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RSA keynoter Art Coviello says the bad guys have something to teach the good guys.
Virtualization, Web 2.0, and the Cloud bring new security threats, but budgets are tight.
Big Iron's appeal to young IT pros.
Why a young IT worker chose a career in big iron.
TTX is running its IT organization like a business with the help of an ITIL-compliant service delivery system.
Digital agency imc² needed a collaborative project management solution that would adapt to the rapidly changing environment of interactive marketing.
As it transitions to a digital business, Iron Mountain is reinventing technology and creating a culture of change.
Here are 10 ways to protect your company’s data.
Organizations must deal with corporate governance, information security and privacy, and identity theft—along with an ever-growing number of laws and regulations.
Elavon developed a robust, integrated approach to IT management that facilitates business change, regulatory compliance and cost control.
For wireless applications to function properly, they require the right in-building coverage, which involves more than just proper antenna placement and access point design.
Better decision making is one of the last—and most significant—frontiers in business performance management.
Business intelligence and analytics, enterprise risk management and virtualization are critical technologies for success in today’s insurance market.
Greenhouse gas emissions can be costly for business.
Using IT to control energy usage.
MasterCard follows four guiding principles during any application development that involves Web services.
A good energy policy can supercharge an organization’s performance through direct electricity savings, a diminished need for facilities, and lower capital costs related to servers, storage and other devices.
The easiest route hackers can take is through employees.
Clear governance policies can help executives choose and manage projects—but only if the chosen practices are followed.
Determining the value of an IT investment is no longer a matter of equating three accountants with one DEC minicomputer—not surprising, given that technology today focuses on enhancing processes rather than replacing them
The National Bureau of Economic Research said the U.S. economy slipped in to a recession in December of 2007. The NBER does not define a recession as two consecutive quarters of decline in real gross domestic product, as is the rule of thumb in many countries. Instead, it looks for a decline in economic activity, spread across the economy and lasting more than a few months.
Baseline examines easy, practical technology strategies that will cut IT costs quickly and streamline IT management so you are more efficient in the long run.
Baidu was accused of letting unlicensed medical services pay for prominent positions on its pay-for-performance (P4P) search platform, netting them more "clicks" for expensive but useless treatments. The claims sparked widespread public criticism of the Chinese search giant and dragged down Baidu's stock. And now Baidu's chief executive officer, Robin Li, has promised action.
Using a hands-free device does not make things better and the researchers believe they know why -- passengers act as a second set of eyes, shutting up or sometimes even helping when they see the driver needs to make a maneuver. The research, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, adds to a growing body of evidence that mobile phones can make driving dangerous.
Microsoft is not commenting, and Yahoo says it does not comment on rumors, but a key executive is quoted as saying a deal to replace the old leadership of Yahoo and get a deal done with Microsoft is not happening.
Before sending out a request for proposal for hardware to selected vendors, you need to have an agreed-upon rating/ranking system that is fair and objective, in order to help remove any bias or politics during the selection process.
Political skills in the workplace can determine one’s ability to perform at a high level, foster camaraderie and ultimately, be the difference-maker between a successful company and failing one. The following are common-sense management principles that can harness political energy between IT and business groups to foster highly-effective teams.
The gap between application development and IT operations management is escalating. With the rise of new technologies, the lack of energy spent on maximizing existing IT infrastructure, the lack of coordination between application groups and operations, and the lack of retiring legacy systems and older software, the IT alignment gap is showing signs of being widened by IT itself.
When it comes to balancing accessibility and security for employees using social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and other Web applications, CIOs must navigate a fine line that gets grayer every day. With the proliferation of social networking to empower these workers, our jobs as CIOs have become even more multidimensional, and these employees will continue to challenge our notions about how, when and under what conditions to provide access to information.
Point of sale systems can cut operating costs, integrate accounting systems, track inventory and improve supply chain efficiency. Well-engineered POS equipment can improve customer transaction times, save hours of accounting drudgery and help verify actual sales data.
We are going to see a more nuanced approach to developing software on a global scale. It may cost less to develop software locally, but that does not mean there will be a movement of software development back to the U.S. Competitive factors such as total project cost, domain expertise and the quality of software will be the driving forces in software projects regardless of location.
