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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »January 09, 2006 — CIO —
Nissan has unveiled a new concept car aimed at video gamers. The Urge sports car, introduce at the North American International Auto Show this week, offers a steering wheel and pedals that become game controllers when the car is not in motion and a mirror which conceals a small flip-down video screen. Behind the dashboard? A Microsoft Xbox 360.
Reuters reports that the Urge is one of the more extreme examples of a trend to introduce more entertainment features to help differentiate vehicles in the competitive automobile market. Such features can add as much as $2,200 to the sticker price of a car, but performed well in a study rating consumers willingness to purchase them.
--Stephanie Overby