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India's schools to enjoy IT spending boost
News Educational institutes are set to double spending on IT from this year to 2012, particularly on new software and infrastructure purchases.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., India, IT-spending, ERP, network, leader, network infrastructure, IT budgeting
Why Windows 7 should be free in China
Insight commentary Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Open source, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Baidu.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, China, Income, Open source
Cisco at a crossroads?
Insight You have to admire Cisco Systems. The company dominates enterprise networking to such an extent that it's even hard to remember who's No. 2.
Tags: Networking
Businesses stay keen on green IT spending
News Global companies are accelerating their green IT initiatives despite the recession, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester Research.
Tags: Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Green IT, Survey Respondent, Survey, cost savings, cost reduction, TCO, information technology, brand
Fiorina hurts HP's image, survey says
News Technology marketing executives vote the embattled Hewlett-Packard chief to the top of the list of CEOs who most compromised their company's brand in the past year.
Want a job? Clean up your Web act
News Uncouth blogs and social-networking bloopers can hurt your employability, a survey of more than 600 employers finds.
Tags: Web sites, Web logs, Human resources
Long contracts more popular than wads of cash
News Contract length is top of contractors' priorities, with 20 percent of survey respondents saying it is the current most important factor for them, new survey finds.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Priority, Survey, IT Contractor, London, Silicon.com, job, managing director, information technology
Do most security breaches still originate internally?
Techguide Are insider threats more prevalent than externally-initiated attacks? Here's why that may not be the case.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management, Business security, Security, Security Breach, FBI, Survey, Computer Security Institute, Attack
Survey: Many businesses plan to skip Windows 7
News In a new poll, 60 percent of IT administrators said they have no plans to move to Redmond's new operating system.
Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Survey, Quest Software Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, application compatibility, IT administrator, Microsoft Windows, barrier
Most Asian firms don't have green strategy
News Whopping 90 percent of businesses in region still have not implemented green IT strategy, despite being aware of ability to increase ROI, Springboard finds.
Tags: Green IT, Business, Green IT, Strategy, Symantec Corp., information technology company, Asian company, information technology, storage, Asia-Pacific
UK firms not ready for hack attacks, flu, bad weather
News Fewer than half, or 38 percent, of respondents in a U.K. survey said their organization has plans in place to cope with business disruption.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data backup, disaster recovery, Organization, Telecommunications, Workforce, Survey, Attack, business continuity planning, U.K., information technology
CIOs 'out of the loop', survey finds
News Confusion reigns over exactly what the executive is supposed to do in a company, according to a survey by Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management.
Tags: Organizational structure, Professional Development, Trends, Role, Survey, CIO, performance, Deloitte LLP, information technology, analyst
Facebook to woo marketers with revamped 'fan pages'
News The social network will show off its latest wares geared toward brands and marketers on Wednesday. What to expect? A redesign and more "viral channels," it appears.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, MySpace, Survey, Advertisement, social networking, product development, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, network
IDC: UC moving mainstream in Asia
News The next year or two will see unified communications adoption among mainstream enterprise users outpace today's adoption by cutting-edge users.
Tags: Remote management, VoIP/IP telephony, Customer support, Telecommuting, Asia, International Data Corp., Video Conferencing, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Tool
Open source developers reach for the cloud
News Forty percent of open source developers are planning to use cloud services, far more than among the general developer population, finds new survey.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Virtualization, IBM Corp., Google Inc., Open Source, Survey, Developer, Evans Data Corp., Open Source Developer, Environment
