Aligning to the business will not save IT departments and CIOs must become leaders in the new digital revolution according to analyst Forrester. During the opening keynotes at Forrester's CIO Summit in Paris, the analyst company presented ...
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IDG News Service - In order to keep hackers at bay there must be changes in security budgets and privacy regulations, RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello said on Tuesday. Coviello opened the RSA Conference Europe 2012 with a keynote that ...
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Like it or not, we are in the midst of yet another technology talent crisis, and when your CEO is demanding more out of your team, you really need good people. But here's the paradox: The talent pipeline is being squeezed at both ends. ...
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For all the promise that big data holds, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics ...
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Big Data is not a new phenomenon and has been around for many years, noted Jim Goodnight, CEO at SAS, who spoke recently at the SAS High Performance Analytics Conference in Hong Kong. He described how companies have always been aware of ...
IDG News Service - Oracle database customers running version 11g Release 1 have until the end of this month to upgrade, or else face increased annual maintenance fees. The vendor provides five years of Premier Support after a new product ...
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Computerworld - If the iPhone 5 sells as well as analysts predict, its impact on IT shops wrestling with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend could be dramatic. According to some analysts, enterprise use of the new iPhone, which is ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Suffolk County Council has rolled out a next generation network, which it expects will cut costs by up to 30%. The high speed, next generation network (NGN) will provide connectivity to over 300 schools and 300 council premises and will ...
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StrongMail, a leading provider of digital marketing solutions for email, mobile and social media engagement, announced that Guess? Inc. has centralized its triggered, lifecycle and promotional email streams on StrongMail, resulting in more ...
If members of the U.S. military and their families have seen major changes in their lives because of the Internet and related technologies, then they should expect even more upheaval, a group of tech experts said Thursday. The Internet ...
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the ...
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IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind. And that's good, analysts say, because the company must focus on new applications like those to ensure that its workhorse data center ...
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The G-Cloud should be held up as a model for how to do frameworks in government, deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell has said. The comments follow moves by the Cabinet Office to freeze all new procurement frameworks, as part of its review ...
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The NHS is looking for a new CIO following the vacancy left after Katie Davis stepped down as managing director for NHS Informatics at the Department for Health in July. Katie Davis had been in the role for about a year after Christine ...
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