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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? - +
No Break Seen in the IT Talent Wars 16/01/2008 12:07:25
Job demand is forecast to remain strong in 2008, which means CIOs will pay higher salaries for quality talent. Learn from four staffing specialists about 2008's trends in IT staffing, recruiting and compensation, including jobs that will be most in demand.Job demand is forecast to remain strong in 2008, which means CIOs will pay higher salaries for quality talent. Learn from four staffing specialists about 2008's trends in IT staffing, recruiting and compensation, including jobs that will be most in demand. - +
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. - +
Process Trip 04/02/2008 13:07:03
Why Maritz Travel revamped key business processes — and how business and IT came together to make it workWhen Rich Phillips became COO OF Maritz Travel about two and-a-half years ago, he sat down and took a hard look at the big industry picture - +
How to Get Real About Strategic Planning 04/02/2008 12:50:59
Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such
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Enterprise users are slowly turning to open source even though security and support remain key worries for sysadmins.
A survey on behalf of the Independent Oracle Users Group, conducted by Unisphere, found that the percentage of enterprises for whom the majority of their applications were open source had risen from nine percent to 13 percent. However, among companies of fewer than 500 employees the figure was even higher, with 24 percent of these running systems where open source applications were in the majority.
The trend is set to continue: 53 percent of companies surveyed expected that their usage of open source will rise next year with only two percent expecting a decrease. However, most companies surveyed expressed concerns about the quality of support, with 54 percent of respondents stating that enterprise support was not as robust as those from commercial packages.
Most open-source adopters are driven by financial concerns, 67 percent of the adherents say that cost saving is the primary reason for adopting open source; the second most popular reason -- avoiding vendor lock-in - is cited by just 28 percent of respondents.
The overwhelming choice for open-source database was MySQL, with 74 percent of companies using an open-source database opting for it -- well ahead of the 33 percent opting for Oracle Express and the 20 percent choosing PostgreSQL.
Zack Urlocker, MySQL's vice president of marketing said that he expected there to be a big explosion in the take-up of open source software within the next few years. "Some time within the next two years, five years, ten years, there's going to be a big inflection point. You can see already that the start-ups in Silicon Valley who, a few years ago would have spent their funding on Oracle, are now spending on open source."
He said that MySQL was set to benefit from the growing increase in web-based computing. "We're not going to compete with Oracle in their installed base, our strength is in the growing use of the web, the so-called Enterprise 2.0 applications."
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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
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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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