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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? - +
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 - +
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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When you're immersed in storage as I am, it's impossible to ignore the blogs of analysts, vendors and consultants. The blogs written by storage company executives can be surprisingly vendor-agnostic, though the analysts and consultants still tend to pull fewer punches. Here are the 10 best I've come across -- though with the rate at which new blogs pop up, it will probably be time to revisit this list before long.
Dave Hitz founded Network Appliance in 1992 and is currently executive vice president, responsible for strategy and future direction of the storage-area network and network-attached storage (SAN/NAS) company. Hitz blogs about everything from NetApp's financial results in the last quarter ("Why NetApp's Earnings Results Last Quarter Frustrated Me") to how VMware is changing the data center, to fellow blogger and EMC executive Mark Lewis.
Hu Yoshida is CTO of Hitachi Data Systems. He blogs on 20-year-old storage architectures, storage performance, and capacity and utilization. His blogis one of the longest running. It's always interesting to read, if only to catch up on what's happening in other people's blogs.
Mark Lewis, executive vice president and chief development officer at EMC, is writing one of the newest and most useful and entertaining blogs about storage, even if it is EMC-style. Headlines on recent entries include: "Don't name your farm animals" and "The toughest job."
Steve Duplessie, senior storage analyst and founder of the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), writes a no-holds-barred, equal-opportunity-offender blog on whatever in storage interests him: data loss, Brocade's stock-backdating troubles or EMC's recent reorganization, for example. Here's arecent snippet: " 'Can you believe my board is actually complaining that we're profitable?' This was the question I was asked over dinner with a storage industry CEO last week. I can't name him because there are forces on his board who, while clearly moronic, may be able to read." OnDuplessie's blog, you'll find links to his ESG colleagues' blogs as well.
Storage consultant Robin Harris is a former Sun employee. This blog is the most frequently updated of the bunch and covers the widest variety of topics.
Tony Pearson is the manager of brand marketing strategy for IBM System Storage. He blogs about file-area networks, information life-cycle management for iPods, where the storage industry is headed, and how Aperi is Viagra for the Storage Management Interface Specification.
Ken Gibson is a past director of storage engineering at Sun. He writes about how iSCSI is good for now, who is using object-based storage and the performance of NAS vs. SAN systems.
Outspoken analyst Jon Toigo opines on a host of storage and data management topics, though I'm still not entirely sure why he chose to name the blog what he did. Toigo boasts that already this year he "wrote something like 800 articles/columns in the trade press -- some of them pretty good." Topics on the blog range from Microsoft's Unified Data Storage Server, to the IP wars, to data archiving.
Duncan Campbell is head of worldwide marketing for HP's StorageWorks division. He mostly blogs about HP storage topics (insisting that the company's stealth marketing strategy is long gone) and gives a fair dose of razzing to EMC, IBM and Network Appliance.
Microsoft Storage Community Blogs
This is a collection of blogs written by storage managers. Here you'll find blogs on Windows Storage Server, the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and how they affect storage, and the compliance features in 2007 Microsoft Office.
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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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Nortel and LG Electronics are First in World to Demonstrate Mobile LTE Handover 2008-08-29 11:30:00+10
GlobalConnect Provides Treatment for Healthcare Provider’s Contact Support Requirements 2008-08-29 09:59:00+10
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Why Security SaaS Makes Sense Today
Corporate IT teams are waging a significant security battle on two fronts these days: stopping attacks via the Web and through email. Security SaaS can solves these problems and more. Read on to discover 7 reasons why security SaaS makes sense for your business.
