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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »December 06, 2005 — CIO —
Sun Microsystems unveiled yesterday a set of new low-cost servers based on the UltraSparc T1 chip that the company announced last month, according to the New York Times.
The servers, which the company claims use far less energy than their predecessors, are aimed at heavy Internet users. With prices starting at roughly $3,000, the new T1000 and T2000 servers are able to perform transactions that typically require multiple servers, the company said.
Scott G. McNealy, Sun’s chief executive, said Yahoo, Electronic Data Systems and Air France were among the companies that had agreed to substantial purchases of the new servers.
The new servers are part of a trend in the computer industry toward reducing power consumption. "It’s as if the Porsche had the mileage of the Prius," McNealy said.
--David Rosenbaum