have tiptoed carefully in and around the cloud as they consider the types of software applications and IT infrastructure they’re willing to entrust to third-party providers amid security, data privacy and reliability concerns. And while s... (2987 more chars)

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Outlook partly Cloudy
Written by Robert Lewis
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The Collaborative CIO
Written by laton mccartney
In the days of yore, CIOs used to be the kings – and rarely queens, since there were few women in the profession – of their own little domains. Of course, in those ancient days they were called Data Processing (DP) Managers or IS or IT managers or directors, and their kingdoms consisted... (3521 more chars)

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This Blog Will Self Destruct
Written by Mel Duvall
First came the news this week that Amazon had angered customers of its Kindle electronic book service, by remotely deleting two of George Orwell’s books, Animal Farm and 1984. It seems Amazon allowed the books to be uploaded from a publisher that didn’t have the rights to the books, so ... (2330 more chars)

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Take Your Brand on the Road
Written by Margaret Meloni
We have just returned home from visiting my parents. We had a terrific visit and smooth travels. Of course the more you travel, the more likely you are to have travel mishaps. It is how you handle these mishaps that set you apart. An airport (or on the airplane itself) is ideal for people watch... (1507 more chars)

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Betting Against the Internet
Written by Mel Duvall
As someone who makes a living off the Internet, and more to the point, from the field of social networking, I’d like to think I’m riding a winning horse. Perhaps that’s why I paid particular attention to a column in the Wall Street Journal by a leading investment advisor w... (1984 more chars)

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Two Views on Oracle Price Hikes
Written by Tom Hoffman
In a new price list it came out with on July 1, Oracle has jacked up the prices for some of its database performance management tools by up to 40%. The price hikes for some add-on tools for its flagship database management system include processor licenses for Oracle’s diagn... (2541 more chars)

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White Paper: An Essential Guide to Possibilities and Risks of Cloud Computing
Written by Maria Spinola
Cloud Computing is quite possibly the hottest, most discussed and often misunderstood concept in Information Technology (IT) today. In short, Cloud Computing proposes to transform the way IT it's deployed and managed, promising reduced implementation, maintenance costs and complexity,... (1697 more chars)

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Bellwether Tech Companies Show Resiliency
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s the heart of financial reporting season and what have we learned so far? The recession is obviously taking a bite out of company revenues, but for the most part technology companies appear to have made the necessary adjustments to their operations to stem losses and have pulled off a few... (2061 more chars)

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Twitter Hack Exposes Weakness of Human Factor
Written by Mel Duvall
A hack which exposed sensitive corporate information about Twitter is creating a lot of debate in the Internet community about the security of cloud computing. While it may be too drastic to paint cloud computing red with this latest breach, it does raise serious concerns for companies thinking of ... (2965 more chars)

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Social Networking: The Rules of Engagement
Written by laton mccartney
You probably read the story not long ago about Dow Jones giving employees of The Wall Street Journal, Newswires and MarketWatch a new list of rules for “professional conduct” regarding their activities on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Specifically, accord... (2912 more chars)

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One More Battle for Microsoft to Fight
Written by Mel Duvall
Microsoft seems to be under siege on a number of fronts these days, be it Apple in mobile apps, Google on the search engine and now operating system front, and even the economy is playing havoc with its scheduled fall release of Windows 7. Here’s one more battle it doesn’t need.... (1906 more chars)

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Will 'Free' Office Alienate the Corporate Crowd?
Written by Tom Hoffman
Microsoft’s plans to offer Office Web applications for free to 400 million Windows Live subscribers is a stroke of genius. Or is it? When the software giant announced plans to offer free lightweight versions of its ubiquitous Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoi... (2267 more chars)

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Predictable Social Security Numbers
Written by Michael S. Menefee
According to a story published by the Washington Post today, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that your social security number could be determined just by knowing when and in what zip code you were born in. It's an interesting read. The full story can be found here

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Not So Smart Grid
Written by Michael S. Menefee
According to a security researcher, the so-called Smart Grid technology being rolled out across the country as part of the stimulus bill, may be vulnerable to numerous attacks. According to the researcher, many of the commands that allow the power company to interact with the smart-meters a... (153 more chars)

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Sun Results Cast Gloom on Oracle
Written by Mel Duvall
Oracle insists it got a good deal when it outbid IBM for Sun Microsystems, but you’ve got to wonder if Oracle Chief Larry Ellison is looking at the same numbers Wall Street took in Tuesday. Sun projected that its fourth quarter, which ended June 30, will result in a loss of between si... (2043 more chars)

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Outlook Cloudy
Written by Robert Lewis
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Study Finds 85% of Organizations Hit by Data Breaches
Written by Mel Duvall
A number of high-profile security breaches over the past year have drawn attention to the lack of security-preparedness at organizations of all shapes and sizes. But a study released Monday indicates just how widespread the potential damage may be. The Ponemon Institute, a research body spe... (2507 more chars)

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Taking the Guess Work Out of IT Spending Projections
Written by laton mccartney
Recently HP commissioned a research study on how well senior IT decision makers are doing in providing timely, accurate, transparent IT spending information to key business stakeholders. When HP got the survey results back from 200 IT executives around the globe, one number jumped out. R... (2454 more chars)

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Deloitte Study: 83% say no to Web 2.0 features
Written by Eliot Bergson
As pointed out recently here on CIOZone, technology, media, and telco (TMT) companies ironically lag behind other firms' use of social-networking and Web. 20 capabilities. Why would companies with strong expertise in these areas shun their use? Security, at least according to Deloitte. ... (777 more chars)

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A Black Eye for SaaS
Written by Tom Hoffman
The results of a new Software as a Service study by Gartner might not give a complete picture of market sentiments towards using SaaS, but it is revealing. According to a survey of 333 SaaS customers and prospective users in the U.S. and U.K. released by Gartner last week, many custo... (1855 more chars)

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Websense in majority IT firms in India
Written by Sujitha
Familiar to this non stop"socail networking andpersonal sites"displaying Blocked by Websens or PleaseContact Your Administrator to access this webpage messages? Welcome to IT companies in India. Many software professionals consider accessing internet a waste of time during work hour... (1341 more chars)

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Could NetApp Now Be Takeover Target?
Written by Mel Duvall
It lost the battle for deduplication technology vendor Data Domain, so what’s the next move for NetApp? Some analysts are speculating it may not get a chance to call the shots and could, in fact, be the next takeover target. This week NetApp gave up the battle to takeover Silicon Vall... (1517 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Future of the Web
Written by David Hunter Tow
By 2010, Web 2.0- The Social Web- will have developed into a complex multimedia interweaving of ideas, knowledge and social commentary, connecting over three billion people on the planet. In combination with the Semantic Web 3.0 it will automatically analyse, interpret and create new forms of ... (2983 more chars)

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SOA and Cloud Computing
Written by laton mccartney
You’ve probably noticed that more and more frequently cloud computing and SOA are being mentioned in the same sentence. In fact, much of the recent 2009 SOA Conference and Expo in New York was devoted to cloud computing. The keynote delivered by Dr. Kareem Yusuf, a key architect of I... (2893 more chars)

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All Not Doom and Gloom for Enterprise Software
Written by Mel Duvall
As might be expected, AMR Research predicted this week that revenues for enterprise software vendors would be hit by the global economic recession. The Boston-based research firm is predicting that revenues for the group as a whole will decline in the range of 2% to 6% “based on budget lock... (2394 more chars)

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Google: Beyond Beta
Written by Tom Hoffman
Google yesterday removed the ‘beta’ tag from many of its software services, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk. When a software provider lifts the beta designation from a product, it usually means that the vendor is confident that they’re ready for f... (2224 more chars)

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Why Microsoft is sitting on its debt
Written by Ronald Fink
This article suggests that Microsoft and other companies that have recently tapped the debt markets will just sit on the money, which is hardly an encouraging sign for new capital investment, research and development, or even deal making. That means that corporate treasurers don't have a ... (828 more chars)

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Security success
Written by Robert Lewis
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How do you say 'nexus' in Japanese?
Written by Ronald Fink
Amazon may be angling for a U.S. Supreme Court fight over nexus , but a victory there won't get it very far abroad. Sure enough, Japan's tax authorities have followed in the footsteps of a growing number of U.S. state officials by hitting up the online retailing giant with a sales tax bil... (305 more chars)

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Mark Andreessen's green-tinted crystal ball
Written by Ronald Fink
All of us here are certainly into social networking, at least the professional kind. But how can anyone predict where Facebook's revenues will be in five years, even if his name is Mark Andreessen? Didn't Rupert Murdoch have the same expectations for MySpace only a year or two ago? ... (554 more chars)

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$50K Reward For Return of Lost/Stolen Clinton Administration Data
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
According to gloucestercitynews.net, the National Archives are in search of an important hard drive containing sensitive files dating back to the Clinton Administration, and are offering a $50,000 reward for the safe return of this property. The drive in question was a 2GB MYBOOK ... (2610 more chars)

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Going on the Offensive
Written by Tom Hoffman
I was reading a story on Businessweek.com the other day about how the IT staff at British Airways helped the airline save more than $3 million by working for free or taking unpaid leave to help the company cut its costs. The story caught my attention for a couple of reasons. For st... (2760 more chars)

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Be Yourself
Written by Margaret Meloni
“Do I have to be an extravert to be a good leader? “ “Do I have to be able to walk up to strangers and strike up conversations to be a successful leader?” My answer to both of the above: no and no! I receive both of the above (or similar) questions all the time. For s... (2181 more chars)

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What SAP’s Lofty Profit Target Means to You
Written by Tom Hoffman
According to an SAP strategy document obtained by Reuters a few days ago, the German software giant is targeting a 35% operating margin by 2014 while hoping to double its revenue by then. And while an SAP spokesman told Reuters that the strategy paper was still being discussed and sh... (2461 more chars)

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Disaster Recovery, Economics, and Virtualization
Written by David F. Carr
Symantec has just published the results of its 2009 Disaster Recovery survey, which the firm says it will use to guide its product plans (as well as promote its current products, of course). "We're looking at challenges customers are facing, and trying to build these requirements into ou... (2433 more chars)

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Customs Agent Steals Laptop
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
By now, it should really be no surprise to anyone reading this that airports are THE prime location for laptop theft. That's why it's so important that you never leave your luggage unattended or turn your back on it for even a second. But even with the strictest of precaut... (2036 more chars)

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Finding 'Fusion' Between the Premise and SaaS
Written by Tom Hoffman
When Oracle reported its fourth-quarter earnings last week, CEO Larry Ellison made it clear on its call to analysts that the company has every intention of becoming the world’s top provider of on-demand software, even if it takes the company ten years. With Oracle’s solid... (2301 more chars)

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The Great Mind Shift
Written by Patricia Varga
I was just re-watching the GTRA video (library found off the home page of ciozone.com) and tuned into Emma Kolstad Antunes, Web Manager for NASA. Please watch her, if you haven't - for a rocket scientist, astro-phyicist type, she is very eloquent and to the point. One... (937 more chars)

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Intel Offers Corporations Blueprint for Social Media
Written by Mel Duvall
There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether CEOs should or shouldn’t use social media, and to a larger extent under what conditions should companies encourage their employees to blog, tweet, or use other social media tools. The easiest route for companies to take would be ... (2542 more chars)

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Fortune 100 CEOs are Social Media Slackers. So What?
Written by Mel Duvall
As has been reported in another post on CIOZone , a survey out this week shows that Fortune 100 CEOs are social media slackers. Apparently they don’t spend a lot of time sending tweets to one another, checking out what their friends are up to on MySpace, or blogging about the trials and t... (1995 more chars)

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Global Multi-tenant Service Provider Clouds
Written by David Deans
Multinational companies typically have more complex computing and networking technical support requirements, because their business technology applications can span over numerous locations with very diverse operations. Business and IT leaders are currently exploring managed cloud service options... (2648 more chars)

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IT Power Users Will Lead the Way
Written by David Deans
Have you ever wondered if your company's utilization of Business Technology is in line with the creative market leaders? The Harvard Business Review recently published an interesting commentary by Susan Cramm entitled "How to Support Your IT Innovators." Ms. Cramm believes that to realize the ... (2374 more chars)

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Demand for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Written by David Deans
Some market studies continue to identify confusion regarding the true meaning of cloud-based services, and the apparent benefits derived by the early-adopters. One recent example comes from a survey of financial professionals in the UK. However, there is already growing demand from informed ex... (2700 more chars)

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Discover the Pathway to Cloud Services
Written by David Deans
Do you have your head in the clouds? Well, if so, then you're surely not alone. In breaking news, eWeek reports that Cisco Systems is pulling together key pieces of its data center and networking portfolios to create a blueprint for building a cloud computing infrastructure for service providers.... (2253 more chars)
Public, Hosted, and Internal Clouds Defined
Written by David Deans
Like any new business technology, the early development of cloud services can be a little confusing -- as some descriptions are still open to interpretation. However, the dialog is helpful, because it enables us to focus on the true business value of data center resources. According to Forreste... (3197 more chars)

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IBM Researcher Brings Analysis to Enrcypted Data
Written by Eliot Bergson
IBM announced today that a researcher had cracked a long-standing cryptographic challenge, using what is termed "fully homomorphic encryption" to allow data mining and analysis of encrypted data without revealing the sensitive data itself. While the release touts the breakthrough as a pos... (632 more chars)

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The Cloud Drifts Over Redmond
Written by Tom Hoffman
It’s been a tough month for the folks at Microsoft . On May 28, Google stole the spotlight away from Microsoft’s Bing rollout by announcing its own development plans for Google Wave , an open source communications and collaboration tool that integrates e-mail, instant messaging,... (1859 more chars)

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Oracle's Results Down, But Positives Outweigh
Written by Mel Duvall
On the surface, Oracle’s fourth quarter results (its fiscal year ended May 31) lookeddownright dismal. Sales fell 5.2% to $6.86 billion compared to the same period a year ago, and profits dropped 7.2% to $1.89 billion. The fourth quarter is traditionally one of the company’s strongest,... (2916 more chars)

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Amazon v. Nexus
Written by Ronald Fink
I understand what the online retailing giant is up to here. Call it Amazon’s own series of state tea parties. But to argue that online sales taxes are unconstitutional is a bit much. Amazon can hardly be unfamiliar with the legal concept called nexus, under which courts have com... (716 more chars)

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Who needs Yahoo when you have its people?
Written by Ronald Fink
I didn't realize that this has been happening since March. But at the rate it's going, Microsoft will have no need to acquire Yahoo. After all, aren’t a tech company’s most valuable assets its people? All of which calls further into question ... (374 more chars)

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Higher hierarchies
Written by Robert Lewis
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Jobs' Well-Scripted Return to Apple
Written by Mel Duvall
What an amazing weekend for Apple. First the Wall Street Journal came out with a scoop Friday night that Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was recovering from a liver transplant. Then news broke Monday morning that sales of Apple’s new iPhone 3G S not only beat expectations, they creamed them.... (1775 more chars)

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Payola in the blogosphere? FTC looks to crack down
Written by John Goff
Well, this could get ugly real fast. It appears that the Federal Trade Commission is preparing to go after bloggers who fail to disclose conflicts of interest. According to the Associated Press , the FTC wants the authority to fine or prosecute bloggers who fail to indicate that they’... (3584 more chars)

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Do You Need a "Private" Cloud?
Written by laton mccartney
I remember in kindergarten -- or was it first grade -- we were all taught to share. That’s fine when it comes to cookies and milk, but I’m not so sure about cloud computing. In fact, were I a CIO, I’d be among the first in line to gain the potential benefits of cloud computing, ... (4002 more chars)

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XBRL’s fading relevance
Written by Ronald Fink
I confess I never quite understood former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox’s fascination with XBRL, extensible business reporting language that is supposed to help investors grapple with financial data, though how exactly has never been adequately explained. And according to this article , Co... (1403 more chars)

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IBM Puts Its Stamp on ILOG
Written by David F. Carr
Almost a year has passed since IBM announced its planned acquisition of ILOG, the company behind the JRules business rules management system (BRMS) and other embeddable software such as the CPLEX mathematical optimization module licensed for use in many supply chain management systems. The acqu... (2735 more chars)

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Why Apple is dark to its core
Written by Ronald Fink
Interesting chart on Apple up at Silicon Alley Insider. Not only does it illustrate how important the I-Phone now is to Apple, it shows that sales of other products, from the Mac and I-Pod to peripherals, are flat or worse. (Yes, non-GAAP sales make the trend look more dramatic than GA... (356 more chars)

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Software Giants Being Pulled into Online Battle
Written by Mel Duvall
They’ve resisted diving into the market for selling their core software offerings online, but with the recession biting into sales, the software giants appear to be giving in. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Oracle is preparing to launch as many as 10 online software... (2332 more chars)

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Market Shift May Spur Next Round of Deals
Written by Tom Hoffman
As viewers of this past weekend’s U.S. Open can attest, being the Number one golfer in the world doesn’t guarantee you a spot in the final pairing. And while SAP hasn’t completely lost its grip as the world’s largest business management software provider, it ... (2054 more chars)

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Email Archiving Saves Space on your Exchange Server
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
These days, does it seem like your exchange server is becoming an overpriced fileserver? As large business document email attachments increase in frequency and size, email server administrators are being put under more pressure to do more with less. The size of the data, and it... (1819 more chars)

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Silicon Valley looks too comfy for comfort to Washington
Written by Matthew Quinn
Seriously, playtime is over, Big Business. And tech companies in particular are being told it’s time to start cleaning up their toys. Following in the footsteps of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission is starting to show its teet... (1055 more chars)

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Open Source Apps on the Rise in Enterprises
Written by Mel Duvall
It isn’t exactly the falling of the Berlin Wall, but a study by research firm IDC shows use of open source enterprise applications is on the rise in Europe. IDC surveyed a total of 515 Western European IT decision makers on their use of open source applications and found a surprisingly high p... (1980 more chars)

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Ho-ho-ho and a bottle of Tsingtao
Written by Ronald Fink
Just when you might have thought it was safe to get back into the waters surrounding China’s intellectual property rights, the pirates reappear . Yes, in cases last year involving Germany’s NeoPlan Bus and Japan’s Samsung, Chinese courts ruled in favor of patent holde... (613 more chars)

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Ingredients of a CIO
Written by Arun Manansingh
I have often wondered what characteristics make a good CIO. Books have been written about great leaders throughout history but can the same rules be applied to CIOs? Lui Sieh, in his blog, A Bottom’s Up View From a Pai Mei Gu y , discusses “ (Successful) IT People Charact... (1679 more chars)
Fab 5: Silly inventions
Written by John Goff
According to reports, tennis star Maria Sharapova on Wednesday presented a prototype dress to the press that lights up when the wearer’s cell phone rings. Sharapova showed off the dress to photographers and passers-by from the window of a department store in London. According to Reute... (3250 more chars)

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Amazon Snaps Up Mobile Venture
Written by Mel Duvall
I’m firmly in the camp that prefers to read books on paper as opposed to an electronic tablet, but I have to hand it to Amazon for knowing how to pull together the pieces that could make its Kindle eReader product an eventual winner. The Seattle-based company has acquired a Silicon Va... (2039 more chars)

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Iran Declares Cyberwar - On Itself
Written by Mel Duvall
The eyes of the world may be on the protests taking place in the streets of Tehran this week, but the technology community is watching just as keenly at the war Iran is waging against the Internet. In recent days Iran’s government has taken a number of steps to essentially electr... (1809 more chars)

