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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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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 - +
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. - +
It Is Easy Being Green 03/09/2007 11:28:04
In last month’s issue we looked at why CIOs should be at the fore of an organization’s sustainability effortsWhen it comes to cleaning up their act, many CIOs are recognizing data centres as among the lowest hanging fruit. IDC estimates companies spent $US26.1 billion to power and cool servers worldwide in 2005, with a monstrous $14 billion of that being spent in the US alone. In fact, data centres account for between 1.5 and 3 percent of all electricity consumed in the US. Should current trends persist, the research organization projects, that bill will soar to $US50 billion by the end of the decade - +
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?
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The Green Party is accusing the Berlin city government of lacking a coherent IT strategy and thus not being in a position to adequately judge the merits of open-source software.
City government officials have responded to several requests for information by the Green Party about the city's IT strategy, software licensing agreements and knowledge of open-source software, following a decision earlier this year not to migrate all its computers to open source, Olaf Reimann, responsible for IT issues in the Berlin wing of the Green Party, said in an e-mail.
The responses show that city government has no way of collecting the data it needs to craft an effective IT strategy and form an accurate opinion on open source, according to Reimann. "They are nothing but air bubbles since none of the information published by the city is based on exact data," he said. "The inefficiency of IT directors in the city government is costing Berlin millions of euros, which could be more effectively used in a targeted migration to open source."
In its defense, the Berlin city government has acknowledged insufficient data in some areas of its IT activities but pointed to efforts to gather more, particularly in the area of open source.
At a hearing in May, the city government rejected demands by the Green Party to migrate computers in the German capital to free open-source software, and follow in the footsteps of cities like Munich.
City officials reiterated their preference for using a mix of open-source and proprietary software products, for economic and performance reasons, and pointed to issues with the city's public tender policy about mandating a full migration to any one software platform.
According to a study on the use of open-source software in Berlin's public sector commissioned by the Green Party, the city could reduce IT costs by more than 50 percent if it migrated to open-source software. Berlin, which has nearly 60,000 computers, spends around US$337 million per year on IT.
The study also pointed to economic benefits of not being tied into Microsoft Corp.'s licensing policies and software upgrade strategy.
Ironically, the clash is Berlin comes as the federal government, located in the same city, continues to promote the use of open standards and open-source software in the public sector.
In May, Uwe Kuster, parliamentarian head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the federal government, announced plans to submit a draft bill that will mandate open standards in all future IT public tenders. Kuster linked open standards to open source and pointed to the economic benefits of using open-source applications, such as OpenOffice, in the public sector.
In 2002, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and IBM Deutschland GmbH signed a deal that allows public sector groups to receive discounts on IBM computers preinstalled with the open-source Linux operating system.
The federal government has since developed guidelines for the public sector to migrate computer systems to open-source software. The new guidelines, based on several open-source projects, present various steps and measures that ministry IT experts view as essential for open-source software to be deployed successfully in the public sector.
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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. - +
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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. - +
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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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