Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Cloud computing is not just a name for outsourcing When you can buy a server for 12 cents an hour it changes everything about how you run your IT department
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Why internal IT and outsourcing cultures clash The internal culture inevitably clashes with that of the service provider, which values process discipline, predictability, and consistency. Higher costs and lower productivity often result
Monday, February 28, 2011
Help the business to better understand IT When you look at companies that have undergone massive cultural transformation, who do you think drove that change? These three CIOs have found their own ways to combat that enterprisewide lack of understanding of IT's role
Monday, October 25, 2010
Charles Phillips named CEO of Infor Mere months after leaving his last job, the former Oracle co-president will lead the ERP vendor as it attempts to begin a new phase of growth
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
How CIOs can influence new product innovation By combining the capabilities of the Web, cloud computing, analytics and tiny intelligent sensors, CIOs can help create wholly new products and services connected to networks and to each other
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
IT Leadership for a new decade: Vendor relations The second installment of CIO Canada's annual reader roundtable delves into the issues around managing suppliers, either internall or across industries. Can you work with your market rivals?
Friday, June 18, 2010
Build a better (personal) brand as a CIO Chief information officers aren't always the best at marketing their skills and accompliments. Use these tips to make sure senior management and the market at large understand the value you bring
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Consona buys cloud ERP vendor Compiere Consona purchases on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Compiere, a move that gives it a place at the cloud-computing table
Friday, June 11, 2010
VMware, Novell partner on Linux, virtualization VMware will standardize its virtual appliances on Suse Linux and be the single point of contact for users of vSphere and Suse. Learn more about the agreement
Monday, May 17, 2010
CA claims new handle, launches Cloud Commons Software vendor CA kicked off its annual conference by announcing a name change and launching a new Web-based community that seeks to demystify the cloud. Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new methodology that could become the standard to evaluate cloud-based services – if IT professionals embrace it
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
CA cutting 1,000 jobs The plan will also involve the consolidation of facilities. CA will incur a pre-tax restructuring charge of about US$50 million in severance and other expenses
Thursday, October 01, 2009
How to protect your firm from vendor lock-in The Gartner Group’s Mark Fabbi questions claims that expensive hardware can reduce total cost of ownership and advises users to consider installing different vendor’s equipment in different parts of the network. Find out why Legal Aid Ontario uses both Juniper and Cisco gear.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Canadian CIOs talk data governance at roundtable During an interactive discussion on data management, Canadian chief information officers assembled to discuss issues like data ownership, data governance, and data security in the cloud. WITH VIDEO
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Annotated Feature: Outsourcing Contracts 101 The Annotated Feature is a new concept from CIO Canada. In this edition, we asked Linda Tuck Chapman, a Canadian outsourcing expert, to go over this article from our sister publication and...
Friday, September 11, 2009
Kitchener integrates GIS into work order system While a lot of organizations like to boast about their latest technology project as a corporate implementation rather than an IT implementation, often this just ends up being lip service. Find out how one Ontario municipality took a different approach to implementing its city-wide financial and infrastructure management systems
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Vendors' dirty tricks exposed From magical demos to deceptive pricing and fictional charges, here are the six most devious tricks vendors use to get their hands in your pocket...
Thursday, August 13, 2009
ERP plus BI equals more value, says Aberdeen Best-in-class companies integrate BI with ERP, according to a new study from Aberdeen Group. Should enterprises should take a single- or two-vendor approach?
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Infor to buy SoftBrands for $80 million The pending acquisition of the firm behind Fourth Shift, among other products, will give the ERP vendor new strengths in the manufacturing and hospitality sectors, according to analysts
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Why the perfect BI tool is still a fairy tale Even though the human element and how well you organize your BI management team will ultimately make or break your BI initiatives, the technology behind the process does play a significant role. Find out where most BI tools are lacking and where vendors should be headed
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
EMC acquisition of Configuresoft looms EMC decides to expand on its OEM partnership with Configuresoft and acquire the software maker outright. Industry watchers speculate EMC is working to displace one of the “Big 4” management software makers – BMC, CA, HP and IBM
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Digital Universe expands, storage spending shrinks An EMC Corp.-sponsored research report by IDC Ltd. estimates that 487 billion gigabytes of digital information was created globally in 2008, a volume set to explode at a rate of 30 per cent year-over-year in Canada. The role that data management policies play in handling that growth
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
How EMC, Cisco and VMware are building the next-generation virtual data centre The three vendors discuss their technology alliance, how private clouds will change the data centre, and why Microsoft isn’t ready to play
Monday, May 18, 2009
Ekahau unveils Wi-Fi interference detector tool The dual-band spectrum analyzer plugs into a USB port and plots signal strength of other wireless devices on a graph. The manufacturer says this helps detect Bluetooth devices, microwave ovens or other hardware giving off 2.4 GHz waves that could interfere with an 802.11 network
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Five ways to avoid SOA failure Customers at IBM’s Impact 2009 conference in Las Vegas share their SOA secrets. Find out how to gain corporate buy-in and get your IT on board as well
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Taxpayer data languishing in stockpiles of CRA hard drives The revenue agency has only now completed an analysis of disk-erasing tools in response to an October 2007 warning from the RCMP to obtain better software that will wipe sensitive taxpayer data from hard drives. One security expert said the CRA is hindered by its own bureaucracy