IT Organization

Everything IT leaders and managers need to know about running the IT department, from staffing and organizational structure, to budgets, metrics, project management, portfolio management, business-IT alignment and governance.

Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It's All About Hyper-Hybrid

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud offerings for critical business operations from public and private providers, connecting them all back to the core of the business is becoming a challenge involving complicated integration, orchestration and rules management. Full Story »

Apple Stores to Receive Petitions on Workers' Rights Today

Apple Stores around the world will be targeted by campaigners today in protest at working conditions in the company's manufacturing and supply chain.

Incoming Sony CEO: Hot Gadgets Aren't Enough Anymore

Sony CEO-to-be Kazuo Hirai says hardware is still important, but the company must focus on content, services

IT is Victim of Own Success, Says Wellcome Trust CIO

IT is becoming a victim of its own success, according to the Wellcome Trust's head of IT Mark Bramwell.

Shakeup At Nokia: it's Laying Off 4,000, Moving Work to Asia

Nokia is moving more of its manufacturing to Asia, the company says, and it is laying off about 4,000 workers by year-end at three factories in Europe and Mexico.

Yahoo in Another Shakeup As Chairman and Directors Depart

Yahoo could be gearing up for a sale, or the new CEO could be looking for better backing.

CSC Reports $1.39B Loss on Revenue Down 5.8 Percent

Results for the company's third fiscal quarter were hit by a $1.49B charge related to a cancelled UK government health IT contract

CSC Names Mike Lawrie CEO, Ending Four-Month Search

Lawrie's job at Misys looks set to be abolished as the company negotiates a merger with Temenos

Micron Appoints COO Durcan As CEO After Appleton's Death

Mark Durcan, formerly chief operating officer, will replace Steve Appleton, who died in a plane crash

BMC and VCE Partnership Shows Consortium Is Gaining Power

Is there strength in numbers? The deal VCE recently struck with BMC suggests that a consortium of companies layering in best-in-class technology might be a more effective approach to win large-scale government and enterprise customers in the private cloud space, writes CIO.com's Rob Enderle.

Micron CEO Dies in Plane Crash

Steve Appleton died Friday in a plane accident in Boise, Idaho, Micron said

Facebook's IPO Filing Reveals Technology Details

In addition to disclosing just how rich the company is, Facebook's S-1 filing shines a light on the company's IT infrastructure, technology patents, hacker mentality and need for speed.

Steve Jobs Lives on in Endless Apple Stories, Marketing Schemes

Although it's been nearly four months since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died, there has been little slowdown in Steve Jobs news since then. In fact, some days there seems to be more than ever.

Dell Forms Software Group, Names Former CA CEO As Head

Dell tries to organize disparate software units in the company under one roof

Outgoing Sony CEO Howard Stringer Says Much of Big Losses Out of His Control

The Sony CEO has his company on track for nearly US$3 billion in losses this year, its fourth straight year in the red

Rethinking Software Development, Testing and Inspection

Michael Fagan first found software inspections yielded a massive productivity improvement when working for IBM in the early 1970s. Now, 35 years later, we need to ask certain key questions: Are the dynamics of software development the same, are Fagan's findings still relevant in today's world of agile development and "extreme programming"? And, if so, what should your organization do about it?

The New Help Desk: Agile, Educational, Efficient

A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. A keyboard stops working, or Outlook crashes repeatedly, and a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex issues can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without needing an outside vendor.

Kernel Guru Greg Kroah-Hartman Joins Linux Foundation

Former Suse fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman will continue to work on Linux in his new role

For Sony's New CEO, a Big Challenge is in Your Living Room

Kazuo Hirai, who will lead Sony from April, has made it clear that turning around its TV business is a priority

Sony's Hirai, Executive Who Led PlayStation Turnaround, Promoted to CEO

Kazuo Hirai will take over from current CEO Howard Stringer in April

Obama Confronted on H-1B Use During Google+ Hangout

President Barack Obama faced perhaps his toughest and most direct question ever on the H-1B program by a Texas woman during an online town hall Monday.

Apple Forcing IT Shops to "Adapt Or Die"

Many IT departments are struggling with Apple's "take it or leave it" attitude, based on discussions last week at MacIT, which is Macworld|iWorld's companion conference for IT professionals.

Lack of Data Scientists is the New Von Neumann Bottleneck

Strata Conference's Founding Chair, Edd Dumbill, talks about bridging the data and information gap

Students Turn Social Media Skills into Social Business Strategy

San Jose State University and IBM partner in a real-world project to help students translate their Facebook and Twitter prowess into powerful business strategies.

IT Outsourcing Deal Size Data Shows Decade-Long Decline

The proliferation of IT and business process outsourcing contracts worth less than $100 million is creating governance headaches for CIOs. How are IT outsourcing service providers responding?

 
As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.
For this white paper, IDC performed an in-depth analysis of the business value of VMware View, defined as the expected ROI associated with the use of the solution as a platform for the targeted deployment of a virtual desktop infrastructure.
This paper explains virtualization, its benefits for mid-sized business and how IBM's virtualization strategy can help these companies reduce costs, improve services and simplify management.
Forrester Research makes recommendations on best practices to optimize branch virtualization and consolidation initiatives. See how a "thin" branch architecture, with key servers, services and applications in the data center that relies on a high-performing WAN connection, can offer the greatest efficiencies.
When trying to achieve continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations, organizations need to replace traditional processes with a new best practice approach and new innovative technology, such as that provided by IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager.
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status.  
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
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- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
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Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
- Deliver the highest fidelity experience of desktop services across any device and any network
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- Reduce the costs associated with your desktop environment
IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.
Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.
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