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    Public Expects Companies to Take More Social Responsibility Say CEOs 16 November, 2007 10:55:55

    McKinsey survey of nearly 400 CEOs says the public is demanding more social accountability by corporations
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    Shopping for a Future 08 March, 2006 13:27:35

    CIOs soon will be able to pick their career paths according to their strengths as leaders and whether they want to focus on technology or business
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    The Engine That Drives Success 08 June, 2004 10:45:29

    The best companies have the best business models because they have the best IT strategies.
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    Mad As Hell 19 November, 2001 10:00:00

    Analysts estimate that businesses end up spending billions for software that doesn't do what it's supposed to. Some CIOs are tired of playing the sap and are beginning to take action.
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    Reclaiming E-Space 10 August, 2001 09:00:00

    Last year the experts were telling businesses:"If you can get your company to join the new economy, you may reap big rewards". Then came April's NASDAQ showers, and May's flowers still aren't blooming. So what's happening where bricks meet clicks?
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    IT Autopsy 06 April, 2001 14:15:50

    No longer an obscure component of network security, computer forensics has blossomed into a science all its own
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    The ISE Men Cometh 13 October, 2000 11:09:38

    By operating entirely electronically, the International Securities Exchange could change the face of the options market.
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    As Bill Gates steps down from the day to day operations at Microsoft he'll be dedicating most of his time to philanthropic efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    Data-center security tools to not overlook 10 October, 2008 11:37:00

    With the rise of security suites, it's time to consider some emerging security tools and rethink others
    Protecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink.
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    IBM, Secret Service, others study identity/cybercrime issues 09 October, 2008 10:09:00

    Center for Applied Identity Management Research organization teams experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cybercrime and cyberdefense, data protection, homeland security and national defense.
    IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking.
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    Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 09:51:00

    A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.
    Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
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    Cambridge lab sets quantum key world record 09 October, 2008 07:51:00

    Researchers can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps.
    The hugely promising security technology of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has moved an important step closer to commercialization with the announcement by UK-based researchers that they can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps.
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    Palin hacking charge flawed, lawyers say 09 October, 2008 07:28:00

    Case considered a misdemeanor offence not a felony.
    David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch.
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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
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Revolutionising Back-up and Recovery

Rapid adoption of virtual server technology, and the challenges associated with the backup and recovery of ever-growing stores of information is causing a number of IT managers to reevaluate their data protection strategies. New backup and recovery methods which use data de-duplication technology to reduce capacity and network bandwidth requirements are being deployed to keep up with explosive data growth, shrinking backup windows, compliance initiatives and security concerns. Read on to find out more.