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Finance for IT decision makers

Few IT managers have the the knowledge and training they need to express the value of IT to the business in pure financial terms. This guide highlights some of the issues that often cause difficulty.

Career Watch: Taking aim at young mainframers

Kristine Harper, the leader of zNextGen, an offshoot of the IBM user group Share, discusses its efforts to recruit and retain young professionals for careers in enterprise IT.

What IT professionals need to know about SOA

Service-oriented architecture is real and it is all about your business.

Twitter tips for CIOs

Twitter has become a popular business tool for companies. We look at 12 CIOs who use Twitter to get ahead in their career.

Visualise your IT systems vision

Get your projects right by building visualisation into the system delivery lifecycle. It can deliver working systems andreduce cost, time and support calls.

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Windows 7: 10 things Microsoft needs to fix

What Microsoft could have done better in latest OS

Top 10 Google Apps for business

Google Apps is getting more appealing for the enterprise. check out this selection of useful enterprise apps. They range from the practical (backups) to the creative (a freebie VPN replacement based on Google Talk). Better still, most of them are free.

Internal clouds: More than virtualising servers

Less than two percent of enterprises have deployed internal cloud computing networks, and vendors are just beginning to provide the proper tools necessary to build them.

Exchange 2010: Blessing or curse?

Microsoft has finished development of Exchange 2010 and now those looking to migrate face the task of digesting new features and the deployment challenges they pose.

1,000 year-old math problem solved

Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem.

Software asset management: What you need to know

The payoff from software asset management makes it worth serious investment.

How to make BI pervasive: It's the culture, stupid

Unfriendly corporate climates can get in the way of widespread use of business intelligence software

Five lessons from Microsoft on cloud security

Five lessons from Microsoft on cloud security

While Google, Amazon and Salesforce have gathered the most attention as cloud service providers, Microsoft-with its 300 products and services delivered from its datacentres-has a large cloud bank all its own and plenty of knowledge worth tapping.

Business analysis and X-Ray listening

Business analysis and X-Ray listening

The business tells you what it thinks it wants, but are they explaining their real requirements? Here is how to get under the customers skin and really find out what they need from new systems.

How to stop fraud

How to stop fraud

MPs' expenses, Bernie Madoff and Alan Stanford - fraud has been in the headlines this summer, but the high profile should not blind us to the reality of fraud at every corporate level.

Reaching Cloud Nine: A practical guide to selecting the right partner

Reaching Cloud Nine: A practical guide to selecting the right partner

Service delivery models for cloud services vary greatly, from hosted providers that replicate fragmented on-site technologies to sophisticated architectures; and benefits vary greatly too. Make sure you get what you need.

A centralised approach to network monitoring

A centralised approach to network monitoring

As production networks grow in size and scope, so does the demand for achieving total network visibility. One hundred percent visibility is essential to realising five-nines uptime standard.

Cloud is Internet's next generation, HP executive says

Cloud is Internet's next generation, HP executive says

"Cloud" has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because "everyone can draw one," according to Russ Daniels, the cloud services CTO at Hewlett-Packard, who just added CTO responsibilities at the company's Electronic Data Systems division.

Is escrow really the way to go?

Is escrow really the way to go?

Many argue that the best way to protect business-critical software from the worst effects of the recession is through escrow, but it might not be the most effective solution, after all.

The 15 best BlackBerry apps

The 15 best BlackBerry apps

We've put together the 15 best apps from RIM's app store BlackBerry App World. These apps will help you be more productive and have fun.

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