More stringent regulations on the retention of email and other types of data will compel companies to revisit their data retention policies and strategies in 2008-as well as focusing on tune-up measures for their disaster recovery and business continuation plans.

While many enterprises invested in and upgraded DR plans in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, many have also stopped there. In spite of this, the Aberdeen Group reported in September 2007 that 80% of best-in-class companies planned to make continuous improvement and investment in data
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Many articles have been written about the information technology employment market, but few have focused on what motivates an IT professional to aim for and stick with an IT career, when there are many other career choices.

This article discusses the important career motivators for IT professionals.  read more »

New "green" initiatives are reinventing the world of buying and leasing technology, primarily because technology that nears the end of its useful life must be disposed with-and there is a burgeoning cost for that.  read more »

 

The impact of services-oriented architecture (SOA) is just beginning to be felt in the batch world-and the challenges are clearly present. Batch legacy applications have been around for years, capably running the business. Now, initiatives like SOA are forcing new integration and interoperability requirements on batch processes that had comfortably been categorized as "untouchable." These processes have to interoperate with online and Web batch applications.  read more »

Year after year, technology and market conditions accelerate and IT finds itself scrambling to stay on top of project loads. Proactive strategizing helps to anticipate rapidly changing technologies and business conditions--but it also helps to determine where trends are likely to accelerate fastest.  read more »

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has made inroads in the retail and supply chain industries, allowing companies to track millions of items at many different levels. It is also seeing rapid uptake in healthcare.
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There is no business out there that is not looking to quickly create or renovate business processes to meet changing market and business conditions. Size does not matter, nor does industry sector. There is virtually no one who doesn't have a problem with inflexible or dysfunctional systems and processes.  read more »

Hurricane Katrina is still a recent memory for most of us-and enterprises have taken stock of lessons learned, applying them to "bullet-proofing" their disaster recovery plans.  read more »

Managing the Risk of Lost Mobile Devices
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Major technology vendors are all over the map when it comes to corporate strategies for Linux and Open Source.
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