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16 May 2012
Canadian employee survey indicates dark view of cloud
A research firm gets feedback from enterprise staff across the country that shows little knowledge of their employers' cloud computing plans -- and a belief they won't be trying it
16 May 2012
Consumerization trends hit IT service management
At many companies, the problem is that processes are immature or even chaotic, so throwing automation at a bug-ridden process will only yield more of the same
10 May 2012
Dispatch from the technology culture wars
A look inside the endless conflict between "geeks" -- technical people who like to tinker with tech -- and "noobs" -- nontechnical people who want gadgets to "just work."
10 May 2012
Career advice: Careers in the cloud
Allan Hackney, senior vice-president and CIO of John Hancock Financial Services, answers questions about the cloud abandoning IT, what to include on a resume and more
10 May 2012
The social media skill sets a CIO's staff will need
A labour market analyst from ICTC looks at the rise of popular services for sharing information and the impact on hiring trends
03 May 2012
Quick tips for easier business trips
IT managers and CIOs are often on the road at conferences and colocation sites, but getting from here to there isn't always pleasant. Keep these ideas in mind
03 May 2012
How to land a cybersecurity job
We asked the experts and came up with this list of five tips for landing a top-notch information security role. Ready, set, apply!
03 May 2012
10 predictions for what the CIO role will look like in 2020
We tapped industry leaders, analysts and CIOs themselves to discover what the challenges of 2020 for the CIO will be like. Here's what we found out.
01 May 2012
IT user satisfaction surveys: A CIO strategy guide
Chief information officers need feedback to gauge how well they're creating value for their organization, but best practices are far from consistent. Consider these things before sending out that questionnaire
26 Apr 2012
MIT and others launch a tech education revolution
These open-education programs may soon create a dilemma for students who are deciding where to invest their time and dollars. For now, this is such a new area it isn't clear what role these programs will play
26 Apr 2012
The upside of shadow IT
There's the loss of control, of course. But more alarming is the exponential growth in the number of rapidly emerging consumer technologies, cloud services and roll-your-own apps
26 Apr 2012
Job search: Should you upgrade to a paid LinkedIn account?
Here's what you need to know about LinkedIn's three paid options, and how they differ from what you can get for free from the social media service
19 Apr 2012
The need for a right job fit reigns over salary offer: Hays
Applicants decline job offers without a company culture reflective of their long-term career goals, according to a major staffing firm
19 Apr 2012
How to nail the technical job interview
Of course, technical job candidates have absolutely no control over the competition by the time they walk into that interview room (or get on that conference call). What they can control is how they handle the interview
19 Apr 2012
What tech managers can do to hold onto their best talent
While retention is surely preoccupying those in the C-suite, it's usually a matter that has to be tackled at the departmental and even the team level
16 Apr 2012
Apple, Chinese group to audit factory for pollution
Initially, inspection will be carried out at the end of this month at a manufacturer of printed circuit boards
12 Apr 2012
Tech workers stress over skills gap
Organizations of all stripes have reported deep cuts to their training budgets in recent years, and they have held off on initiatives that would have given workers a way to learn new technologies
12 Apr 2012
Techies work harder as benefits go bust
Even though average U.S. IT salaries were up 2.1% for 2012, average bonuses dropped by 1.1%, creating a drag on what would otherwise feel like forward motion for many workers
11 Apr 2012
Advice for federal IT workers facing layoffs
Tout the fact that you worked for one of the biggest and most complex IT environments when looking for another job, says expert
05 Apr 2012
Interview: The flexible workplace
RADIO ITWC This week, Amol Shah from Microsoft joins the podcast to discuss the results of the Flexible Workspaces survey
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Analysis: Taking the heat at BlackBerry World
By: Howard Solomon (02 May 2012)
ORLANDO – It was hot outside the Florida hotel where this year’s annual BlackBerry World conference took place. Inside, it apparently wasn ...
The social media skill sets a CIO's staff will need
By: Sharif Faisal (10 May 2012)
The question is no longer ‘who is on social media?’; it is ‘who isn’t?’ Nearly 20 million Canadians communicate via soci ...
Ottawa Hospital goes mobile with IBM middleware
By: Brian Bloom (04 May 2012)
Ottawa Hospital has been one of the boldest health care institutions in North America in equipping clinical staff with Apple Inc.’s ...
Shaw wins Internet deal with city of Winnipeg
By: Howard Solomon (16 May 2012)
Shaw Communications has scored a big win in its campaign to extend its services to municipalities. The Calgary-based cableco won a bidding contest to ...
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC
By: Paul Krill (11 May 2012)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could ...
Canadian employee survey indicates dark view of cloud
By: Shane Schick (5/16/2012 2:41:00 PM)
If Canadian enterprises are using cloud computing, their employees may be the last to know. A recent research bulletin from Toronto-based Pollara of ...
Consumerization trends hit IT service management
By: Robert L. Mitchell (5/16/2012 1:15:00 PM)
Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement within ...
SAP launches Visual Intelligence for casual BI users
By: Brian Bloom (5/16/2012 11:44:00 AM)
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Unified communications still fragmented
By: Bob Violino (5/16/2012 10:17:00 AM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerin ...
Shaw wins Internet deal with city of Winnipeg
By: Howard Solomon (5/16/2012 10:02:00 AM)
Shaw Communications has scored a big win in its campaign to extend its services to municipalities. The Calgary-based cableco won a bidding contest to ...
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC
By: Paul Krill (11 May 2012)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could ...
Consultant says critical infrastructure at risk
By: Sean Martin (07 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that con ...
SAP fires back against Oracle's HANA 'falsehoods'
By: Chris Kanaracus (04 May 2012)
BOSTON -- SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-m ...
Open-source in government can save billions: group
By: Brian Bloom (04 May 2012)
On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, a Canadian advocacy group for open-source software in government says it’s closer to achieving its goal: ...
Google's BigQuery made to crunch big data
By: Thor Olavsrud (08 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. --Few companies in the world have access to datasets as large as Google does, and, unsurprisingly, Google is one of the companies at ...
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