Saturday | 5 July, 2008
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Sleepless in Sydney (or Melbourne, or Hobart, or . . .) 03 July, 2008 09:58:45
“For technology executives to become business executives, they must have the ability to assess risk”It's the stuff of CIO nightmares and the cause of many a sleepless night: The fear that the next business continuity threat, malicious code attack or data breach will bring the organization down - +
Negotiating the Roadblocks to Doing the Business 03 July, 2008 16:19:45
The eight critical issues capturing the mindshare of CXOs and key business and IT executives at enterprise-class organizationsAt IDC's 42nd annual Directions conference in San Jose last year, the information technology market research and CIO sister company showcased its predictions for the coming years in a session called "CXO Priorities" - +
Know What They Want 03 July, 2008 14:47:12
“For technology executives to become business executives, they need to understand customer expectations”As Australia's premier commercial airport, Sydney Airport facilitates the travel of 31 million passengers every year. It takes the collective actions and processes of some 500 businesses and organizations to meet the needs of the airport users at this dynamic economic hub - +
Life in Flatland 03 July, 2008 14:39:34
“For technology executives to become business executives, they should understand the ramifications of globalization”Globalization means watching the barriers that have constrained world trade, communications, employment and social discourse since time immemorial fall like dominos, under the weight of new technologies and a revolution in social and business dynamics - +
Getting an Edge 03 July, 2008 14:53:32
“For technology executives to become business executives, they must comprehend the competitive nature of the business”Business has mostly seen the IT organization as just one of many business support functions, not much different in nature to finance, manufacturing, or HR - +
The Cost Equation 03 July, 2008 12:13:30
“For technology executives to become business executives, they have to be skilled at cost control”Australian mining companies may still be enjoying a boom, but just about anybody else who sells anything into a world that is denominated in US dollars is struggling enormously with cost pressures, says Gartner EXP research director Andy Rowsell-Jones - +
Getting Time on Your Side 03 July, 2008 14:27:31
“For technology executives to become business executives, they should possess the ability to improve time to market”CEO optimism isn't perhaps quite as widespread as it was back in late 2006 and early 2007 when Gartner's report "Creating Enterprise Leverage: The 2007 CIO Agenda" showed two out of three enterprises wanted to grow faster than the market that year. Nonetheless competitiveness remains a key goal for company heads - +
Complying With the Inevitable 02 July, 2008 16:55:50
“For technology executives to become business executives, they must understand compliance”Most organizations face a "relatively high" risk of suffering a data loss that would expose them to extremely embarrassing publicity, according to the latest assessments by the IT Policy Compliance Group - +
Knowing What You've Got 02 July, 2008 16:32:07
"For technology executives to become business executives, they need to have a firm handle on both fiscal and human resources"The typical IT executive at a Global 2000 company is responsible for managing IT resources for the entire supporting infrastructure to run a modern enterprise. That can run to many thousands of user accounts, computers, networks, applications and systems - +
Is Supply Chain Leadership Your Next Move? 11 June, 2008 13:00:04
CIOs can make compelling candidates for chief supply chain officer. Four CIOs explain how they made the moveCIOs can make compelling candidates for chief supply chain officer. Four CIOs explain how they made the move - +
Understanding what Google Apps is (and isn't) 06 June, 2008 09:56:05
The search giant says its Google Apps is a supplement, not a replacement, to Microsoft Office, aimed at helping users collaborate online. What remains to be seen is whether Google's efforts to strengthen the security of web-hosted Google Apps will win the confidence of nervous IT departments.When Google launched its web-based e-mail service (Gmail) on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke, and perhaps with good reason. That same day, the company had posted plans to open a research facility on the moon.
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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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