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Former ICI IT Boss on Effects of Cloud Computing
A local power failure has left Dr Richard Sykes temporarily without electricity at his home in Islington, London. He is also being photographed to illustrate this article but the double delay in being able to talk to him affords a little time for admiring his collection of modern art and perusing his bookshelves, groaning under the weight of volumes that testify to the interests that have underpinned his career.
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Seven Strategies For Keeping Disaster Recovery ON TARGET
Business continuity is vital to all companies. To help keep you armed for all eventualities, here are seven cost-effective approaches to smart IT disaster recoveryIt was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank - until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted. - +
How IT Leaders Can Help CEOs Make Innovation Walk, Not Just Talk
A new executive survey shows that innovation is a top business strategy, but execution on the CEO's innovation vision is faltering. And that's an opportunity for IT veterans to show leadershipA new executive survey shows that innovation is a top business strategy, but execution on the CEO's innovation vision is faltering. And that's an opportunity for IT veterans to show leadership - +
Five Roadblocks to Faster IT Projects
How do you speed up your IT organization? Here are five things that may be standing in your waySeveral clients and prospects have said to me that they want to speed up their IT organisations. But speed doesn't come easily, and that's a message none of these organizations has been comfortable hearing. Here's what stands in their way: - +
Is IT Achieving Green?
As more and more organisations assess their impact on the planet and opt to go ‘green’, concerns are being raised as to the actual progress being made, if at all?IT is turning greenish. - +
The Limits of Running IT Like a Business
Running IT in a businesslike way has its benefits, but it can also lead you into a trap. An IT strategy expert considers how to go from managing IT efficiently to exploiting it strategicallyRunning IT in a businesslike way has its benefits, but it can also lead you into a trap. An IT strategy expert considers how to go from managing IT efficiently to exploiting it strategically - +
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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Seven Strategies For Keeping Disaster Recovery ON TARGET
Business continuity is vital to all companies. To help keep you armed for all eventualities, here are seven cost-effective approaches to smart IT disaster recoveryIt was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank - until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted. - +
How IT Leaders Can Help CEOs Make Innovation Walk, Not Just Talk
A new executive survey shows that innovation is a top business strategy, but execution on the CEO's innovation vision is faltering. And that's an opportunity for IT veterans to show leadershipA new executive survey shows that innovation is a top business strategy, but execution on the CEO's innovation vision is faltering. And that's an opportunity for IT veterans to show leadership
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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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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 - +
Is your outsourcer an IT sweatshop?
Adherents say an ethics-based approach to outsourcing is good for your conscience and your companyCIO Ron Kifer wants to ensure that the outsourcing providers he hires are aligned with his own company's objectives. But Kifer uses more than the usual questions that examine whether the work can be delivered on time and on budget. He looks at social and ethical factors, too.
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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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Spy bots that share information being built for military 12 May, 2008 08:11:34
A group of U.S. 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. - +
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. - +
Stupid hacker tricks: The folly of youth 06 May, 2008 18:28:18
Tech-savvy delinquents set the Net aflame with boneheaded exploits that earn them the wrong kind of fameAh, youth. Ready to take on the world, today's generation of dynamic, tech-immersed youngsters have grown up alongside the Internet. Firsthand, and sometimes single-handedly, they have advanced some of today's hottest technology trends, from peer-to-peer networking, to massively multiplayer online games, to social networks and instant messaging. And along the way, a small, sociopathic number of them have behaved very, very badly. - +
If only reducing costs was as easy as security, say CIOs 07 May, 2008 13:25:23
CIOs terrified of spyware, not vindictive staff.Conquering IT security is a breeze for CIOs, according to an IDC report. - +
New Zealand gov't ID plan lacks 'terrorism bug' infection 07 May, 2008 10:02:11
Australian ID-scheme critic says NZ is getting it rightInternational experts in Wellington for a conference on identity last week expressed admiration for the New Zealand government's igovt identity information management scheme and the policy behind it.
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