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The Google Apps Juggernaut
Written by Tom Hoffman
In case you hadn’t noticed, Google is on a tear in the enterprise software space. Already a search-engine powerhouse with considerable momentum in the cloud computing space, Google last week released a plug-in for its Google Apps that allows Microsoft Outlook customers to u... (2102 more chars)

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Cyber Defense: Zero Day
Written by Craig Fellenstein
I am interested in how we all protect against "Zero Day" the suggested and openly discussed day in the future, when a large number of destructive codes are enabled and subsequently released {by unethical hackers} against many global targets. What are we as corporate/government thought-le... (195 more chars)

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Robots As Part of Your Enterprise Platform
Written by David F. Carr
On a visit last year to Spartanburg Regional Hospital, in Spartanburg, S.C., I got to see a couple of robots in action. There was a room-size pharmacy robot, really just a giant arm mounted on a track that would zoom back and forth in an isle where various medicines were stored picking out th... (3610 more chars)

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How CIOs Are Using Social Networking
Written by laton mccartney
If you want a window into the degree to which CIOs have embraced social networking -- and the impact of Web 2.0 technology is having on the organizations for which they work – look no farther than Washington. Yes, Washington. Okay, the Feds aren’t usually on the downh... (4110 more chars)

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Ba-de Bing! Microsoft search engine shakes things up at Google
Written by John Goff
It appears that the ‘Softies have gotten the attention of the Googlers. According to a report in the New York Post, Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, is rattling a few cages in the corporate office of Google. Indeed, it appears that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is so unner... (1088 more chars)

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Charting the Social Media Explosion
Written by Mel Duvall
Determining the true value of social networks is a work in progress, but one thing is certain – the popularity of social networks is exploding. According to a survey released today, 43% of the online community now uses social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, an... (2556 more chars)

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What’s up with the buzz over Yahoo?
Written by Ronald Fink
I have to say I’m a bit puzzled by the bullish case suddenly being made for Yahoo’s shares in some quarters. Of the ten reasons given by this analyst for the company being undervalued as a turnaround case, the only one that seems at all compelling is that it’s trading a... (716 more chars)

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Hierarchy is dead. Long live hierarchy.
Written by Robert Lewis
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Service Delivery
Written by Martin Heydenrych
Greetings fellow IT professionals, Working as the Divisional Manager for IT for the Automobile Association, Group IT Manager for Value Logistics and CIO for Beyond Outsourcing I found that vendor management against SLA was a constant problem with vendors of all sizes often effectively holdi... (331 more chars)
EMC Spurned in Battle for Data Domain
Written by Mel Duvall
The battle for storage device maker Data Domain gets more interesting as the Silicon Valley company’s board of directors officially recommended that shareholders reject a $30 cash takeover bid from EMC. Instead, the company is recommending shareholders approve a cash and stock bid fro... (3131 more chars)

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Heard at IT conference: Wasn’t that bloke Nick Leeson?
Written by John Goff
Putting together a resume must be a tricky business for Nick Leeson. One obvious puzzler: where do you stick the part about bankrupting the oldest merchant bank in the United Kingdom? In a recent roundtable discussion, executive placement executives seemed to come down on the side of 'Other Skills.... (4570 more chars)

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New Fledgling DR Resource You May Want To Check Out
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
The Bush era has left us with a lot of highly-publicized & highly-controversial cases being heard in front of the Supreme Court. And many of these cases are calling attention to the need for increased data retention and organization for regulatory compliance and ediscovery requests. ... (1811 more chars)

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Shaking Up Enterprise SaaS
Written by Tom Hoffman
When SAP vice president John Wookey announced the company’s plans to sell additional functionality to customers of its Business Suite ERP software under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model at the Software & Information Industry Association’s OnDemand Europe conference in Amsterdam ... (1961 more chars)

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Hey you, get off of my cloud
Written by Ronald Fink
Cloud computing has gone officially mainstream, with this New York Times article . And as one who’s always scratched his head over the meaning of the term, I found the definition that the article supplied (“in which vast stores of information and proc... (562 more chars)

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Difficult Person or Learning Opportunity?
Written by Margaret Meloni
“I can’t see any reason why I would ever use this information”, one of my students told me as I was helping him with an in-class assignment. The tool we were discussing is called a responsibility assignment matrix and it helps map out the roles and responsibilities of members on ... (2261 more chars)

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You buy, I spy? Say it loud and clear
Written by Ronald Fink
I’ve seen very little coverage except on a few obscure tech sites of the news earlier this month of Sears’ settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges involving the retailer’s surreptitious use of spyware. I’ve also found it impossible to get attor... (641 more chars)

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Rumor Mill: Dell Acquisition Pre-Destined?
Written by Matthew Quinn
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Dell is ready to pull the trigger on an acquisition soon, with an unnamed source saying Michael Dell has said his company expects to buy a “significant-sized company” in coming months. The Round Rock, Texas computer maker has certainly ... (2665 more chars)

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Lightning Strikes Amazon Cloud
Written by Mel Duvall
Amazon suffered another outage to its Elastic Compute Cloud service this week, after one of its data centers was struck by lightning. The disruption lasted about seven hours, during which time customers were directed to use alternate instances of the service. Now, a lightning strike to a da... (3084 more chars)

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An Open Source Option for Enterprise Search
Written by David F. Carr
Apache Lucene seems to be turning into one of the most fruitful open source projects managed by the Apache Software Foundation, short of the original HTTP server that started it all. A few months ago, I wrote about Cloudera, a firm started to offer support for the Lucene distributed compu... (4093 more chars)

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Duke Energy Gets Smart With Cisco: Where's IBM?
Written by Mel Duvall
IBM can be seen everywhere these days with its Smarter Planet advertising series, promoting the benefits of an inter-connected, thinking world. That is in part why a news announcement by Duke Energy caught my eye. The utility – the third largest in the country – wants to fast tr... (2044 more chars)

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Will Your Company be Ready for Litigation 2.0?
Written by Storagepipe Solutions
The rapid evolution of information technology is forcing companies to change the way they operate at a rate of speed never seen before. And as is common with uncharted territories, there are going to be unprecedented territorial disputes along the way. Think back to the mid 90’s, when... (3112 more chars)

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Bing Gaining Ground on Google
Written by Mel Duvall
Google isn’t exactly looking over its shoulder at Microsoft just yet, but a study conducted by research firm comScore says Bing is off to a solid start. According to comScore, the new search engine from Microsoft, dubbed Bing, increased its share of the market during the week of June ... (1542 more chars)

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Cell phone vendors: Wake me when the real breakthrough comes
Written by Bill Gerneglia
It’s been a big few weeks for fans of mobile phones. Palm unveiled its Pre ,which, despite battery life that can be timed with a stopwatch , seems to be getting very positive reviews. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone 3G S, launched at its recent developers conference , has received... (1209 more chars)

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Can a CIO change his spots?
Written by Ronald Fink
This article raises some interesting issues for CIOZone members. The relevant if obvious point is that Apple’s foray into corporate computing wouldn’t depend so heavily on a big switch to its new operating system, Snow Leopard, if companies allowed... (686 more chars)

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Oracle and Netbooks: Maybe a Good Fit After All
Written by Tom Hoffman
When I first heard Larry Ellison suggest at Sun's annual JavaOne conference last week that Oracle might get into the netbook business, my knee-jerk reaction was that this had all the markings of a colossal blunder. With Oracle on track to add Sun to its lineup, it obviously woul... (1742 more chars)

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Staying Sane While Debugging AJAX
Written by David F. Carr
It used to be that when web applications broke down, users would be presented with a lot of annoying technical gobbledygook about undeclared variables or invalid database queries. With AJAX, those asynchronous JavaScript apps intended to make the user experience better and smoother, the symptoms... (6034 more chars)

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Indian Outsourcing Centers go on Auction Block
Written by Mel Duvall
It wasn’t that long ago when a slew of Fortune 500 companies, particularly in the financial services sector, announced they were opening captive centers in India to save a buck on a variety of back office tasks. Now it seems many of those companies are auctioning off those centers as ... (2345 more chars)

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"World's Most Secure Email Accounts" Hacked
Written by laton mccartney
Ever hear of StrongWebmail.com? It claims to work unlike any other form of email protection on the market today. “Your private correspondence remains just that – private,” it boasts on its website. “ No snoopers, no hackers - period! How do we do it? By using a telephone ver... (3067 more chars)

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Will Apple fall far from the seed?
Written by Ronald Fink
The debate about whether Apple can continue to thrive without Steve Jobs at the everyday helm gained fresh currency yesterday when expectations first were raised that he would appear at the new product demo, and then dashed. Early on, in fact, it seemed that all anyone cared about ... (400 more chars)

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Blinding insights about when the job is done
Written by Robert Lewis
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So, how did those Palm Pre sales go? Depends on whom you ask
Written by Matthew Quinn
The much-anticipated Palm Pre went on sale over the weekend and some initial sales estimates are in. But exactly what they mean is a point of debate. Most reports peg weekend sales somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000. The Wall Street Journal’s headline read, “Palm’s Pre Sell... (2004 more chars)

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Windows 7 Has Makings of a Blockbuster
Written by Mel Duvall
The critics already have their pens – or keypads - out to pan the upcoming Windows 7 operating system release. But while Windows Vista certainly will go down as one of the biggest technology failures of the last decade , Windows 7 has the makings of a blockbuster hit. Here’s wh... (2961 more chars)

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When an Ebb Tide Lifts Customers' Boats
Written by Tom Hoffman
There’s an old saying that a rising tide lifts all boats, meaning that improvements in the economy will generally help all participants. But as enterprise software vendors have been taking a hit on new sales during the current recession, many providers have become much more flexible about t... (2543 more chars)

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Title Change Required
Written by joanne friedman
Achieving excellence in Business Information Management (BIM) is but one of a slew of new differentiators that now separate market leaders, from followers. So who's tagged with the now arduous responsibility of getting the right information in front of prospects, customers and sup... (691 more chars)

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Enterprise Social Networking is Adaptive Learning
Written by Ram
With a lot of debate about Enterprise 2.0 and its impact on Cost/Productivity, there is a lot of thought aroud using Social Networking as an adaptive learning platform. Similar to what Facebook / Linkedin does in the the consumer market , can these tools allow businesses where teams within an o... (683 more chars)

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Apple's Jobs faces tough job back at the office
Written by John Goff
A report in the Wall Street Journal claims Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on to track to return to work by July 1. Jobs said in January that he intended to take a medical leave for six months to deal with an unspecified illness, which has since been described as a hormone imbalance. Jobs, 54, was ... (2998 more chars)

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Studying Form Spam
Written by David F. Carr
Someone or probably several someones will try to hack your website today. First priority is to stop them. Second is to learn from them, study them, figure out how to block them better in the future. This is the bane of all sorts of contact and comment forms, and popular application... (4538 more chars)

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Antitrust fever: Catch it!
Written by John Goff
According to a Reuters report , antitrust officials in Washington are looking into the hiring practices of some technology companies—including Google and Apple. Apparently, attorneys in the Department of Justice are concerned about alleged no-poaching pacts between the businesses. I&... (3020 more chars)

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Mid-Level Cloud Formation
Written by Tom Hoffman
In a keynote address presented at Interop last month, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka talked about components of the company’s cloud computing strategy. Sikka’s presentation included a discussion of SAP’s Business ByDesign on-demand suite which is targeted at midsized companies. ... (3356 more chars)

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Globalization: CIOs Have the World on Their Shoulders
Written by Mel Duvall
Globalization is reversible. That statement, made a year ago by CIBC World Markets economist Jeffrey Rubin, was on my mind as I prepared to attend a Global Sourcing Council conference in New York this week. The statement by Rubin was made when oil was trading at close to $150 a barrel and Ame... (2842 more chars)

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Why did Cisco make the Dow? Bloggers had a hand
Written by Matthew Quinn
Yesterday, Dow Jones announced it was making changes to its famed industrial average. One of those changes was the addition of Cisco. The press release announcing the changes provided little insight into exactly why Cisco was chosen over, say, Apple or Google – two other companies thought... (1456 more chars)

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Twitter One
Written by Eliot Bergson
For all the recent headlines about Twitter and its huge increase in traffic, a new study out from Harvard Business School shows that the median number of lifetime tweets is…wait for it…one. (Sample size: 300,000.) What’s not surprising is that Twitter has confirmed the 90-10 ... (1742 more chars)

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Unpredictable Users
Written by David F. Carr
Someone, once told me, "The only way to understand user behavior is to let them behave." Damned if I can find the exact quote, but I think it was either a Yahoo engineer or one of the web gurus at 37Signals, whom I know are big believers in the concept. At any rate, the point was that you ca... (3281 more chars)

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Patent decisions pending
Written by Ronald Fink
Today’s Times piece on the Supremos’ decision to review a lower court ruling that narrowed the scope of business process patents is less than elucidating. Yes, the article points out that the move is “troubling” to software developers but doesn’t really explain wh... (2094 more chars)

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Memo to Cybersecurity Chief: Watch Your Back
Written by laton mccartney
After a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity program conducted by Melissa Hathaway, Cybersecurity Chief at the National Security Council, the President is preparing to name a so-called cybersecurity coordinator who will direct national security policy from the White House. The c... (4268 more chars)

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Which refuge?
Written by Robert Lewis
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April in Paris for global chip sales
Written by Ronald Fink
Matt says he was taken somewhat aback by the negativity of my most recent posts, so I’ll accentuate the positive in this one. Yes, indeed, this is clear evidence that April wasn’t nearly as cruel a month for technology spending as it was expected to be. Take that, perma-bears! ... (658 more chars)

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Plan, Do, Check, Act
Written by Margaret Meloni
Can the plan, do, check, act or quality cycle apply to how we manage ourselves professionally? I think it does. In fact I think that managing your professional brand or image is really about using the quality cycle for your own development. Plan – Be clear about what you want from your c... (902 more chars)

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Retail IT Spending: Down but Not Out
Written by Tom Hoffman
With consumers putting the brakes on spending, it would be logical to conclude that the nation’s top retailers are cutting back on their IT investments this year. In fact, IT spending in retail is down slightly through the first half of 2009, according to market research. But it&... (2695 more chars)

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Microsoft, Linux Take a Beating in Server Sales
Written by Mel Duvall
This week researcher IDC came out with its survey of worldwide server sales for the first quarter of 2009, and not surprisingly, the picture was ugly. Worldwide server revenues sank 25% in the first quarter of 2009, the biggest quarterly drop IDC has seen in 12 years of tracking the market. ... (2866 more chars)

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Typekit Brings Fonts - And a New Business - to the Web
Written by Eliot Bergson
Jeff Veen (of Hotwired fame) and his cohorts at Small Batch have come up with a simple, genius idea called Typekit . Typekit uses style sheets and new browser support for linking to a font file to bring real typography to the Web. As the announcement explains, “That means you can write... (1078 more chars)

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Hiding the peanuts at Time Warner
Written by Ronald Fink
Talk about timing. Time Warner announced its spin-off of AOL the day before its earlier spin-off comes a cropper . Sure enough, a heavy debt load that Time Warner shifted to its former cable sub via the spin-off is to blame. Expect the same thing to happen at AOL . And now that ... (613 more chars)

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A second-half recovery? Not at Dell
Written by Ronald Fink
Hard to believe Dell’s shares rose on this news Yeah, earnings after one-time items (if you assume restructuring costs are a one-time event, and that’s quite an assumption) beat estimates by a penny. But revenues fell 23%, missing expectations. In other words, analysts were... (323 more chars)

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Intel’s dividend: It’s the economy, stupid
Written by Ronald Fink
Talk about burying the lead. The headline and top of this Reuters story would make you think Intel's dividend is jeopardized by the EU’s anti-trust fine. But that’s not what has investors concerned. Not until you get to the end of the story do you see t... (598 more chars)

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Is Obama's IT Team Up to the Job?
Written by laton mccartney
Last week the US Senate unanimously confirmed Aneesh Chopra as the nation’s first federal CTO and an associate director for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously Chopra served as Virginia’s secretary for technology. He was chosen over such technolog... (3676 more chars)

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When ERP Deals Go South
Written by Tom Hoffman
A recent lawsuit filed by a stone and tile company against an ERP vendor is a blunt reminder of just how important it is to create agreements with enterprise software vendors that are aimed protecting users’ rights as well as the provider’s. Last month, Ferazzoli Imports , which n... (2331 more chars)
First refuge
Written by Robert Lewis
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Salesforce Takes Aim at Next Billion
Written by Mel Duvall
The future’s so bright for some cloud computing vendors these days, they gotta wear shades. This month CIOZone produced a special report on cloud computing. In particular we focused on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) segment. The reason for zeroing in on this arena was pretty clear: while... (2080 more chars)

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Blast Zone: Where Time Got It Wrong
Written by John Goff
Time recently published a list ofthe ten biggest technology flops in the last ten years. Compiling such a list isn't easy, and on the whole, we think the editor’s at Time did an admirable job with their selections. Still, we do have some quibbles with the choices. Here's our take on where Ti... (6055 more chars)

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Don't VCs like Facebook?
Written by Ronald Fink
It’s nice for Facebook that it just managed to raise another $200 million. But what does it say that the investor in question paid a third less for its stake than Microsoft did for its piece of the social networking company two years ago? Or that Facebook had to venture as far as Moscow ... (1466 more chars)

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Here Comes the Open Web
Written by Eliot Bergson
I can’t think of a more concrete metaphor for Internet businesses trying to bring traffic to their sites than the stream of tour buses that clogged the Netscape parking lot. One after another, they disgorged throngs of tourists who would take pictures of our Web servers through a wind... (2126 more chars)

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Suggestion box: How do I lower my &!#%!!! phone bill
Written by John Goff
In one of my recent posts, I wrote that smart phones and netbooks/mini-notebooks need to converge into one device—and soon. The genesis of that blog, for those of you haven’t dozed off already, is my monthly phone bill from Verizon. Currently, I’m paying for a land line, a... (1624 more chars)

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Netbooks and User Interface
Written by David F. Carr
The rising popularity of netbooks, those popular mini-notebooks designed primarily for web browsing and email, means it's time to once again re-examine the assumptions behind web design and web application user inteface. Sometime within the last few years, most web designers shifted away ... (2374 more chars)

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Data.gov a Wealth of Information
Written by Jay Rajani
The Federal CIO Council launched the site on Thursday, May 21, which allows access to varous datasets and tools across various executive agencies. Examples of data categories include, business enterprise, education, energy and utilities, population, etc. Once a data set is downloaded it can be acce... (2147 more chars)

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Netbooks Driving Demand for Mobile Broadband
Written by Mel Duvall
As a member of the netbook crowd, I find myself toting the handy little device around with me much more often than I ever did with my old IBM Thinkpad. Seems I’m not alone. According to a new study released by Pyramid Research, booming sales of netbooks are driving an insatiable demand for br... (966 more chars)

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Adversary Exploitation of Social Media
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Adversary Exploitation of Social Media By David Carr I just came back from the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) conference in Orlando, and one of the more interesting sessions was on "How Adversaries Exploit Poor OPSE... (3814 more chars)

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Palm to launch Pre--on D-Day
Written by John Goff
Okay, so we now know the Palm Pre will cost $199 and go on sale on June 6. Some thoughts: First, the phone actually costs $299, but includes a $100 mail-in rebate. The percentage of Americans who actually mail in mail-in rebates is roughly the same as those who actually have a nice day afte... (1859 more chars)
MIT CIO Symposium Part 2 - Academic Panel
Written by Rob Bergin
You can't have an event at MIT without an Academic Panel. The academic panel was moderated byGary Beach,Publisher Emeritus from CIO Magazine. If featuredProf. Erik Brynjolfsson,Schussel Professor of Management and Director MIT Center for Digital Business (CDB),Prof. Thomas M... (2698 more chars)

