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  • Smart IT investments will eventually pay off for the entire company

    Technology purchases like open source software, Software as a Service and other apps that are easy to use can benefit companies as a whole, one expert writes. 

  • Looking to cut costs? Go to the printer

    Your printers are hungry for paper and toner -- but they may be devouring too much of your IT budget. Don't overlook the printer process as a possible place to cut costs. 

  • Analyst: Find savings in administrative fat

    Consolidation and cutbacks are obvious ways to save money. But there are other ways CIOs can use IT to trim the corporate fat. 

  • A half-full asset management glass might as well be empty

    Until you gain visibility of all of the assets in your infrastructure, you're in for a rough ride. Once you can see detailed granularity, together with the interrelationships between assets, you can begin to optimize problem resolution and design pro... 

  • The 10 Commandments for building the ideal IT organization, part 2

    The second five commandments according to Harris Kern involve honoring thy elder disciplines, spreading the IT gospel, and sharing the same values. 

  • Service level management: Linking IS performance to business goals

    In today's cost-justifying economy, CIOs are creating service-level management programs to ensure that IT services are properly linked to business processes and goals. 

  • Selling IT to the CFO: The new differentiator in the analytics world

    Analytics and data warehousing technologies can produce significant quantifiable returns. However, IT managers responsible for these technologies face significant obstacles to quantifying ROI metrics. So it is no wonder that the featured course at TD... 

  • Why IT does matter

    Their colleague in Cambridge caused quite a ruckus when he wrote that IT doesn't matter. Now two Harvard professors describe why IT does matter. 

  • When the worlds of telecom and data collide

    The traditional boundaries between IT and telecom are breaking down. As the differences between data and voice services blur, it's crucial to impose management processes that will control services and identify assets to help put a lid on costs. 

  • Virtual technology could mean real savings

    What do you do if your crammed office is indistinguishable from a sardine can (except for the smell)? Virtualization may be the answer in the race to save space -- and money.