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The CIO wish list
If you could start all over again and build a top-of-the-line data center, what would it look like? That question was posed by Computerworld to IT executives and industry experts and, as you might Read more...
Customer data should drive IT decisions
Michelle McKenna, the CIO at Universal Orlando Resorts, has some advice for her members of her profession--think like your customers and use your data to focus on your company's markets. "In today's Read more...
Olympics IT in final stages
The Beijing Olympics are a massive undertaking, and IT services to support the event are a big part of the effort. Atos Origin is the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games, overseeing the Read more...
Data centers becoming mega-polluters
It may be hard to believe, but the world's data centers are becoming major contributors to global warming and are projected to surpass the airline industry as a major greenhouse gas polluter by 2020. Read more...
Lawyers miss the boat on eDiscovery
With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers Read more...
Survey: Find a better way to manage risk
A new survey from Quocirca finds that executives say software development is critical to their businesses, but most are not doing enough to build security into their applications. The survey of 250 Read more...
Another day, another breach
A laptop was stolen last month that was owned by a consultant from SunGard, a company that handles the records system used by Buffalo State College. The college was notified on April 11, nearly a Read more...
Wipe your hard drive
There are many steps to take to protect your data. One of them is to make sure your hard drive is cleaned before reusing. And remember it is important to use the technology that can sanitize Read more...
Honey, I shrank the data center
Smaller is almost always better, the sages among us sometimes say. This was the case when a facility near St. Louis run by Schneider Electric and its American Power Conversion subsidiary created a Read more...
Data center growth constrained
A new survey of CIOs reveals that one-third of enterprise data centers won't be big enough to handle the increasing amount of data that is being generated, according to Hewlett Packard. HP disclosed Read more...