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Small bites help digest big IT projects
News Chart large IT implementation into smaller parts to ensure successful rollout, and take advantage of economic downturn to review goals, experts advise.
Tags: IT project management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Business, SAP AG, Project, IT Manager, Tool, ERP, Business Process
Wrong questions can cost candidates job
News When invited to ask questions at job interviews, tech candidates must think carefully about the right questions to pose and when to ask them, experts advise.
Tags: Interviews, Recruiting, Communication skills, Personal development, Candidate, IT Manager, Question, Dividend, e-mail, Human Resources
Sloppy risk assessment raises Web fear factor
Insight perspective Web security experts must separate actual risk from theoretical risk, says a security researcher.
Tags: Risk Management, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security, IT Manager, Attack, Tool, Risk, computer, InfoWorld
Non-traditional cures to keep projects on schedule, on budget
Techguide Telling a client the project is late and running over budget is unpleasant and possibly humiliating. Two non-traditional methods for involving in-house personnel from the project's inception, can help keep things on track.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, IT Manager, CIO, editor-in-chief, consultant, desktop, incentive, team
GE holographic discs to sound Blu-ray death knell?
Techguide Is the death of Blu-ray, but a few years away? If GE can bring its holographic technology to the masses, then it very well may be.
Tags: Storage, Blu-ray, General Electric Co., IT Manager, Storage, DVD, Hologram, storage system, disc, optics
Park right expertise to stay e-legal
News Firms need to pull expert resources into dedicated team to comply with digital forensics requests, says consultant, who outlines common pitfalls they should avoid.
Tags: Data Management, Legal, IT project management, IT Governance, E-discovery, Asia, Backup, IT Manager, Singapore, QA
Small businesses in S'pore prone to data loss
News Singapore's smaller companies put critical information at risk as they lack effective systems and best practices to prevent and recover from data loss, according to survey.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Data Management, Security Management, Security, Data Loss, Data Management, Kroll Ontrack Inc., data retention, IT manager, Security Management
Cisco nabs data center software startup
News Cisco Systems plans to buy Tidal Software for US$150 million in cash as it bulks up its offering for corporate data centers.
Tags: Acquisitions, Data centers, Data Management, Tidal Software, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Manager, computer server, Citigroup Inc., Server, software
Poll: IT managers unsure over Web 2.0
News Overconfidence and confusion over what constitutes Web 2.0 pose threat to organizations' online security, says security company Websense.
Tags: Security, Web 2.0, IT Manager, Survey, Tool, Australia, Websense Inc., Web security, Canada, Web 2.0
Cloud could be 'more important than the PC'
News The beginning of cloud computing may have greater impact on public sector IT than PC revolution did in the past, says U.K. body for public sector IT professionals.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications, Web-based Application, IT Manager, IT Professional, cost savings, Cloud Computing, business continuity, Socitm Insight, public sector
Microsoft, researcher spar over security patch
News Researcher complains that Microsoft patch fails to protect users, but Microsoft says doing things differently would have interfered with functionality.
Tags: PC security, Microsoft Corp., Security, IT Manager, Entry, IP, IP Address, Patch, WPAD, Server
Cloud computing? No thanks, say CIOs
News Three-quarters of companies using "proprietary systems" say downturn has not spurred their interest in cloud models, according to a new survey.
Tags: CRM, IT Manager, Survey, Cloud Computing, Avanade, Steve Ranger, CIO, Silicon.com, information technology, Benefit
ProCurve and Microsoft team up on security
News HP and Microsoft have linked up with a joint scheme that uses ProCurve's Identity Driven management and Microsoft's Network Access Protection to provide an all-round security system.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Authentication and encryption, Microsoft Corp., HP ProCurve, Security, IT Manager, Environment, software, software product, network
'Green shoots of recovery in the UK? What green shoots?'
News CIOs from a range of sectors and industries believe that reports of green shoots of a U.K. economic recovery poking through are premature.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Director Of Information Technology, IT Manager, consumer confidence, CIO, Silicon.com, U.K., core competency, Recovery, industry
Hotels suit up on tech to attract guests
News As travelers demand more technology extras from hotels, innkeepers see need to constantly improve such services for their guests.
Tags: IT Management, Mobile/Wireless, Hotel, Internet Access, IT Manager, Wireless, Internet Service, e-mail, Wi-Fi, wireless Internet
