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<item><title>Eight Ways Porn Changed the Internet</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:09:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Al Gore may take credit for inventing it. The Department of Defense deserves credit for building out its infrastructure. But lets face it: The real wizards behind the curtain, the first true marketeers of the Internet, and the virtuosos of virtual innovation are the Internets purveyors of porn. Heres how the porn industry has helped evolve the Internet, for both good and bad.

by Ericka Chickowski<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Partnering for Outsourcing Success</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:42:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Poor vendor management and governance make too many outsourcing deals go sour.<br/>   -  Nearly half of all IT outsourcing (ITO) deals fail to satisfy the customers service improvement and cost reduction expectations. Why? The reason can often be traced to poor vendor management and governance. On the flip side, when governance is implemented correctly, it can help foster the vendor acc...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Spending Outlook Still Uncertain</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:36:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[CIOs will continue struggle with iffy budgets throughout the rest of the year, according to a new poll conducted among 900 CIOs by Gartner Executive Programs. Released in mid-June week, results showed an expected IT spending decline in 2009 of about 4.7%. Figures were compared to a similar poll conducted at the end of 2008.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>What Business Managers Really Think of IT</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:56:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A survey of non-IT executives, conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the IT Governance Institute, shows that many business leaders believe IT investments create value, but many still view the department as an operational and tactical asset rather than as a strategic partner. 

Full results can be found in the ITGI report  An Executive View of IT Governance.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>7 Ways to Prevent Organizational Problems</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[One of the hallmarks of great leadership is the ability to ferret out destructive organizational problems before they impact the working culture, says Michael Roberto.
As IT departments face cutbacks and mounting workloads, management must find ways to head off issues at the pass. Author of Know What You Dont Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen, Roberto suggests the following seven ways to keep organizational problems at bay.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Summer Reading for IT Managers</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:37:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[New books on IT project management, green technology, networking and outsourcing make up our quarterly reading list for IT pros.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Snooping on the Rise</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:31:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A survey of over 400 IT pros by data-security firm Cyber-Ark indicates that tech workers have broad access to confidential data, and that they are using that access more now than before.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Blue Man Regroups on Email</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Managing user expectations was as big a challenge as any in an email migration.<br/>   -  When he took a job at Blue Man Productions a little over two years ago, Antonio Palumbo was faced with a job that felt as daunting as the complex acts performed by his companys painted stars. Blue Man Productions is the company behind the global troupe of eponymous stage artists, which produces show...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Cost of Troubled Projects</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:49:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Better project management is critical to getting projects done on time and on budget.<br/>   -  See also When IT Projects Go Very Wrong. 

Troubled projects afflict organizations worldwide, in both commercial and public sectors, as they regularly experience higher than anticipated costs, unmet schedules and unfulfilled requirements. The high rates of project failure -- particularly among inf...]]></description>
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<item><title>Nine IT Staffing Projections for Q3 2009</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:58:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IT recruitment firm Robert Half Technology has released its third quarter IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, and the results are mixed. The IT employment outlook is healthy in certain industries and certain parts of the country, but not so good in other industries and regions. Overall the numbers seem to indicate a slow march toward recovery, with more good news for IT workers than bad.

More than 1,400 CIOs from companies with at least 100 employees were polled, and heres what they had to say about the next three months:<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Internal Cloud Manages Health Records</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:51:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A big medical center builds its own cloud to manage electronic health records.<br/>   -  See also: Best Practices slideshow. 

Providing secure, electronic health records (EHR) is becoming a priority for health-care institutions. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is taking an innovative approach to the challenge, deploying virtualization to transform its EHR data center i...]]></description>
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<item><title>Six Steps to Stop SQL Injections</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:44:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[According to IBM ISS X-Force findings, SQL injections last year became the most common Web-based attack technique. Hackers are successful with these attacks largely due to poor coding practices. The following are six ways organizations can start to mitigate the risk from SQL injections.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Repeatable Strategies for Business Technology</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:31:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Business technology management boosts performance at Coca-Cola Enterprises.<br/>   -  In 2006, when Esat Sezer joined Coca-Cola Enterprises as senior vice president and chief information officer, the company was facing rising costs and flat revenues. It had failed to keep pace with the rapidly changing business landscape that included shifting consumer preferences, retailer consolida...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cost-Cutting Beyond Layoffs</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:58:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[As the rate of increase in new unemployment claims slows, a survey report released by outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray   Christmas shows that human resource executives are resorting to salary cuts and pay freezes to cut costs, rather than cutting jobs outright. Comparisons are with an earlier survey by the firm.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Tips to Protect Your Data Center</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:49:57 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Security and business continuity are critical issues to consider.<br/>   -  Companies that are either buying or building data center capability should not take business-continuity and risk-assessment planning for granted. In recent discussions with Baseline, four data center experts made the following recommendations and observations:

1. Maintenance procedures should inc...]]></description>
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