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Book Excerpt: Why New Systems Fail
Written by David F. Carr
When a publicist contacted me about Phil Simon's book, "Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide," the title immediately caught my attention. Like several key CIOZone.com contributors, I used to work at Baseline Magazine, where the centerfold feature was typically an in-... (13031 more chars)

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Written by laton mccartney
Here’s the Cliff Notes version of one the main factors that’s been driving America’s economic growth for the past few decades. A couple of really bright kids from MIT, Caltech. or maybe Stanford get together and come up with a new killer app or some hot new tech gizmo. These wunde... (4230 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Networked Enterprise
Written by David Hunter Tow
The enterprise of the future will be driven by a networked architecture- patterns of linked decision processes- constantly morphing, reforming and adapting to a continuously changing social and business environment. The traditional hierarch... (3014 more chars)

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Google trying to avoid an “Office Space” moment
Written by Matthew Quinn
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Google has developed an algorithm to help it figure out which of its employees are most likely to quit, so it can use that information to help retain them. Kinda makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Employee retention is unquestionably near the top of the... (2960 more chars)

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The Phoenix Principle
Written by Robert Lewis
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Number Driving Cloud Storage: 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000
Written by Mel Duvall
One of the hottest areas in the cloud computing space has been the offering of storage-on-demand services. The arena now includes such heavyweights as IBM, AT&T, EMC, Symantec, Amazon and Iron Mountain. What's behind the red-hot focus in this area? The simple fact that demand for digital sto... (2001 more chars)

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AT&T’s rumored iPhone discount: Price plan or a joke?
Written by Matthew Quinn
AT&T is considering a cheaper data package pricing for the Apple iPhone, reports BusinessWeek , citing people familiar with the matter. It's interesting that the rumor comes up at a time when sales of iPhone's are still booming. For the quarter ended March 28, the iPhone... (2212 more chars)

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Google, Palm crashing the smartphone party
Written by John Goff
It appears that Sprint will announce its launch plans for the latest Palm smartphone sometime this week. As you know by now, early reviews of the Palm Pre have mostly been raves ( here's one from Wired , if you don't believe me.). And word has it that the Palm Pre will be sold in Wal-Mart... (1759 more chars)
Microsoft is now just a financial innovator
Written by Ronald Fink
The Redmond monolith's debt-financed stock buyback is a sign that its biggest innovations are now financial rather than technological, according to this thorough analysis. It's hard to add much to it other than observe that Steve Ballmer made a lot of noise to the contrary... (499 more chars)

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In the Zone
Written by Margaret Meloni
Termites were dropping on my head and I had no clue! I came back to my office and immediately immersed myself in answering communications, doing research for clients and jotting down ideas for new articles. I was having fun and experiencing my own joy in the job. I was extremely focused. An... (2808 more chars)
Speaking at OAHCP next week
Written by Bill Lang
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – Room 9-12 (1st floor) When The County Sheriff Says Evacuate - Why Your Plans May Not Work: When disaster strikes, will you be ready? Discover the differences between Emergency Management and Business Continuity Management. Explore issues in Emergency Manag... (583 more chars)

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Completed all the steps to make my company NOAA/NWS StormReady.
Written by Bill Lang
VCPI, based in Milwaukee, WI, earned their  StormReady ®  Supporter designation on May 12,   2009!  This designation is valid through May 12, 2012.  In doing so, they become the 3 rd   StormReady ®  Supporter in Wisconsin.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/d... (56 more chars)

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Smartphone and netbook: Converge already, will 'ya?
Written by John Goff
My name is John and I'm a gadget junkie ("hello, John"). I freely admit to the problem. Generally speaking, the more electronic gizmos I own, the greater my inner contentment and spiritual satisfaction. While a religion based on this base tenet (or tenor bass) would no doubt be ridi... (1642 more chars)

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Wall Street's optimism about CA
Written by Ronald Fink
As of this writing, CA’s stock price was up roughly 6% since the company issued its results on Wednesday. And some analysts are saying CA’s performance in its fiscal year 2009—in which revenues dropped by 5%—underscore the company’s ability to thrive during a severe downturn in technolo... (1940 more chars)

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Making a Serious Case for Sustainability
Written by Mel Duvall
One of the more interesting announcements to come out of the SAP Sapphire conference, was a deal to acquire a little-known company called Clear Standards. Clear Standards, based in Sterling, Va., is a privately-held company that provides "enterprise carbon management solutions." What t... (2469 more chars)

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Oracle: Hardware Powerhouse?
Written by Matthew Quinn
Reuters columnist Eric Auchard  is predicting Oracle is now ready to go hog wild in the hardware space after its $7.4 billion deal for Sun Microsystems.   He's no doubt bought into  Larry Ellison's insistence  that Oracle has no intention of unloading Sun's hardware business. Ellison did ... (670 more chars)

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IBM and GIGO
Written by Ronald Fink
The new software IBM unveiled yesterday sounds spiffy (though I can't help but wonder why this stuff wasn't out years ago given all the hype I heard about the coming advances in transaction processing back in the day when I was tech editor of U.S. Banker, and that was ages ago). Real time is ... (518 more chars)

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Technologies that Matter in a Slow Economy
Written by mtrots
Bare-bones hardware and software, and all things virtual dictate the game of computing in a slow economy. A recent advertisement by Microsoft caused a stir among the Mac-loving community of tech workers. The ad shows a flame-haired Lauren looking for a 17-inch laptop for und... (4723 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Smart Planet
Written by David Hunter Tow
IBM was the first to jump out of the box- with the concept of the ‘smart planet’ and now the revolution has begun. A new tipping point in human civilisation’s development has been reached. Information technology, engineering and applied mathematics has reached the point where the infrastr... (4545 more chars)

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IBM and Intel? Doing fine, thanks, CEOs say
Written by Matthew Quinn
One of the finer points of being a chief executive is exuding confidence when it appears the world around you is falling apart.   IBM's Sam Palmisano and Intel's Paul Otellini did their best to do just that the past two days as they each made presentations to analysts.   Palmisano, for his pa... (1798 more chars)

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iPhone turning into an iSore?
Written by John Goff
By and large, subcultures are a wonderful thing. From ballroom dancers, to stamp collectors, to pro wrestling fans, participants in subcultures can be fascinating. And then there's the iPhone folks. Don't get me wrong. Apple's smartphone is a great device. Its... (3242 more chars)

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Review: WordPress Plug-In Development
Written by David F. Carr
WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner's Guide By Vladimir Prelovac Packt Publishing, February 2009 WordPress is primarily known as a blogging tool, but many of its fans argue that it is also a better content management system than many another content management system. ... (3991 more chars)

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Call Centre Optimisation Opportunities in a Recession
Written by Barry Connellan
Recessions force everyone to work twice as hard to keep going. Focusing on optimisation means either, making what you have already got work better or in cases where it can't be fixed, replacing the old. The focus of this Best Practice Forum is to generate a list of 50 practical suggesti... (1503 more chars)

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Lots of non-deal making going on
Written by Ronald Fink
Is it just me or does it seem like there are more rumors about deals than actual deals going on these days? Today alone we have Microsoft and a New York Times board member denying reports about deals involving SAP in the first case and Google in the second. I suppose that fo... (712 more chars)

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Business Intelligence Simple Enough for a CEO
Written by Mel Duvall
SAP Chief Executive Leo Apotheker issued a call for increased transparency and clarity in business in his keynote address to company's annual Sapphire gathering in Orlando Tuesday. And he did so by announcing a new business intelligence offering that is so simple, even a CEO could use it. ... (1975 more chars)

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Should CIOs Produce an Annual Report
Written by laton mccartney
A recent issue of the McKinsey Quarterly featured a story entitled Memo to the CEO: Why We Need an Annual Report for Technology. ”Although most companies realize that business units and the technology organization must be much more integrated, many don't know how to make this happen,” McKinsey t... (4572 more chars)
How to make a process improvement initiative fail
Written by Andrew Baker
Process improvement part 1: How to make a process improvement initiative fail   Note:   I started writing this blog intending to call it “Successfully introducing process improvement” but thought the opposite approach much more fun :) ... (2704 more chars)

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Books that are worth your time
Written by Robert Lewis
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SAP Seeks to Repair Relations with Customers
Written by Mel Duvall
Six months after SAP's largest user group fired its chief executive amid growing unrest, the software giant is putting a positive face on its customer relations. On the convention floor of SAP's annual Sapphire gathering in Orlando this week, questions over the change in leader... (2916 more chars)

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Enough with the buybacks, Microsoft
Written by John Goff
  In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft revealed that it intends to issue debt to raise some additional capital. It's not clear just how much money the software giant plans to borrow, since company management left the dollar amounts blank in the SEC filing. Published... (2848 more chars)

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More inside anti-trust baseball
Written by Ronald Fink
Today's Gray Lady weighs  in on Obamaite anti-trust policy now that its reporter got an advance briefing on DoJ heavy Christine Varney's upcoming speeches this week. And it's P1 at that (access journalism, anyone?). Point is, the speechifying will be still more evidence that... (1102 more chars)

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You can finally share the mobile internet cloud using the Verizon MiFi 2200
Written by Jay Rajani
If you're subscribed to the Verizon wireless broadband plan the MiFi 2200 is a device you'll want to invest in.  The company announced today, "the MiFi 2200 lets customers create a personal Wi-Fi cloud capable of sharing the reliability and high-speed Internet connectivity of the Verizon Wire... (1460 more chars)

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The message from Symantec? Never mind
Written by Ronald Fink
Sorry, folks. Any of you expecting a definitive answer to the question I posed yesterday about the significance of Symantec's forecast for security and storage software sales yesterday is going to be disappointed.  The answers I've managed to find to the question-Is it Sym... (2027 more chars)

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Personal and Corporate Responsibility for Searching, Preserving and Producing Information
Written by Daniel Garrie
In March of this year, a court noted that a corporation’s failure to adopt appropriation information polices can results in potentially costly legal sanctions. While sanctions themselves may or may not be substantial, the legal fees leading up to the sanctions will likely to be weight... (2445 more chars)

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What Symantec's disappointing sales forecast means
Written by Ronald Fink
Symantec's expected revenue shortfall for the second quarter could be significant, with the forecast made this morning by the maker of security and storage software coming in as much as 5% below what analysts expected, enough, certainly, to help drive down the stock market. The big que... (297 more chars)

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Cisco’s Chambers: Ready to open his wallet
Written by Matthew Quinn
Cisco System's chief executive John Chambers said he's seeing a "steadying" among his customers, a sign to him that an economic upturn could be here by the turn of the calendar year. And that appears to be giving him the confidence to strike some deals.   "We don't want to come out of this slow... (1242 more chars)

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Outsourcing isnt always about cost.
Written by Niyamath Parveez
If outsourcing is being used to help a firm produce a better quality of products or lower their own costs, the people affected by are it are very close to the production level. There will obviously be an emotive impact on anyone who loses their job due to an outsourcing decision and the... (2857 more chars)

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Loyalty out the Windows?
Written by John Goff
Microsoft’s announcement that is has laid off about 5,000 workers this year, and may lay off more, is just another sign that, despite the hype, tech companies aren’t much different than manufacturers in how they treat their workers. Sure, most IT companies make a big deal about the work-life... (2430 more chars)

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More on ARRA (Esp. for HE institutions)
Written by James Till
According to the US Department of Education, funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) should start becoming available in just a few days. That’s billions, as in almost 100 billion dollars worth of federal stimulus spending that’s expected to be distributed over the... (4467 more chars)

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Apple and Twitter under a tree?
Written by Ronald Fink
Just a rumor , of course, and one that could very well be spread by investors. But worth considering if only for the possibilities. Just to follow up a bit, I can't help but wonder about the economics here. Twitter isn't making any money and while that didn't stop Newscorp, for ... (1010 more chars)

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Connecting with Facebook, Part 3
Written by David F. Carr
This is the continuing story of my adventures with the Facebook Connect API ( Part1 , Part2 ). I don't mean to represent this as an in-depth or expert tutorial, just an experiment I conducted to see how long it would take me to produce a working application that did something useful. The ans... (7118 more chars)

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CIOs and Bench Strength
Written by laton mccartney
Question: How would you rate your IT organization in terms of bench strength? With money extremely tight and many companies having drastically reduced headcounts, do you have the back-up capabilities in terms of personnel to keep to IT engines running on all cylinders in case key people are out fo... (3938 more chars)

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Told ya so
Written by Ronald Fink
Today's Times reports that the FTC under Obama will be going after Google and Apple's interlocking boards under an anti-trust provision that hasn't been much enforced.  Hate to say it, but I predicted as much in my previous gig.  Thing is, this could signal... (231 more chars)

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Telecommuting wrap-up
Written by Robert Lewis
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Survey Says India Top Choice to Outsource
Written by Mel Duvall
Despite a year in which India has endured fraud scandals and terrorist scares, it remains a top choice for corporations looking to outsource IT and various business functions, according to a poll conducted by CIOZone. In the month of April CIOZone ran a poll which asked members: "Where... (2140 more chars)

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Is Project Management Common Sense?
Written by Margaret Meloni
“Isn’t this all just common sense?”  Wow, good question. This question was asked by one of my students while we were discussing the importance of managing project resources and assignments based on the critical path. And then some really good conversation ensued. This particula... (1907 more chars)

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Client Side Operating Systems Trends
Written by Bill Gerneglia
1 Year Month to Month Desktop OS Trend. According to Marketshare ( hitslink.com ) data, the desktop operating system adoption and usage rate for the last year shows a continued growing adoption of both Linux and Mac operating systems.   Month   Wi... (2809 more chars)

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Connecting with Facebook, Part 2
Written by David F. Carr
This is an update on my experiments with Facebook Connect (a sequel to this post ). I have been trying to figure out how easy it is to build a practical application to connect an existing website with its own user login scheme with this application programming interface. Facebook users shoul... (5233 more chars)
Effective Management Through Coaching and Counseling
Written by Alex Silberman
Untitled Document Coaching and counseling as management skills are often reserved for superb leaders, yet are traits that all managers must possess to effectively do their jobs. Although very different, coaching and counseling are frequently lumped together ... (14161 more chars)

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Sourcing in uncertain times – how do you get the best value for your organization?
Written by S. Jimmy Gandhi
In today’s tough economic times, sourcing can be an extremely touchy issue due to the large amount of lay offs occurring in the US . However, at the same time, organizations are more pressed than ever before to provide better value to their stakeholders. O... (1145 more chars)

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Protecting the Electrical Grid from Hackers
Written by Jay Rajani
Given recent reports that cyber-spies from China and Russia may have left malicious software programs in the U.S. electric grid, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS),  and Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, are introducting the "Critical Electric In... (2000 more chars)

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Teradata Digs Deeper into SAP
Written by Mel Duvall
Enterprise software giant SAP signed an interesting agreement with Teradata this week that should go a long ways towards giving companies the ability to conduct complex analytical queries throughout their operations. The companies announced that they had signed an agreement to pro... (2285 more chars)

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Is There a Lack of Custom Self-Directed & Real-Time Research?
Written by Thomas DelVecchio
      Yes, all the major tech market research firms conduct polls of your peers & they can often connect you to your peers as well, but Do any of them allow you to create the poll or survey & return the results to you in a month or less? Will they then connect you to your peers who respo... (2230 more chars)

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Connecting with Facebook
Written by David F. Carr
A few months ago, I got the bright idea of adding a little Facebook-like functionality to BlueBroward.org, a political organizing website for Democratic Party folk in Broward County, Florida, that I run on a volunteer basis. Since it was started in 2005, the site has become fairly succe... (2691 more chars)
Telecommuting: A dozen prerequisites for success
Written by Robert Lewis
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The Numbers Behind The CIOZone 100
Written by Mel Duvall
This week CIOZone is publishing a series of articles and features centered on our annual ranking of the CIOZone 100 - information technology's biggest and best companies. The CIOZone 100 represents an ambitious undertaking and is painstakingly assembled by veteran technolo... (2858 more chars)

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CIOs and Swine Flu: What to Do
Written by laton mccartney
This is not the first time we’ve had to deal with a potentially pandemic virus. Remember SARs in 2003? The outbreak of bird flu three years later? This time around, however, we’re technically better equipped to mitigate its impact on business and governmental operations. In fact, there are ... (3668 more chars)

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Dark Skies for Cloud Computing?
Written by Mel Duvall
  At a conference in Silicon Valley last week, more than 30 cloud computing start-ups gathered to pitch their offerings and business plans to venture capitalists. The upbeat mood at the Under the Radar conference was in direct contrast to a recent study by McKinsey & Company on cloud computi... (2933 more chars)

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Technology Executives Feel the Heat
Written by Geoffrey Leonard
In today's climate, many top executives are now feeling the fear of losing their jobs, and for good reasons.  After working with many C-Level executives for a long period of time, I have come to hear the good the bad that come with enterprise level responsibility.  One of the ongoing top compla... (1174 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Evolutionary Systems Development
Written by David Hunter Tow
There has been a dramatic recent shift in sentiment in relation to choice of the best model for developing software systems. The shift has marked a change from the tradition of preparing a detailed requirements specification as the first phase in the development cycle, to a less rigid adaptive ev... (7373 more chars)
VMW Dragged Back to Earth Publicly
Written by Thomas DelVecchio
      Note to Self: If I ever end up with the unenviable job of running a publicly traded company Never, Never, Never provide equity analysts guidance that you expect the current quarter's revenues to be flat or down compared to the year before. Especially, if we haven't even been hi... (4741 more chars)

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The Incredibly High Cost of Saving Money on Outsourcing
Written by mtrots
Everyone is under pressure these days to cut costs, but saving money isn’t worth it if you cut your own throat in the process. Find out how to avoid making a very dangerous financial mistake. Outsourcing is supposed to save you money. R... (1168 more chars)

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CWE Top 25 Breakdown - Part 3 of 4
Written by Michael S. Menefee
Last week we discussed the first 9 (top 9) in the CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. This week, we'll discuss the second 8 on the list, which have been grouped into a category called “Risky Resource Management”. Risky Re... (10930 more chars)

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A Foundation for Multi-tenancy
Written by David F. Carr
While researching a previous post on multi-tenancy , one of the fundamentals of Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing architectures, I came across a company called Apprenda, Inc. , that aims to provide software infrastructure that other software vendors, and in some cases enterprises... (4265 more chars)

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Earth Day: A Critical Test for Sustainability
Written by Mel Duvall
  For business and governments much of the environmental focus over the last several years has been on sustainability. That buzzword can mean many things to many people, but on a larger scale it refers to maintaining a balance. Environmental sustainability doesn't mea... (2674 more chars)

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Innovating Through the Downturn
Written by laton mccartney
Okay, the economy is in the tank. Money is in short supply, and just about everyone is cutting back. That doesn’t mean, however, that CIOs shouldn’t be on the lookout for ways to innovate. In fact, some intense right-brain, non-linear thinking may be just what IT chiefs need to get their org... (3608 more chars)

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Telecommuters, raise your hands
Written by Robert Lewis
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Smart Approach to Launching a Business Online
Written by Mel Duvall
At some point in their careers, most technology professionals will nurse an idea that they hope to one day turn into a viable business.   At CIOZone, our own Chief Technology Officer Bill Gerneglia has had considerable experience in doing just that: taking an online busi... (1151 more chars)

