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A Means to an End
When the negotiating team for international law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques began bargaining for a new data centre four years ago, almost no one in the industry was anticipating that the cost of cooling and energy in co-location centres was set to skyrocket
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How CIOs Can Benefit From Having Dual Roles
More CIOs are being asked to take on responsibilities outside of IT. And it's not just the business that benefits. Expanding your job description can be good for your career, too — provided you master the politics and rethink how you run ITMore CIOs are being asked to take on responsibilities outside of IT. And it's not just the business that benefits. Expanding your job description can be good for your career, too — provided you master the politics and rethink how you run IT - +
Nine Things You Need to Know About Rescinded Job Offers
With the economy weakening, job seekers are more likely to find employers revoke jobs they offered. In this Q&A, employment attorney Mimi Moore explains how prospective employees can protect themselves from this spectre and advises employers on the dangers of this practiceWith the economy weakening, job seekers are more likely to find employers revoke jobs they offered. In this Q&A, employment attorney Mimi Moore explains how prospective employees can protect themselves from this spectre and advises employers on the dangers of this practice - +
What Do Business Analysts Actually Do for Software Implementation Projects?
Everyone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projectsEveryone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projects - +
Getting The Right IT
Executives are demanding that IT contribute directly to strategic differentiation and growth. This requires having the right IT, and using business models can help get you thereExecutive expectations for IT have evolved from delivering technology services to contributing to strategic differentiation and growth of the business. CEOs are increasingly asking their CIOs: Do I have the right IT? And how do I know? To answer these questions, CIOs must connect their IT capabilities with the unique perspectives of their business models for delivering value. - +
CIOs Share Tips For Managing Consumer Technology
A tide of consumer technology is sweeping through our organizations, and CIOs must not let security get swept away with it. Here’s some advice on staying high and dry.You've noticed it seeping into the IT workday. An end user calls the support desk for help connecting a new iPod to the desktop. Another asks how to add Skype capability to the desktop. Consumer IT-technology and devices initially designed and marketed for use in the consumer space-has infiltrated the workplace. - +
Secrets of Successful IT Teams: Socially Connected Employees
Successful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his benchSuccessful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his bench
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What Do Business Analysts Actually Do for Software Implementation Projects?
Everyone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projectsEveryone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projects - +
Secrets of Successful IT Teams: Socially Connected Employees
Successful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his benchSuccessful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his bench
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Five things to consider before committing to SAP
Understand SAP's business and product strategies before spending money on its softwareInstalling SAP applications is no picnic. Employees who are capable of deploying and maintaining SAP software are in high demand and practically form a whole profession by themselves. - +
Governments Urged to Learn From Businesses
Citizens are demanding better e-government services from their governmentsCitizens are demanding better e-government services from their governments
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Enterprise 2.0 - What is it good for?
A 12-step guide to getting the most out of Web 2.0 tools and making it safe-for-purposeCanberra-based knowledge economy and social computing evangelist Stephen Collins heard a quote earlier this year that perfectly describes the Enterprise 2.0 dilemma: "If you want to find out what tools your staff are finding most useful at the moment, just go and see what your IT department is blocking" - +
Under Your Thumb
A new scoring methodology used by City of London Police helps officers see whether the risks involved with sharing data are worth the benefitsSome of the most sensitive digital data in London resides on the servers of the City of London Police - and a great deal of effort goes into making sure that it isn't downloaded onto portable devices and then lost or stolen
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Enterprise 2.0 - What is it good for?
