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Use the right technology, at the right time
News Properly distinguishing between hype and reality around new technologies, before adopting them, can make a difference to a company's competitive advantage.
Tags: Standards, Business applications, Best strategies, Competitive advantage, Business, Technology, Virtualization, International Data Corp., User Organization, Asia-Pacific
Virtualization: Get the contract right
Insight perspective Virtualization promises many business benefits--but only if you structure the agreement correctly. Lawyer Mark O'Conor offers some advice.
Tags: Virtualization, Software licensing, Cost control, Security, intellectual property, Hardware, service provider, agreement, pricing strategy, business continuity
Skills shortage boosts IT salaries
Insight Security, ERP and DBA workers can now "name their ticket".
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Benefits
Asia desperately seeking IT talent
News Job prospects are looking good this quarter, but recruiters say finding the right people is like searching for needle in a haystack.
Tags: Recruiting, Executive recruiting
Hot tech jobs in Singapore
Insight Jobs in higher demand are still in core technology areas like software development, but Singapore will increasingly need people with both technical skills and business domain knowledge to help drive the economy.
Tags: Career, Trends, IT training
Open source PBX calls on telecoms
Insight The Asterisk open-source platform touts increased flexibility that proprietary products cannot offer, allowing users to integrate their own applications.
Tags: Routing/switching, VoIP/IP telephony
Planning for the worst-case scenario
Techguide As Southeast Asia struggles to recover from the devastation wrought by December's tragic tsunami in the Indian Ocean, analysts around the world are playing the expected second-guessing game: Could warnings have prevented this huge loss of life? Can we predict the next big disaster--and will it be another tsunami, an earthquake, or something equally as destructive?
Data centers: The temples of IT
Insight perspective Quocirca's Bob Tarzey surveys the data center market--and points out why they're better for the environment than you may think.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Co-location Provider, Equinix, Information Technology, bank, Hosting Company, managed hosting, Quocirca, On-demand
Securing better IT security for S'pore
Insight newsmaker The president of newly set-up Association of Informational Security Professionals tells why the next three years are so important to infocomm security professionals.
Tags: Data security, Security, Business security, Certification, Profession, Member, IT Security, Information Security, Security Professional, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
More Asian firms IM to communicate
News Instant messaging emerging as popular collaboration and communication tool among enterprises in Asia-Pacific region, Springboard research finds.
Tags: Instant messaging, Communications, instant messaging tool, Tencent, Instant messaging, Communications, China, small and medium business, messaging, information technology
APAC to see fastest software revenue growth
News Asia-Pacific software market will churn US$22.1 billion in revenue next year, boosted by large domestic user base, according to Gartner.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Region, compound annual growth rate, Application Software Expenditure, revenue, Information Technology, Software, Business applications, South Korea
Adding macro support to your Java application
Techguide Macros enable one to customize applications so that the operations they perform can be shared among users in an organization or over the Internet.
Tags: Java
Five steps to protect mobile devices
Techguide Cybercriminals come in all shapes, sizes, and from all ethnic backgrounds. Securing mobile systems is simply the right thing to do.
Tags: Mobile, Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security, Smart Phone, Encryption, Mobile Device, sensitive information, Bluetooth
How to secure your Web applications--Part 1
Techguide With the growth in the number of Web applications there is a corresponding growth in the vulnerabilities associated with them. In this first article in a series dealing with Web application security, Tom Olzak looks at a list of common Web application vulnerabilities.
What to do if your supercomputing supplier fails
Insight perspective High-performance computing providers often live on the edge--technologically and financially. But if your supplier fails, it need not be a disaster, says expert.
Tags: Supercomputing, Financial, Risk Management, Supplier, Backup, Risk, QoS, Procurement, Consulting, Jones