Virtualization proved to be virtuous and cost-effective for the environmentally conscious Burt’s Bees. Get a breakdown of what it took to really go green with virtual storage, measuring power consumption and following ISO standards for the environment.
In 2009, these technologies can provide companies with a competitive advantage in what is expected to be a very tough year on the bottom lines of IT budgets, IT management and IT vendors. However, even in an economic downturn those companies that invest, develop and capitalize on technologies that save money while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business have an opportunity to grab significant market and mind share with new and existing customers.
While organizations have similar goals such as controlling costs and achieving data consistency, IT departments across government, corporations and nonprofits operate differently. IT management needs an overarching governance model like CobiT, ITIL, CMM and Six Sigma to ensure that investments in technology generate business value and mitigate risks.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s tech support call center, which receives 100,000 calls a year on more than 1,000 educational products, resolves customers’ computer problems by taking over their desktops using Web-based remote software, also know as a clientless remote-support tool.
Recognized worldwide for his work on organizational change, IT management issues, process management and reengineering, Jim Champy of Perot Systems is now writing books on competition, customers, people management and business execution. In this interview with Baseline, Champy finds that IT is major enabler of business change and tells us about the companies who are experiencing real growth through smart IT and business initiatives.
Insurance company Chubb Group has a sophisticated online collaboration system--for documents, claims and real-time data-- that is the foundation for sharing information with agents and provides the company with a competitive advantage. Chubb's propietary system uses EDI (electronic data interchange), takes advantage of customizable data feeds, and most importantly, has improved an agent's ability to serve customer needs quickly and accurately.
AIG's salary and bonus curbs follow New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo earlier this month asking AIG for full disclosure on plans for executive bonuses and pay increases. Cuomo told reporters that he is pressing forward with requests for bonus and pay disclosure from other Wall Street firms receiving government money.
Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and his colleagues found few factual errors in their evaluation of Wikipedia entries on 80 drugs, but some entries were often missing important information.
The new mortgage-support facility by the Federal government was intended to strike at the collapsed housing market, the core of the United States' economic woes. Investor appetite for both the debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the mortgage-backed securities they guarantee has dried up since the government seized the companies in September, and the Fed hopes to fill that void.
With the numerous advantages to infrastructure that can come as a result of greening up a data center's operations, why isn't every company a pleasant shade of Kermit by now? Much like trying to pinpoint what "efficiency" represents in a data center, building meaning around "green IT" is increasingly tough in the face of vendor releases that tout green features and green advantages.
HP's broad businesses, which include services, software, printers and ink supplies, has made it less vulnerable to the economic downturn than rival PC maker Dell. HP posted a 21 percent rise in quarterly sales of laptops, and doubling in revenue from services from the EDS acquisition earlier this year.
The settlement between Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and the state of New York have broken down amid the insurer's recent financial woes. The lawsuit was brought by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as part of an accounting probe of AIG that led to Greenberg leaving the company in 2005. Much of Greenberg's wealth is tied up in AIG stock through personal holdings, a family trust and companies he controls.
Palm is not saying how many jobs the struggling smartphone company is cutting, but says that it has a new operating system and new devices coming out in the first half of 2009. Palm, which employs 1,050 workers, makes the Centro and Treo smartphones. The company's market share has been shrinking, with RIM's BlackBerry becoming the device of choice for the business set and Apple's iPhone a consumer phenomenon.
The suit alleges that the technology the iPhone uses to navigate and display some websites designed for small phone screens infringes on a patent obtained last month by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors and assigned to EMG.
Microsoft has an exclusive lock on the long-awaited second season of the Internet cult hit, which will be the first to be distributed worldwide simultaneously across Microsoft's triple platform of Xbox 360's Live Marketplace, MSN and Zune.
Obama, who will inherit the worst economic mess since the Great Depression when he takes over from President George W. Bush, plans to nominate Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, as Treasury secretary, a transition official said. The appointments should bring some cheer to the furrowed brows in world markets.
Citigroup's rescue marks the latest government effort to contain a widening financial meltdown that has caused the disappearance or bankruptcies of companies including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual. The government's $20 billion of new capital comes on top of $25 billion it had put into the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, and it will receive preferred shares with an 8 percent dividend in return.
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