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Sticks and Stones
Written by Margaret Meloni
Yesterday I read an article that reminded me of a childhood saying or chant, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me.’ Or some people would say ‘words can never hurt me’.  From a physical perspective this is certainly true. But when people look back on a profess... (1361 more chars)

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Organized Crime Version 2.0
Written by Jay Rajani
According to the “2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report”, more records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined. The investigation found that in 90 confirmed breaches some 285 million records were compromised. More disturbing, the financial s... (1695 more chars)

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The Psychology of Multi-tenancy
Written by David F. Carr
InfoStreet founder and CEO Siamak Farah says he was selling software as a service long before that term, or its acronym SaaS, entered the computer industry lexicon. As far back as 1994, InfoStreet was marketing early versions of what became a bundle of web-based business applications so... (7110 more chars)

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Legal and Technology Quake Line of Knowledge
Written by Daniel Garrie
In the realm of electronic discovery, technology teams often confront resource gaps that exacerbate the discovery issues that legal teams are confronting. The right toolset, one that proactively prepares the enterprise for discovery, can benefit both the legal and technology teams on several fron... (2333 more chars)

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The Electronic Discovery Triangle -- Technology, Communication, People
Written by Daniel Garrie
The Electronic Discovery Triangle -- Technology, Communication, People Many people pontificate on keywords and search technologies and the need to grasp the fundamentals of how they operate. Others discuss cost savings or the destructive effect electr... (3187 more chars)

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Desktop Survey: 84% Will Not Upgrade to Windows 7 in the Next Year
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Windows 7 is Microsoft's latest version of the global desktop PC operating system. It seems most enterprises will eventually migrate to Windows 7, but they are not in any hurry to do so. More astoninshing, almost half of the enterprises surveyed are considering a s... (2237 more chars)

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Revisiting the Electronic Discovery Reference Model at IQPC
Written by Daniel Garrie
Recently I attended an IQPC conference where John Muldoon, from EMI Capital, and I were co-presenters, speaking about the Legal Business Marketplace and how rapidly it is growing . One question that was raised during our presentation was, “Is the EDRM ... (1916 more chars)

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How Is a CIO to Know?
Written by laton mccartney
What’s a CIO’s worst nightmare, other than being handed a pink slip? Well, one of them likely is appearing in front of an executive committee meeting and being asked a question by the CEO you can’t answer. For instance: “Fred, what are we doing to protect ourselves from ... (3936 more chars)
Telecommuting bait-and-switch
Written by Robert Lewis
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Bringing Hadoop to the Enterprise
Written by David F. Carr
For Cloudera , the exciting part of bringing Hadoop to the masses lies in going beyond the web companies that are already embracing it and capturing the attention of biotech, financial services, oil and gas, and other industries. In particular, the company is looking for organizations that fac... (7177 more chars)

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Go Mobile: CIOZone Now Delivers to Your Smartphone
Written by Mel Duvall
At CIOZone we've reported a lot in recent months on developments in the mobile space. As companies like Apple and RIM launch newer and more advanced versions of their smartphone devices, IT executives are finding these devices are becoming their primary link to email and the Web in general. ... (2287 more chars)

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CIOs Silent in Outsourcing/ Protectionism Debate
Written by laton mccartney
Can we keep jobs in the US and still take advantage of the economic benefits of outsourcing? This is a question that’s flared into a contentious debate, one that’s not going away as long as Americans continue to lose jobs. . It’s also an issue that is of vital concern to CIOs, y... (3899 more chars)

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The virtues of a virtual workforce
Written by Robert Lewis
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Legal and Technology Quake Line of Knowledge
Written by Daniel Garrie
Electronic Discovery Resource Gaps March 2, 2009 by danielgarrie In the realm of electronic discovery, technology teams often confront resource gaps that exacerbate the discovery issues that legal teams are confronting. The right toolset, one that proactively prepares the enterprise for discove... (2377 more chars)

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Electronic Discovery (Calculating Total Cost Expenditures)
Written by Daniel Garrie
Companies seeking to deploy electronic discovery (eDiscovery) solutions could benefit substantially by gaining visibility into the cost associated with the life of an email message–from an individual’s machine to the courthouse. This visibility into the cost can provide companies wi... (1899 more chars)
LIVE from Orlando... it's SNW!
Written by Thomas DelVecchio
Ok, so not exactly live, but what do you want... it's a blog. I just came out of the Cloud Computing Summit here at Storage Networking World & I wanted to highlight & summarize Ben Woo's presentation. Mr. Woo is a VP at IDC focusing on Storage Systems Research. I found Mr. Woo's pre... (5244 more chars)

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Should
Written by Margaret Meloni
Do you do things because you SHOULD do them or because you WANT to do them? How many times have you said something like this? “I SHOULD wash the car.” “I SHOULD call my sister.” “I SHOULD take this job offer.” When most of us use the word should it i... (1228 more chars)

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How To Start Your Own Internet Business
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Out of Work? Underemployed? or Just Starting your Own On-line Business? Build Your Website Cost Effectively The biggest mistake I see most start-ups & individuals make is spending way too much money on custom development of their website. They believe the si... (7288 more chars)

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Texas Says No to Vista
Written by Nathan Jackson
In what may sound like a poorly conceived April Fools' joke, the Texas state Senate on April 1 gave prelimary approval to a budget that would require government agencies to get legislative approval before adopting Microsoft's much-maligned Vista operating system. The proposal came... (1251 more chars)

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How to Hack Computer Systems
Written by David F. Carr
None of the other books I've read on computer security do quite as good job of explaining how criminal hackers work as this one: Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks from Start to Finish By Andrew Whitaker, Keatron Evans, Jack B. Voth Addison-Wesle... (6037 more chars)
The Sky is Falling - Again
Written by Mel Duvall
I took the family to the Grand Canyon for spring break last week, and despite my attempts, found it difficult to log onto the hotel's wireless Internet. So, I can be somewhat forgiven for having missed the predictions of doom associated with the Conficker 1 virus. Now that I'm back i... (2327 more chars)

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Risk Management and the Snooping Dragon
Written by laton mccartney
I just came upon two recent reports that should be required reading for any CIO concerned with risk management: “The Snooping Dragon: Social Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement” put out by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; and “Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cy... (3781 more chars)

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Out with objectives, in with technique?
Written by Robert Lewis
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Future Enterprise- Enterprise Information Integration
Written by David Hunter Tow
Information integration- combining information from different sources into a unified format, poses one of the most complex and critical technology challenges to the future enterprise. Huge volumes of transactional, customer, logistical and operational data are now being generated as organisations ex... (4756 more chars)
Technology behind whitehouse.gov's open for questions
Written by Jay Rajani
As you may know the open for questions feature on the whitehouse.gov has been visited by 92,935 people who have submitted 104,042 questions and cast 3,604,880 votes. The purpose is to allow citizens of the United States transparent access to the administration through the use of the internet.... (1543 more chars)

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Novell Hopes to Capitalize on Recession-driven Enthusiasm for Linux
Written by David F. Carr
Novell is talking up the results of a market survey conducted on its behalf by IDC showing "a surge in the acquisition of Linux driven by the worldwide recession." More than half of the enterprises surveyed said they would accelerate Linux adoption this year. In addition, more than 72 perc... (4598 more chars)

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Tweet This
Written by laton mccartney
By Laton McCartney Call me old fashioned—a laggard on the adaptation curve—but I’m a little leery of the Web 2,0 social networking tools to the extent that they’re being touted as mainstream business aids. In particular, Twitter, makes me a mite apprehe... (4196 more chars)
All the news that's fit to print won't be
Written by Robert Lewis
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Enterprise Architects: Use Today's Economic Challenges to Focus Efforts
Written by Forrester Research
By Gene Leganza In past years, enterprise architecture has made a journey up the value chain and 2009 will be no different. However, due to economic conditions, there's no doubt that the road will be bumpy at best. ... (4729 more chars)

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IBM & Sun: Who Gets Impacted & How
Written by Thomas DelVecchio
The "Great Consolidation" of 2009 appears to be underway based on recent CSCO & IBM news. I believe most in the technology & investor communities knew it was just a matter of time given macro economic conditions & what has been an overly congested space. Now the fun is to figure out "Who's Next... (2427 more chars)

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CWE Top 25 Breakdown - Part 2 of 4
Written by Michael S. Menefee
Last week we introduced the CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors in Part 1 of a 4 part series. This week we will discuss the first nine, which have been categorized in a group called “Insecure Interaction Between Components”. Being the first nine, they are als... (16037 more chars)

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Cisco Fires a Shot - IBM Goes to War
Written by Mel Duvall
It has been a very interesting week on the datacenter front. First, Cisco announced its entrance into the server market , unveiling what it calls the Unified Computing System. In short, Cisco has begun selling servers aimed at datacenters that combine computing, storage and ... (2896 more chars)

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Hadoop Gets Corporate Backing for Google-like Open Source Technology
Written by David F. Carr
The New York Times has a good write-up on Cloudera, a company formed to produce an commercially supported distribution of Hadoop, the open source project that replicates key distributed computing technologies used internally at Google (see: Hadoop, a Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Sear... (4302 more chars)

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It’s a Tough Job but Somebody Has to Do It
Written by laton mccartney
By Laton McCartney As far as I know, we can’t lay any of the blame for the current economic downturn at the doorstep of the nation’s CIOs. . Did CIOs issue any sub-prime mortgages? No to that. . Did CIOs leverage their companies’ investments by a ratio of 3... (4356 more chars)

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Global Financial Crisis is a time to reduce technical debt
Written by Andrew Baker
Global Financial Crisis is a time to reduce technical debt As witnessed recently, a build up of toxic debt can lead to a major crisis. I am not talking of financial debt that caused the GFC here; I am talking of the build up of technical debt. Just like... (4300 more chars)

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Who LSD is for
Written by Robert Lewis
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Are You Trigger Happy?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Once upon a time, there was a manager who led a Program Management Office (PMO) in an Information Technology department. The project managers in this organization worked for the PMO. One day, the PMO manager was on her way to lunch. She had been in meetings all morning and had n... (2138 more chars)

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New Fed CIO Placed on Leave Amid Scandal
Written by Mel Duvall
The White House confirmed Friday that Vivek Kundra, the newly named Federal Chief Information Officer, has been placed on leave, following arrests involving a Washington, D.C. government office he headed until recently. According to the Washington Post , Kundra was being pla... (1637 more chars)

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How To Maintain Your Learning Program In A Down Economy
Written by Forrester Research
By Claire Schooley There may be a silver lining to the current state of the global economy after all. The world's economic woes present new opportunities for innovative forms of learning using technology like informal learning, eLearning, and blended learning. Wit... (4207 more chars)
The Research Conundrum
Written by Thomas DelVecchio
We all know there's numerous, if not more than enough technology market intelligence research providers currently doing what most would say is a fair to better than average job. On the positive they stay current & sometimes even ahead of the trends of Red lighted & Green lighted technologies, as w... (4097 more chars)

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Is Software Development Risk Costing You Money?
Written by mtrots
Poor software project management often means missed deadlines, cost overruns or even outright failure of the project. How can your company avoid this industry-wide problem? In our brief you'll learn best practices for successfully completing software projects. Software development projects ... (11982 more chars)

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CWE Top 25 Breakdown - Part 1 of 4
Written by Michael S. Menefee
This week, we'll take a look at the recently published CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors . Since the Top 25 are broken into three main categories, it makes sense to address the list in three separate segments. But first, let's review what the CWE Top 25 is and its importance. ... (3251 more chars)

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Agile and the Art of the Deal
Written by David F. Carr
One of the more interesting conversations about software development I had over the past year was with the CIO of a major cruise line, whom I'd been introduced to by a consulting firm that wanted to tell the story of its contributions to a successful agile development project. But to the CIO, the s... (6915 more chars)

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Did Bernie Madoff Have a CIO?
Written by laton mccartney
Here’s my question of the day. For thirteen years Bernard Madoff was able to carry out a Ponzi scheme of staggering proportions, duping, by one estimate, as many as 8,000 or so clients out of $50 billion dollars. . Of course, we now know that during that period Madoff never actually ma... (4660 more chars)

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Leery of Lean
Written by Robert Lewis
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New Fed CIO Doesn't Have Gray Hairs - Yet
Written by Mel Duvall
In the months prior to the appointment of a new Federal Chief Information Officer, speculation had mounted on who President Barack Obama might tap for the critical role - or to a corresponding position of Chief Technology Officer. For the most part, the candidates were senior statesmen of the ... (3167 more chars)

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Key IT Roles for Cost Reduction
Written by Forrester Research
By Marc Cecere It seems like every CIO I talk with has or is creating a plan to reduce costs. Whether they’re shooting for a svelte, wiry, emaciated or lean organization, there are a number of common roles that senior IT people say are critical to this goal. IT planners set up the mechan... (2114 more chars)

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Software Development with Ambient Intelligence
Written by David F. Carr
The AbiComp project is one of the cooler things I saw at CeBit, the information and communications technology trade show in Hannover, Germany. This is hardware and software technology for controlling multiple embedded systems that work in concert – the example on display was a couple of ... (1940 more chars)

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Survey Finds Careless Employees Feared Top Security Threat
Written by Mel Duvall
The economic recession is clearly creating anxiety among IT professionals over the threat posed by fired or disgruntled employees. However, a poll conducted in the month of February by CIOZone found that risks posed by careless employees are still deemed the No. 1 security threat. CIOZone asked... (2182 more chars)

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Jason Fried on Web Development "Byproducts"
Written by David F. Carr
Just a few highlights from Jason Fried's talk at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami last week. Because of business travel, I'm just getting a break to write about it now. Fried is CEO of 37 Signals , the company best known for producing team and personal productivity applications like... (3605 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Virtual Metaverse
Written by David Hunter Tow
The Web is now beginning to host an immersive 3D sensory environment that combines elements of social and virtual worlds such as Second Life with increasingly dense geographical mapping applications using Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Representations of the earth’s natural and urb... (2904 more chars)

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Spotting weak managers
Written by Robert Lewis
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Mobile Apps: The Tipping Point for CIOs
Written by laton mccartney
The term “tipping point” is usually defined as "the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable." In other words, like it or not, you can’t ignore what’s become inevitable. Now, I have no empirical basis for this, but many CIOs, I believe, have yet to recogni... (2689 more chars)
Marking Territory
Written by Margaret Meloni
As Jeffrey walked into the room, he made sure to introduce himself to any new faces. Right away he stuck out his hand and said, “Hi, I am Jeffrey Zieba; you have probably heard about me, I am the youngest person ever to be promoted to an executive position at our company.” Attendees who alre... (2011 more chars)

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More Conference Mayhem: i2 Cancels Planet
Written by Mel Duvall
In January we reported that research firm Gartner had cancelled two of its showcase conferences, the Symposium ITxpo scheduled for Las Vegas in May, and the Symposium ITxpo scheduled for Barcelona, Spain. Now comes word that supply chain software specialist i2 Technologies has pulled the plug o... (2542 more chars)

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How to successfully hire a consultant
Written by Alex Silberman
Consultants fill immediate needs, are easily engaged and disengaged as opposed to hiring and firing, and can help businesses get over many humps and solve many stubborn problems. Although well and good in theory, the overwhelming experience in hiring consultants is tepid at best. This is bec... (8589 more chars)

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The Future of the Browser
Written by David F. Carr
AJAX applications have revolutionized our expectations of what we can do within the browser. But what more would we be able to do with browsers that were just a little smarter. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith of Mozilla Labs offered some clues in a "What is the Future of the Browser?" session at th... (5282 more chars)
Whatever It Takes
Written by laton mccartney
By Laton McCartney Today just about every technology consultant, research firm and IT pundit is coming out with ideas that can enable CIOs to help stay off the effects of the current economic crisis without necessary slashing staff to the bare bone. Some of these ideas are pretty good, and fra... (2822 more chars)

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Recognizing exceptional applicants
Written by Robert Lewis
Reprinted from Keep the Joint Running . ManagementSpeak: We’re looking for someone with Windows, Linux, and SQL skills. Translation: We don’t value critical thinking, adaptability, maturity, and good judgment. But we value accurate translations, like this one from ... (5071 more chars)
Should Obama Give Stimulus to Open Source Initiatves?
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Recently, there has been some discussion about how open source software initiatives should be embraced and given equal time in the federal stimulus plan as a tool to help the US federal government pull us out of the current economic recession. Bill Synder of InfoWorld sent a letter to the O... (2296 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Intelligent Enterprise Revolution
Written by David Hunter Tow
Artificial intelligence support within the enterprise continues to expand, driven by the never-ending quest for global competitveness. A number of AI techniques are rapidly reaching maturity and will be an essential component of the enterprise e-commerce and web intelligence revolution of the fu... (3982 more chars)

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Back To Basics — IT Strategy In Turbulent Times
Written by Forrester Research
By Alexander Peters, Ph.D. In this tough global economy, your firm must innovate with less. For you - as a CIO- this means pursuing two apparently orthogonal strategies in parallel: reduce costs through higher efficiencies in operations, while in parallel investing in technology-enabled capa... (4020 more chars)

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Are CIOs in Danger of Losing Their Influence?
Written by Mel Duvall
As companies struggle through the recession, a question that frequently arises is whether chief information officers are in danger of losing clout within their organizations. The theory goes, companies will be so focused on cutting costs that they will look to CIOs to simply keep the lights on rathe... (5908 more chars)
The Yahoo User Interface Library, An Appreciation
Written by David F. Carr
For the three years, Yahoo! has been encouraging others to rip off big chunks of its user interface, and it's becoming increasingly common for major websites such as LinkedIn to take advantage of the offer. I'm talking about the Yahoo User Interface Library , a set of user HTML/CSS/JavaScri... (5532 more chars)
To cut your budget, hire expensive employees
Written by Robert Lewis
Management Speak: Please apply for this position using our online application process. Translation: You're a number. Don't bother calling us. We consider KJR Club member Mark Rathbun, who provided this week's translation, to be much more than a mere integer. Ready for ugly? ... (5054 more chars)
The Gravy Train Stops Where?
Written by laton mccartney
OK, I actually read the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, AKA the Senate's $787 billion Economic Recovery Bill that passed last week. To be perfectly honest, I tried to read it with an eye to determining which areas of the technology industry stand to gain most from this... (3693 more chars)
Buying an Electronic Discovery System is Cheaper and Safer than Renting It
Written by Daniel Garrie
According to industry analysts, a company with more than 10 legal matters a year should evaluate the acquisition of an electronic discovery solution. Besides the potential financial savings, a company can achieve the peace of mind of controlling their own data. p {text-indent: 0cm} p.box{border... (1028 more chars)
Get It Right or Forget It
Written by Margaret Meloni
People who seek perfection can be wonderful team members. They are usually smart; detail oriented and approach problems systematically. They tend to be excellent subject matter experts. Their strengths include accuracy, organization and being goal oriented. So how could the rest of us ever have a... (1427 more chars)

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Optimizing Application and Project Portfolios in Volatile Times
Written by Forrester Research
Four Steps To Optimize Your Application And Project Portfolios In Volatile Economic Times By Phil Murphy, Margo Visitacion The current global economic instability is forcing organizations to make tough decisions: some will cut costs; some will proceed with business-as-usual; while sti... (3790 more chars)

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Email Makes for a Great Website
Written by David F. Carr
Often, part of what makes a great website great doesn't take place on the web at all. A great Internet site embraces other ways of communicating with its audience, and prime among them is email -- the quality of the confirmation messages, receipts, password reminders, newsletters and bulletins you ... (5682 more chars)

