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RSS houseOutsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News On joining the organisation in 2005, Highways Agency director of information Denise Plumpton inherited the whole portfolio of outsourcing deals - different contracts for helpdesk, different contracts for application support and different... [24 Nov 2009]
Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Comment They may do so collaboratively with others (pooling know-how and resources), in association with in-house IT departments or simply on their own. Citizen developers represent an innovative new way of creating software -... [23 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Increasing numbers of businesses are moving their systems onto cloud computing platforms: analyst house Gartner says worldwide revenues from cloud services will pass $56.3bn this year and are on track to grow to $150bn... [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that has largely been for personal use. [19 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment An organisation I was once with decided to go with Salesforce as a CRM against other options like purchased applications or in-house development. It's not just the technology that's important - how you account for its... [19 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]
Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News Shohruh Fayziev, from Frome House, Peckham Rye, London, SE15, sentenced to four years for conspiracy to defraud and four years for possession of articles for use in fraud to run concurrently. Joao Dos Santos Cruz, from... [17 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment Jeff Mann, research vice president at the analyst house, recently noted business users typically treat the different technology components of UCC as silo projects. Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses... [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft Online Services Business Value
White Paper No upfront cash investment in costly in-house hardware and software. This white paper describes the value of world-class, on-demand services that are provided by an industry leader, includes example cost savings for a... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo According to analyst house Gartner, Android took a 3.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of this year, while Windows Mobile's share declined to 7.9 per cent - a drop of 3.2 percentage... [16 Nov 2009]
Fortinet and the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)
White Paper After numerous cyber attacks on several federal agency computer systems in the time period following 9/11, The White House determined that the government needed a more comprehensive strategy to defend government networks... [13 Nov 2009]
Top 9 Network Security Threats in 2009
White Paper A company that has traditionally kept their security management and monitoring in-house may use this as an opportunity to look at the cost benefits of outsourcing this to a leading security firm. By realizing the... [13 Nov 2009]
Ten Easy Steps to Secure Your Small Business
White Paper The role of administering the network in a small business often falls on the business owner or on the default in-house "Techie," both of whom wear many other hats in the organization and usually do not have the time,... [13 Nov 2009]
Why Outsourcing Your PKI Provides the Best Value: A Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
White Paper Why should one consider outsourcing rather than deploying an in-house Certification Authority (CA)? Once one conclude that one needs a certificate to exchange information online securely, turn on the security inherent in... [13 Nov 2009]
Latent Vulnerabilities in Custom ABAP Code
White Paper Customers without in-house security code experts should consider a technical review of their code, establishment of a baseline, and remediation of code errors in mission critical and financially sensitive areas. [13 Nov 2009]
