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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.
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Department of Big Scary Numbers
Cheers!Drinkers earn 10 percent to 14 percent more money at their jobs than teetotalers.Source: A study by economists Bethany Peters ...
March 01, 2007 — CIO —
Cheers!
Drinkers earn 10 percent to 14 percent more money at their jobs than teetotalers.
Source: A study by economists Bethany Peters and Edward Stringhami
Time to Renew?
The amount (in annualized contract value) of IT outsourcing services deals that are set to expire by the end of 2008 is $118 billion.
Source: Everest Research
Making (a Lot) in China
China’s consumer electronics manufacturing industry will more than double from $71.5 billion in 2006 to $167 billion in 2010.
Source: In-Stat
Hey, Google! Think That’s Enough?
The approximate number of IPv6 IP addresses that Google owns, according to ARIN, which allocates the addresses, is 79 billion billion billion.
Source: ARIN
Rocks in Their Head?
Ice.com paid $7.5 million to Odimo for the domain name Diamond.com.
Source: Ice.com and Techjournalsouth.com
Price of Phish Going Up
Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, who was convicted of phishing via AOL in January and will be sentenced this June, could face 101 years in jail. His is the first jury trial conviction under the Can-Spam Act of 2003.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Sneaky People
Security vendor Symantec observes 7 million phishing attempts each day.
Source: Symantec
There’s Growth, and Then There’s...
YouTube’s value as of February 2005: $0.00
YouTube’s value as of October 2006: $1.65 billion (in Google stock)
Source: Google
Another Sign of the Apocalypse
The average age of “gamers” (serious video game players) is 41.
Source: z Media Metrix
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Consolidate Your Servers and Storage to Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT
Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real A...
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