June 2007

  • Offshore Outsourcing: Do you speak geek?

    Are you a real Know-IT-All? How many of these offshore outsourcing-related terms can you guess without peeking? 1. Sometimes used as a general gauge of management efficiency, this is a financial te...08 Jun 2007

  • nearshore outsourcing

    Nearshore outsourcing is the practice of getting work done or services performed by people in neighboring countries rather than in your own country.08 Jun 2007

  • business technology management (BTM)

    Business technology management (BTM) is a term for a group of services intended to help businesses that might not have their own information technology (IT) department.08 Jun 2007

  • EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization)

    EBITDA stands for 'earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.'08 Jun 2007

  • Risk management staffing isn't always part of IT

    Staffing is a critical part of any risk management plan. And although much of the risk any company manages surrounds its IT function, the people who keep the databases humming shouldn't be the same...07 Jun 2007

  • Vendors duke it out over open source 'forking'

    To protect their interests, some vendors are making it difficult for other vendors to reuse their technology -- but they're still calling themselves open source. Experts are divided over whether th...07 Jun 2007

  • Information security, risk management and compliance staffing guide

    Information security, risk management and compliance are serious issues for CIOs. This Executive Guide offers insights on how to recruit, manage and retain skilled IT staff members who can manage t...07 Jun 2007

  • Mobile technologies: Creating an effective business plan

    For mobile technologies, a comprehensive deployment and support strategy is essential to achieving ROI.06 Jun 2007

  • vertical scalability

    Vertical scalability is the ability to increase the capacity of existing hardware or software by adding resources - for example, adding processing power to a server to make it faster.05 Jun 2007

  • Vitria

    Vitria specializes in integration server software for enterprises.05 Jun 2007

  • Tibco

    Tibco makes integration server software for enterprises.05 Jun 2007

  • ITAA (Information Technology Association of America)

    The ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) is a trade organization of corporations involved with all aspects of information technology.05 Jun 2007

  • integration server

    An integration server is a computer server used to facilitate interaction between diverse operating systems and applications across internal and external networked computer systems.05 Jun 2007

  • horizontal scalability

    Horizontal scalability is the ability to connect multiple hardware or software entities, such as servers, so that they work as a single logical unit.05 Jun 2007

  • infrastructure management (IM)

    For an organization's information technology, infrastructure management (IM) is the management of essential operation components, such as policies, processes, equipment, data, human resources, and ...05 Jun 2007

  • enterprise architecture (EA)

    An enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization.05 Jun 2007

  • global information infrastructure (GII)

    The global information infrastructure (GII) is the developing communications framework intended to eventually connect all telecommunications and computer networks world-wide.05 Jun 2007

  • conformance

    In information technology, a state or acts of adherence to a certain specification, standard, or guideline.05 Jun 2007

  • Bullfighter

    Bullfighter is a software application that searches documents for jargon, overworked terms, and unnecessarily complicated sentences.05 Jun 2007

  • Phony government spam targets executives

    New spear phishing attacks are attempting to con senior corporate executives with threatening fake messages from the Better Business Bureau and the IRS.05 Jun 2007