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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. - +
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
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Not dead, just... getting the AJAX treatment
While design software remains Adobe's bread-and-butter, the firm is turning towards programming tools to drive future profits. But with Adobe spending most of their effort evangelizing Flash, Flex and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), where does that leave ColdFusion?
In a good position, according to Buntel. Rather than quietly retiring ColdFusion, Adobe is re-investing in it. ColdFusion 8 was released in August as a rapid AJAX-enabled Web development platform whose applications can be repurposed for other Adobe technologies such as Flash or AIR with minimal recoding.
ColdFusion 8 is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Server 2003. Its main new features include integration with Adobe Acrobat forms, Adobe Acrobat Connect and Microsoft .Net, as well as built-in server monitoring in the enterprise edition.
Hometown Quotes, an insurance Web portal operator has been testing ColdFusion 8 as part of Adobe's beta program.
"There's a misconception that ColdFusion is not as good as ASP.Net," said Braden Lake, Hometown's vice-president of technology. "But ColdFusion 8 really brings Web 2.0 home."
"What takes me 100 lines of code in PHP takes just 5 lines in ColdFusion," added Erick Wilson, a senior programmer for Hometown.
Not dead, just... in an upgrade cycle
Can ColdFusion regain its former glory? There are some encouraging signs. ColdFusion 8 sales so far are tracking higher than previous versions, according to Adobe.
As part of ColdFusion 8's launch, Adobe created a dedicated team for selling ColdFusion.
24,000 new users have downloaded the ColdFusion trial in the last two months, Buntel said.
Development is also underway on ColdFusion 9, codenamed "Centuar," according to Kevin Lynch, though he declined to share details.
"Basically, if a developer just wants to build dynamically-generated HTML apps with a little bit of AJAX thrown in, they are not going to be drawn to ColdFusion," Buntel said. "But if they also want to use a lot of Adobe's client technologies, then we have a good story."
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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. - +
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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 we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
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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. - +
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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