Monday, March 14, 2011
5 questions to help recenter IT design on the business Rather than IT's current focus on siloed applications and outsourcing arrangements to support your business, Forrester's Business Capability Architecture starts with the reason you're in business
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Is SOA dead? Has the economic recession killed off service oriented architecture? While IT analyst Anne Thomas Maines of the Burton Group recently penned SOA's obituary she also says services remain alive and well
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Five roadblocks to faster How do you speed up your IT organization? Here are five things that may be standing in your way.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
New ORION exec oversees partnerships and strategic alliances Canadian David Koa joins ORION’s new department with the mandate of increasing the number of connected institutions and adding new value-added services
Sunday, March 16, 2008
BMC to acquire BladeLogic for US$800 million Less than a year after HP decided to purchase Opsware, another major player in the data centre automation space gets swept up in the momentum of IT industry consolidation
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Basel II work opens customer service opportunities The Canadian financial industry has slowly managed to overcome the latest regulatory hurdle, but analysts suggest the projects aren't just about compliance. TD Bank explains its approach 
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Challenges of global team management CIOs of global organizations have their hands full when it comes to managing global virtual teams. European Council members share their thoughts on meeting the challenges.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Strengthening the core of IT CIOs that want IT to make an impact need to get three core elements right: technology, processes and people 
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.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
From the Editorial Director: Gimme a break ! If anyone were to ask me right now I’d have to say I’m feeling pretty good. Stress minimal; life overall feels quite leisurely; I haven’t snarled at anyone for nearly a week; and the dog has stopped diving for cover when I enter the room*.
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Cisco to acquire Parc for improved traffic routing Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire London-based traffic engineering and routing software provider Parc Technologies Ltd. in an effort to gain better traffic management in its systems and products, the company said Thursday.
Sunday, June 06, 2004
High-stakes IT investments At Harrah's Entertainment Inc., much of the financial training for its corporate IT staff has been focused on its portfolio management techniques.
Monday, April 05, 2004
Managing IT demand 101 Call them what you want — business systems planners, IT account consultants, IT relationship managers or business technology liaisons — they are responsible for helping ensure that IT demand is balanced with supply. Until recently, I assumed that most of these professionals understood demand management and their role in facilitating a win-win handshake between IT and the business. Surely, we have evolved beyond the order-taking era of IT. 
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Nokia targets enterprise with new Communicator Nokia Corp. says its upcoming mobile communication device helps the enterprise ease wireless into the IT infrastructure. But one industry observer says the vendor faces a challenge, an ingrained mentality among corporations that cell phone management is the end user's responsibility, not IT's.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Network Appliance releases new products, strengthens partnerships Network Appliance Inc. on Monday announced two new network attached storage (NAS) appliances, some new solutions and broader partnerships with Veritas Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., and FileNet Inc. to help its customers deploy best-of-breed storage solutions, the company said.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
IBM buys document management software company IBM Corp. picked up new document management technology for its content management portfolio through the acquisition Wednesday of Green Pasture Software Inc., a small software developer based in Corvallis, Ore. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. 
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Portfolio management: Do's and dont's Portfolio management, a method of aligning IT with business goals by prioritizing IT projects as you would a financial portfolio, can provide answers to that question. However, like most ideas in IT, portfolio management sounds great in concept but is tough in execution.
Friday, June 27, 2003
Juniper branches out with secure routers Juniper Networks Inc. has added security features to its routers that the company says should make it easier for service providers to roll out end-to-end network protection for their clients.
Friday, June 27, 2003
Juniper branches out with secure routers Juniper Networks Inc. has added security features to its routers that the company says should make it easier for service providers to roll out end-to-end network protection for clients.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Getting the Twain to meet A Merrill Lynch CFO offers four tried-and-true tools for establishing common business and technology goals.
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.
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Intel, others launch effort to ease PC migration The obstacles of moving data from an old PC to a new one are familiar frustrations to many consumers and corporate IT support workers. Now, several IT vendors, including IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., have formed a new working group to study and promote methods of improving the PC data-migration experience, the companies involved announced Wednesday.
Sunday, July 07, 2002
Dell to wait and see with Itanium 2 Dell Computer Corp. has decided to take a wait-and-see approach to the second generation Intel Corp. 64-bit Itanium processor, Itanium 2, which will be officially launched on Monday.
Thursday, July 04, 2002
Dell to wait and see with Itanium 2 Dell Computer Corp. has decided to take a wait-and-see approach to the second generation Intel Corp. 64-bit Itanium processor, Itanium 2, which will be officially launched on Monday.
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Planet Tivoli orbits predictive networking Planet Tivoli orbits predictive networking
With a new GM and a new master plan involving the downsizing of its products, IBM Corp.’s network management arm says it is ready to make good on its promises of listening to its customers.