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9 Steps to a Hassle Free and Effective Software Development Project
Written by mtrots
By ExecutiveBrief Staff. Following these nine steps may be the ultimate secret weapon to winning business and successfully delivering new easy-to-use software that meets and exceeds expectations. Has your company developed entirely new software or added to software already in use t... (11687 more chars)

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A cardigan with a combover
Written by Andrew Baker
Why do technical staff often have no respect for IT management, and how do we improve the perception? I'm sure this is true for other domains, but my experience is in IT as is the focus of this site and the subject of today’s blog. As an example, a friend of mine works for a company where the... (2520 more chars)

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SHARE Conference Bucks Recession Trend
Written by Mel Duvall
News a month ago that research firm Gartner was canceling two of its showcase conferences hit the IT community like a bomb. Sure, things are tough out there, but the Gartner conferences have always been well attended and were thought to be a key moneymaker for the research firm. The Gartner new... (1985 more chars)

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The Risk Management Mandate for CIOs
Written by laton mccartney
I'm not quite sure how this came about, but many CIOs have been given a major new responsibility—that is implementing an enterprise risk management system. As you likely know, risk management software is one of the few technology segments where spending is projected to increases in 2009... (4108 more chars)
Should I be worried about my web applications?
Written by Michael S. Menefee
An interesting article published earlier this week on Information Week's website here called "Web Applications: Achilles' Heel Of Corporate Security" discusses the tremendous rise in web-application breaches and attacks this past year. IBM's 2008 X-Force Trend and Risk report which was re... (2593 more chars)

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Poll Finds IT/Business Alignment Still Top Priority
Written by Mel Duvall
The recession is clearly having a major impact on organizations, but that still doesn’t appear to have taken the focus away from a traditional IT priority: IT/Business Alignment. During the month of January, CIOZone conducted a poll on the Top Technology Priorities of 2009. With the economy c... (2605 more chars)

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The Dark Secrets Behind Hiring a Consultant
Written by Alex Silberman
My name is Alex Silberman. I’m a management consultant. Although reasonably bright, I’m probably not smarter than many of my clients, and in more instances than I care to admit, I’m probably less so. I don’t provide staff augmentation, I’m not a body shop, I don’t follow the framework of... (5342 more chars)

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Can You Do Everything?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Can you do everything? If you can, please stop reading and start writing. Please reply to Margaret@MeloniCoaching.com with your secret, right away. I know the rest of us would benefit from your expertise. But just in case none of you respond, let’s talk about asking for help. Do you m... (1630 more chars)

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Security, data breaches and PCI DSS
Written by Andrew Baker
I just read the article “Does PCI compliance work” (at http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Blogs/view/2668/.html ) and decided to blog this instead of adding it as a discussion to that article. The article discusses “purpose and usefulness of PCI DSS and other similar regulations” There... (2622 more chars)

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Does PCI Compliance Work?
Written by Michael S. Menefee
Given the presence of yet another very high-profile data breach from a supposedly PCI-compliant organization, many have begun to question the purpose and usefulness of PCI DSS and other similar regulations. There is a valid argument here, but let’s consider the purpose for these regulations. ... (1909 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Recommender Systems
Written by David Hunter Tow
Recommender systems are helping online consumers make purchasing decisions based on user information that is most relevant to them. Users offer feedback on purchased items and the recommender system then uses that information to predict future preferences, customised within a personal context. Mo... (4034 more chars)

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Top 10 Issues Observed During Pen Tests in 2008
Written by Michael S. Menefee
There has been a lot of press, effort and money focused on Web Application Security over the past year–and rightly so. The attack footprint for many publicly-facing web applications has been growing as new web and browser-based vulnerabilities are being discovered at a scary pace. The PCI DSS pu... (2223 more chars)

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What’s in Store for Outsourcing in 2009?
Written by mtrots
There are plenty of reasons to be positive about the role that outsourcing will play in the global economic resurgence. Here are some of the projections for the industry in 2009. "Whenever there’s a downturn people outsource more, not less. Organizations want to take costs out wherever the... (3344 more chars)

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Electronic Discovery & Collaboration
Written by Daniel Garrie
The onset of electronic discovery was predictable and logical, but its effect on business has been disruptive and confusing. Fortunately, electronic discovery (eDiscovery) technologies have been evolving quickly, arguably quicker than the courts in some cases. The onset of electronic discovery ... (1097 more chars)

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It’s Not a New Year
Written by Margaret Meloni
(If you keep doing the same old things) You have probably heard or seen the expression, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This expression has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and others. ... (2546 more chars)

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Looking for Outsourcing Projects?
Written by Rajkumar Yadav
"ITMatchOnline.com" is the World’s leading outsourcing/freelancing portal, dealing in to providing the service buyer contact details. Post Project requirements FREE on: projects@itmatchonline.com and save you project cost upto 70%. Benefits to Post Project on ITMatchOnline? - World’s No. ... (984 more chars)

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An Excellent Manual for Self Study CCDP Aspirers, for 642-873 ARCH exam
Written by Yasir Irfan
Recently I had the opportunity to read the rough cut edition of the book “Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) (Authorized Self-Study Guide), Second Edition”, ISBN 9781587058431, thanks to Pearson Education and Safari Online for offering an access the rough cut. You can see the ... (319 more chars)

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Sign of Times: Gartner Cancels Flagship Conferences
Written by Mel Duvall
There have been many warnings that the technology sector cannot escape the damage being caused by the current recession, but news arising out of the technology research firm sector this week showed how deep the impact may be. In a clear sign of the times, Gartner, the venerable Stamford, Mass.-... (1113 more chars)

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Data Breaches Soared in 2008
Written by Mel Duvall
The number of data breaches increased dramatically in 2008, according to a report released by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). According to the non-profit organization, businesses and other organizations disclosed 656 breaches in 2008, a 47% increase over the 446 reported the year bef... (1584 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Customer Support Systems
Written by David Hunter Tow
Customer or Consumer Support Systems- CSS, are designed to enhance business-customer relations by supporting consumer decision-making. There is increasing pressure on enterprises to provide support for CSS as a Customer Demand Chain process designed to channel the flow of information between busi... (2275 more chars)

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Cisco Etherchannel Overview and how it can be configured in Cisco Catalyst Switches – Series 1
Written by Yasir Irfan
Dear Friends in this upcoming series of posts I would like to concentrate on Etherchannel , what is Etherchannel? , what rules and restrictions are applied to an Etherchannel and finally I will show you how to configure an Etherchannel in Cisco Switches both layer 2 as well as layer 3. For furthe... (219 more chars)

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The Rise of the Enterprise Strategist
Written by Wesley McGregor
More and more of my work these days is moving from isolationist IT strategy development to fully integrated approaches to business and IT strategies combined. The notion that IT is premier is certainly gone; it has been replaced by the realization that business is enhanced, nay fully realized, only ... (619 more chars)

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Sox
Written by laton mccartney
Why Sox Sucks By Laton McCartney It's been awhile since I've heard anyone talk about Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbox or SOX. You may recall that the so-called Sarbanes-Oxley Act came into being in 2002 in the wake on the Enron scandal and other corporate shenanigans that involved smoke, m... (2832 more chars)
CIOZone at One
Written by Mel Duvall
2008 will be remembered for many things, including the presidential election, the massive brokerage failures and the ensuing economic meltdown. But around here at CIOZone, it is significant for another reason. With the beginning of the New Year, CIOZone officially turned one year old. And... (5060 more chars)

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Corporate Compliance and the IT Department
Written by Peter Rothman
Compliance programs directly affect IT operations, policies and prcedures and IT budgets. Organizations often leave their back-up and recovery policies and procedures up to their IT departments. What organizations forget to realize is that these programs must be aligned with their compliance init... (667 more chars)

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Your Intentions are Talking About You
Written by Margaret Meloni
For many weeks now you have listened to one of your colleagues say, “I really should dust off my resume, this position is not growing my career.” In spite of this it never occurs to you that your colleague is truly going to make a job change. You hear many people talk about what they should d... (1858 more chars)

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The Price of Right
Written by Margaret Meloni
No, that is not an error. This story is called ‘The Price of Right’; not to be confused with the game show, ‘The Price is Right’. What is ‘The Price of Right’? It is that toll we pay when it is more important to be right than it is to exercise tact. What made me think of th... (1823 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Virtual Manufacturing
Written by David Hunter Tow
Using real-time simulations, manufacturers are working out problems in their processes and plant operations, without building costly prototypes. Computer simulation and collaboration technologies, known collectively as digital or virtual manufacturing, are being used by car, drug and aerospace compa... (3813 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Enterprise Transformation
Written by David Hunter Tow
A variety of factors are driving frenetic change in the 21st century, including major shifts in the geopolitical, economic, environmental and technological landscape. Two major trends are Globalisation and the volume and complexity of information processing, driven in large part by the service econo... (4048 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Creativity Support Tools
Written by David Hunter Tow
Over the last ten years enterprise market–based services and service value networks have become the main drivers of productivity and economic growth. Globalisation, increasing automation, growth of the Internet and dynamic componentisation of business, are all driving the growth of the service eco... (2677 more chars)

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What Agile Methods Mean to Your Process, People, and Products
Written by mtrots
Studies show that most successful projects were those that followed agile principles, proving that model-driven methods are not always the best when it came to managing changes, fast-paced project implementation, or even meeting market demands. The concept of agile development is not new. H... (3875 more chars)

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Stranded in the Snow? Use a Mobile App
Written by Mel Duvall
As a person who frequently travels for business I have been struck in recent months by the number of people I see leaving their laptops behind in favor of a BlackBerry, iPhone, or one of those nifty Netbooks. Increasingly, they are finding they can not only make do with a smartphone, bu... (1319 more chars)
Success Imperatives: Forrester's guide for CIO success during the recession
Written by Forrester Research
Success Imperatives: Forrester's guide for CIO success during the recession By Bill Band, Forrester Research In light of the recent sudden and dramatic deterioration of the economic climate, what are the key trends driving customer management strategies and the adoption of CRM techno... (4315 more chars)
The Pros and Cons of SaaS
Written by mtrots
Much has been said lately about Software as a Service (SaaS), which is often interchangeably referred to as “cloud computing”. While pundits may disagree on whether SaaS is cloud computing, its primary feature is application provided as a service to customers via the internet. Because applicat... (2987 more chars)

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A Not So Green Apple
Written by Mel Duvall
One of the surprising findings to come out of an international study on climate change practices at corporations was that among the top technology firms, consumer favorite Apple Inc. came in last. And it didn’t just come in last by a slim margin, there was an iceberg-sized gulf between it and... (3875 more chars)

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Cisco Systems announces CCIE Wireless Certification
Written by Yasir Irfan
Dear Friends Cisco Systems has announced the availably of CCIE Wireless Certification and it’s confirmed. So what are waiting for, you can start planning for the prestigious CCIE Wireless Certification, again Cisco proves they are concerned about the latest technological developments in the field ... (252 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Biometric Marketing
Written by David Hunter Tow
A biometric is a unique physical or behavioural attribute that can be used to identify an individual uniquely. By applying biometric technology to online marketing, the user can be uniquely identified and associated with an individual consumer profile. Increasing interest in biometrics has led to ra... (2980 more chars)

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Beyond Cost-Savings: How to Make the Most Out of IT Outsourcing
Written by mtrots
If technology is so critical to the success of the company, then why is it being outsourced to different parts of the planet? These suggested strategies can prove that there is more to outsourcing beyond cutting costs. The most oft-cited reason for outsourcing parts of business operations ar... (3375 more chars)

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Should CIOs Be In Charge of Marketing?
Written by Mel Duvall
An interesting trend seems to have been developing of late. In several recent chief information officer or chief technology officer hirings, companies have announced that the new IT chief would not only be responsible for information systems, but also head up marketing operations. At first blus... (2592 more chars)

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Mental Telepathy
Written by Margaret Meloni
Unfortunately a recurring complaint from customers regarding Information Technology professionals is lack of communication. Apparently our end users and customers cannot read our minds! Here are some examples: “We reported that the system was not available. We used proper channels. Ev... (1140 more chars)

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Recession-Proof Your Business by Recession-Proofing IT
Written by mtrots
Whatever the economic realities may be, technology is an integral part of majority of business operations the world over. How do you maintain your tech-reliant operations in the midst of a challenging business climate? Most global businesses depend on technology and business partners to r... (3664 more chars)

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SAP User Group CEO Ousted Amid Controversy
Written by Mel Duvall
SAP’s largest user group has fired its chief executive, Steven Strout, amid a growing controversy over the software company’s decision to hike maintenance fees. The America’s SAP Users’ Group, or ASUG, issued a statement saying that it had “released Strout from his duties.” Strout w... (2415 more chars)

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Don't Kill the Message
Written by Margaret Meloni
You may have heard the phrase, don’t kill the messenger. It means if someone has the unfortunate task of delivering bad news; don’t take it out on them. This phrase is frequently attributed to the ancient Greek and then later Roman custom of employing messengers to carry news throughout the e... (1135 more chars)

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Telemarketing for the IT/Technology industry
Written by Fiaz Khan
Maverick Telemarketing Rise of the Professionals! Many organisations in today’s climate are questioning their investment into lead generation and appointment making…so should you be considering outsourcing? The success of Telemarketing has proven to outweigh that of field sales. It als... (6334 more chars)

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Electronic Discovery & Koolaid
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Buying electronic discovery solutions what are the golden rules? Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to post them and ask everyone to comment. Rule #1: Koolaid eDiscovery Test Whomever is selling you the solution knows that they or at a minimim the software company uses the soluti... (499 more chars)
Future Enterprise- The Virtual Enterprise
Written by David Hunter Tow
The Virtual Enterprise is based on the thesis that selecting and channeling a dynamic group of organisational individuals, functional units and resources such as web services, processes, data sets and computing capacity drawn from multiple sources, can best implement a particular project or common s... (4144 more chars)

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My Interaction with Mr. Anssi Vanjoki (EVP of Nokia)
Written by Vishal Singhal
Day before yesterday, I attended the CEO forum organized by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Whole event was very well organized and most experts from the telecom and mobile field in general were there among the attendees. Mr. Anssi Vanjoki (EVP of Nokia) was the key speaker for the... (2066 more chars)

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AppLabs Named to Deloitte Fast 500
Written by Peter Winicov
United States of America (Press Release) November 27, 2008 -- Philadelphia, Lindon, USA; London, UK; Hyderabad, India; November 28, 2008: AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company, today announced that it has been named to Deloitte's pre... (414 more chars)

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Licensing Rant
Written by Rob Vargas
I really, really, don't like licensing these days. One vendor for a product we use requires an entirely new license key file every time we install the product. Same machine, same version, same user, support contract still active. I'm all for companies protecting their I.P. But why place *such* a ... (374 more chars)

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Courtesy on Airplanes Should Be a Law
Written by Pat Dwight
Courtesy really matters in confined areas where many people, mostly strangers, are sitting side-by-side. While sitting in coach class seating on a recent trip I was reminded that personal space becomes even more important when we can’t pick our seat mates. As the middle passenger, there were... (3048 more chars)

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Preparation is No Guarantee That Your Media Event Will Succeed
Written by Pat Dwight
If The Pope doesn't get shot…We've got an Event! A colleague of mine tells a true story about a PR event that he managed several years ago. As an expert PR guy, his plan and execution were flawless, but the event received almost no media coverage. Here’s that story. In a small city in the ... (3136 more chars)

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Cyber Monday Deals to Battle Tough Holiday Season
Written by Mel Duvall
This Christmas shopping season will likely be one of the toughest on record for retailers as consumers tighten their belts in the wake of the economic downturn. As a result retailers are expected to battle more than ever before on the Internet for shoppers by offering a wide range of online-onl... (1443 more chars)

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What Form Of Communication Do IT Pros Prefer?
Written by John McCormick
Yes, information technology professionals, like everyone else, feel more connected to other people thanks for smartphones, instant messaging and other immediate communication tools. Still, less urgent communications – such as e-mail and face-to-face conversations – are the preferred form of com... (1320 more chars)

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Quoted in...
Written by Bill Lang
Bill Lang Quoted in For the Record: Disaster Recovery — Lessons From Tulane’s Response to Katrina Monday, March 02, 2009 Milwaukee, WI -March 2, 2009- Bill Lang, CBCP, CBCV, MBCI, VCPI’s Business Continuity Program Manager, was interviewed by For the Record’s Alice Shepherd last Decemb... (5794 more chars)
Can Cloud Computing Save Your IT Budget
Written by Peter Rothman
Cloud computing is far more advanced than many people realize. Google is leading the charge offering free or low cost apps that compete with the Microsoft Applications we run on our desktops and servers, without the need for complex server infrastructures. Gmail can support the most organizations w... (906 more chars)

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CIOZone Points Program
Written by Jay Rajani
I wanted to let the CIOZone community know that we've launched a points program which will allow our registered members to accumulate points for participation on the site through comments, forum posts, group posts, etc. Please leave a comment below and let me know if you've had a chance to see ... (87 more chars)

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6 Key Points On Green IT
Written by John McCormick
Attendees at AIT Global’s GreenTech conference, which was held last week on the Brooklyn campus of NYU-Polytechnic, generally came away with six points about Green IT. No. 1. There’s a big problem out there. There’s too much equipment, generating too much heat, in too little space... (2578 more chars)

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IDC Predicts $300 Billion in Tech Spending to Evaporate
Written by Mel Duvall
As the economic clouds continue to darken, research firm IDC is now predicting that spending on information technology will be slashed significantly from earlier forecasts in 2009. IDC is still predicting growth in IT spending, but in the United States it says that growth will be reduced to a tr... (2446 more chars)
Yes He Can. Obama Uses Web to Transition into Whitehouse
Written by Mel Duvall
The team behind Barack Obama’s presidential campaign set the bar for how the Internet will be leveraged in future elections. But already the president-elect is demonstrating the effectiveness of the Internet in maintaining an ongoing dialogue with the electorate. His transition team has erect... (1696 more chars)

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Problem, What Problem?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Oh there is a problem alright. And it starts with the fact that you have a boss, peer or subordinate who is completely in denial about the chaos that is all around them. If they do see any kind of issues, well those issues start with you. This is not meant to be spiteful. This is the behavior of so... (2418 more chars)

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Electronic Discovery: We Can Do It!
Written by Daniel Garrie
Recently, in a discussion I was having with a colleague, they got a basic concept: it does NOT make sense to keep a large amount of information when it does NOT make them money. Recently, in a discussion I was having with a colleague, they got a basic concept: it does... (1218 more chars)

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Behind The SOA Slowdown
Written by John McCormick
Gartner recently released some surprising news about service-oriented architecture adoption. While the majority of large organizations are moving ahead with SOA, the IT research company said, a growing number are holding off plans to deploy the software development framework, which allows comp... (1433 more chars)

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Healthcare Technology and Barack Obama
Written by Jay Rajani
The victory of Barack Obama is a historic moment for the United States and one of the issues has been health care reform and cutting costs that arise from the use of paper. According to the barackobama.com site: "Lower Health Care Costs by Investing in Electronic Information Technology Sys... (1187 more chars)

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eCommerce survey: Holiday tech problems possible
Written by Peter Winicov
As we enter the holiday shopping season, a survey by AppLabs finds that more than 25% of respondents are concerned that their websites are at risk for failure. AppLabs is the largest independent global IT services company specializing in quality management, testing, and certification solutions. ... (439 more chars)

