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Seven strategies for keeping disaster recovery on target
Too often, business-continuity efforts are aimed at the failure of a single IT processing site or component, overlooking the multitude of smaller incidents that also pose a risk. To help keep you armed for all eventualities, here are seven cost-effective approaches to smart IT disaster recovery, as outlined by Craig Sands and Andrew Truscott of Accenture Canada.

Getting the IS message out A failure to communicate is one of the chief causes of disconnect between the IS department and the business. At WGI Westman Group, Ken Fitzpatrick is evolving a communications strategy aimed at addressing this problem. Herebs a progress report on the building of his communications bbridgeb. By David Carey		Are CIOs heading for extinction? At the CIO Association of Canada's recent Peer Forum in Toronto, the future of the CIO was a hot topic. CIO Canada editor Dave Carey discusses highlights of the event.

A public sector view of social networking Social networking outlets such as MySpace and Facebook are offering new avenues of communication for corporations and governments, but are also presenting fresh challenges to CIOs deciding how best to fit them into their business processes. Dave Nikolejsin, CIO for the Government of British Columbia, discusses his own experiences thus far in the world of Web 2.0.

CIO Hot Zone TD shares lessons learned from outsourcing to HP - Kathleen Lau04/18/2008 Adequate salaries, training reduce IT worker churn - Denise Dubie04/23/2008 Six pressing questions for CIOs...answered - Tony Treccapelli04/23/2008 Top six questions to ask before branching out - Stephanie Overby04/28/2008 Multimedia Editor's Choice Talking about Virtualization - Tridel Corporation CIO Ted Maulucci - Metrics and the CIO with IT Metrics Guru Howard Rubin - 04/23/2008 Strategic Directions Project Team Best Practices - N. Dean Meyer04-07-2008 Twelve answers to your green IT questions - Katherine Walsh04-07-2008 Moving towards strategic IT - Sean Burke04-07-2008 This month's Analyst Outlook Getting the right IT - Andrew Rowsell-Jones2008-05-01 This month's CIO Executive Council Forum Coping with Consumer Technology - Carrie Matthews2008-05-01 This month's Trendlines Five roadblocks to faster IT projects - Bruce A. Stewart2008-05-01 Curbing our energy appetite - Briony Smith2008-05-01 More support for business value management - Galen Gruman2008-05-01 CIOs gaining stature as strategic contributors - Janine D'Auria2008-05-01 Big impact for virtualization - Rafael Ruffolo2008-05-01 Expert calls for better risk assessment - Matt Hines2008-05-01

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Managing a growing threat: an executive's guide to Web application security
This paper discusses the security challenges created by Web applications and suggests some steps you can take to address them.

Unleashing the business value of today's mainframe
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