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Tips for enhancing IT's role in improving the economy
IT can help improve the current economy by participating in a strategic planning process that includes cutting costs, measuring performance and prioritizing projects
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Business process improvement tops CIOs' 2009 agenda
Business process improvement takes first chair as CIOs look to deliver business results with tight resources, say IT execs and Gartner's CIO Agenda study.
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Seven steps to funding your disaster recovery plan
Selling a disaster recovery plan to the CEO isn't an easy task. Follow these seven steps to secure funding for your company's disaster recovery plan.
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Modern data center fueled by power efficiency
Future-thinking CIOs plan to get the most out of their data center resources while reducing how much they spend on power and cooling.
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Traditional DR test models outgrow usefulness
Traditional disaster recovery testing methods focus on a small group of mission-critical applications, leaving many important ones at risk.
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BPM Platform as a Service redefines SaaS
A business process management (BPM) project a minute? Pegasystems offers a twist on BPM, turning corporate IT shops into SaaS providers with a BPM Platform as a Service.
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The politics of BPM: Sit IT, business at the table
It's ultimate fighting, with IT vs. business over business process management. But as growing usage shows, there's victory for all once projects streamline workflows and cut costs.
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Information lifecycle needs data realignment fast
Unstructured data and classification woes prevent companies from lining up business processes efficiently.
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Infrastructure tracking software puts CIO in business
IT asset tracking software quickly inventories what's on your network and promises "actionable" databases that will help cut costs and improve security.
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Energy credits a lure for IBM's green push
IBM partners with big utilities to advance energy efficiency in data centers.
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IT asset management focus drives Toyota Motorsport
With a more focused asset management process, Toyota Motorsport trimmed system redundancy, saving $450,000 a year.
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ITIL: Top five tips to kick-start your strategy
ITIL V3 marks its one-year anniversary this month. Here are some tips for CIOs who are ready to kick-start their ITIL strategy.
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ITIL cert: Industry game changer
Can the new ITIL certifications turn IT from a "collection of cowboys" into a profession? They'd better, says an ITIL author.
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Web 2.0 used to harness knowledge of CIOs
A Web 2.0 collaboration project is helping one CIO tap into the power of many.
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Videoconferencing equipment, software can help firms cu
You know the rap against videoconference equipment and software. A chorus of experts say a new and improved generation of systems can cut costs, bring ROI and merit another look.
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Virtualization deployed for improved data center uptime
Virtualization is a technology usually associated with saving space or disaster recovery. But for some organizations, the most pressing reason to deploy it is to ensure data center uptime.
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Web-based ERP raises productivity, customer satisfactio
Many larger enterprises are incorporating Web 2.0 into their ERP software to improve collaboration and information sharing among employees and customers.
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Green IT: Buzzword or strategy?
Green IT is the thing to do -- but what does that really mean, what's the plan, and who should manage it?
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Building a CMDB: A guide to management and deployment
Building a CMDB and making service improvements is essential at most large organizations, but justifying costs is not easy. This guide offers CMDB management and deployment advice.
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Data warehouses: Tips for building a disaster recovery
Data warehouses are more mission critical now. Read these tips to find out how to build them into a disaster recovery plan.
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#MITCIO tweets and tips on architecting for the future
Six takeaways from the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on architecting the enterprise for cloud, big data, mobile, you-name-it.
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The role of the CIO is (still) changing
What's the CIO's role in today's data-driven, mobile, social, cloud business environment? That was a major theme for MIT Sloan CIO Symposium tweeters.
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Winning cybersecurity battles takes a team effort
Learn how to tackle cybercrime from former White House CIO Theresa Payton and former federal Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.
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A CIO's five-point plan for managing endpoint security
Niel Nickolaisen offers a five-point solution for managing endpoint security for the hyper-connected enterprise -- starting with data governance.