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November 2009

November 19, 2009

Managing Return on IT

In “The New Voice of the CIO, a recent report from IBM’s Institute for Business Value, one key concept is that IT success rests, in part, on raising the ROI of IT by simultaneously being both “savvy ... More >

November 18, 2009

What's Your Compliance IQ?

Apparently, Bernie Madoff doesn’t have Internet access in the Butner Federal Correctional Complex. Which might explain why he hasn’t taken our Compliance IQ quiz . Not that I would expect Madoff’s... More >

‘Tis the Season ... to Abandon Your Shopping Cart

While past seasonal trends suggest that e-commerce conversion rates rise in the holiday season, there is some evidence that this year may be different. Will the 2009 holiday season be the biggest aba... More >

November 17, 2009

Virtualization Initiatives Getting Bogged Down?

Server consolidation initiatives created a strong ROI for organizations and proved to be the impetus that server virtualization needed to gain broad market adoption.  But as organizations grow their ... More >

November 16, 2009

A Smarter Way to Work: Automating Decisions Through Business Process and Rules Management

  Follow the subject of Business Process Management (BPM) for a while and you will be told repeatedly that BPM delivers considerable competitive advantage, especially in terms of cost, agility... More >

November 13, 2009

IT Jobs: Surviving the Technical Interview

Most information technology job interviews involve a phone interview, technical interview and sometimes a personal interview. The phone interview is an introduction with the purpose of determining if... More >

November 12, 2009

The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing

Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unkn... More >

What's Different About the CIO Job?

IBM recently concluded that in order to be successful, a CIO does three things: Make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and enhance the business impact [of IT]. In order to accomplish these goals,... More >

November 10, 2009

The Dawning of the IT Automation Era

Over the next five years, IT automation will overtake offshoring as the next major efficiency trend in IT. For many companies, offshoring has been a way to reduce IT costs by lowering the cost of lab... More >

Data Quality Management for the Insurance Industry – A Practical Approach

  Most industries are heavily dependent on data, since it is vital and forms the basement for revenue generation, cost controls and risk management. In particular, the insurance industry’s relia... More >

November 5, 2009

Have We Lost Control of the Business Intelligence Investment?

Business executives know that one of the surest ways to lose management control is to skip the standard practice of auditing business investments. Unfortunately, that is exactly the current state for... More >

The Expanding Footprint of the Privileged Identity Management Challenge

Companies have traditionally focused their privileged identity management efforts on assets like servers, routers and databases. However, that focus is expanding into other areas such as point-of-s... More >

November 3, 2009

Getting a Rein on Untethered Applications

The cost benefits of virtualization and cloud computing are very seductive. Fewer physical servers in the data center leads to reduced power and cooling costs, not to mention savings on server hard... More >

November 2, 2009

A Model for Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Services

Cloud storage is a compelling business delivery model that leverages key storage and data protection services while reducing costs by shifting IT spending from a capital expense to an operating expen... More >

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