The Other Kind of Disaster Preparedness
May 9, 2008
May 2, 2008 (Computerworld) Even though more than a quarter of companies have faced a disaster over the past five years, according to Forrester Research Inc., IT managers must still do a better job at convincing business leaders to invest in disaster recovery systems. Forrester analyst Stephanie Balaouras said managers must work to convince corporate [...]
Read more »It May Be Easy Being Green
May 9, 2008
Everybody likes the concept of green technology. The good news is that the assumption that environmentally sound decisions are financial losers may not be true.
SIM Survey Launches
May 9, 2008
CHICAGO, May 8, 2008 – The Society for Information Management (SIM) has launched its 2008 SIM IT Industry Trend Survey, which annually provides the industry with an important benchmark from IT executives for areas including staffing, spending, salaries, job scope of IT professionals, and technical/business trends.
“The IT Industry Trend Survey is a significant barometer for [...]
The ABCs of ROI
May 9, 2008
Return-on-investment calculations may have been more about marketing than substance in the past, but increasingly customers want solution providers to produce provable numbers.
In the alphabet soup of acronyms that bloats conversations between solution providers and customers, “ROI” is arguably the most common. But moving the return-on-investment talk from supposition and hopes to a provable, statistics-based [...]
IBM Looks at IM
May 5, 2008
Blogger Jon Mell is a big fan of IM, but thinks that IBM’s study comes up a bit short.
Budgeting Can’t Keep Up With IT Development
May 5, 2008
The fast pace of technology development is reshaping the way states finance information technology projects, according to some experts.
Members of the panel said technology is being developed so quickly that state government IT shops say IT projects can’t be funded by yearly appropriations models.
The conclusion came in a poll of attendees poll done today at [...]
End-to-End ROI
May 5, 2008
San Francisco Consulting Group and Bluewave Communications Launch End-to-End ROI Solution.
Reputation Concerns Drive Spending
May 5, 2008
HONG KONG, April 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Avoiding reputation damage to the organization was viewed as a top priority for security programs by nearly three quarters of information security professionals surveyed in a worldwide study launched today by (ISC)2(R) (”ISC-squared”), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers.
The 2008 Global [...]
NextLabs Debuts Compliance Software
May 5, 2008
SAN MATEO, CA - 08 APR 2008: NextLabs® Inc., a leading provider of policy-driven information risk management software for Global 5000 enterprises today announced the availability of Information Compliance and Protection solutions for the Financial Markets, Design & Manufacturing, and the Aerospace & Defense industries at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco. NextLabs [...]
Read more »Morgan Stanley Adding Tech Center
May 5, 2008
Morgan Stanley, the big U.S. investment bank, will build a $200-million high-tech centre in Montreal to support its New York-based global operations, it announced Thursday. Up to 500 jobs will be created.
“We look forward to growing our platform here to complement our existing technology and business services centres around the world,” said Jim Rosenthal, a [...]
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