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Electing the President of a Web 2.0 Country
Written by Mel Duvall
As Americans take to the polls, there is a sense at home and around the world that this election will be one for the ages. Not only is it the first time a black American could be elected president, but it also takes place against one of the most dramatic backgrounds of the past century: an econ... (3953 more chars)

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Is Twitter a Paradigm Shift?
Written by John Kotsaftis
A paradigm shift is defined as a change from one way of thinking to another. Since the beginning of the Internet we have experienced many paradigm shifts, such as the invention of the browser & World Wide Web, eCommerce, and the various forms of communication that have driven the usage of the med... (3742 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Evolutionary Design
Written by David Hunter Tow
Harnessing the evolutionary biological process via software simulation, offers a rapid computational process that can learn and become expert in almost any knowledge domain. This provides a powerful means of solving complex engineering and design problems, often involving non-linear and chaotic proc... (1841 more chars)

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Do You Yell?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Do you raise your voice at the office? When you are happy do you let out loud exclamations of joy? When you want to make a point, do you raise your voice for emphasis? Maybe you have one special person that you talk to when you need to vent. You probably look forward to talking with this perso... (1826 more chars)

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Mentoring
Written by Francoise Hoorneit
I really need a IT mentor as I have this problem where after working at a organization for over 4 years, Im not going somewhere within the team. People are just slaving of me, and move up the leather after I mentored them. Mananement are overlooking me, and I don't kno what the problem is. Is there... (57 more chars)

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3 IT Skills In Highest Demand
Written by John McCormick
Some good news for IT staffers. Some not-so-good news for CIOs searching for talent – especially those looking for Web developers, top programmers, and help desk staffers. According to a just released report from IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology, IT unemployment remains low relati... (1748 more chars)

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The Darker Side of BI
Written by Mel Duvall
One of the great promises of data mining and business intelligence software is that companies can use insights gained to more finely tune their marketing and sales campaigns. By better understanding their customers, their income levels, shopping habits, and behaviors, companies can personalize ... (2503 more chars)

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IT Workers On The Move
Written by Bill Gerneglia
Did you know that 9% of all IT workers in their 20s are looking to change careers not just their jobs. Many of them do not enjoy working with computers and would rather apply their problem solving and analytical skills in a different way. - Fortune Magazine Another interesting tidbit "To... (986 more chars)

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Welcome to the Petabyte Club
Written by Mel Duvall
Datawarehousing company Teradata welcomed five members into an elite new club this week – one that it dubbed the “Petabyte Power Players.” The members of this club each have data warehousing environments that exceed one petabyte, a capacity that not so long ago seemed far beyond the need ... (2171 more chars)

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Criteria of Key vendors
Written by Lian Guan
I’d like to share or bounce it off from someone in case that you have similar policy or considerations. The concern is obviously from client perspectives, and with consideration of accommodating internal politics (hey who does NOT have them?). The intention is to establish a set principles at a... (1669 more chars)

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Top 10 Technologies for 2009
Written by John McCormick
Gartner, the market research company, just came out with its list of the top 10 strategic technologies for 2009. On the list: Virtualization. Not just server virtualization, which allows different operating systems to run on a server simultaneously, but also storage virtualization (which ... (4899 more chars)

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Lower your legal operation costs by owning your data and applying common sense
Written by Daniel Garrie
Stephen Breyer, a justice on America’s Supreme Court, recently expressed concern that, with ordinary cases costing millions just in e-discovery work, “you’re going to drive out of the litigation system a lot of people who ought to be there” so... (2647 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Social Media 2.0
Written by David Hunter Tow
The new social media has manifested in a number of ways including – mobile media, ubiquitous media and media tagging and semantics. The mobile media model makes media access available anywhere and anytime, on demand and interactively, including an ever-widening variety of formats- wikis, blogs,... (2992 more chars)

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Who's the Bigget Loser in Tech?
Written by Mel Duvall
Let’s face it, misery loves company. So while you’re bemoaning the current state of your stock portfolio, you might be wondering just how bad Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and the other tech gazillionaires are faring these days. Technology stocks may not have been hit as hard as the bank, hou... (1454 more chars)

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How Many People Spend Time On Social Networks?
Written by John McCormick
Harvard Business Publishing just published the following statistic on social networking: “25% of Internet users in the U.S. spend time on social networking sites, according to the Conference Board's Consumer Internet Barometer, and about half of them visit these sites multiple times per... (194 more chars)

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Does your IT Strategy have Strong Fundamentals?
Written by sumitro sarkar
Cutting capital projects and reducing headcount are the most popular means to reduce IT costs. CIOs often fall into this trap and experience a creeping operating cost structure in subsequent years after the cost cut. In my previous blog entry, I had explained this phenomenon in detail. In this one,... (9265 more chars)

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Gartner’s IT Budget Advice To CIOs
Written by John McCormick
Gartner earlier this week came out with some words of wisdom for CIO working on IT budgets for next year – plan on doing a lot of re-budgeting. Given today’s economic uncertainty, the research company advised IT decision makers to put together a number of contingency plans for next year t... (782 more chars)

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CIOs Still See IT Budget Increases For '09
Written by John McCormick
So, given the state of the economy, where are IT budgets headed? The latest insight comes from the Society for Information Management (SIM), the national organization of CIOs and other IT professionals. SIM reported earlier today that despite a discouraging economic outlook,... (1270 more chars)

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SOA May Ease Merrill Lynch Integration
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s clear Bank of America has a difficult challenge ahead as it looks to integrate several large financial services organizations. But work performed at Merrill Lynch over the last several years to implement a service oriented architecture (SOA) framework, could help ease some of those pains. ... (1774 more chars)

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Do You Suffer From TMI?
Written by Margaret Meloni
Do you suffer from TMI? What new disorder is TMI? You may know it as ‘Too Much Information’ syndrome. TMI often surfaces when you are the recipient of more information than you care to absorb from another individual. Or information that quite frankly you could do without. Think about the co-w... (1939 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Social Computing 2.0
Written by David Hunter Tow
Social computing has traditionally applied computational and analytic techniques to the study of social and cultural behaviour and the modelling of social interactions and communication. In a more recent trend, social computing applications now frequently focus on web-supported online communities ... (3081 more chars)

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Connexall - Ultimate Integration Platform
Written by Daniel Tavares
Has anybody used this software for integration?

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Bank CIOs Have Reason to be Nervous
Written by Mel Duvall
The turmoil on Wall Street has been difficult on most people employed in the financial services industry, and the heads of IT departments are no different. There have been a number of changes at the top ranks in recent months, so much so that it's getting hard to keep score without a program. ... (4832 more chars)

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Cell Phone Technology and Teen Social Patterns
Written by Bill Gerneglia
What can IT professionals learn from a youngster about technology? Perhaps simply that today's trend is tomorrow's toolset. The world of communications is always changing as we know, below are some new trends. According to a recent Survey by HarrisInteractive : According to this national s... (1061 more chars)

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Enterprise to Chrome: Not in my Backyard
Written by Jay Rajani
According to a recent CIO Jury Poll: "In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not testing it." The Jury Members included: Chris Broad, head of IS and Techno... (1584 more chars)

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Managed Security Services Market Stays Strong
Written by John McCormick
I just learned of another information technology area that doesn’t seem to be feeling much, if any, squeeze. IDC reported this week that the U.S. managed security services market is expected to grow at a compound rate of more than 17% and hit $2.8 billion by 2012. It’s a bit of a slowdow... (891 more chars)

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Starting a small IT firm
Written by Suresh N
Starting as IT firm in small level is so easy, with one or few customers! But you should have the vision and mission plan for your company! It’s very important. And being an IT guy if you started a company by trusting your tech skill, you cannot run it in long run. i saw so many guys who started e... (302 more chars)

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Timesheet
Written by Les Forrest
Hi, We employ approximate 1200 apprentices in Western Australia.These apprentices are usually aged between 18 and 24, and we hire/train them and they then gain their apprenticeship at a host company. Being in WA, that will be in construction or mining. Currently we require the apprentice to com... (685 more chars)

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From ZEK Law on Electronic Discovery & Information Governance
Written by Daniel Garrie
CIOZONE Blog Entry – September 23, 2008 (Written by Anthony Giacobe and Yoav Griver) Utilizing technology to manage discovery is not just a sound method of lowering the costs of litigation and compliance (as discussed on this blog before), but is necessary simply to satisfy a company’s lega... (2558 more chars)

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ERP - Simplifying Perceptions
Written by Tanmay Roy
Have you ever applied your mind to know what Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is all about? Quite likely the answer would be mostly ‘no’. Some of you might have already ventured into this rather exciting, though complex world of ERP, but there are many others who may not have got any f... (10219 more chars)

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The Only Thing I Said
Written by Margaret Meloni
The only thing I said is what you heard. I can’t take credit for this expression because I learned it in a coaching skills course a few years ago. Once I took a minute to process the sentence, (because my mind had one of those ‘Hey, wait a minute, what are you saying?’ moments); it rea... (1933 more chars)

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ERP: Change Management Perceptions
Written by Tanmay Roy
Volumes have been written and spoken on how to manage changes while implementing an ERP project. Most of these writings do, however, instead of clearing the air, often end up making it misty creating problems for the people to clearly see the changed scenario. There are very few articles whic... (4535 more chars)

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ERP: Simulating Technologies
Written by Tanmay Roy
ERP generally symbolizes a class of business level automation products that integrates the business processes by what is called mapping or modeling. The definition is very broad indeed. It conceals more than what it reveals. The definition conjures of a myriad of visions about the power and lim... (4336 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Autonomic Computing Systems
Written by David Hunter Tow
For service providers to cope with the growing scale, complexity and time constraints of applications, supporting systems must become largely automatic- that is capable of managing their own operation with minimum human intervention. Such self-management is a hallmark of autonomic computing systems.... (2711 more chars)

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Telecom Market Spending Growing Almost 8%
Written by John McCormick
There may be worries that overall IT expenditure may be trimmed, but worldwide telecommunications spending isn’t slowing. The market will likely reach $2 trillion this year, a 7.6% bump over last year’s $1.8 trillion, according to a just-released report from Gartner. In the telecom s... (1006 more chars)

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BofA Faces Monumental Integration Task
Written by Mel Duvall
It may take months for the dust to settle from this week’s financial meltdown, but when the clouds do disperse Bank of America will clearly emerge as a major victor. The bank capitalized on the credit crisis facing Wall Street institution Merrill Lynch & Co. by striking a deal to purchase the... (1765 more chars)

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6 Keys To IT-Business Alignment
Written by John McCormick
Alignment once again topped the list of key issues for IT managers, according to a just-completed survey from the Society for Information Management. But, what, if anything, can chief information officers do to make sure IT and the business are better aligned? Jerry Luftman, a... (1031 more chars)

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HP and EDS Merger Leads to 24,600 Layoffs
Written by Jay Rajani
HP announced plans to integrate EDS which would lead to streamlined costs, invest in growth and drive shareholder value. The restructuring program will take hold over three years and lead to a streamlining process leading to a reduction in 7.5 percent reduction of the combined workforce. The co... (488 more chars)

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Are you prepared to hire a body guard for your key IT staff?
Written by Lian Guan
Is this a question too far fetched? No so… Last week our Web site went down for two hours, I was forwarded the major incident report on Monday morning. The report detailed the incident resolution process by minutes, where I found that the direct cause was the failure of the second power supply ... (2299 more chars)

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Tim Bernes Lee announces World Wide Web Foundation
Written by Jay Rajani
On September 14 Tim Berners-Lee in Washington, D.C. announced the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation and stated the following as it's goals: to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web's capability and robustness, and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on ... (1146 more chars)

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Restock the Supply Chain Playbook
Written by Mel Duvall
A few months ago, as oil prices were climbing to dizzying new heights, I wrote a blog about having a supply chain playbook ready in case key price thresholds were breached. The argument of the blog at the time was that should oil climb to $125, $130 or even $150 per barrel, companies may need ... (2234 more chars)

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How Financial News Affects CIOs
Written by John McCormick
How could today’s financial news – Lehman’s bankruptcy filing, BofA’s takeover of Merrill Lynch – affect CIOs? Larry Dignan at ZDNet posted a blog in which he sees the following impact on information technology: - There will be a pullback in overall financial IT sp... (613 more chars)

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Automated Decision Making - MIS as a Business Driver
Written by Tanmay Roy
{mosimage}Automated Decision Making - MIS as a Business Driver Tanmay Roy General Manager (C&IT) Bhilai Steel Plant Automated Decision Making - MIS as a Business Driver Contents 1. Introduction 2. Organizational Hues 3. Managerial Hues 4. Ownership & Management 4.1 Ownership 4.2 M... (37822 more chars)

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Are you curious about the new web?
Written by Jay Rajani
The conference is being co-produced by O'Reilly and Techweb from September 16-19 with presence from a range of companies including fortune 500 to startups. It's a great opportunity for attendees to build their network and learn more about the new generation of web in their scheduled workshops and fr... (757 more chars)

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Upgrade fixes aren't just for Microsoft...
Written by Jay Rajani
Apple recently released update 2.1 which fixes a bevy of issues impacting the iphone. There were numerous complaints regarding dropped calls, data connections and overall slowness with applications while using the device. Here's a list of fixes incoroproated in this firmware upgrade: ... (210 more chars)

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Published Articles
Written by Bill Lang
I’ve had an article published in Continuity Insights Magazine. Excerpt: Too often, business continuity professionals rely on being able to communicate and give people "the word." Most business continuity practitioners invest heavily in robust communications technologies, acquiring systems an... (572 more chars)
Around the Web: RIM Blackberry 8820
Written by Jay Rajani
As you may already know RIM released its' new flip blackberry 8820 recently. Here are some reviews of this new product release: CNET: RIM BlackBerry 8820 (AT&T) Engadget: Hands On Review Mobiledia: Feature List While the standard blackberry is an accepted ente... (309 more chars)

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Tech Spending Under Pressure, But IT Services Seen Growing
Written by Mel Duvall
A survey released this week by Forrester Research confirmed what most in the industry have suspected: IT budgets are being cut in the face of a global economic slowdown. In a survey of 950 large organizations in North America and Europe, Forrester found that 43% of companies have already trimm... (1594 more chars)

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The Art of No
Written by Margaret Meloni
No is not always negative. It is not a bad or incorrect response. Saying no does not make you a difficult or uncooperative person. And as a leader you should definitely not be afraid to tell your team no. Please read all of that again, out loud. Saying no is more honest than a false yes, it will ... (2111 more chars)

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Security Upgrade for Chrome Available
Written by Jay Rajani
Google version 0.2.149.29 fixes security and javascript issues that could have interfered with facebook functionality. The company did not discuss specific fixes in this release since not all of the user base has applied this upgrade. In a statement Google said, "Google Chrome will aut... (323 more chars)
Gates and Seinfeld In a Commercial....
Written by Jay Rajani
The latest commerical for Microsoft Windows is making an effort to connect with a newer generation of users and attempting to mimic the apple sense of humor demonstrated by the mac vs pc ads. You can view the ad on youtube . The new campaign has generated a lot of buzz around the w... (264 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - The Blogsphere-2.0
Written by David Hunter Tow
A new force is shaping global political, social and business culture. The millions of blogs permeating the web and covering every conceivable topic are now starting to provide a meta-communication platform of incredible power and complexity when linked together into intertwining communities comprisi... (2701 more chars)

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What are your Ethics?
Written by Jay Rajani
How do you handle ethical dilemma's at work? For instance, if a company promises to let you keep the product you are reviewing or sends you a gift card for a positive review or recommendation do you accept the gift? This thought came about from a recent CIOZone Survey for IT exeuctives which ... (803 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Intelligent Robots
Written by David Hunter Tow
Robots are slowly but surely edging towards more advanced states of cognitive development, sentience and higher intelligence. This will change the way society and business integrates this technology within its own processes and workflow, creating the emergence of a robotics industry as significant a... (2584 more chars)

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Where does Sarah Palin Stand on IT?
Written by Jay Rajani
I was doing some research on where the political candidates stand on the IT issue and since Sarah Palin is in the spotlight here's the information I've found when I did a search on "Sarah Palin IT": Sarah Palin on the issues: http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_Palin.htm Alaska Gov... (546 more chars)

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Google Chrome Now Available For Download
Written by Jay Rajani
I was up and running on this browser in less then 2 minutes. In my first few minutes with the application I noticed the following: 1. Pages loaded faster then IE7 (ciozone.com, cnn.com, nytimes.com) 2. The status bar has been removed to leave a lot more room for the page. 3... (483 more chars)

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Are You Ready For Chrome by Google?
Written by Jay Rajani
So another browser to worry about for web developers. That was initial reaction to the latest news by Google. The rationale behind this release according to Google is that they think they can add value for the user and at the same introduce innovation on the web. From their annoucement blog e... (793 more chars)
Future Enterprise - Adaptive Business Intelligence
Written by David Hunter Tow
The concept of adaptability is rapidly gaining in popularity in business. Adaptability has already been introduced into everything from automatic car transmissions to sentient search engines to running shoes capable of adapting to the preferences of each unique user over time, to business management... (2511 more chars)

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Written by Margaret Meloni
No, we cannot all get along all of the time. It is unrealistic to think that all team members will absolutely agree with you or with each other all of the time. If every time you are together, there is never any disagreement, look out – you have problems. Sure, maybe the first time you meet you ... (1835 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Virtual Marketing
Written by David Hunter Tow
Virtual Worlds in the form of multiplayer internet online games are rapidly becoming the new marketing focus, with enterprises setting up and experimenting with virtual businesses. Worlds such as Entropia Universe and Second Life have real cash market economies. Owners of artifacts buy and sell virt... (3355 more chars)

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Tech Firms Pitch Tools For Sifting Legal Records
Written by Daniel Garrie
The Wall Street Journal had a great point today that technology companies are beginning to realize the value proposition of lowering the costs around discovery. What seems to get lost in translation is the reality? I am not sure how many lawyers really have rolled up their proverbial sleeves an... (2340 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Collaborative Intelligent Agents
Written by David Hunter Tow
Agents in the form of small intelligent autonomous programs are playing an increasing role in managing business services and processes. When agents interact with each other cooperatively they form a collaborative multiagent system, which greatly enhances their level of operational efficiency and ... (2688 more chars)

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Future Enterprise - Virtual Metaverse
Written by David Hunter Tow
The Web will soon host an immersive 3D sensory environment that combines elements of social virtual worlds such as Second Life with increasingly dense geographical mapping applications such as Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Representations of the earth’s natural and urban environme... (2178 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Web Services
Written by David Hunter Tow
Globalisation, increasing automation and growth of e-business, are all driving the growth of the service economy. In turn the service economy is driving the growth of web-based services across the internet. Major productivity increases are now being seen in most industries due to the automation ... (3660 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Business Process Outsourcing
Written by David Hunter Tow
The outsourcing of IT services to a host of new external providers has been gathering momentum over the last few years, but outsourced business functions are now becoming more diverse including- telecommunications, engineering, financial and public sector processes. For example, India is not only th... (2834 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Decision Re-engineering
Written by David Hunter Tow
The emerging Decision Engineering Architecture of the 21st century represents a major shift in managing the operations of the future enterprise. By optimising the decision networks of an organisation, greatly improved levels of efficiency, adaptivity and quality of decision-making can be achieved be... (2047 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Sensor Webs
Written by David Hunter Tow
Sensor webs or networks are collections of wireless processing nodes that can capture local sensor data and transfer it to a processing component which can be either local or centralised. The opportunity now exists for integrating sensor networks with the global internet to create a new class of app... (3229 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Ethical Enterprise
Written by David Hunter Tow
A major shift is underway in the way corporations conduct business. From a self-interested point of view there is a dawning realisation that what is good for employees and community in general is also good for enterprise survival and profitability. It is also increasingly realised that social issues... (2401 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Enterprise Risk Management
Written by David Hunter Tow
In addition to standard risk management processes such as credit, foreign exchange and market risk, CFOs are increasingly being asked to report on ways to minimize risk in a wide variety of other areas including- new product investments, acquisitions, HR, brands, market share, customer acceptance an... (3399 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Smart Business Networks
Written by David Hunter Tow
Recent research in network analysis triggered by the boom in social networks on the internet, has made a significant contribution to a more profound understanding of networked behaviour in business ecosystems. Networked ‘swarm’ behaviour for example demonstrates an increase in collective intelli... (3067 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- Prediction Markets
Written by David Hunter Tow
Prediction markets are an increasingly important forecasting tool based on evolutionary information aggregation and selection. Participants trade in contracts whose payoff depends on unknown future events, as in any financial or betting market, with the price of contracts directly interpreted as a m... (3721 more chars)

