economics
Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News This is about literally changing the economics of IT for lots and lots of people. BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications that are built and run on the latter's Force.com... [20 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, the economics research arm of analyst house McKinsey & Company. In an exclusive interview, silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson spoke to Chui about the... [18 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News Dr Gus Hosein, senior fellow at the London School of Economics and co-author of a book on the ID card scheme entitled Global Challenges for Identity Policies, said the scheme has been plagued by over-optimistic deadlines. [16 Nov 2009]
Securing Your Network, Improving Your Services
White Paper With an aging population, changing economics, and new laws potentially affecting the industry, healthcare technologies are under more pressure then ever. The healthcare industry has always required specially tailored... [13 Nov 2009]
Federal Guide to the Value of Encryption: Encryption From Check Point Can Reduce Recurring Financial Risks of Security Exposure by 90 Percent
White Paper This paper from Check Point Software is about the economics of encryption. Encryption is a cyber security technology used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information stored on or... [13 Nov 2009]
Five Things You Must Know When Selecting an Internet Content Filter
White Paper In a business setting it becomes a matter of economics and focus. All want employees to be focused on the task at hand rather than become addicted to gambling or pornography at work. There are a number of statistics... [12 Nov 2009]
Running for Coverage: A Review of Femtocells
White Paper While the potential benefits have been comprehensively promoted, the technology is not yet proven, and the use cases and economics are not well-understood. Femtocells are short-range radios used to extend the cellular... [12 Nov 2009]
Consistency Verification of Stateful Firewalls Is Not Harder Than the Stateless Case
White Paper Firewalls play an important role in the enforcement of access control policies in contemporary networks. However, firewalls are effective only if they are configured correctly such that their access control rules are consistent and the... [12 Nov 2009]
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, one finds incentives... [11 Nov 2009]
IT Economics: CA Infrastructure Management Reduces Operational Costs and Increases IT Efficiency
White Paper CA customers have provided a number of proof points that illustrate how automated, integrated infrastructure and performance management can significantly lower the cost and improve the productivity of IT infrastructure management teams. [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo About 70 per cent of a facility's economics are determined before you break ground, Microsoft executives said. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. In its first phase, the ground floor of the facility is... [04 Nov 2009]
Selection Criteria for Remote Support Tools
White Paper Though basic remote support technology is available from many sources, including some freeware and shareware options, companies interested in improving both the economics of support and the customer experience should... [26 Oct 2009]
Virtualization and the New Economics of IT
White Paper Part of the "Masters of Virtualization" Series from IDG, Dell and Microsoft. [15 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
The Role of Security in Trustworthy Cloud Computing
White Paper Cloud computing promises to change the economics of the data center, but before sensitive and regulated data move into the public cloud, issues of security standards and compatibility must be addressed including strong... [06 Oct 2009]