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    Why Watching 'Lost' Is Like Managing ERP

    65 percent of enterprise software implementations fail. "Dude, that's really bad".
    Since the fall of 2004, I've invested a lot of time, given way too much thought to, and probably annoyed plenty of people over all things Lost. Like a crazy, unpredictable friend in your life, the show has consumed me, frustrated me, surprised me, exasperated me and kept me on my toes.
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    IT Outsourcing: Why It Pays to Appraise Your Contract

    Good business practice may necessitate periodic compliance or operations audits
    Everyone knows a good outsourcing relationship needs to be actively managed. So does a good IT outsourcing contract.
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    Why Watching 'Lost' Is Like Managing ERP

    65 percent of enterprise software implementations fail. "Dude, that's really bad".
    Since the fall of 2004, I've invested a lot of time, given way too much thought to, and probably annoyed plenty of people over all things Lost. Like a crazy, unpredictable friend in your life, the show has consumed me, frustrated me, surprised me, exasperated me and kept me on my toes.
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    ERP Costs: 3 Signs Companies Are Wasting Less Money

    ERP investments have long held a stranglehold on corporate IT investments. The Great Recession, however, has pushed boards and budgeting committees to examine IT spending like never before. Not surprisingly, ERP's juicy slice of the corporate spending pie has come under closer scrutiny.
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    BI's Dirty Secret: Better Tools No Match for Bad Strategy

    Demand for analytic applications will most likely be insatiable for the foreseeable future
    The pressure on CIOs to deliver business intelligence tools and analytic applications--on the cheap and ASAP--has been building steadily for years. In 2010, survey results point out that that demand has reached a fever pitch with which CIOs are very familiar.
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    5 open source office suites to watch

    The latest open source and Web-based office tools are proving to be worthwhile alternatives to more expensive packaged software suites -- and they won't break your budget!
    The Microsoft Office productivity suite has risen to become the dominant application of its type for business IT management. But there are open source office productivity suites available that may provide a suitable alternative to Office, depending on your requirements.
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    Windows 7 Tips: Best Security Features

    IT can specify which applications can run on employees' desktops
    For both enterprises and consumers, one of the big draws of Windows 7 has been its tighter security features.
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    Cloud Security: Ten Questions to Ask Before You Jump In

    The reality is security responsibility will be shared
    The hype around cloud computing would make you think mass adoption will happen tomorrow. But recent studies by a number of sources have shown that security is the biggest barrier to cloud adoption. The reality is cloud computing is simply another step in technology evolution following the path of mainframe, client server and Web applications, all of which had -- and still have -- their own security issues.
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    10 Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2010

    Most consolidation in 2010 will focus on acquisitions of complementary capabilities as opposed to mergers to increase scale
    It was a long year of intense ups and downs in the IT outsourcing industry. Consolidation among vendors and interest in remote infrastructure management increased, while overall outsourcing demand and IT services pricing decreased.
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    Q&A: IDC Forecast for Management 2009

    Thanks to the global financial crisis, IDC’s Forecast for Management Survey 2009 covers a year in IT unlike any other -- and the economic turbulence is reflected in the results.
    Thanks to the global financial crisis, IDC’s Forecast for Management Survey 2009 covers a year in IT unlike any other -- and the economic turbulence is reflected in the results.
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    IT Outsourcing: Why It Pays to Appraise Your Contract

    Good business practice may necessitate periodic compliance or operations audits
    Everyone knows a good outsourcing relationship needs to be actively managed. So does a good IT outsourcing contract.
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    Outsourcing Problems? Middle Management May Be to Blame

    Outsourcing customers need good middle managers to define and deliver on business requirements
    Middle management just isn't what it used to be. The old definition of a middle manager--those senior staff in charge of overseeing the details of day-to-day management and reporting to top management--is too narrow, says Leslie Willcocks, Professor of Technology Work and Globalization at the London School of Economics (LSE) and head of its Outsourcing Unit.
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    New at Disney: It's a Data Center World After All

    Older facilities were not designed with energy efficiency top of mind
    Visitors to Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando can walk around the world, stopping at pavilions that aim to give them a taste of other countries. Now, Disney and IBM hope to give visitors a unique look at the information technology that delivers the modern world's everyday necessities as well.
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    Five Trends Influencing the CIO Smartphone Agenda

    The app explosion can work in CIOs favor if they can figure out how to leverage it
    I've spent most of 2009 meeting with CIOs and their IT organizations to understand their concerns and challenges about managing and securing mobile phones. In my conversations with people across the country and across industries, it became clear that smartphones are now finally on the CIO agenda and, in fact, one of the most difficult topics.
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    Is 2010 the year of location-based services?

