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  • Trim your governance and get agile: CBA’s Stuart Mitchell

    Organisations must trim the layers of governance built up over many years for traditional waterfall tech projects or fall victim to more agile startups, says CommBank’s senior agile coach, Stuart Mitchell.

    Written by Byron Connolly23 June 17 11:14
  • The Takeaway: Tech bubble redux?

    The last time a tech bubble burst, markets fell, start-ups failed, IT unemployment shot up and undergraduate enrollments in computer science fell off a cliff.

    Written by Ken Mingis28 July 15 05:04
  • 6 Social Media Management Tools Ready for the Enterprise

    Social media is playing a growing role in corporate marketing campaigns. These six tools will help you launch, track and analyze campaigns across a variety of social media services -- including some you might not expect.

    Written by John Brandon23 Sept. 13 13:35
  • Premier 100 IT Leader: Tamara Payne

    Given FedEx's focus on speed, it should come as no surprise that the company has created a way to significantly cut software-testing time.

    Written by Johanna Ambrosio25 Feb. 13 15:56
  • Cloud security to be most disruptive technology of 2012

    The Security for Business Innovation Council, comprised of IT security professionals from 19 companies worldwide, called Cloud computing the main disruptive force for 2013. In its report, "Information Security Shake-Up," the group said it was evident many organizations are preparing to move more business processes to the cloud. This year, it will even be "mission-critical apps and regulated data" consigned to the cloud.

    Written by Ellen Messmer03 Jan. 13 12:09
  • The cloud solves those lingering supply chain problems

    This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

    Written by Greg Kefer, director of marketing, GT Nexus29 Oct. 11 07:53
  • 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO

    ORLANDO -- "You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.''

    Written by Neal Weinberg20 Oct. 11 05:31
  • Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities

    The biggest business challenge today, in the minds of many information security officers, is the stealthy online infiltration by attackers to steal valuable proprietary information. The reality, they say, is that these so-called "advanced persistent threats" are so rampant and unrelenting they are forcing IT to rethink network security.

    Written by Ellen Messmer03 Aug. 11 01:42
  • LightSquared gains netTalk, faces more critics

    Mobile startup LightSquared has gained another wholesale customer on Tuesday even as more critics joined a group that opposes LightSquared's planned LTE network on the grounds that it will interfere with GPS.

    Written by Stephen Lawson29 June 11 05:25
  • Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says

    Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

    Written by Jon Brodkin16 July 10 05:47
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