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Keeping Afloat on a Sea of Change
Expect the CIO role to be vastly different in five years time � and be prepared to adapt if you want to keep your job.
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Managing IT atop Mount Washington
On Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern US, the winds whip faster than they do in Antarctica, the bitter cold will freeze bare skin in seconds, and Steven Welsh tends to the IT infrastructure that meticulously records the mountain's extreme weather conditions.On Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern US, the winds whip faster than they do in Antarctica, the bitter cold will freeze bare skin in seconds, and Steven Welsh tends to the IT infrastructure that meticulously records the mountain's extreme weather conditions. - +
Slideshow: Multisourcing for Performance and Efficiency
CIO magazine and Unisys recently hosted a series of breakfast briefing sessions in Sydney and Canberra on the topic of Multisourcing for Performance and EfficiencyCIO magazine and Unisys recently hosted a series of breakfast briefing sessions in Sydney and Canberra on the topic of Multisourcing for Performance and Efficiency. In today's turbulent economic climate, companies need to make multisourcing management and governance core competencies if they are to rise to the many challenges that lie ahead. - +
Keeping Afloat on a Sea of Change
Expect the CIO role to be vastly different in five years time � and be prepared to adapt if you want to keep your job.Expect the CIO role to be vastly different in five years time � and be prepared to adapt if you want to keep your job. - +
Bringing the Twitter-like Experience to the Enterprise
Learning from the success people have had on Twitter, the short messaging service, a public affairs firm has begun using enterprise microblogging technology from Socialtext. It mirrors the Twitter experience, but for the purposes of internal, enterprise collaboration.Learning from the success people have had on Twitter, the short messaging service, a public affairs firm has begun using enterprise microblogging technology from Socialtext. It mirrors the Twitter experience, but for the purposes of internal, enterprise collaboration. - +
Five Energy Trends Driving Your Data Center
What you really want from your data center is processing power and data storage, but what you need is to get a grip on escalating power costs. Keep these five issues in mind as you plan for your present and future energy-efficient data center.What you really want from your data center is processing power and data storage, but what you need is to get a grip on escalating power costs. Keep these five issues in mind as you plan for your present and future energy-efficient data center. - +
Cutting the Wrong Employees Can Kill A Business
Retaining strategically important IT staff in a recession can provide an organisation with competitive advantage. Outsourcing selectively now is a good option, but retaining in house project management skills is the key for IT leaders when the economic climate improves.Retaining strategically important IT staff in a recession can provide an organisation with competitive advantage. Outsourcing selectively now is a good option, but retaining in house project management skills is the key for IT leaders when the economic climate improves.
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Managing IT atop Mount Washington
On Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern US, the winds whip faster than they do in Antarctica, the bitter cold will freeze bare skin in seconds, and Steven Welsh tends to the IT infrastructure that meticulously records the mountain's extreme weather conditions.On Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern US, the winds whip faster than they do in Antarctica, the bitter cold will freeze bare skin in seconds, and Steven Welsh tends to the IT infrastructure that meticulously records the mountain's extreme weather conditions. - +
Five Things You Can Do Right Now to Deal With The Financial Crisis
What you can do today to help keep your company afloat and your career prospects intact.What you can do today to help keep your company afloat and your career prospects intact.
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IT innovations help Kiva expand microfinance mission
Doing much more with much less is business as usual for Kiva, its entrepreneurs and its IT team.Aaron Yu wants to share his enthusiasm for Kiva, a nonprofit microfinancing organization. He sees Facebook as a prime way to do that. - +
Three Nightmares When Managing Macs
Even as Apple readies new computers, companies continue to face daunting challenges supporting popular MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros.Even as Apple readies new computers, companies continue to face daunting challenges supporting popular MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros.
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Making Storage Easier for Non-IT Execs to Understand
With increasing amounts of incoming data threatening to overwhelm firms, Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida wants to make the economics of storage easier for non-IT executives to understand.With increasing amounts of incoming data threatening to overwhelm firms, Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida wants to make the economics of storage easier for non-IT executives to understand. - +
Oracle pushes compression as cheaper database scale-up method
At OpenWorld, Oracle puts spotlight on 11g database's Advanced Compression featureOracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage, a new method of retrieving data more quickly and intelligently, and -- wait for it -- a US$2.33 million price tag.
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Five Things You Can't See on Your Network
How business practices have changed the risky activity on your networkHow business practices have changed the risky activity on your network. - +
A Real Dumpster Dive: Bank Tosses Personal Data, Checks
In this new age of data protection, where most information is stored digitally and paper shredding is commonplace, you don't need to worry about private information ending up in the garbage, right? Steve Hunt shows that assumption is just plain wrongIn this new age of data protection, where most information is stored digitally and paper shredding is commonplace, you don't need to worry about private information ending up in the garbage, right? Steve Hunt shows that assumption is just plain wrong.