    Dr Giles Nelson, director of strategy at Progress Software, says 2010 is the year location-based services finally become mainstream.
    Dr Giles Nelson, director of strategy at Progress Software, says 2010 is the year location-based services finally become mainstream.
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    The Strategic CIO: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

    There comes a time in every CIO’s career when it’s time to move on. Here’s how one CIO handled the changing of the guard with grace and style. . .
    There comes a time in every CIO's career when it's time to move on. Here's how one CIO handled the changing of the guard with grace and style...
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    Startup links VMware with Amazon to create secure cloud storage

    A storage startup called Nasuni is unveiling a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and connects customers to cloud platforms such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service, adding encryption to enhance security and several features to improve performance.
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    Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

    At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.'s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that's been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years. According to industry experts, it was a pioneering system when first introduced, and it made the Omaha-based transportation giant one of the first companies in the world to make extensive use of online transaction processing technologies.
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    Nokia targeted in US class action suit

    A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008.
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    Report: Google to make Gmail more social

    Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to inject the Web mail service with social-networking capabilities popularized by Twitter and Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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    Juniper execs share network vision

    Juniper Networks has always been about high performance and, since it straddles the carrier and enterprise markets, has an interesting perspective on where these worlds intersect. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Kim Perdikou, EVP and GM of the Infrastructure Products Group, and David Yen, EVP and GM of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group, to discuss converging needs, tech trends and the company's Stratus project, a single-layer network architecture.
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    Optus records strong Q3 growth

    Singtel (ASX:SGT) is reporting its Australian subsidiary, Optus, has recorded strong growth for the quarter ending December 31, 2009.
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    BlueLock's cloud services aim at large and small

    BlueLock, a little-known cloud-computing services provider, is rolling out a suite of services aimed at a wide range of customers, it announced Monday.
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    OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study

    Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI).
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    Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management

    Oracle on Monday fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing Monday that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. Terms were not disclosed.
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    PayPal suspends personal payments to India

    PayPal, an eBay company, has suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in the country.
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    Why Watching 'Lost' Is Like Managing ERP

    Since the fall of 2004, I've invested a lot of time, given way too much thought to, and probably annoyed plenty of people over all things Lost. Like a crazy, unpredictable friend in your life, the show has consumed me, frustrated me, surprised me, exasperated me and kept me on my toes.
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    IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers

    IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time.
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    IT Outsourcing: Why It Pays to Appraise Your Contract

    Everyone knows a good outsourcing relationship needs to be actively managed. So does a good IT outsourcing contract.
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    CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss

    CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.
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    Chinese man gets 30 months for fake Cisco sales

    A Chinese man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a U.S. prison this week for trafficking in counterfeit Cisco Systems gear.
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    Symantec hit with class-action lawsuit over auto-renewals

    A New York man has sued security software maker Symantec for automatically renewing his subscription to Norton Antivirus, alleging that the company did not notify him before charging $US76 to his credit card.
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    CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss 09 February, 2010 10:08:00

    More commercial options for widely-used app server
    CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.
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    The group of hackers compromised brokerage accounts, then pumped up the prices of stocks
    An Indian national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. and use them to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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    E-mail scam steals €3 million in carbon credits 05 February, 2010 06:47:00

    The phishing scheme resulted in losses of up to €3 million from companies
    A clever phishing scheme launched last week may have stolen more than €3 million (US$4.1 million) worth of carbon emission permits from companies.
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    Windows 7 Tips: Best Security Features 04 February, 2010 04:52:00

    IT can specify which applications can run on employees' desktops
    For both enterprises and consumers, one of the big draws of Windows 7 has been its tighter security features.
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    Twitter forces password reset to protect some accounts 04 February, 2010 05:48:00

    The company has discovered that log-in information has been stolen in compromised torrent file-sharing sites
    Twitter required some users to reset their passwords on Tuesday after discovering that their log-in information may have been harvested via security-compromised torrent Web sites, the company said.

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