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News
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Can open source be a kick starter for mobile in the enterprise?
In the face of an explosion in demand for responsiveness at-scale, high-availability and security, IBM's Wesley McDonald discusses how modern IT professionals are feeling pressures to build solutions based on open source technology.
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Today’s state of work: The productivity drain
The Internet has created radical changes in our personal lives. We now live in a “consumerised” online world where we shop for products and services with a few taps on a smartphone.
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Five trends affecting legal CIOs
The ongoing economic instability plaguing developed economies has impacted many vertical markets and the legal sector is no exception. Law firms need to innovate and grow despite reduced demand.
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CTO's Risky Approach Yields an Innovative Mobile Trading App
TradeMonster uses a hybrid HTML5 approach to develop a mobile app that closely resembles the company's Web trading platform.
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CIOs in the Public Sector Face Roadblocks to Data Center Consolidation
Amid a White House directive to scale back underused data centers, an effort that will take years to complete, federal CIOs begin to tackle the challenges involved. Among those challenges are incomplete inventories and cost concerns.
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New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer?
CIO's Publisher Adam Dennison wonders why all the burdens of IT process-creating and policy-making for new technologies must fall on the CIO's shoulders. Should vendors be stepping up to help?
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CIOs and IT staff learn from unusual mentoring programme
A pilot program from the Society for Information Management shows the value of taking on a protege from outside your own organisation.
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5 reasons to build an enterprise mobile app store
IT departments can keep employees from using malware-infested mobile apps by creating an internal store of company-approved apps. The store can also collect feedback from users about their preferences.
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In security response, practice makes perfect
We've heard it many times in many forms -- expect to be breached, expect that you've been breached, expect that you are being breached.
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DR in the cloud: Vendors jump in; enterprises wade
Disaster recovery and the cloud should be a match made in heaven. Take a function that enterprises love to hate and address it with an outsourced, efficient cloud service that makes it easier and less expensive to reach recoverable nirvana, and presto - instant success. Well, not so fast.
Features
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