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Last year CIOs faced budget cuts, project delays and increased demand for services, and this year IT budgets have - for the most part - remained flat. For CIOs, it's a challenging time, and one that requires them to move from cost-cutting measures to providing strategic value.
Virtualization Management: Rush in Too Fast and You'll Crash
You wouldn't race down the motorway the day after you've passed your driving exam. You need to mature: learn the basics, build up your experience, and plan ahead. Virtualization is no different.
HP's Butterfly Design to Shake up Data Centres
Computer vendors are keen to build on the growing pressures growing on organisations to keep their data centre costs low. HP has launched a new modular approach to designing data centres that it claimed
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Social Sources with CRM Can be Useful Sales Tool: Ovum
Added 29th Jul 2010For years, customer service and sales people have been using customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to mine valuable customer information to better serve their customers or help develop sales leads.
India Tightens Security Rules for Telecom
Added 29th Jul 2010The Indian government on Wednesday amended the licenses of telecommunications service providers to make them "completely and totally responsible" for the security of their networks.
IT Departments Move Low-Risk Services to the Cloud
Added 29th Jul 2010IT departments continue to proceed with caution when it comes to cloud computing, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by TPI.
Cisco, VMware, Netapp Claim First End-to-End FCoe Configuration
Added 29th Jul 2010Networking, storage and virtualization vendors Cisco , NetApp, and VMware on Wednesday announced what they said is the first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) storage network for VMware server environments.
Amazon CTO Counters Skepticism on Cloud Security
Added 29th Jul 2010Amazon's cloud computing division is planning to "raise the bar" on security, and provide better security than most enterprises can achieve on their own, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.
IT Skills Availability Less Thanks to NBN: Report
Added 29th Jul 2010Shortages in business analysts and IT support staff have emerged with the expansion of NBN Co being blamed as a contributing factor.
IBM Announces Mid-Range Deduplication Appliance
Added 29th Jul 2010IBM this week unveiled a new mid-range deduplication appliance that will be start at half the price of the its current low-end data reduction gateway.
CIO Role More Closely Aligned with Business: IDC
Added 28th Jul 2010Initial results from IDC's annual Asia/Pacific Dynamic IT Benchmark 2010, are determining that the current role of the CIO is becoming more closely aligned with business issues such as process innovation and revenue generation.
HP Unveils Prefab Data Centers
Added 28th Jul 2010Using prefabricated buildings can cut the upfront cost of designing and constructing a data center in half while also reducing energy consumption, says Peter Gross, vice president and general manager of HP's Critical Facilities Services division.
Black Hat: Most Browsers Can be Made to Give Up Personal Data
Added 28th Jul 2010All the most commonly used Internet browsers are vulnerable to exploits that can force them to cough up users' personal information that can be used to hack into bank accounts or set them up for other attacks.
A Striking Disconnect between CSO’s and Hackers
Added 28th Jul 2010Though I've been writing about Internet security for six-plus years, there's an interesting problem in the industry that I've only noticed in the last couple years: Security executives and the hacking community tend to live in different worlds.
VeriSign Adds Trust Enhancements to its SSL Products
Added 28th Jul 2010Internet infrastructure services specialist VeriSign is offering several new trust enhancements to customers of its secure sockets layer (SSL) products for no extra cost.
Search Engine Optimization Techniques for Hackers
Added 28th Jul 2010Any company that does business online knows the importance of mastering search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to get their content atop the Google rankings. It turns out malware pushers care about SEO, too.
Software Services for Microfinance Launched
Added 28th Jul 2010ThoughtWorks announced a global initiative to provide software engineering services for Grameen Foundation's Mifos platform.
Managing Wireless and Wired Security
Added 28th Jul 2010Like many things in IT, this security convergence is a work in progress. But as wireless LANs become the primary connectivity for more enterprise users, integrating wired and wireless becomes more pressing, especially around security.
