IT pros are accustomed to handling unexpected crises, such as when hardware fails or a cloud service has an outage. But it seems many IT leaders haven’t considered what will happen if they’re suddenly unable to work. More than ...
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Those of us of a certain age remember the early days of HBO, launched in 1972, when paying for TV was a novel idea. How quaint that seems in today's always-on, always connected world of three -- or is that four? -- screens (computer, ...
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Worldwide spending on security is expected to touch the $60 billion mark in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion in the previous year, according to research company Gartner — this figure will approach $86 billion in 2016. "The ...
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The financial metrics that CIOs and fellow senior executives strive to meet measure corporate health, not specific IT achievements. That suits "mature professionals" just fine, says Wayne Shurts, CIO of Supervalu, a $36.1 billion grocery ...
Collom and Carney Clinic Association has entered into a collaboration agreement to implement M Modal's Fluency Direct to improve how patient information is captured and managed in electronic medical record (EMR) systems. M Modal's Fluency ...
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CIOs will increasingly have to share their control of IT budgets with marketing departments as customer relationship management (CRM) software is becoming critical to customer retention. Mac Scott, associate director in KPMG’s CIO ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Staffordshire County Council claims it has managed to save pound 1.5m by adopting the Cabinet Office framework for a public sector network. Staffordshire County Council was one of the first to embrace the public sector network (PSN) ...
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Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task for CIOs – especially if you want it to be successful. Originally, the idea of handing all or parts of your IT infrastructure to a third party was to exploit economies of scale ...
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The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
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The government’s CloudStore model could be emulated across other government services as a means of improving the number of SMEs doing business with the public sector, the government’s procurement chief has said. Speaking at ...
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Xylem Inc. announced the appointment of Nicholas R. Colisto as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective December 19, 2012. He will report directly to Gretchen McClain, President and Chief Executive Officer of ...
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Resurgens Orthopaedics has entered into a collaboration agreement to deploy Merge Healthcare Honeycomb cloud-based solution, designed to provide a long-term storage option that houses images securely in multiple locations. The solution, ...
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Dell has introduced new software solutions aimed at helping organisations simplify IT, mitigate risks, and accelerate business results, in response to customer needs. In line with the company’s customer-inspired, end-to-end ...
Dell unveiled its first business-focused Windows 8 tablet this week, which aims to offer style and enable productivity without compromising on security. The Latitude 10 tablet is powered by an Intel “Clover Trail” System on ...
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