The View from Here: Improving the Business Shouldn’t Put Anyone to Sleep
July 30, 2008
IT and other departments must communicate in order to successfully deploy VoIP, unified communications and other sexy applications. But improving communications can pay even greater dividends when the light shines on more subtle–some might say dull–areas.
GRC: Too Many Ways to Skin a Cat?
July 29, 2008
Governance, risk and compliance systems have developed in silos across most companies, says Gordon Burnes, OpenPages’ vice president of sales and marketing. The reason is simple: IT, which doesn’t understand the details of what each department does, is reluctant to impose a standardized approach. That fragmentation, Burnes says, must end.
Announcing the Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Resource Guide
July 28, 2008
The important topic of disaster recovery/ business continuity is addressed in the fourth resource guide from The IT-Finance Connection. This is a huge area that has a simple goal: keeping organizations operational in the face of severe weather, terrorism, blackouts, pandemics and other cataclysmic events.
Operational Risk Management — You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Monitor
July 24, 2008
Security isn’t static. Monitoring operations–how employees behave, how systems change and other ongoing activities–is a valuable counterpart to guarding electronic devices and networks. Understanding and implementing a comprehensive approach leads to a far higher level of real security.
Podcast: Gaining Trust and Buy-in Keys for CIOs
July 23, 2008
C-level executives don’t always understand that they aren’t experts, that projects must scale and that a robust technical empire wasn’t built in a day. Bradman Group CEO Robert Bradman says a CIO must help them see the big picture. The good news is that once they do, these executives generally do what’s in the best strategic and tactical interests of the organization.
Announcing The IT-Finance Connection Resource Guides
July 21, 2008
The Web offers mountains of information– mountains that tend to bury those beginning to explore new approaches. A series of resource guides from The IT-Finance Connection–three are up, seven or more are coming—are designed to get communications between IT and other departments off to a strong start.
The Road to Compliance
July 17, 2008
Compliance is a tricky job even if all the data, devices and people are in the office. 
Introducing mobility to the equation makes the task significantly more complex. Amanda Finch, the CEO of ADV Group, says that the conversation between IT and the more financially-oriented parts of the organization often starts too late — after something bad has happened.
Satisfying the Need for Speed
July 14, 2008
Ethernet has been making headway as a wide-area networking protocol for several years. 
The emergence of “Ethernet 2.0″ is adding benefits and increasing efficiencies. Greg Gum, the Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at ANDA Networks, describes the evolution and provides four tips on selecting a service provider.
The View from Here: The Case Against VoIP
July 9, 2008
VoIP has been the hot technology for several years. While it brings benefits to any organization, many don’t truly need it – and others will have to make expensive infrastructure investments before hooking up the first IP phone. The bottom line: VoIP is great–but is it great for your company?
Managing Assets More Complex as Financial Institutions Go Global
July 8, 2008
Demands are exploding on financial services firms. They must provide a greater number of services more quickly and over far greater distances. Decision makers, in conjunction with the CIO, must decide whether to meet these needs themselves or seek help. Juniper Networks’ executives Michael Segal and Michael Rothschild say that the best option is managed service providers.
Read more »