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Future Enterprise- The Adaptable Enterprise
Written by David Hunter Tow
Enterprises of all types- small, large, commercial, government and non-profit, are examples of Complex Adaptive Systems and are therefore bound by the same characteristics and rules of evolution of all such adaptive systems, patterned on biological life. This common categorisation can therefore p... (2754 more chars)

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Return on Investment
Written by Daniel Garrie
Today, we see law suits that cost millions. The question is how does that happen? While lawyers might be making more money, the real reason is that companies have to pay third-party companies to preserve, archive, produce, and etc their own data. Companies should own their information systems an... (161 more chars)

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VMWare Bug Causes Major Headaches
Written by Mel Duvall
Software bugs are all too common these days, but it’s not too often one threatens to bring down core enterprise systems and result in a personal apology from the software provider's chief executive. That is exactly what happened to VMWare this week, when a bug in its ESX 3.5 software prevent... (1897 more chars)

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The Wake Up Call
Written by Margaret Meloni
Much of the coaching work I do with clients is about how their behavior shapes the perceptions that other people have about them. And those perceptions tie directly to performance appraisals, promotions and other opportunities. It is really about professional image or professional brand. Hav... (2423 more chars)

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JDA Software Aims to Be Supply Chain Leader
Written by Mel Duvall
After 20 years of battling it out to be an independent software vendor, i2 Technologies surrendered this week, agreeing to be acquired by JDA Software. JDA of Scottsdale, Ariz., will purchase Dallas-based i2 for about $346 million in cash. The deal brings together two of the leading cont... (2106 more chars)

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Dell Reaches Carbon Neutral Goal
Written by Mel Duvall
Dell Computer announced this week that it has met its goal ahead of schedule of becoming a carbon neutral company. The computer manufacturer announced in September of 2007 that it would undertake a variety of initiatives to achieve a carbon neutral goal by the end of 2008. Chairman and founder... (1266 more chars)

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Dell Says, Get Off of My Cloud
Written by Mel Duvall
It’s getting crowded in the computing skies. This week several developments occurred on the cloud computing front. For starters, it came to light that Dell Computer is attempting to claim the term as its own and has filed for a trademark patent. Dell apparently filed an application wit... (2564 more chars)

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End of an Era: Forrester Acquires JupiterResearch
Written by Mel Duvall
In the hey-day of the dot com era, JupiterResearch carved a name for itself for having some of the brighter analysts covering emerging Internet technologies. During my days with a weekly magazine that covered the news of the Internet – Interactive Week – I would often pick up the phone to pick t... (2197 more chars)

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How to identify Blind Spot in your career
Written by santoshputhran
According to Oxford Dictionary Blind Spot is : 1. The point of entry of the optic nerve on the retina, insensitive to light. 2 an area where a person’s view is obstructed. I was reading an article on Road Safety - " Always Check your Blind Spot " on Ministry of Transport of Ontario Websi... (5307 more chars)

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Bank of America Banking On Green Technology
Written by Mel Duvall
A lot of companies are talking about investing in green technologies to save energy, but Bank of America appears to think it could also be a profitable investment. The Charlotte, NC-based bank announced this week that it has made an undisclosed investment in Field Diagnostic Services Inc. (FDS... (1410 more chars)

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IT Cost Reduction – Reactive or Proactive?
Written by sumitro sarkar
Should the CIO be now called CFO-IT? IT cost reduction or “budget-management” (to put it in softer terms) is the most important aspect of the CIO’s job. It is perhaps the most critical key performance indicator for CIOs that are either in low-growth or highly competitive industry verticals.... (4590 more chars)

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IT Hiring Seen Softening
Written by John McCormick
For a while, it seemed as if the IT profession might skip the current downturn. But now a couple of reports suggest the economic backslide might be affecting IT employment. Gartner just released a report that said, while recruiting and retaining IT staffers continues to be a key organ... (1744 more chars)

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Reporting Relationship Can Influence CIO Role
Written by Mel Duvall
A new report released this month by Forrester Research sheds some interesting light on the relationship between who a CIO reports to and how they view their role within an organization. To prepare the report Forrester surveyed 503 senior IT executives on how IT is run in their organizations, ... (1488 more chars)

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Does A Chief Exec Need To Use A Computer?
Written by John McCormick
Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal asks an interesting question in his column: “Should a president -- of the United States, or even of a company, for that matter -- use a computer?” First thought: Just a quick easy hit against John McCain, who’s been an easy target for his comput... (1030 more chars)

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Other Flying Hazards to Worry About This Summer
Written by Mel Duvall
Dramatic pictures seen in recent days of a car-sized hole in the fuselage of a Qantas jet are no doubt causing nervous flyers to grip their arm rests extra tight as they head off on summer vacations. Such incidents are indeed rare, and Qantas has an admirable safety record. So those with a fea... (2093 more chars)

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Texting Hurts – But What Can We Do?
Written by John McCormick
From personal experience, one of the biggest frustrations of walking around the streets of any city these days are the PDA-crazed zombies zigzagging their way across the sidewalk madly banging away on their iPhones and Blackberries. They walk into buildings, stumble over sidewalk cracks, shoulder b... (1083 more chars)

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Open Source Skills Opening Doors
Written by Mel Duvall
The use of open source software is undergoing explosive growth and that is driving demand for IT professionals with open source skills in the enterprise, according to a new report. The report published by O’Reilly Radar, titled Open Source in the Enterprise , finds that with IT budgets und... (1914 more chars)

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Amazon Results Not Yet in the Cloud
Written by Mel Duvall
Amazon posted some pretty solid results this week, as tech companies seem to be showing resilience in the face of an economic downturn. The company said second quarter sales were up 41% to $4.06 billion, and profits doubled to $158 million, or 37 cents per share. Analysts had been looking to A... (2451 more chars)

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Teaching Others How to Treat You
Written by Margaret Meloni
Have you ever heard the expression, ‘You teach people how to treat you’? It means that as people are getting to know you they are learning how they can or cannot treat you. And you are getting to know the same things about them. This is true on a personal and a professional level. In gener... (1693 more chars)

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User Dissatifaction to grow to 50% - Says Gartner
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Tom Austin, Gartner VP, says that if IT deploys new or innovative technology in a uniform and disciplined way, their clients with the closest eye on the new wave of technology will become disenfranchised and be strong critics of the "plodding" IT organization. Tom's input tot the iT community is to... (683 more chars)
ERP Woes Hurt Levi Strauss
Written by Mel Duvall
Jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss is the latest company to report that its financial results were severely impacted by difficulties encountered with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. The storied San Francisco company reported earlier this month that its second quarter results ... (2932 more chars)

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Rating the Banks' Supply Chains
Written by Mel Duvall
A new study ranking the money supply chains of the country’s largest financial institutions gives JPMorgan top marks for extending its services into such areas as purchasing cards and payment systems. The report by Financial Insights, an IDC company, took at look at how seven of the largest ... (2001 more chars)

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IT Hiring Appears to be Bucking Recession Fears
Written by Mel Duvall
Despite increasing signs of doom and gloom on the economic front, there’s yet another report that hiring in the IT sector is expected to continue to be healthy through the remainder of 2008. According to the CareerBuilder.com Midyear Employment Forecast, which was conducted from May 22 throug... (1376 more chars)

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IT Spending Seen Slowing
Written by John McCormick
A new Goldman Sachs report that says information technology spending will drop from an expected 7% growth rate to a 5% growth rate this year was met with much gloom. After all, Goldman, which regularly surveys corporate CIOs about their IT spending plans, has a reputation for closely reflecting wha... (640 more chars)

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iPhone Launch a Supply Chain Triumph
Written by Mel Duvall
With the launch of the new iPhone 3G over the weekend, there have been plenty of stories about consumers waiting in frustratingly long lineups, and slow activations. But if you can ignore the negative reports for a moment, the iPhone launch appears to be a supply chain triumph for Apple. ... (998 more chars)

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CIOs Having Hard Time Finding Skilled IT Workers
Written by John McCormick
With all the pressure on the job market – the unemployment rate is hovering around 5.5% and, in June, nonfarm payrolls fell by 62,000, the sixth monthly drop in a row – you would think that IT workers would be feeling some of the heat. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. ... (1903 more chars)

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Financial Firms To Increase IT Spending
Written by John McCormick
Financial firms might be cutting back departmental spending and laying off workers, but they’re still spending on IT, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on a new information technology spending survey of 200 IT execs. The survey, which was done by IBM in partnership wi... (484 more chars)

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IT Employment Hits Record High
Written by John McCormick
The IT workforce is at a record high, topping 4 million people, and tech unemployment is near record lows, at 2.3% -- half that of the national unemployment figures – according to an analysis of just released U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by CIO Insight magazine. “Why would IT... (577 more chars)

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IT's Role in the New Oil Reality
Written by Mel Duvall
No matter where you look these days, the price of oil is having a dramatic impact on the economy. In April, I attended a conference where i2 Technologies chief executive Pallab Chatterjee asked supply chain executives, ‘what would your companies do if oil climbed to $125 per barrel?’ At the... (2017 more chars)

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Buyout Makes Sense for RFID Pioneer OATSystems
Written by Mel Duvall
In the early days of excitement around using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to streamline supply chains, OATSystems emerged as a leading light. The Waltham, Mass.-based company was able to secure a blue-chip customers list including Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, and Unilev... (2433 more chars)

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Culture Shock
Written by Margaret Meloni
“I disliked working with those people so much that I don’t even know if I hate doing this for a living or it was just those people at THAT place.” That is exactly what someone shared with me just a few days ago. Isn’t that sad? But this isn’t the first time someone has shared these t... (1386 more chars)

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5 Ways To Prevent Laptop Loss
Written by John McCormick
As mentioned in a previous blog, business travelers lose more than 12,000 laptops a week in American airports, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute, which offers education, research and verification programs around information and privacy management. So, what can toda... (1013 more chars)

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Important News Corporate Blackberry and Third-party e-mails & The Corporation Does Logic Defy Basic
Written by Daniel Garrie
The 9th Circuit rules text messages stored by 3rd parties are out of bounds. What does this mean? Well, if I use my personal blackberry to do some belligerent activity and I use my phone to take inappropriate photos with my camera. My employer’s recourse? Zilch! Now looking to the practical impl... (738 more chars)

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12,000 Laptops Lost At Airports Each Week
Written by John McCormick
That laptops are misplaced or stolen isn’t exactly news – not with all the high profile cases over the past couple of years. But the fact that business travelers lose more than 12,000 laptops a week in American airports, according to a just-released report by the Ponemon Institute, is nothi... (1044 more chars)

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Legal & IT Working Together to Solve e-discovery before it become a nightmare
Written by Daniel Garrie
If IT and legal were to work ahead of time to resolve the complex issue of policy and technology alignment, a company would realize substantial savings and lower the overall legal costs and risks. Why does this not happen? Well, it may be that there simply is a perception gap. Technologist see l... (1162 more chars)

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Are IT Workers Rude?
Written by John McCormick
As if IT workers aren’t picked on enough. The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Weber posted a blog yesterday on a new book by Johns Hopkins’ Romance languages and literature professor P.M. Forni that’s titled “The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude.” As Weber ... (1145 more chars)

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Does Windows Need A New Foundation?
Written by John McCormick
Does Microsoft’s Windows operating system need a new foundation? A column in the June 29, 2008, issue of the New York Times by Randall Stross points out how bloated Windows has become and then states flatly: “The best solution to the multiple woes of Windows is starting over. Complet... (1622 more chars)

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Thomson Reuters Mashups
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
My colleague Chris Warner recently did a nice writeup of how Thomson Reuters is using Mashups for their scientific ventures. I have paraphrased his article here: Thomson applied mashups to one of it's scientific community portals , a 'gateway to researchers and their published works' for 'ac... (1705 more chars)
What Matters Most To IT Workers?
Written by John McCormick
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Certifications
Written by Bill Lang
2008 Certified Business Continuity Vendor (CBCV) from Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) 2008 Member Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) though Business Continuity Institute International 2008 Community Emergency Respons Team through Milwaukee County Sheriff's Training Center ... (107 more chars)

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How To Overcome SaaS Challenges
Written by John McCormick
A study earlier this year by management consultants McKinsey & Co. found that some 74% of the companies it surveyed were open to using on-demand software applications from a third party, which is also knows as using software as a service. But going with an SaaS solutions isn’t as eas... (1739 more chars)

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What Could Happen?
Written by Margaret Meloni
If you do X, what is the worst thing that could happen? Now, what is the best thing that could happen? Are you prepared for both scenarios? These are three simple questions to ask yourself when you are trying to make a decision. I confess, I have used these questions to help myself for many ye... (1749 more chars)
The Keys To CIO Success
Written by John McCormick
Grace Monahan, the CIO at Henry Schein, the $6 billion distributor of medical, dental and veterinary supplies, gave a presentation during a recent lunch hosted by the Long Island chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals, a national organization of IT workers. Grac... (1179 more chars)
Why IT Projects Fail
Written by Mel Duvall
In recent weeks I have taken a look at the bankruptcy suffered by fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance due to what the company claims was a botched ERP implementation. As a result I took particular interest in a report published this month by the British Computer Society on why IT projects... (2163 more chars)

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My Daily up dated blog
Written by Yasir Irfan
Dear Friends please access following links for my Technical http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-technologies

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5 Reasons Outsourcing Deals Fail
Written by John McCormick
The CIO Executive Briefing blog recently had the opportunity to listen to Mark Halloran, chief information officer at Medco Health Solutions, make a presentation at the Columbia University CIO Institute, a three-day training academy for IT executives looking to move up to the next level. It’s run... (555 more chars)

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Top 6 India-Based IT Service Companies
Written by John McCormick
A lot is made of IT jobs being sent to India. But the CIO Executive Briefing blog was a bit surprised to find out that the top six India-based IT service providers -- Satyam, Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and HCL Technologies (which are also becoming known by the acronym Switch) -- accounted for j... (1985 more chars)

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Legal driving technology v. Business driving technology
Written by Daniel Garrie
In the global world it seems a shift is starting. It seems that a company to successfully operate must successful merge the IT, legal, and business needs to manage internal risks and costs. A central driving force: e-discovery. It seems in the morass of technology deployments underlying the rapi... (812 more chars)

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Avoiding ERP Disaster at Sunny D
Written by Mel Duvall
This is the third part in a series looking at fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance’s efforts to emerge from bankruptcy protection following a botched ERP implementation. Sunny Delight Beverages chief information officer Greg Winholt has steered his company through two successful ERP transitio... (7030 more chars)

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Recovering From A Three-Alarm ERP Fire, Part II
Written by Mel Duvall
American LaFrance, a 175-year-old manufacturer of fire trucks and emergency vehicles, emerged from bankruptcy protection in May – a bankruptcy it blames in part on a botched ERP implementation. The company is now attempting to return to full production following a painful reorganization. Here... (10111 more chars)

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Outsourcing: Box of Question ( Who, Why, What, When,Where..)
Written by Kapil Singhal
Who should Outsource? Just about everybody, from entrepreneurs in the SOHO (small office home office) segment to SMEs (small and medium enterprises), to large businesses and empires with diversified interests and varied business processes. Every business benefits hugely through outsourcing becau... (6382 more chars)

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Information Management the disconnect between policy and the technology
Written by Daniel Garrie
Do you people feel there is a disconnect between the legal policies and process set-forth for managing and information and the technologies underlying them? It seems that the blunders of e-discovery that are constantly in the papers demonstrate that there is some communication lapse, no? Let... (49 more chars)

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InfoTech
Written by Chukwuka Okaro
Here is a very nice place to meet people who are into information technology.Africa is growing very fast in ICT.I will like to meet people who want to invest in ICT in Africa.{mosimage}

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New Projects
Written by Richard Phillips
I am looking for any company or personnel that are in the West Cleveland area to help me work on new projects I have coming up, or willing to work in this area. 1. Looking for a Security System Vendor-I need to install and setup IP cams on a business site. 2. Looking for a Web 2.0 Vendor-To setup ... (555 more chars)

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Can't We All Just Get Along?
Written by Jay Rajani
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Recovering From A Three-Alarm ERP Fire
Written by Mel Duvall
American LaFrance, a storied manufacturer of fire trucks and other emergency vehicles, is attempting to bring its operations back into full production after emerging from bankruptcy protection two weeks ago, on May 23. The court approval of its reorganization ends a sorry chapter in its proud h... (2895 more chars)

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Outsourcing Is not about Stealing Jobs
Written by Adam Morgan
I find this statement quite disturbing: “We are keeping all the work in-house, trying to keep our economy up!” Outsourcing does not mean anyone is stealing jobs of anyone else. Beside the fact, their is accute shortage of technically qualified people around the world. One of the main reason bein... (1127 more chars)

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Intellect - n - Intelligence
Written by Adam Morgan
I have always felt that people who claim themselves as quite intelligent or the “I know it all” are in essence a sap. These days we all have heard that we need to master the art of THINKING, and we need to think, reason, and question. We teach our kids the same thing. But what puzzles me is - do... (1463 more chars)

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Man Vs Machines
Written by Adam Morgan
Last week I was going through the merger which happened, or atleast was suppose to happen, between HP and EDS. Mark Hurd - CEO of HP has an amazing idea of trying to automate things and have un-manned sites. Which I feel is quite a different way of thinking. People are always the real resources - no... (1533 more chars)

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An Anonymous Letter from a Co-Worker
Written by Margaret Meloni
Do you know me? I am smart and funny. I am truly quirky and proud of it. Sometimes I create or get caught up in drama. My life can be fast paced. Some people think of me as highly creative, others see me as some type of genius or mad scientist. I am really messy, I just can’t help it ... (2181 more chars)

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Excel Meets Mashups
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
I'm always amazed at how companies use Excel to such a great extent. There are many statistics citing the fact that knowledge workers spend up to 60% of their day cutting and pasting into Word and Excel, and I know from experience that it is true, having been a knowledge worker myself for several... (1338 more chars)
Apple Earns Honors For Best Supply Chain
Written by Mel Duvall
Apple has some of the hottest selling consumer electronics on the market, a credit to the company's sleek designs and skillful marketing. But there's one aspect of its success which also deserves recognition — its supply chain. In the past Apple has been criticized for its inability to ... (3595 more chars)

