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Manufacturer Shifts 70 Percent of IT Budget to Proactive Support, Sees Reliability Soar

whitepaper Del Monte Foods wanted to make IT a driver of business success, but its lean IT staff was continually preoccupied with handling emergencies. By adopting a Microsoft Services Premier Support agreement, Del Monte's IT staff has boosted the time that...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

7 Ways to Reduce your 2008 IT Burden with Email Hosting

whitepaper Hear how email hosting will help you focus on projects that are strategic to your business and allow you to free up your budget, staff and infrastructure from the challenges of managing a complex in-house email system.

Tags: infrastructure management

[08 May 2008]

Key Issues in Messaging Mobility

whitepaper With this combination, the IT staff and overall budget can now be focused on core components of the business. This Osterman Research white paper discusses key trends in the mobile messaging space and the variety of challenges that organizations...

Tags: portable computers, hosting, messaging, mobile messaging

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft BI Is Head of the Class at Coppin State University

whitepaper Faced with a small IT staff, a limited budget and a need to optimize its existing PeopleSoft ERP application and HEAT helpdesk platform, solving their data access problems could have been a daunting task for Coppin State University (CSU).

Tags: data mining - analysis

[06 May 2008]

Naked CIO: The true cost of IT

Comment This debate might be fuelled by accountants looking for better accountability or by IT professionals frustrated by continued budget constraints in organisations that do not understand the cost of provisioning services to the business.

Tags: value, cost allocation, projects, departments

[21 Apr 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget. Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT...

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

'Dull' jobs cuts as companies turn to the cloud

News Stephen Gill, vice president and managing director of HP UK and Ireland, said many large organisations currently devote around 70 to 75 per cent of their IT budget to managing their existing infrastructure, leaving little room for innovation that...

Tags: jobs, it, cloud

[08 Apr 2008]

Recession fears hit IT budgets

Comment Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, said "enhancing business performance with a declining budget" will be his main challenge for 2008. Two-thirds of CIO Agenda respondents this year said they are having difficulty recruiting staff with the right...

Tags: cio agenda

[04 Apr 2008]

SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle

News In a conference call, Apotheker told the media that, in his new role, he will be responsible for industry development; and, in the second half of the year, work with his new team to develop SAP's budget.

Tags: ceo, sap

[04 Apr 2008]

Setting the Standard: HP Servers Form the Foundation for Cook County's Centralized IT Operations

whitepaper Cook County now operates with a fraction of the IT staff in similar jurisdictions and hasn't increased its technology budget in three years. Cook County needed to implement a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and enterprise applications...

Tags: server consolidation, county, printers, implement

[04 Apr 2008]

The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Comment It's a big job - the company has a tech budget of around $300m and 900 full-time IT staff supporting 35,000 employees worldwide. All of this feeds back into the goal to reduce the operational expenditure to capital expenditure ratio of the IT...

Tags: bandrowczak, cio, nortel

[01 Apr 2008]

IT chiefs cutting back on contractors

News But more than half of silicon.com's 12-strong panel of IT chiefs are feeling the budget pinch as they plan to scale back spending on external contractors - though many are planning to replace these workers with permanent staff to ensure they still...

Tags: credit crunch, skills, contractors

[28 Mar 2008]

Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade

Case Study The council now also has complete visibility of its IT estate, enabling Wright to budget for and carry out software asset management in a much more efficient manner and to monitor its software licensing.

Tags: windows xp, council, leeds

[28 Mar 2008]

Mobile working goes mainstream

News The majority of businesses are planning to maintain their mobility budget at 2007's level or increase it by between five and 10 per cent, Gartner's survey of medium to large European enterprises found.

Tags: mobility, it department, smart phone, gartner

[25 Mar 2008]

Are remote workers hitting you where <strong>it</strong> hurts?

Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts?

News More than one-third (37 per cent) said they intend to hike spending by more than 10 per cent on 2007's budget. While businesses undoubtedly see benefits from allowing remote working - such as increased productivity and better rates of staff...

Tags: remote workers, cisco, security, workers

[11 Mar 2008]

StoreVault With VMware Eradicates Corporate Development Systems' Storage Issues

whitepaper The Business owner and President of CDS, saw the need for a centralized storage solution with multi-protocol support, support for VMware with low noise - all in a limited budget of $20,000. Moreover, limited office space had forced CDS staff to...

Tags: server consolidation

[04 Mar 2008]

Kane County Streamlines IT With Equallogic and VMware

whitepaper In budget-constrained environment, Kane County wanted to upgrade old technology; increase application and data availability; consolidate servers and reduce server headcount; cut costs on HVAC, power, space; improve support without increasing staff.

Tags: server consolidation

[04 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Naked CIO, silver skills and ID card anger…

Comment However, my biggest issue is that given its appalling IT track record, I have no confidence this government can implement such a scheme on time and/or budget. Over the last 10 years, many IT employers have taken the view that IT staff can be easily...

Tags: id cards, recruitment, jobs, views

[14 Feb 2008]

Sussex Council outsources desktop role

News The deal, which involves management of the council's desktop and printer estate, lasts seven years and is expected to save the authority 25 per cent of its desktop budget over that time.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: public sector, serco, desktop, council

[13 Feb 2008]

IT skills shortage hits 10-year high

News The report warns employers to budget for increased training, with 73 per cent of those who said there was a need for new skills planning to get hold of them by re-skilling and training existing staff.

Tags: it, skills shortage, skills, workers

[11 Feb 2008]

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