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How to Manage Project Risks, Part 1: A Perspective 25 September, 2007 12:14:45
There are 8 types of risk that need to be managed effectively for your project to be successfulThere are 8 types of risk that need to be managed effectively for your project to be successful. - +
IT and The Responsive Economy 29 May, 2007 11:25:21
Successful companies are learning to compete by being more agile and more responsive to continuous change and to the evolving needs of their customersThe emergence of the Internet and the Web have led to disruptive changes in companies' IT infrastructures. Ready or not, it's happening again. But this time, the changes will be bigger and they will come faster. IT departments will have to be more responsive because, at root, that's what these changes are all about. - +
How to Manage Project Risks, Part 8: Business Risks 04 December, 2007 10:29:23
Analysis of the business risks ensures the project team considers issues the business staff are aware of.Analysis of the business risks ensures the project team considers issues the business staff are aware of. - +
E-discovery and Records Retention 04 July, 2007 12:47:10
When I asked participants at a recent security-research benchmark what their retention policies were, more than a quarter said they keep records forever. Why?At almost every conference I go to, I get asked "How long should I keep documents, e-mail and other records?" - +
Forget Everything You've Learnt About Project Delivery! 29 January, 2008 11:25:16
Our current project delivery paradigms are flawed. And so are our approaches to solving this problem. The first in a new 10-part series from project management expert Jed SimmsOur current project delivery paradigms are flawed — and so are our approaches to solving this problem. The first in a new 10-part series from project management expert Jed Simms
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Adobe launches hosted services, adds Flash to Acrobat 03 June, 2008 09:02:44
Adobe to launch Web site offering users free hosted services for document creation, sharing and storageAdobe this week is set to unveil the next version of its Adobe Acrobat software, which adds support for the company's Flash multimedia technology. The company also plans to launch a new Web site offering users free hosted services for document creation, sharing and storage. - +
Experimental container support for 2.6.24 08 November, 2007 12:00:24
Faster than virtualization, but harder to implement, containers are a promising security technology for Linux. Watch the 2.6.24 kernel for experimental support for creating and managing containers."Containers" are a form of lightweight virtualization as represented by projects like OpenVZ. While virtualization creates a new virtual machine upon which the guest system runs, containers implementations work by making walls around groups of processes. The result is that, while virtualized guests each run their own kernel (and can run different operating systems than the host), containerized systems all run on the host's kernel. So containers lack some of the flexibility of full virtualization, but they tend to be quite a bit more efficient. - +
For success with ILM, secure the DLM first 17 November, 2004 09:21:50
Growing regulatory requirements for data retention and encryption are forcing enterprises to overhaul their data management strategies. - +
What to consider when deploying integrated backup, recovery and archive 30 November, 2005 15:00:20
Companies today rely on outdated backup and recovery processes. To expedite backup, IT professionals use differential or incremental backups, connect multiple servers to a tape system, or even skip backups or back up information less frequently. While this may increase backup speeds, it worsens recovery times, which should be the priority. By integrating and aligning backup, recovery and archival processes, organizations will be able to optimize the recovery and retrieval of information and improve production performance. - +
New methodologies for 'bottomless' e-mail storage 18 July, 2007 15:37:15
File-based storage systems add up to a powerful enterprise toolWith e-mail the dominant enterprise communication vehicle -- used for everything from simple notes to purchase orders, contracts, invoices and other critical business documents -- managing swelling message stores has become a primary concern.
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We've all heard the line about 'realigning IT with the business', which is sort of like saying we want our 'pivot to make better passes to the shooters' -- duh. But as crazy as that sounds, it's reality -- and it isn't getting better, it's getting worse.
Business thinks IT is slow and unresponsive. IT departments know that the business is totally unappreciative of the fact that while they want to support the business as much as possible, they are effectively doing so wearing handcuffs and chains. IT is like Houdini -- the fact that it can get anything done is magic to me. Every year for 15 years the gap between the two has widened. Now it is about to fracture forever potentially.
The issue du jour is, now, instead of just complaining about IT, business units are making decisions and acting completely outside of IT with regards to information access applications and tools -- and then expecting IT to quickly provision and support those applications. Information access applications include every business facing application -- from Word to a trading system to CRM to e-discovery.
Priorities such as regulatory compliance and legal are especially hot now. Business critical applications -- those designed to extract incremental value from existing information -- are taking a backseat to the application of spit and chewing gum. IT shops are starting to remind me of those poor men in the engine room in Titanic.
The result is that IT is becoming further marginalized in the eyes of the business. IT is forced to say no to business requests, as it simply cannot bring new applications online in any short-term window because of legacy issues. As 'hot' applications are brought online, they further stress IT resources as they tend to be implemented in a stovepipe fashion -- where the business unit only cares about that application but not in context to the impact it may have on other back-end IT operations.
The business unit is therefore acquiring these tools and services, and handing them off to IT to support after the decisions have been made. The situation today is becoming flammable. The business wants to be able to react to requirements quickly without having to be overly concerned for IT and its ability to deliver. The business unit wants known costs for known services in a known time frame -- and the ability to add or delete service levels based on costs and requirements. The business unit believes it is mandated to act, so as IT pushes back, the business unit moves ahead regardless.
IT wants to be able to fulfill all the requirements of the business unit, but it must attempt to do so within the encumbrances it has -- from people to power and cooling to space. IT has been addressing the independent acts of the business unit in one of a few basic ways:
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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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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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