Many chief information officers find themselves in the role of technology evangelist, raising awareness of the value of information technology among skeptical leaders at the executive and board level. But what if you work at Google Inc. and your CEO is Google co-founder Larry Page ? It’s no surprise that Google CIO Ben Fried ’s experience is probably a…
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SCC partners with Centrix Software to drive IT efficiencies
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– WorkSpace iQ’s usage analytics helps SCC prepare its customers for desktop transformation, virtualisation and the cloud Centrix Software, workspace management solutions expert, and SCC, Europe’s largest independent technology solutions provider, have announced a partnership; to jointly sell and market Centrix Software’s WorkSpace iQ usage analytics solution as part of SCC’s IT infrastructure services.With over…
Perforce Software launches the Continuous Delivery Forum
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Special guest speaker: Dave Farley, co-author of the award-winning book ‘Continuous Delivery’Event co-sponsor: XebiaLabs and Polarion SoftwareDate: 28th October, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, First Floor, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HATime: 12.30-5pm followed by drinks at The Coal HoleAbout the Forum:On 28th October, Perforce Software will be hosting the first Continuous…
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic IT Trends For 2015
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Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is under way in Orlando. As always, their IT experts have identified what they believe to be the top-ten information technology trends for the year ahead. Strategic technology trends are defined as having potentially significant impact on organizations in the next three years. Here is a summary of the trends: 1. Computing Everywhere With…
Tight IT Budgets to Drive Efficiency Demands in 2015, Brocade Reveals
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Research Finds Businesses Focusing on Efficiency in the Short Term, but Looking to SDN and NFV for Longer-term Innovation, Supporting the New IP IP Expo, London, 8 October 2014 – Increasing efficiency will be the number one priority for IT departments in 2015, as organisations look to get more value out of their IT spend,…
How to Overcome the Cloud-Savvy IT Talent Shortage
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Senior executives at large multinational enterprises are already demanding that their CIO has a plan in place to ensure that they can effectively procure public and private cloud services for their organization. In smaller companies, some IT managers are now expected to acquire the knowledge and skills to perform a similar role. Are they prepared?…
Seneca College realizes value of open source
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If you read Opensource.com’s recent series of articles by young professionals about their exposure to the open source way, you’ll have noticed a common thread: open source is an essential part of IT education. But not enough schools are incorporating open source into their curricula. Source: Tech
6 Strategies for Cancelling a Major IT Project
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In the recent book Think Like a Freak, well-known authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner touch on a difficult topic for those in charge of IT budgets and project development: What if your project fails? In their witty and highly opinionated style, they explain how failure in business isn’t always a bad thing.…
Facebook’s Open Compute Servers Still Tough Sell for Corporate IT Shops
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Facebook’s Open Compute Project has been one of the most talked about developments in the world of data center hardware over the past couple of years, and interest in the first ever open source hardware design community and its output has only grown. While there are some individual success stories, however, there has been little public information…
CEOs Look to IT Leaders for Future Success, Growth
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Almost all CEOs and business owners believe their company’s IT department with play a critical role in their business in 2015, a Modis survey found. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux