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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 »October 14, 2008 — Computerworld Australia —
European software company Mandriva has released the 2009 update to its flagship Linux distribution, Mandriva Linux.
Mandriva Linux 2009 claims to provide the most advanced and easy-to-use Linux operating system available and ships the "modern and cutting-edge" KDE 4.1 desktop environment and Linux kernel 2.6.27.
The Powerpack edition features an updated set of commercial applications, including audio and video codecs from Fluendo, image manipulation with LightZone, VMwares virtualisation, and applications from Google.
To ease installation the graphical installer has been overhauled and the online software updater has been improved.
Also improved is the boot time and parental control utility.
If you have a new mini-laptop, or "netbook," the Mandriva installer is now capable of detecting it and will install the "appropriate" GNOME (version 2.24) environment.
Mandriva 2009 also claims "easy, 100 percent graphical synchronisation" with mobile devices running Windows Mobile 2002, 2003, 5 and 6, all Blackberry devices, and many Nokia devices.
The release is available in three editions: Powerpack, One, which includes a live CD, and Free for only open source software.