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RISK Management - Gartner Says it is Broken and handled poorly in many organizations
Written by John Stevenson
Gartner - recently published a short update on the status of IT and overall Corporate Risk Management. Bottomline - Risk Management in Companies is receiving increased visibility in these turbulent times. Both natural and man-made issues affecting corporate stability are happening with more frequenc... (250 more chars)

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e-discovery and archiving in the real-world
Written by Daniel Garrie
What is the point of having policies if your technologies can not support the retention requirements? How do you go about identifying these gaps? What is the way you find most effective working with your legal team? With e-discovery really starting to get traction in the courts, it is a m... (684 more chars)

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Speaking engagements
Written by Bill Lang
Speaking engagements Apr 2009 Continuity Insights Chandler May 2009 Oklahoma Association of Health Care Providers Oct 2008 AHIMA Seattle Aug 2008 THCA Gatlinburg May 2008 CPM Las Vegas March 2008 DRJ Orlando Feb 2008 MHHA Minneapolis Oct 2007 AHIMA Philly June 2007 AHIMA LTC H... (12 more chars)
Virtualization Specialists in High Demand
Written by Mel Duvall
Another sign that virtualization software is taking root in a wider range of corporations comes from career Web site Dice.com. In its latest marketplace trends report, Dice senior vice president Tom Silver, says technologists who are trained in particular in VMWare’s products will find they ... (1101 more chars)

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What can retailers do to improve the shopper experience?
Written by Cathy Hotka
Retailers have been concentrating on the processes and practices that improve back office functions. Now it's time to improve the store experience. What can retailers do to make the store experience more rewarding for customers? Your thoughts will be made a part of the Big Ideas Board at the Shopper... (42 more chars)

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Wall St. ideas for Mashups
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
I had two conversations with a couple of Wall St. Managing Directors this week about Mashups. They were from different firms. Firm A was just hearing about Mashups for the first time. Their epiphany was this: “Instead of the big projects, what about the small stuff, where Mashups could knock... (1098 more chars)

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Budget Direction - Spend or Cut
Written by John Stevenson
CIO's are facing more turmoil in their industry sectors and individual businesses this year than usual. Executive suites are talking internally about tactics that best fit the short range economic outlook. It appears that while many are cutting spends and holding back on projects, others see opportu... (308 more chars)

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HP Girds to Take on IBM
Written by Mel Duvall
The news this week that Hewlett-Packard has agreed to purchase Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for $13.25 billion, sets the stage for HP to mount a serious challenge to IBM’s dominance in the computer consulting and services industry. HP has long desired to be a serious contender in the consult... (2458 more chars)

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Gartner Says Social Networks Are Attracting Too Much Traffic for Retailers to Ignore
Written by Brian Flagg
A very well written and comprehensive article from Gartner on Social Networking and retailers. Many of the points are valid, if retailers are not utilizing the latest Web 2.0 tools (I really like the Digg.com lab Slack tool), then they will quickly find themselves out of touch with what is being wri... (692 more chars)

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Tear down, Mashup
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
One of my favorite blogs is by JP Rangaswami , an MD at BT, and former CIO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He writes the following about large organizations, which really rings true with my experience as employee and consultant to many such firms: "We stress the importance of human resourc... (1044 more chars)

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Written by shreyas Shah
VDI is being seen as a way of managing desk tops applications. Security is also a big risk and challenge that can be solved with VDI. VDI assumes the application images being stored in the network and they are being sent over the network by clicking the applications on desk tops. This concept is not... (125 more chars)

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The Next Great Supply Chain Question
Written by Mel Duvall
What is the next great supply chain question to be tackled, i2 Technologies Chairman Sanjiv Sidhu posed to the company’s annual i2 Planet gathering in Phoenix last week. After a pause, he provided his response: “Carbon dioxide emissions.” Sidhu may be ahead of the market with his... (3378 more chars)

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MIS – Some ‘Living’ Thoughts
Written by Tanmay Roy
MIS , the acronym for the ‘Management Information System’ is a buzzword in today’s business world. Found in abundance in the literature of management science, the practicing managers of Business& Industry are happy to make use of it more as a managerial jargon than anything else. Quite often... (10365 more chars)

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Forrester forecasts $628M Mashup market
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
Exciting news on a Forrester webcast the other day. Their forecast for Mashups: to be a $628M segment by 2013. Even by 2009, the Mashup market will be a $100M segment, says Forrester. They mention that there is a current air of confusion about Mashups, and what they can do for the enterprise. Man... (414 more chars)

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What can Mashups Do?
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
I thought I'd share some of the use cases that I hear frequently on how to apply Mashups to the Enterprise. If you have some ideas, I’d like to hear yours, too. 1. Alleviate the data pain of growth by acquisition. If you have multiple ERP systems, you can consume data from them for a unified ... (1449 more chars)
RFID Earns Mixed Report Card
Written by Mel Duvall
Bob McDonald, chief operating officer of Procter & Gamble, gave a great keynote presentation at the RFID Live conference in Las Vegas last week, on P&G’s journey towards adopting radio frequency identification technology. McDonald talked about the coming together of P&G and Gillette, which... (1744 more chars)

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e-Discovery
Written by Daniel Garrie
How does one balance the legal-business needs with the technology costs against the legal risks that present themselves if your company gets hammered by e-Discovery.

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Enterprise Mashups Embrace Open Innovation
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
Chesbrough talks about innovation models in his book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (HBS Press, 2006.) The idea is that black box innovation in today’s world is more costly, redundant, and exclusive than open innovation, which embraces available i... (2495 more chars)
RFID Ready to Move Back Into Spotlight
Written by Mel Duvall
When Wal-Mart first announced its ambitious plans to deploy radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in its supply chain in 2003, the hype around the potential benefits and uses quickly spun out of control. It was predicted RFID tags would soon be popping up everywhere – on pallets,... (2038 more chars)

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ewaste
Written by Atefeh Riazi
It turns out we are still dumping a great deal of our e-waste from computers and electronic appliances in China, India, and Africa. In my recent trip to China and India, I saw how kids dismantle these stuff using their hand and chisels. In India they were burning them and young men and women breathi... (440 more chars)

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why is our Carbon footprint 4 times above the world's average?
Written by Bill Gerneglia
An average American emits about 16 metric tons of CO2 per year. The world's average is about 25% of US. To sustain living on the earth we need to drop to two metric tons. Can we make a commitment both on a personal and business level to make this happen?
Researchers Discover Black Holes In The Net
Written by John McCormick
LiveScience.com on Friday posted a report about two computer science researchers who discovered black holes on the Internet – spots where, for a period of time, messages just seem to disappear. And, they said, it appears that transmissions around the world are constantly getting swallowed... (818 more chars)

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Gartner Lists 7 Grand Challenges Facing IT
Written by John McCormick
Gartner this week came out with a list of IT Grand Challenges , which the research firm defined as fundamental IT challenges that, if overcome, will have “broad and extremely beneficial economic, scientific or societal effects on all aspects of our lives.” Making predictions is always... (3545 more chars)

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Enterprise Mashups: The Security of Leadership
Written by Jennifer H. Roh
Mashups are hot. They were named a ‘Top 10 Technology for 2008’ by Gartner. They were spotlighted recently by the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, McKinsey, IDC and The Economist. They were the topic of the opening panel discussion at the 2008 Web Services on Wall Street conference in New Y... (2236 more chars)
Board Level Influence
Written by John Stevenson
A report created for McAfee released March 18 expressed alarm that only 46% of CIO's get to have any interaction with their corporations boards of directors. Even more disconcerting was a statistic that in 20% of corporations, the CFO handles the board briefings when it comes to IT matters. Durin... (471 more chars)

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SEO
Written by Mark Goldsmith
Let me state the obvious, that anyone that can guarantee quick legitimate top ten ranking in the keywords, key phrases and category or industry specific listing in the top search engines and keep them there would be doing that for themselves. This is because like in great real estate it’s all abou... (2692 more chars)

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Joomla CMS
Written by Mark Goldsmith
At RegionalLink.com, we provide Joomla CMS Templates, Custom Joomla CMS Components, Joomla CMS Modules and Content Management System Design. Joomla CMS has been recognized as the most powerful web CMS for websites. The CMS based sites have a front end which your website is seen by the public or y... (914 more chars)

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Plumbing Shell's $4B Outsourcing Pact
Written by Mel Duvall
Royal Dutch Shell’s decision this week to award a $4 billion outsourcing contract to three global technology and telecommunications suppliers, will no doubt again set off alarm bells within the IT ranks of corporations. Under the terms of the agreement, some 3,000 IT staffers will transfer ... (2218 more chars)

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Latest Data Security Victim: Advance Auto Parts
Written by John McCormick
A new week. A new data breach. Advance Auto Parts, a car parts retailer, said yesterday that it was the victim of a network intrusion and that an internal investigation found that the financial data of up to 56,000 customers might have been compromised. The company did not detail the se... (669 more chars)

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Innovation (really)
Written by Brian Flagg
I am frequently amused by organizations and even entire companies that are stuck in the 'program' rut. Innovation is all to often treated in this manner; as a program. No sure fire way exists to stifle innovation, or indeed any creative thinking, than by christening a program. Innovation is not some... (479 more chars)

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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Written by Wilfred Barretto
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, thi... (11777 more chars)

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Leadership
Written by Brian Flagg
I have seen hundreds of I/T organizations, and the single-most determiner of success is leadership. You can't be a leader unless you have followers, you won't have followers unless you have a vision, and you won't materialize your vision if you don't have a plan. I see so many I/T managers that are... (213 more chars)

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It's OK to Enjoy Your Team
Written by Margaret Meloni
I was sitting with a client the other day, when he made the following comment: “I really like going to lunch with my team and they invite me all the time, but I think I should only go when I have some type of work related information to share with them.” This was not the primary reason for... (1147 more chars)

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HP Printer
Written by Harry Rorarius
Some times what looks like a good deal turns out to be a mistake. When I go to someone’s house to look a problem you never know what you are going to run in to. My customer owns an hp all-in-one printer, and for the longest time would use remanufactured printer cartages. This time he put in new... (302 more chars)

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The Industry
Written by Abdul Kadir
It is very hard to associate a medium size company with the big players in the IT industry, everyone says it takes time for a business to grow and become firmly established, however what does a person do when patience is running out?

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Overview of Electronic Media Destruction
Written by Leigh Lanzet
There was a time when equipment disposition was easy. One would procure bids; the buyers would write a check and the old gear would disappear. Then we were bombarded with everything from environmental issues, which eliminated the “landfill” solution and federal privacy regulations that made a da... (4420 more chars)

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Voodoo of Cost Estimating
Written by Len Porcano
At a recent software development conference, I overheard a discussion involving a project which had run substantially over budget and schedule. The question posed was what did the group learn about how to avoid such overruns. The Answer? Break the project down into the smallest possible units, and ... (2779 more chars)

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Business-IT Alignment Demystified
Written by sumitro sarkar
Business-IT alignment is by far the “mother of all reasons” why IT organizations fail to deliver. However, when asked about “alignment” in more detail, CIOs as well as business stakeholders fail to provide a succinct interpretation of what it is in the “real” world. A macro-level defini... (4604 more chars)

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Offshore
Written by Raja Nagendra Kumar
What is the best way to drive offshore value in terms of Total Cost Ownership as Opposed to just hourly rate.. I see TCO should include, code quality, time lost in debuging, time lost due to attribtion, time lost in untrusty relationships etc. Is IT industry waking up to do cost savings this ... (9 more chars)

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BMC-BladeLogic: How IDC Sees The Deal
Written by John McCormick
BMC on Monday agreed to buy data-center automation company BladeLogic in a stock and cash deal value at about $800 million. BMC, which offers automation tools for monitoring and managing IT systems, will combine its software with BladeLogic’s more targeted product line, which helps compa... (2625 more chars)

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Spitzer Caught In Technology's Web
Written by Mel Duvall
As the events unfolded in New York this week concerning now former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s dramatic fall from grace, there was a piece of irony to the scandal. Well, truth be told, the whole affair is filled with irony when you begin with the nation’s highest profile crime fighter gettin... (2629 more chars)

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How to Tap IT’s Hidden Potential: A Practical Perspective
Written by sumitro sarkar
An article in the March 10 Wall Street Journal, “How To Tap IT’s Hidden Potential” generated a lot of discussion in CIO circle over the past couple of days. The feature highlights some very key issues and outlines seven steps that will help “shatter the wall between IT and the rest... (4355 more chars)

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Spyware Maker Barred, Password Threat Uncovered
Written by Mel Duvall
Just when you thought it was a bit safer to download software from the Internet, another threat jumps up to reinstate a healthy fear. On the win one side, a U.S. judge has ordered a spyware distributor to hand over funds he received from tricking consumers into downloading screensavers loade... (2264 more chars)

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A Different Approach To Green IT
Written by John McCormick
When it comes to reducing IT energy consumption, there is no one technology solution. That was Vijay Sankaran’s message to the 200 information technology managers gathered in New York last Thursday for IDC’s Green IT Forum. Sankaran, the director of infrastructure operations at Ford... (2543 more chars)

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The 10 Habits Of Companies With The Best Data
Written by John McCormick
Data quality expert Tom Redman recently published a White Paper on data quality that lists the 10 habits practiced by companies with the best data. While Redmond, president of Navesink Consulting Group, has spoken about these habits before, data quality remains a big issue for most companies... (4621 more chars)

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E-Commerce Marks 25th Anniversary
Written by Mel Duvall
How time flies when some $260 billion worth of goods and services are being sold online. At least that was the estimate of the total value of goods and services that would be sold in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study released a year ago by Forrester Research and Shop.org. Next Tuesday, M... (2209 more chars)
BPM Hits Mainstream With Dummies
Written by Mel Duvall
There are two modes of thought when it comes to the Dummies series of books. One – let’s call it the cynic’s theory - is that when a topic makes it into the Dummies series, the fad, technology, or movement behind it has probably passed its peak. The other theory is that when a topic like ... (3392 more chars)
CIOZone.com Platform Update
Written by Bill Gerneglia
CIOZone Platform Update - APC, OpenAds, Fedora Core 7 2/18/08 As previously mentioned the CIOZone.com platform is comprised of 100% Open Source Components. Several new enhancements have been made to our implementation of the Joomla CMS along with LAMP stack on which it runs. The first is t... (1621 more chars)

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Silicon Valley = Solar Valley?
Written by John McCormick
Is Silicon Valley set to become Solar Valley? There answer, according to an article in Sunday’s New York Times, seems to be yes. The article notes that some of the area’s smartest people are focusing their attention on ways of finding cheaper and more plentiful solar panels. ... (970 more chars)
IT Predictions For 2008 And Beyond
Written by John McCormick
Gartner, the IT market research and consulting company, just put up a list of 10 events and developments that it says will shape the IT landscape this year and beyond. Gartner is using the list to show CIOs and other IT executives where they should be concentrating resources now so that they're in ... (4396 more chars)
Feds Planning New Cyber-Protection Effort
Written by John McCormick
In just the past couple of days, there have been reports of two moves the feds are making to protect the country’s vital information infrastructure from cyber attacks -- both of which are sure to attract the attention of privacy advocates. The Washington Post reported that President Bush au... (3340 more chars)
Air-Blown Fiber's Super Bowl Moment
Written by Mel Duvall
Like millions of other football fans, I’ll be firmly planted on the couch this Sunday taking in the battle between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. That's partly why I was attracted to doing a case study looking at the implementation of a fully converged ... (4949 more chars)
For Big IT Projects, You Need A Big Stick
Written by John McCormick
Never underestimate the power of a big stick. In July 2005, Hewlett-Packard set out on a mission to half the number of applications it used and shutter 79 of its 85 data centers. The move, as The Wall Street Journal reports, was part of HP CEO Mark Hurd’s goal to drastically cut the percen... (1567 more chars)

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What’s Going On With IT Budgets? Here’s The Latest
Written by John McCormick
With daily questions about the economy and capital spending, one has to wonder what will happen to corporate information technology purchasing. Well, according to a story in Saturday’s The New York Times, there will be some belt tightening – and perhaps deep I.T. cuts at some financial c... (1726 more chars)

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Wal-Mart Sends Wrong Message on RFID
Written by Mel Duvall
Get with the RFID program, or else. That's the strong-arm message Wal-Mart has issued to some of its suppliers who have been dragging their heels in complying with the retailer’s radio frequency identification (RFID) strategy. Suppliers shipping products to the Sam’s Club distri... (1534 more chars)
Some Advice On Managing A Mobile Workforce
Written by John McCormick
Think its tough supporting mobile workers now? Well you ain’t seen nothing yet. IDC predicts that the number of mobile workers will reach 1 billion by 2011 – with 75% or the U.S. workforce being able to work outside the office. But, as most CIOs are all too aware, an increasingly ... (346 more chars)

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CIOs: Some Depart, Many Are In Demand
Written by John McCormick
p {text-indent: 0cm} The Wall Street Journal’s BizTech blog had an interesting item that noted more than a dozen companies had changed chief information officers in the past couple of weeks. Why the turnover? CIOs running out the door after collecting their year-end bonuses, com... (3638 more chars)

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Mobile Data Implementations Seen Slowing
Written by John McCormick
The growth rate is still well into the double digits, but the mobile business applications market will slow down this year, according to market watcher In-Stat. Growth in mobile business applications revenue will come in somewhere near 50% between 2006 and 2007, says In-Stat, and will slow to... (981 more chars)
Getting Rid Of E-Waste
Written by John McCormick
New York City was scheduled this week to hold a hearing on a recycling proposal that would make television, computer and MP3 manufacturers take back their products after they’ve been used, according to the Newsday article. It's a step in the right direction. Computers, for in... (753 more chars)

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Why Are Only 1/3 Of Companies Prepared For Extended Outages?
Written by John McCormick
Gartner just released an eye-popping statistic: Only about one-third of the 359 corporations it surveyed are prepared for business outages lasting more than a week. With the threat of disasters such as fires, hurricanes, terrorist attacks and pandemics hanging over businesses around the wo... (1938 more chars)
8 Top Security Threats In 2008
Written by John McCormick
CA, the Islandia, N.Y., software company that sells a line of security products, just released its latest Internet Security Outlook Report, listing its eight security predictions for 2008. CA sees big threats this year for users of social networks, online gaming sites, and instant messagin... (1882 more chars)
Outsourcing Market Growing, But Strategies Still Immature
Written by John McCormick
The global outsourcing market will grow at a brisk 8.1% this year, predicts Gartner. Yet, the research house notes, many organizations' IT sourcing strategies and governance structures are, it says, "immature, lacking altogether, or misaligned with enterprise objectives." Which is a good rea... (597 more chars)
10 Traits Of A Good Boss
Written by John McCormick
Anyone managing an information technology operation knows that it’s difficult to keep qualified talent. In fact, in the latest member survey from the Society for Information Management, the national organization of chief information officers, employee hiring and retention was listed as the number... (1480 more chars)
CIOZone.com Integrates Social Networking Applications
Written by Bill Gerneglia
With this beta release of the CIOZone.com, we will have deployed several Joomla based open source social networking applications including Community Builder, GroupJive, Fireboard Forums, and Mamblog blogger. We wish to thank the Joomla community for all of the contributions they have made to our de... (593 more chars)

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CIOZone.com Open Source Platform
Written by Bill Gerneglia
The CIOZone.com is built on the open source LAMP stack using Joomla 1.0.13 as the content management system. Social Network functionality for the site is deployed via a set of plugins and extentions. Community Builder is the primary plugin component used. A complete list of plugins appears be... (1446 more chars)




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