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Five Things You Can Do Right Now to Deal With The Financial Crisis
What you can do today to help keep your company afloat and your career prospects intact.What you can do today to help keep your company afloat and your career prospects intact. - +
Steve Jobs: Events That Kept the Apple CEO In the Spotlight
Known for being both creative and temperamental, Apple's Steve Jobs has also made headlines for his relationship with Microsoft's Bill Gates, his Macworld keynotes and his ailing health.Being the CEO of a company worth more than US$100 billion makes a person newsworthy-especially if that CEO is Steve Jobs and that company is Apple. Maker of innovative technologies like the Macintosh, the iPod and the iPhone, Apple's reputation has also been shaped by its sometimes controversial front man, Steve Jobs.
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Five Things You Can Do Right Now to Deal With The Financial Crisis
What you can do today to help keep your company afloat and your career prospects intact.What you can do today to help keep your company afloat and your career prospects intact. - +
Hiring Software Developers: The Agile Aptitude Test
Menlo Innovations' Richard Sheridan and Lisamarie Babik explain how "extreme interviewing" can help hiring managers choose Agile developers who are ready to apply its principles.The Agile development model has spawned hundreds of books and dozens of conferences. There's a significant track record of successful companies moving to Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and other lightweight, highly collaborative development models. Agile can fundamentally change the way software development is done, yet the methods for recruiting and hiring developers hasn't changed a bit. One company has adopted a new approach, and they share their methods here.
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Three Nightmares When Managing Macs
Even as Apple readies new computers, companies continue to face daunting challenges supporting popular MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros.Even as Apple readies new computers, companies continue to face daunting challenges supporting popular MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros. - +
10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2009
Which virtualization management tool vendors should be on your radar screen in 2009? Here's CIO.com's second annual list of the best and brightest innovators in virtualization management, security, backup and more.Which virtualization management tool vendors should be on your radar screen in 2009? Here's CIO.com's second annual list of the best and brightest innovators in virtualization management, security, backup and more.
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The Big Squeeze
Over a million dollars in damages. Sixty per cent of a city government locked out of its own network. One disgruntled IT tech. Whatever you think of Terry Childs, he�s an IT pro who sure understands how to do more with less!Over a million dollars in damages. Sixty per cent of a city government locked out of its own network. One disgruntled IT tech. Whatever you think of Terry Childs, he�s an IT pro who sure understands how to do more with less! - +
Clash of the Browsers
All's fair in love and war . . . and browsersAll's fair in love and war . . . and browsers
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IT budget strategy in a down economy: Stop buying storage!
During the current economic downturn, IT organizations must take steps to optimize existing assets. Learn how to turn these tight times into an opportunity by implementing processes, procedures and simple technologies to dramatically improve your storage cost profile. Read on to find out how.
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The IT leaders' handbook to beating the economy: 5 smart ways to take action
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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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Visa: Post-breach criticism of PCI standard misplaced 20 March, 2009 07:37:00
Chief risk officer: No breached companies have been compliant with the data security rulesVisa's top risk management executive Thursday dismissed what she described as "recent rumblings" about the possible demise of the PCI data security rules as "premature" and "dangerous" to long-term efforts to ensure that credit and debit card data is secure. - +
Five Things You Can't See on Your Network 19 March, 2009 10:05:00
How business practices have changed the risky activity on your networkHow business practices have changed the risky activity on your network. - +
Study: Cybersquatting Still Lucrative in Bad Economy 19 March, 2009 09:42:00
Research from MarkMonitor finds 80 percent of "abusive sites" identified in 2007 remain active; US, UK and Germany host the mostResearch from MarkMonitor finds 80 percent of "abusive sites" identified in 2007 remain active; US, UK and Germany host the most. - +
Good FUD Vs. Bad: Is There Really A Difference? 19 March, 2009 09:12:00
A couple security bloggers suggest Bill Brenner spreads FUD in a column that's supposed to be anti-FUD. Why he agrees -- to a point.A couple security bloggers suggest Bill Brenner spreads FUD in a column that's supposed to be anti-FUD. Why he agrees -- to a point. - +
How to Respond to an Unexpected IT Security Incident 19 March, 2009 07:47:00
Whether you're prepared or not, information security incidents happen. At the SOURCE Boston conference, Lenny Zeltser, a SANS senior faculty member, laid out key steps to take if you need to respondWhether you're prepared or not, information security incidents happen. At the SOURCE Boston conference, Lenny Zeltser, a SANS senior faculty member, laid out key steps to take if you need to respond.
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