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| Week of 06 Oct 2008 |
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CIO careers: Wall Street's pain, IT's gain?
Pollyannas want you to think that this economic crisis can be good for your career. I have my doubts. |
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IT director re-engineers a legacy shop
Some guys have all the fun. Learn how one IT director challenged employees to share his vision of a modern, more efficient shop and how he got the job done. |
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| Week of 29 Sep 2008 |
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Forrester: IT industry demands better collaborative, integrated data
Forrester Research Inc.'s new "IT everywhere" concept predicts what enterprise architecture will look like in coming years. |
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MS software licensing, IT auditing tricky business
For one CTO, Microsoft client access licenses were inadvertently corrupted overnight (apparently by Microsoft), halting company productions for five hours. Could it happen to you? |
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| Week of 22 Sep 2008 |
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Electronic records retention: What's your company policy?
Going against conventional electronic records management wisdom, a group of records retention and information management experts admit to keeping everything. |
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Web 2.0: What it means for the midmarket CIO
Is Web 2.0 the way forward? Gil Yehuda, senior analyst at Forrester Reasearch Inc., discusses the Web 2.0 explosion and its place in the midmarket. |
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| Week of 15 Sep 2008 |
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IT, business alignment not a pipe dream
An annual survey finds -- yet again -- that CIOs don't think IT is in step with business units. |
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Disaster recovery plan: Finding the best solution for the money
Getting management to give its blessing to a disaster recovery plan was the easy part. Sorting through competing methodologies and staying on budget is a different story entirely. |
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| Week of 08 Sep 2008 |
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IBM, friends push 'Microsoft-free' world
IBM and its Ubuntu-toting partners say CIOs can boot Microsoft from desktops. Could their efforts work this time? |
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Disaster recovery planning off CIOs' plate -- sort of
A new survey finds fewer CIOs are involved in disaster recovery plans. Bad move. Here's why. |
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| Week of 01 Sep 2008 |
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Software audit painful and costly for the noncompliant
Dynamic Systems Inc. CIO Will McManus learned about software license audits the hard way. He was audited -- twice. |
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IT salary survey surprise: CIOs, managers optimistic, despite economy
Despite an uneasy economy, CIOs and IT managers continue to make six-figure salaries, and they remain confident about future job security. |
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| Week of 18 Aug 2008 |
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Salary Report: Could you hate your boss that much?
A recent SearchCIO-Midmarket.com salary survey shows reasons people leave their jobs -- dissatisfaction with management is at the top. Could you hate your boss that much? |
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Software as a Service: The (data center) killer app
A midmarket CIO takes a pass on on-premise applications. |
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Salary Report: Holding on to what you have
The poor economy is holding CIOs back from asking for big raises. Some are even facing hiring freezes. |
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| Week of 11 Aug 2008 |
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Which mobile OS will IT support?
Like it or not, mobile device management means supporting multiple systems. But CIOs don't have to get tangled in a web of unmanageable devices. |
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| Week of 04 Aug 2008 |
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2008 Olympics hold no torch for network speed
The increase in streaming video from major sporting events is causing havoc with network speed. |
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EMS CIO outsources the mundane to focus on rebranding
As Eastern Mountain Sports focuses on rebranding, a CIO frees up his staff to focus on new projects. |
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Outsourcing prospects in Brazil good, but economy is a barrier
Midmarket CIOs have plenty of reason to look to Latin America for outsourcing. But can Brazil continue to provide true cost savings? |
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| Week of 28 Jul 2008 |
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States selling CIOs on data centers
CIOs looking to set up a data center in another state should stay focused on what it's going to cost in taxes and energy costs. |
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Gartner: You may loathe Vista, but don't try skipping it
Microsoft Windows Vista is the scourge of IT managers nationwide. But the hassles of implementing it outweigh the risk of skipping it, Gartner says. |
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