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January 15, 2008 Content
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Where Did Your Provider Go?

Merger activity is on the uptick among IT service providers and experts say the industry is ripe for more consolidation. Here's how to protect your company if your outsourcing provider is sold. Full story »

Feature

Security or Bust

If you want to transact business with credit cards, you have to follow the rules: the payment card industry security standards. Companies that don't comply face fines or worse. So why aren't more mid-market merchants already in compliance? Full story »

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Why Should Merchants Keep Credit Card Data?

The retail industry advocates keeping a bare minimum of customer financial information. Just enough to still serve your customers without providing potential thieves what they need. Full story »

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One Company, One Vision, One Truth

As Nationwide grew, its data became siloed and scattered, making it increasingly difficult for the company to get an accurate picture of its finances. Here's how it brought all that data into focus. Full story »

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Strategic CIO

Who's Your Customer?

Direct Energy's CIO is trying to change the perception that IT's customer is the internal employee in order to foster a focus on what matters most. The language he uses to talk about customers, colleagues and IT projects is key. Full story »

News

How Green Are Your Electronics?

Greenpeace's quarterly guide is meant to motivate electronics manufacturers into reducing toxic materials in their products, as well as to improve their recycling efforts. Full story »

News

Yet Another Reason Not to Grouse in E-Mail

An open-source algorithm called Author-Topic is now being investigated for analyzing corporate e-mail to flag employee behavior and attitudes. Full story »

Problem Solved

Real Risks Inside Every Virtual Box

VM Sprawl. Hypervisor holes. Rogue virtual machines. Network traffic gone bad. What are the biggest virtualization security risks now and how can you combat them? It's time to separate fact from fiction and get down to work. Full story »

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Editor's Letter

Truth and Meaning

When it comes to running a business, it helps to know what you're talking about Full story »

CEO Letter

HP's Evolution

The high-tech vendor community just wrapped up a great year. But only one company had a year for the record books: Hewlett-Packard. Full story »

Essential Technology

Blogs Clean Up Project Management Messes

Too many enterprise users get lost in storms of reply-all e-mails while trying to manage projects or collaborate. Blogs make a better answer. Here's how two IT leaders made it work at their enterprises. Full story »

5 Things I've Learned

Five Things I've Learned

Tom Ridge is the two-term governor of Pennsylvania and first U.S. secretary of homeland security. Ridge believes another terrorist attack is likely and speaks out on the need to battle complacency in the corporate and political spheres. Full story »

Data Point

They Like You in India, Not So Much in Brazil

The biggest influence on employee approval: what workers value in corporate managers. Full story »

Data Point

Your Choice: Moving vs. Extreme Commuting

Long commutes may suck, but they sure beat moving for a new job, according to a Korn/Ferry survey. Full story »

Data Point

China Calling, Findland Answering

Roughly 500 million of the world's mobile phones, or more than 40 percent of the global total, were or will be produced in China this year, according to the country's Ministry of Information Industry. Full story »

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