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Tech Jobs Sector Expected To Expand
Chief technology officers who sometimes feel that having third and fourth arms grafted on is almost a necessity can take some comfort from conclusions reached by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor found that more hiring should occur in the industry.
Date: 2010-08-31
Social Media And Technology Trends To Keep An Eye On
Here are several excerpts from an insightful post by Mark Schaefer about a McKinsey report on tech-enabled business trends, Ten Social Media and Technology Mega-trends To Watch.
Date: 2010-08-17
Taking An In-depth Look At Ubuntu For Business
Well, let's face the fact that most of the populace on the web actually works on Windows. The rationale of their doing so in verity differs from individual to individual..
Date: 2010-08-03
Global IT Spending Set To Grow 3.9%
Global IT spending is on track to total $3.350 trillion in 2010, an increase of 3.9 percent from 2009 spending of $3.225 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
Date: 2010-07-20
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Date: 2010-07-14
Boosting IT Productivity Through Social Computing
I really liked the report's summary. It concluded that their "survey of social media users indicates that IT staff increase productivity by adapting Social Computing to their role. CIOs should enthusiastically embrace social media as a means for boosting IT productivity while also giving IT staff the experience needed to support Social Computing initiatives across the enterprise."
Date: 2010-07-09
An Educational Web Hosting Horror Story
Every CTO worth his (or her) salt considers a number of factors when picking a company to handle business domain names and email, including price, reliability, and ease of setup. Only one man's tale has made clear that CTOs should also consider how a hosting provider will respond to hacking, since this can put everything at risk.
Date: 2010-06-22
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Date: 2010-06-21
Free Microsoft Programs To Check Out
Microsoft has been known for the proprietary softwares and need no introduction! There has always been a conflict of views across communities. While some claim that Microsoft provides value for money, FOSS activists have often denied it.
Date: 2010-06-15
Rackspace Complimentary Two-Part Webinar on Dedicated Microsoft(r) SharePoint(r) 2010
Part 1 of this series will focus on new, out-of-the-box features that can help businesses increase efficiency, facilitate greater collaboration, and make everyday SharePoint workloads easier to manage.
Date: 2010-06-07
The Continuum Of Manufacturing Models
So, I just finished Steve Bell's excellent Lean Enterprise Systems... a book that has already contributed to one insight, that of the CMDB as a Bill of Materials or Resources.
Date: 2010-06-01
Determining The Value Of Open Source SaaS And PaaS
Open source has been promoted as, amongst other things, a means of minimizing vendor lock-in. However, it's unclear that this value proposition holds when utilizing software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) in the cloud.
Date: 2010-05-18
Complimentary Webinar: Building Confidence in the Enterprise Cloud
The proliferation and popularity of cloud computing has
caused enterprises to consider the cloud for its resource and budget
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Date: 2010-05-06
What Processes CTOs Could Learn From Start Ups
I have spent well over 20 years in corporate IT environments, most of it working for IT shops in the 100-300 person range. In every company that I worked for, IT was seen as a bottleneck and IT struggled to satisfy the needs of the business. In many companies, this is the standard.
Date: 2010-05-04
Companies Not Including Energy Use In IT Budgets
Companies recognize energy as a significant cost, but more than half fail to account for energy costs when developing IT budgets, according to a new survey commissioned by Avanade.
Date: 2010-04-20
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Date: 2010-04-19
Should CTOs Care About OIN Licensing?
Open Invention Network, the intellectual property company aimed at protecting an ecosystem around Linux, announced an increase in licensing program in 2010 first quarter./span>
Date: 2010-04-15
Who Really Has Browser Control?
Interesting tidbit over at Techdirt this morning about a Grease Monkey script called Fluff Busting Purity formerly known as Facebook Purity. While the Techdirt article is good, there are some interesting side issues here that should be noted.
Date: 2010-03-29
Building The Correct Size SOA For Your Business
Salmon Protocol is actually one of the most exciting things that will be used by Google Buzz & theoretically could dramatically make huge changes to the way communication flows around all kinds of web content, whether comments on blog posts, votes & likes on Youtube videos, maybe blog posts themselves, video replies etc.
Date: 2010-03-16
Flow Of Communication Using The Salmon Protocol
Salmon Protocol is actually one of the most exciting things that will be used by Google Buzz & theoretically could dramatically make huge changes to the way communication flows around all kinds of web content, whether comments on blog posts, votes & likes on Youtube videos, maybe blog posts themselves, video replies etc.
Date: 2010-03-02
Verizon's Rollout Of 4G To Create New Opportunities
4G wireless service should be available later this year courtesy of Verizon, according to one of the company's executives. And for businesses, that could have some important ramifications as they'll be able to offer better customer service and perhaps increase the odds of their representatives making sales.
Date: 2010-02-16
Increasing Both Agile And IT Service Management In Current IT Discourse
With the increasing prominence of both Agile and IT Service Management in current IT-related discourse, it's inevitable that some will ask "why not Agile ITSM"? Surely, those stick in the mud ITSM types with their Change and Release processes (so often impediments to developers) could use a little agility!
Date: 2010-02-02
WSO2 Introduces Its New Middleware Platforms
WSO2 - the open source SOA company with offices located in USA, UK and Sri Lanka - earlier this week made three announcements introducing its new middleware platform for heterogeneous SOAs, now including the Business Activity Monitor and the Gadget Server, all based on the WSO2 Carbon platform.
Date: 2010-01-19
Securing Private Analytics Data To Mitigate The Risks
With both large real and hidden opportunity costs associated with evaluating, implementing, and learning the quirks of a new analytics tool, it only makes sense to ensure that the tool one chooses will be able to keep pace with one's future requirements.
Date: 2010-01-05
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