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Crisis backs Philippine BPO, software sectors

News Economic downturn bolsters growth for country's outsourcing and software industries, as market players form regional hubs to vie for U.S. contracts.

Friday, January 30 2009 02:31 PM

Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Software, Growth strategies and tools, Outsourcing, Philippines, Business Process, BPO, Sorio, financial

When IT and healthcare come together

Insight CIO 1-1 SingHealth's Dr. Low Cheng Ooi shares his views on how IT and healthcare are colliding to bring forth the future of medicine for patients and practitioners.

Monday, April 13 2009 07:46 PM

Tags: IT project management, Data Management, Leadership, Technology, EMR, Clinician, globalization, analytics, information technology company, chairman

IT to the rescue

Insight International SOS' CTO Todd Schofield shares how real-time information access has helped the organization provide better medical assistance, even in the most remote locations.

Thursday, May 24 2007 02:39 PM

Tags: IT Management

Tech sector suggests role of CTO in US administration

News U.S. President-elect Barack Obama should make his chief technology officer part of his economic policy team because IT is increasingly integral to good governance, says industry.

Friday, December 12 2008 07:57 AM

Tags: Network security, Infrastructure/architecture management, Federal Government, Regulations, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Business Software Alliance, Information Security, Tech Sector, Health IT

US healthcare experts warn of IT adoption challenges

News Health care providers and other experts challenge U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion that implementing the use of electronic medical records will be easily implemented.

Thursday, March 19 2009 10:27 AM

Tags: Business applications, Data Management, Data security, Security Management, healthcare reform, health industry, health care company, electronic health record, network, data management

A touch of healthcare and technology

Insight Dr. Colin Quek, CIO of Raffles Medical Group, discusses why the social component of healthcare can make IT spending more complex in this industry.

Friday, September 05 2008 05:29 PM

Tags: IT budgeting, Project management, IT budgeting, Project management

Disaster recovery worst practices: Don't perform backups on a regular schedule

Techguide Consultant Peter Herbener compiles a series of disaster recovery worst practices based on his experience. The No.1 mistake is not backing up on a regular schedule.

Wednesday, April 11 2007 09:48 PM

Tags: Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Storage software

Fujitsu ditches US$1.77B NHS IT contract

News Company walks away from a billion dollar contract over much dispute in the amount needed to revamp UK's health IT system.

Friday, May 30 2008 10:24 AM

Tags: Negotiation, Budgeting/cost control, Infrastructure/architecture management, Vendor selection, British Telecommunications, Accenture Ltd., Cerner Corp., payment, software, Silicon.com

Seeing double in software licensing

News New dual-core processors will make conventional software licensing models obsolete. What's next?

Wednesday, September 08 2004 10:42 AM

Tags: Processors, Business applications

HP ProLiant DL380 G6

Reviews The 2U rack server of choice continues to impress, and the latest G6 implementation looks set to carry the crown for some time to come.

Thursday, August 20 2009 11:30 AM

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Hypervisor, HP Compaq ProLiant, PCI, Server, processor, console, monitor, disk

Sun Fire X4270/4275

Reviews Better known for its RISC-based servers, Sun's Xeon 5500-based Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 look set to give the competition a good run for its money.

Friday, August 21 2009 11:30 AM

Tags: Intel Xeon, Motherboard, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, processor, Sun Fire