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Get Your BlackBerry Black Belt 04 February, 2008 12:54:29
How to improve your typing, messaging, browsing, attachment handling and moreMargaret Genet knows BlackBerrys. Though officially dubbed "operations analyst", she's the first Aflac employee to hold the unofficial title of "technology concierge". Genet's job number one: Teach executives how to be more efficient with mobile devices and applications - +
The Executive Woman's Guide to Self-Promotion 19 December, 2007 11:52:37
Ambitious women sometimes have a hard time getting noticed, but marketing one’s accomplishments is a requirement for career advancement. Six female CIOs offer advice to up-and-coming women in IT and explain how they learned to network without compromising themselves.Ambitious women sometimes have a hard time getting noticed, but marketing one's accomplishments is a requirement for career advancement. Six female CIOs offer advice to up-and-coming women in IT and explain how they learned to network without compromising themselves. - +
Blog: Another Rant About Alignment (Or The Lack Thereof) 17 December, 2007 12:40:42
Yet another study finds that executives talk a good game about how important IT is to business operations and future competitiveness, but they aren't doing much about it. - +
Why Leaders Must Evolve 14 December, 2007 11:14:13
Your leadership success increasingly depends on your ability to adapt to changing times.Your leadership success increasingly depends on your ability to adapt to changing times. - +
How to Set IT Policies the Right Way 23 November, 2007 11:12:03
Your rules for running IT should derive from the people who have to live with them.Your rules for running IT should derive from the people who have to live with them.
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Vendor wants to be 'Wikipedia for finance' 03 June, 2008 09:20:23
Financials meet social networking in Adaptive Planning's 5.0 release, announced MondayAdaptive Planning has added a set of collaboration and community-building features to the 5.0 release of its budgeting and reporting software. - +
Update improves encryption tool for al-Qaeda backers 05 February, 2008 08:34:16
Security exec's analysis shows code is well written but messages may be easy to trackA recently released tool that allegedly was designed to help al-Qaeda supporters encrypt their Internet-based communications is a well-written and easily portable piece of code, according to a security researcher who has analyzed the software. - +
Vista SP1 is ready -- or is it? 05 February, 2008 08:08:28
Crucial service-pack code wraps, but when will users get it? That's the questionJust a little more than a year after its first crack at Vista, Microsoft Monday announced that Vista 2.0 -- officially Service Pack 1, or SP1 -- has gone final -- just as had been rumored over the weekend. Officially it's gone RTM, which is Microsoft-speak for "release to manufacturing." That's code for done, as in signed off, as in shipped out for duplication and distribution. - +
If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love -- and Hate 04 February, 2008 08:55:20
Put together two giants like these and there are bound to be some good results and some nasty ones. Here are 11 of our dreams and nightmares.It's the year 2010. Microsoft owns Yahoo and has just changed the name of Flickr to Microsoft Flickr Live Photo-Sharing Service for Digital Camera Enthusiasts. The service is still free, but Windows Vista users will have to validate their copy of Vista as "genuine" first to use it. What has Microsoft wrought? - +
Would a Microsoft-Yahoo deal out Google Google? 02 February, 2008 09:32:47
Bid is riddled with pitfalls and benefits, analysts sayAs Microsoft tries to take on search company Google for more advertising revenue by offering to acquire Yahoo Inc., a big question remains: Can Microsoft and Yahoo together best Google?
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As budgets become tighter, the need to get IT people off pesky maintenance issues so they can drive innovative projects becomes more essential, making software as a service (SaaS) offerings an even more compelling option for CIOs.
Even a year ago, there seemed to be some skepticism about what SaaS could do in comparison to traditional, on premise enterprise software. The criticisms centered around a one size fits all offering that doesn't customize properly to businesses. Others were concerned that their data wouldn't be safe being housed outside their company.
But now it seems SaaS (or cloud computing, as the buzz word now goes) seems to be catching on, and one of the biggest allies could be CIOs themselves. A recent survey comprised of 100 respondents (many from the Fortune 500) seems to reflect this gravitation towards SaaS. It said that 73 percent of business had begun using (or planned to use) SaaS in some sort of way, and it polled mostly IT executives.
Yesterday, CIO interviewed the CEO of a SaaS vendor, Callidus Software, who said that a good portion of his customer base has been CIOs, instead of merely line of business managers circumventing the technology department by using a corporate credit card. Reasons? They were tired of having IT people manage servers and infrastructure, and spending lots of money on it to do so. SaaS seemed a welcome escape.
Meanwhile, we keep reading about this shaky economy where managing costs in technology will be especially important. Will SaaS breakthrough even more during the next year to help remedy maintenance issues and free up IT to work on what's important?
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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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Information security governance: Centralized vs. distributed 05 September, 2008 10:15:00
Should security policies, procedures and processes be managed within a central body, or distributed at an individual level? You need to find the middle ground.The management of information risk has become a significant topic for all organizations, small and large alike. But for the large, multi-divisional organization, it poses the additional challenge of determining how to deploy an information security governance program among what are often disparate business units. Should the policies, procedures, and processes that define the program be developed and managed within a central, corporate body? Or perhaps responsibility would be better placed at the individual unit level? Is there a workable middle-ground? - +
DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt 05 September, 2008 13:40:00
Optus, Internode and Equinix affected among others.A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world. - +
Ouch! Security pros' worst mistakes 04 September, 2008 08:05:00
We've all done regrettable things on the job, but does any valuable wisdom come of it? Four security pros candidly explain their biggest blunders and what they learned in the processIt was a mistake so bad the person who made it asked that his name and company not be mentioned here. Let's call him Frank. - +
Security ROI: Fact or Fiction? 03 September, 2008 08:32:00
Bruce Schneier says ROI is a big deal in business, but it's a misnomer in security. Make sure your financial calculations are based on good data and sound methodologies.Return on investment, or ROI, is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive return on investment, and a good one at that, in order to be viable. - +
Information Security and the Importance of Context 01 September, 2008 10:00:00
Those entrusted with information security must raise their contextual awarenessWhen the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was first created, it created a sudden need for tens of thousands of screeners. Getting a job as an airport screener was a pretty easy process. It seemed as though if you had a pulse, you were in. Jump forward to 2008 and becoming a screener is a bit harder as the TSA has instituted background checks, has upped the educational requirement to include a high school diploma or GED, and added other significant requirements.
Viva la Verticals! Key to Vendor Growth is Through Vertical Market Opportunities, Says IDC 05 September, 2008 11:05:00
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IntraPower Signs Deal with Australia’s Largest Service Station and Convenience Store Network 04 September, 2008 10:07:00
TANDBERG Begins Desktop Videoconferencing Roll-Out at New England Credit Union 03 September, 2008 16:01:00
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