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Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
Does your executive search firm know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?Does your executive search firm know its MIS managers from its elbow? Does it even know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients? - +
Strategies for Dealing With IT Complexity 24/12/2007 10:30:47
Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business.Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business. - +
Hiring Manager: Emphasize Integrity, Attitude 14/12/2007 11:18:07
William Howell shares his hiring mistakes and his secrets for selecting the best job candidates, finding objective references and using LinkedIn as a recruiting tool.William Howell shares his hiring mistakes and his secrets for selecting the best job candidates, finding objective references and using LinkedIn as a recruiting tool. - +
What Price Innovation? 05/11/2007 13:44:31
CIOs say they want more than the traditional “your mess for less” relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn’t it happening?CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening? - +
Your World. . . Hacked 02/10/2007 10:51:23
As your business becomes more collaborative and global, the risks to your company’s trade secrets rise proportionally. Fortunately, there are new strategies to protect the data that allows you to competeThe call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network
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Another problem with Sun is that it has taken an increasingly passive position in the past several years against OpenOffice.org's chief rival, Microsoft. Out is ex-CEO Scott McNealy, who was famous for his scripted put-downs of Microsoft, and in is Jonathan Schwartz, whose tenure has been marked by an increasing cooperation with what once was Sun's symbolic bogeyman.
For instance, Sun abstained from voting for or against ratifying the Office Open XML document format as a standard in the ISO vote earlier this month. And the one time it did weigh in, it was to express its conditional support for Open XML.
One observer close to OpenOffice.org links the change in tone to the terms of a US$1.6 billion settlement paid by Microsoft to Sun in 2004 that has also resulted in technical and marketing cooperation.
IBM led the opposition against Open XML's approval. The observer expects IBM, which plans to inject 35 China-based developers into the OpenOffice.org process, to take over the role of being OpenOffice.org's public champion.
And he thinks that will be a good thing. "They'll be able to say some of the things that Sun can't," he said.
Moreover, says IBM's Poulley, "we bring our credibility and prowess in enterprise software, which has less been the forte of Sun."
But will Sun be willing to relinquish some or most of its control over OpenOffice.org? Poulley thinks the transition has already begun. Simply "by virtue of our joining, OpenOffice.org becomes a lot less Sun-dominated," he said.
And that process can't happen fast enough, if the software hopes to make any dent into Office's dominance, says another expert.
"As much as people like open formats, they won't buy an inferior product," said Andy Updegrove, a Boston lawyer who represents open-source organizations and blogs about the same topics. With IBM "betting big on OpenOffice, in two and a half years we could be looking at another Mozilla situation, where Firefox has 15 percent of the market. That could lead to Microsoft modifying Office or changing its licensing or prices, which benefits the entire market."
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Prioritizing Services with IT Service Management (ITSM)
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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An EMC Perspective on Data De-Duplication for Backup
Explore the factors that are driving the need for de-duplication and the benefits of data de-duplication as a feature of an organizations backup strategy.
