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Firms can ease staff anxiety in downturn
News Employers should play role in helping to alleviate stress level of their workers, as fears over job cuts loom at back of employees' minds in current economic climate.
Tags: Conflict resolution, HR policies and procedures, Layoffs, Career, Staff, Training, IT Professional, Singapore, information technology worker, Conflict resolution
How to keep IT staff happy during downturn
Insight perspective In tough economic times, businesses must do more with fewer people. An industry expert offers some advice on how to make this happen.
Tags: Personnel management, HR policies and procedures, Leadership, Staff, Tool, Environment, CIO, performance, Process Management, career
CIOs say temporary staff top insider risk
News Because temp staff must access office networks, burden is placed on administrators to manage their access while ensuring sensitive information is protected, says IDC.
Tags: Security, Contractor, International Data Corp., Insider Threat, Information Security, Sales, RSA Security Inc., compliance, CIO, Security
Stopping corporate IT break-ins
News Shutting the door to IT systems after staff leave the business and allowing workers to safely log in from home can be a major headache for business.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Business security, Staff, Reed Elsevier Inc., LDAP, project management office, London, Silicon.com, audit
US National Archives offers reward for missing hard drive
News Missing external hard drive at the National Archives contains names and Social Security numbers of White House visitors and staffers during Clinton administration.
Tags: Storage, Data security, Staff, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, social security number, Social Security, personally identifiable information, hard drive, White House, agency
IT salaries defy economic gloom
News IT pay is rising faster than at any time in the past three years, according to a salary survey.
Tags: Human resources, Staff, Survey, IT manager, Computer, Salary, Worker, London, Silicon.com, job
Monitoring staff e-mail and Internet: Dos and don'ts
News Should you be keeping an eye on the inboxes of your workers or not? Here are dos and don'ts for monitoring staff e-mail and Internet usage.
Tags: E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Security implementation/standards, Web sites, IT Governance, Communications, Staff E-mail, Malware, compliance, e-mail
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
Manually adjust query-based distribution list membership using LDAP
Techguide Query-based distribution groups provide a great means by which to automate the membership of groups in Active Directory. Here's one way that you can manually adjust query-based membership.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Network administration/implementation, Server platforms, Distribution Group, Distribution List, Query, GUI, Chief Information Officer, home networking, Scott Lowe
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Hidden costs mean open source software isn't always an IT budget stretcher, tech chiefs in the United Kingdom say.
Tags: Cost control, Open source, Open Source, Director Of Information Technology, software, Information Technology, IT Budget, Open-source Software, CIO, Silicon.com
EDS termination HP's loss
Insight commentary Hewlett-Packard's contemptuous termination of the 47-year-old EDS brand in a five-paragraph statement filled with marketing spin is a colossal mistake and one the company will live to regret.
Tags: Outsourcing, Acquisitions, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Ross Perot, EDS Termination HP, IT Services, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hardware, marketing
Global drug firm opens M'sian IT center
News GlaxoSmithKline sets up US$17.7 million tech center in Malaysia, its first in Asia, to support company's global operations and networks across 85 countries.
Tags: Services, Data centers, Outsourcing, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., U.K., Information Technology, revenue, GSK, Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing
S'pore workers job-hunting, IT professionals in high demand
News Though Singapore's unemployment rates are near a four-year high, more workers are looking to change jobs while IT and financial companies find employees hard to come by, finds survey.
Tags: Recruiting, Personnel management, Business Strategies & Functions, Unemployment Rate, Worker, Employer, construction industry, Survey, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
Understanding the big picture sometimes means scaling back
Techguide Easy come, easy go. After winning approval for a new position, Benny Sisko is almost immediately asked to give it up. Believe it or not, the reasoning made sense.
Tags: Leadership techniques, Business Strategies & Functions, Position, Information Technology, revenue, job, Human Resources Inc., Business Strategies & Functions, Consulting, CIO
Fosters picks Wipro for IT outsourcing
News Australian alcohol giant Fosters Group is planning to outsource most internal IT work to Indian outsourcer Wipro, according to multiple sources.
Tags: Data Management, IT outsourcing, Wipro Technologies, Chief Information Officer, Outsourcing Company, Spokesperson, Indian Company, IT outsourcing, outsource, enterprise architecture
