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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
India outsourcing firms report surge in hiring In quarterly reports released this week, three big India-based offshore outsourcing companies detailed sharp increases in employee head count, clear evidence of growing demand for offshore services. Analysts say this demand is increasing wages in India by double digits and raising the potential of rate increases for U.S. customers. For now, at least, competition in India is keeping billing rates stable. But analysts say that won't continue indefinitely as competition for experienced employees increases. 
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
The convergence (or not) of security and operations event monitoring Event monitoring is of interest from both a security and an operations perspective, but to date they have tended to be implemented separately with different toolsets. This joint interest has given rise to vendors and enterprises exploring the convergence of these two capabilities. Although overlaps in technologies, requirements, and processes exist, significant differences remain, which will impede full convergence indefinitely.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Your CEO still doesn't get IT More than two-thirds of CIOs say that their CEOs view IT as a cost of doing business — and not, unfortunately, as a business enabler. That's according to a survey of more than 700 CIOs by Meta Group Inc. Findings from CIO's "State of the CIO 2003" survey showed similar numbers: A whopping 84 per cent of 539 respondents said IT was budgeted as a cost centre, while only 16 per cent said IT was budgeted as an investment centre that creates new business capabilities
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Microsoft eyes RFID opportunities Emphasizing ambitions in radio frequency identification (RFID), Microsoft Corp. on Monday will announce formation of the Microsoft RFID Council, a multi-vendor group that will study requirements for Microsoft’s software to participate in RFID data processing systems.
Monday, February 03, 2003
Meta Group's Rubin on IT portfolio management As IT managers struggle to wring all the value they can from their technology investments, the concept of treating an organization's IT assets like stock market investments with a buy/hold/sell approach is beginning to gain momentum.
Monday, September 30, 2002
Developing what CRM means to your company Research and consulting firm META Group Inc. describes Steve Bonadio, their senior program director, as an authority on CRM, providing advice to enterprises on operational and analytical CRM processes, technologies, best practices and implementation issues.
Monday, August 19, 2002
Database study puts Oracle on top — for now A recent analyst report on the relational database market puts Oracle Corp. in pole position, though Microsoft Corp. will quickly gain ground as customers become more confident about its software and seek new ways to reduce their IT budgets, according to the report's author.
Monday, August 05, 2002
Consolidation on IT’s mind Demand for enterprise data storage will grow at a rate of 90 per cent through 2004, according to a report from the META Group released on Friday.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Oracle touting new 9i features at user show Looking to entice users to upgrade, software vendor Oracle Corp. showcased some of the new features of the next flavor of its database, which it claims will offer companies management and performance enhancements.
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