Archive for October, 2010

Disaster Planning Needs To Consider Excessive Success of Business Operations

Changing business conditions are a double-edged sword.

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Disaster Planning Needs To Consider Excessive Success of Business Operations

Recovery Point and Recovery Time Metrics

Recovery point objective (RPO) refers to the amount of data loss a customer can tolerate, specifically the point in time to which your enterprise must be able to recover the data.

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Cloud computing raises security and productivity issues

Cloud based applications lower costs, increase productivity, and contribute to work/life balance for employees. They also place stress on the security, control, and performance of legacy web infrastructure.

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Social networking will stress CIO as new employees enter the workforce

Over the next few years, businesses worldwide will be welcoming in a new generation of employees. A wave of young professionals accustomed to being connected anywhere, anytime are coming to an office near you.

ITSM key to productivity

A recessionary economy puts pressure on companies to maintain earnings while revenues are static or shrinking. Many of the efficiencies business leaders seek to achieve depend on improved systems and streamlined processes, resulting in increased demand for IT projects at the exact moment when IT departments are most capacity constrained. At the same time, the consequences for waste, inefficiencies, and project failures have become extremely high.

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Legislation will not change the overall trend toward outsourcing

The offshore industry generally adapts well to legislative changes that raise their costs. For example, some respond by increasing the hiring of workers in less costly countries, as well as in cities in India. At the same time, the big offshore firms continue to grow at a phenomenal rate.

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Blackberry security hacked

All data transmitted between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry smartphones is encrypted with a highly secure AES or Triple DES algorithm. Unique private encryption keys are generated in a secure, two-way authenticated environment and are assigned to each BlackBerry smartphone user

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Business Record Management is Difficult at Best for Many CIOs

Several studies have found that knowledge workers spend between 15 and 35 percent of their time finding information. The requirement to find information quickly and easily makes search technology a practical and essential tool with a measurable return on investment (ROI). However, search engines are optimized to search web pages and documents and they still fall short inside the enterprise when you consider the additional IT assets stored in applications and other real-time sources of information like databases and ERP Systems.

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