Friday | 29 August, 2008
Why SaaS could make your IT skills irrelevant 22 August, 2008 11:17:00
The rapid adoption of software as a service is fundamentally changing the makeup of today's IT departments.The rapid adoption of software as a service is fundamentally changing the makeup of today's IT departments.Blog: CEOs Shape IT Archetype 15 August, 2008 14:41:00
CIOs being fired -- this always gets my attention (along with the ever-compelling "Five Things You Must Do..." titles of course).Blog: Examining the Pieces of the Service Puzzle 15 August, 2008 15:45:00
Last week, I promised to explore the difference between architectures and service-oriented architectures. Here's the kicker: There isn't a difference. Or there's a world of difference. It gets down to semantics.Blog: RIM BlackBerry Tip: Create New Word, Excel, PowerPoint Files in Documents to Go for FREE 15 August, 2008 15:37:00
While experimenting with the Standard Edition of Documents to Go that came along with BlackBerry handheld operating system (OS) v4.5, I discovered a way to create new Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files on my BlackBerry—even though this functionality is supposed to be restricted to the Premium Edition of the software.Blog: OK, you're not a 'beard in the basement'. So who are you? 13 August, 2008 15:28:24
Prospective IT employees want a company's culture to value them as business innovators, not 'beards in the basement'. Given the preconceptions many cultures have about IT people, you'll need to be clear about your strategy.Blog: The Impact of Globalization on Executive Job Searches and Economic Prosperity 13 August, 2008 15:15:50
I'm beginning to understand why it's been so hard and taking such a long time for me to find a new CIO job. It's not just the economy (i.e., "Bad News Comes In Waves For Economy"), the wildly fluctuating stock markets, a Presidential election year in the US, and overly cautious business and IT leaders that are complicating my job search. Major shifts in global corporate ownership are rippling downstream, affecting enterprises' hierarchical structures, executive roles, and hiring criteria, as I've learned from my recent discussions with David Gray, an international executive consultant and researcher based in Australia.Blog: SAP: Financials Are Rosy, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Ecosystem 12 August, 2008 15:13:13
For a company that generates a dearth of media attention outside of tech circles, SAP has generated a fast and furious string of exploits as of late.Blog: "Best" BlackBerry Apps: Not All Lists Are Created Equal 12 August, 2008 14:58:27
Today I came across a list of what LaptopMag.com is calling the "top ten BlackBerry apps," and since I've been known to offer up my own occasional lists of BlackBerry software downloads-and there are a few on the list I haven't covered in the past-I decided to bring the post to your attention.Blog: The Politics of Root Access 12 August, 2008 15:23:33
Who needs administrative priviledges to a network or website? The network admin obviously does. But others ask for root access, too, whether or not they truly need it. How should an admin-or the IT manager-handle the sensitive political situation when someone asks-no, demands-admin rights for a system when he really shouldn't have them?Blog: Six Questions For Governance 11 August, 2008 11:56:38
MIT Professor Erik Bynolfssen expresses it perfectly: "in the long run productivity is everything". An organization that consistently wastes two-thirds of its project expenditure will simply be incapable of competing with organizations that succeed 85 per cent of the timeBlog: VMware Hesitates at a Turning Point 11 August, 2008 13:59:44
VMware is approaching the kind of turning point that defines a company as either a brilliant success or a flash in the pan, and it's not entirely clear which way it's going to turn.Blog: Organizational Skills to Implement SOA 11 August, 2008 13:53:57
If your company is considering SOA, there are many issues and challenges that need to be addressed in order to improve the chances for a successful implementation. One issue that is often overlooked early on is an assessment of the company's existing skill sets and the application development culture.Blog: MS' Midori Green-Field Plan to Keep Buyers at Bay 08 August, 2008 15:02:29
Smoke and mirrors, or something tangible?At the risk of fanning unwelcome flames, it's interesting how the "news" of Microsoft's 'Midori' futuristic operating system and putative successor to Windows, has spread over the last several days.Blog: Dell Gets Caught in Cloud Computing Storm 08 August, 2008 14:15:17
Dell, still fighting a tough battle to regain its luster, got caught in a cloud controversy this week. Poor cloud computing: This technology has real appeal for enterprise IT, but now that the tech community has decided that it's the tech term of the year, cloud computing is getting more overexposed than Mylie Cyrus.Blog: Top Ten List: You Know It's Time to Move Your Data Center When... 08 August, 2008 14:22:18
A majority of US companies will expand or relocate their data centers by 2010, according to a 2006 AFCOM/Data Center Institute study highlighted recently in Bnet. How can you tell if your company should be one of them?
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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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Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure 29 August, 2008 08:08:00
Could hotel chain have done a better job of defusing story about system intrusion?The headline in this week's Glasgow Sunday Herald -- "Revealed: 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist" -- was a grabber. - +
US Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws 28 August, 2008 09:53:00
US Congress charges that US$500m project to prevent another 9/11 is a complete failure.A US House subcommittee is charging that a US$500 million IT project intended to "connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a failure; it can't even handle basic Boolean search terms, such as "and, or and not." - +
Malware infects space station laptops 28 August, 2008 08:15:00
Not the first time, says NASA; astronauts load up Norton AntiVirusMalware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed yesterday. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit. - +
Separation of duties and IT security 28 August, 2008 09:40:00
Muddied responsibilities create unwanted risk. Kevin Coleman says auditors may start labeling poorly defined IT duties as a material deficiency.Separation of duties is a key concept of internal controls and is the most difficult and sometimes the most costly one to achieve. This objective is achieved by disseminating the tasks and associated privileges for a specific security process among multiple people. - +
How to recruit and retain the best young security employees 27 August, 2008 08:32:00
Today's youngest generation of workers, known as Generation Y, have different career goals than their parents did. What do you need to know to get them to work for you?The final installment in a series of articles about generational differences and security. Part one looked at managing workers in different age groups. Part two examined the types of security concerns that are most commonly associated with different generations in the general workforce. This article provides recruiting and retention advice for security employees.
Tumbleweed appoints O2 Networks to its Australian Channel Partner Program 29 August, 2008 12:31:00
HP ProCurve Brings Big Business Gigabit Switching Features to Small Businesses 29 August, 2008 12:00:00
GlobalConnect Provides Treatment for Healthcare Provider’s Contact Support Requirements 29 August, 2008 09:59:00
Sybase and Logica Partner To Mobilise The Supply Chain 29 August, 2008 09:47:00
New global landscape for qualitative researchers with Spanish and Chinese software releases 29 August, 2008 09:34:00
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