A 12-step guide to getting the most out of Web 2.0 tools and making it safe-for-purposeCanberra-based knowledge economy and social computing evangelist Stephen Collins heard a quote earlier this year that perfectly describes the Enterprise 2.0 dilemma: "If you want to find out what tools your staff are finding most useful at the moment, just go and see what your IT department is blocking" - +
Under Your Thumb
A new scoring methodology used by City of London Police helps officers see whether the risks involved with sharing data are worth the benefitsSome of the most sensitive digital data in London resides on the servers of the City of London Police - and a great deal of effort goes into making sure that it isn't downloaded onto portable devices and then lost or stolen
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Economists Warn Against Internet 'Doomsday' Scenario
Economists say if the Internet were to completely shut down for a day it would have a major impactEconomists say if the Internet were to completely shut down for a day it would have a major impact - +
How to Build Your Own Wikipedia
Wikis are useful business tools. With planning and some staff time, you can make your own online collection of useful articles, tailored to your organization's needs, to communicate about business processes, manage collective know-how and moreWikis are useful business tools. With planning and some staff time, you can make your own online collection of useful articles, tailored to your organization's needs, to communicate about business processes, manage collective know-how and more
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Secrets of Successful IT Teams: Socially Connected Employees
Successful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his benchSuccessful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen his bench - +
Four Secrets to Becoming a Rising IT Star
To make sure your climb up the career ladder goes fast and easy, you'll need to earn the trust of your colleagues and demonstrate your promotabilityTo make sure your climb up the career ladder goes fast and easy, you'll need to earn the trust of your colleagues and demonstrate your promotability
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Enterprise 2.0 - What is it good for?
A 12-step guide to getting the most out of Web 2.0 tools and making it safe-for-purposeCanberra-based knowledge economy and social computing evangelist Stephen Collins heard a quote earlier this year that perfectly describes the Enterprise 2.0 dilemma: "If you want to find out what tools your staff are finding most useful at the moment, just go and see what your IT department is blocking" - +
Cloud Computing: Tales From The Front
While CIOs begin to embrace the emerging technology of cloud computing, experts say IT staff will be more likely to resist, says Bill SnyderWriter Nicholas Carr will earn the enmity of even more tech veterans with his newest prediction: Cloud computing will put most IT departments out of business. "IT departments will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private datacentres and into the cloud," Carr writes in his new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.
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Not Far Enough from the Madding Crowd
How the next generation is putting the “I” in teamworkAbout a year ago our company decided to explore going green - +
Feeding the Tall Poppy
I came. I saw. I didn’t VistaI feel sorry for Microsoft. I realize this is probably the first time that sentence has ever appeared in print, aside from marketing glossies that touted "far superior" competing products from companies no longer in existence. But Microsoft has had a tough time over the past few months, and they're being picked on from all quarters
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Hackers hijack a half-million sites in latest attack 13 May, 2008 08:32:20
They're exploiting phpBB open-source forum software, says researcherMore than half a million Web sites have been compromised in a new round of attacks that hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users' PCs with a variety of malware, a security researcher said today. - +
Hacker posts Chilean government data on 6 million residents 13 May, 2008 10:08:06
A hacker has posted databases containing personal information on 6 million Chilean residents.An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country. - +
Swarming spy bots that share information being built for military 12 May, 2008 08:11:34
Flying and crawling robot swarms would give surveillance information to soldiersA group of US Marines hunker down beside a building, enemy fire coming at them from somewhere up ahead. One soldier reaches into his pack and pulls out a few robots that look like large bugs. The bots fly down the street, sending back images that show where the enemy troops are hiding, how many there are and what weapons they're using. - +
BLACK HAT - Hackers find a new place to hide rootkits 12 May, 2008 14:13:07
Proof-of-concept System Management Mode rootkit developed for upcoming show.Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. - +
Australian Law Reform Commission readies information privacy dossier 09 May, 2008 09:58:26
Laws will dramatically change IT practices and electronic data managementAfter its largest public consultation exercise ever, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) expects that the single biggest reform to Australia's information privacy laws will be the proposal for a set of uniform and simplified principles for businesses, organisations and individuals.
Haley Limited Named a Market Leader in Business Rules for Business Analysts by Leading Independent Research Firm 14 May, 2008 06:55:00
NetApp Strengthens Customers’ Disaster Recovery with Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager 13 May, 2008 13:30:00
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Top Analyst Firm Positions RSA in Leaders Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management 13 May, 2008 10:49:00
Civica acquires Fujitsu’s Australia and New Zealand local authorities business 13 May, 2008 10:04:00
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