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December 2009

December 30, 2009

IT Transformation at Motorola: Staying Above the Waves in a Perfect Storm

The economic challenges of the first decade of the 21st century have required organizations to cut costs, and fundamentally rethink and transform how they do business. This has affected companies o... More >

December 28, 2009

Social Media's Direct Communication Builds Business Success

Marketing expert Deborah Overdeput suggests three main reasons why social media is important to business. She says it allows a company to build a community and engage in two-way dialogue with custo... More >

December 18, 2009

Software Appliances – Mass Customized Applications for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments

Today's enterprises are clamoring for software applications that run in a wide variety of environments – everything from physical to virtual to cloud. If you are a software vendor, how do you make it... More >

December 17, 2009

Reaching Cloud Nine: A Practical How-To Guide to Selecting the Right Partner

Over the past year, cloud computing has dominated IT discussions around the country, and rightly so. It offers significant advantages to businesses, especially as resources become more constrained an... More >

December 11, 2009

The Remarkable Importance of the Transparency of Scope

Wanting to learn more about the smart grid and the technology behind it, I recently went to a regional meeting about energy independence and sustainability. I had to sit through a panel on sustainabl... More >

December 9, 2009

Pain Creeps in with Compliance Audits – And It’s a Good Thing, Too!

  You don’t have to look much further than the high-profile credit card losses or data breaches of the last few years to realize that companies are extremely vulnerable to data theft. Take Heart... More >

Mass Customization Informs IT Management Practices

For IT, there’s a classic — almost epic — tension between flexibility and control. It’s the idealized hope for diversity reeled in by the practical need for standardization.   You can see this t... More >

December 8, 2009

Business Associates of HIPAA-Covered Entities Need Action Plans for New Federal Breach Notification Requirements

The first federal data breach notification requirements recently became effective. The new requirements, introduced by the HITECH Act that was part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act sig... More >

December 4, 2009

Targeting Privacy: What Businesses Need to Know About Online Behavioral Advertising

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ramping up efforts to explore online behavioral advertising on December 7th in the first of three consumer privacy roundtable discussions. The FTC will examine t... More >

December 2, 2009

Getting Ahead by Staying Put

For those who are CIOs or who are planning IT spending , the message is, “hold the line.” It’s a rare thing to find an IT organization that is expecting increases in budget for 2010. The pressure on... More >

The Security Risks with Sharing Documents and How to Prevent Them

The Issues with Sharing Sharing documents is a must for businesses to be productive and to work together globally. There are many circumstances in which we need to share data: providing specs and doc... More >