| Facebook's IPO Filing Reveals Technology Details |
| In addition to disclosing just how rich the company is, Facebook's S-1 filing shines a light on the company's IT infrastructure, technology patents, hacker mentality and need for speed.
02/01/2012
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| Steve Jobs Lives on in Endless Apple Stories, Marketing Schemes |
| Although it's been nearly four months since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died, there has been little slowdown in Steve Jobs news since then. In fact, some days there seems to be more than ever.
02/01/2012
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| The New Help Desk: Agile, Educational, Efficient |
| A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. A keyboard stops working, or Outlook crashes repeatedly, and a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex issues can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without needing an outside vendor.
01/31/2012
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| Salesforce.Com Yields to Pressure Over Analytics Pricing |
| Salesforce.com's upcoming Analytics Edition features will now be included in some editions at no additional cost
01/30/2012
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| Cook Hires First Exec Since Taking Apple's Reins From Jobs |
| Apple CEO Tim Cook made his first major hire yesterday since taking over the company in August, bringing in the CEO of a struggling British electronics chain to lead Apple's own retail operation.
01/30/2012
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| When ERP is Botched, CFOs Must Act |
| Problems are amazingly costly, giving finance an equal role with IT in finding the prescription
01/30/2012
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| Infor Revamps Support Services, Heightens Competition Against SAP, Oracle |
| The new Xtreme support offerings come in three tiers
01/30/2012
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| Students Turn Social Media Skills into Social Business Strategy |
| San Jose State University and IBM partner in a real-world project to help students translate their Facebook and Twitter prowess into powerful business strategies.
01/29/2012
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| 10 Questions for Array Information Technology CFO Bob Deegan |
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01/29/2012
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| IT Outsourcing Deal Size Data Shows Decade-Long Decline |
| The proliferation of IT and business process outsourcing contracts worth less than $100 million is creating governance headaches for CIOs. How are IT outsourcing service providers responding?
01/29/2012
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| Measure the Success of Your IT-Business Partnerships |
| How CIOs are determining if new attempts to partner with the business are making a difference.
01/26/2012
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| How IT Helped Shape UL's New Business Strategy |
| Underwriters Laboratories' CIO Christian Anschuetz discusses UL's recent transformation from a non-profit to a for-profit organization and how IT shaped and supported that change. He weighs in on the consumerization of IT, offers advice for CIOs, explains why 'big data' without 'big discretion' will lead to 'big failure,' and more.
01/25/2012
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| Bill Gates Reveals How Steve Jobs Inspired Him |
| Bill Gates has been inspired to push on with his philanthropic work after the death of Steve Jobs reminded him that we only have "limited time" on earth.
01/25/2012
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| Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive |
| Are cloud services attractive because they are less expensive than traditional offerings or are IT professionals drawn by greater agility? Bernard Golden writes that it's not an either-or debate. Much like those famous 'tastes great ... less filling" beer commercials, the beauty of cloud computing lies in the beholder.
01/25/2012
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| No More Historic SLA Reports: Get it (and Fix it) in Real Time |
| Businesses of almost all types are increasingly dependent on service providers for network connectivity that consistently delivers certain performance characteristics. In addition to basic service availability, these characteristics increasingly include peak, average and minimum bandwidth utilization, latency (delay) and latency variation (jitter), and packet loss -- all of which can affect operational efficiency and end user satisfaction. This is especially the case with Ethernet-based service offerings employing packet transport to deliver E-LINE services operating at speeds up to tens of gigabits per second.
01/24/2012
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