Thursday, September 02, 2010
Tips for women, from women, on advancing in IT At the request of the CIO Executive Council, female senior IT leaders collaborated to document their most important advice for women moving up the IT ladder. Try this download link
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The blame game is wrongheaded The hunt for the guilty is sadly common, so much so that even when no one is seeking to point fingers, many team members will carry a heavy burden of shame and scorn, entirely self-imposed
Monday, December 22, 2008
Penetration testing: dead in 2009? Is the practice of penetration testing headed the way of desktop publishing and the PDA? Well probably not dead as is dead and gone, it just won't be as cool as it was before. Here's a look at the possible reincarnation of penetration testing 
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Guidance but no policy on New Zealand gov't offshoring Services commission tries to respect the fact that government agencies make their own IT decisions. But it warns departments to "take a risk management approach" they are supposed to be doing already
Monday, October 06, 2008
Lotus Notes users get limited access over iPhone Concerned about the handheld's security, IBM will only let Notes users access the application through a browser so data isn't downloaded. An industry analyst says Apple should give the phone the ability to encrypt data
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Airport radar blinded by faulty network card A device had been malfunctioning for weeks, says the Irish Aviation Authority. Passengers have been warned there will be delays until the system is fixed
Friday, July 18, 2008
Children and teens are vulnerable to online ringtone sellers EU investigation finds 80 per cent of 558 mobile-phone ringtone sites are suspicious
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
RIM's BlackBerry outage draws Gartner criticism Canada's wireless darling apologizes for incident, which left customers without e-mail for three hours on Monday, but that might not be good enough. A consultant recommends changing devices
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Lost records lead to U.K. government exec's exit Paul Gray's resignation comes after a "substantial operational failure" which include a set of disks including bank details and other personal information going missing
Monday, October 22, 2007
Seven ways to kill innovation While innovation may be the obvious business mandate, plenty of companies are guilty of creating a culture where a good idea has as much opportunity to take root as most of us have of winning the lottery. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The changing face of project management Looking at the trends that are likely to affect the project management field in the years to come, it looks like there is both hope and increased complexity on the horizon for IT managers involved in the process.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
White House insider urges cyber-security rethink Technology exists to build protection systems into IT’s infrastructure, but the biggest challenge remains the human element.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Five steps to SOA success SOA isn't just trendy, it's here and it's working. Most large enterprises have already launched some sort of SOA initiative, the objective being an agile architecture that can respond to business needs in near-real time. Along the way, SOA provides a means for fixing systems that have languished in a dysfunctional state for years. 
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Big IT projects fumbled by feds, says Auditor General’s report When it comes to the management of large IT projects the federal government is failing, according to Auditor General Sheila Fraser's November report that found only two of the seven large IT projects examined met all the criteria for well-managed projects.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
E-voting snafus continue to plague process The debate over the security of electronic voting machines hasn't gone away after November's elections in the U.S.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
BMC updates batch management tools In a real-time world, batch processing has all the sex appeal of an old grey filing cabinet, but as Gur Steif, a product marketing vice-president for BMC, said, “Almost every Web transaction we execute online actually ends up being processed in batches.” So when you buy your next cell phone with one click, the processes that order kicks off will crank some time later with a barrel full of others. 
Monday, February 27, 2006
A plan for egovernance in India The future of e-governance in India depends on the availability of shared nationwide infrastructure. R. Chandrasekhar, Joint Secretary, e-governance, Ministry of IT, sees the National e-governance Plan steering India's IT needs to fulfillment. 
Monday, September 26, 2005
VP and research director, Gartner Inc. After more than a decade of stagnation, the data recovery market is going through a pervasive transformation, says one industry expert. The most visible aspect of this is a clear shift in focus from backup to recovery.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Slicing up the IT security pie Much of the discourse around enterprise IT security has centered on tools and best practices. But the vital question of who ultimately has ownership of what aspect of security is often left unanswered. 
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Stratus has high availability at low end Although the Stratus ftServer W Series 2300 doesn’t deliver top-notch performance or provide much room to grow, it’s still worth the extra dough. Running the Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003, this entry-level Intel-based server integrates duplicate sets of system components on a single printed-circuit motherboard, offering high availability at an affordable price. 
Monday, March 14, 2005
Report hits fed security The Canadian government doesn’t meet its own minimum standards for IT security, Canada’s auditor general said in a report last month. In a document that pulled no punches, Sheila Fraser dubbed the government’s IT security efforts as “unsatisfactory.” 
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Government falls down on security In mid-February, Canada’s auditor general gave a failing grade to federal efforts so far in adhering to the government’s own minimum standards for IT security. Sheila Fraser was blunt, suggesting this shortfall effort is simply “unsatisfactory.” How many other Canadian enterprises can relate to the plight of the government? 
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Blowing the whistle on your manager Bosses should examine their management style to know whether they are coaches or referees, according to human resources consulting firm Development Dimensions International (DDI). 
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Paying a gigantic price for ‘dirt cheap’ networking Of the many things we can be thankful for, one is the knowledge that we won’t be using our entire IT budget just to feed the network beast.
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Developer quality suffers under belt tightening Often, these problems are caused not by developer oversight, but by tightening timelines to get new product to market and shrinking development budgets.