IT Operations

IT Budget Tips: Relief Strategies to Beat the Budget Crunch

A solid IT risk and compliance program will lower costs, reduce risk and permit consistent compliance. With better security, lower audit burden, improved leverage of IT resources, faster decision-making and business process optimization, companies ca

A CIO Needs to Know How to Find SOA or Find the Door

There's more to best practices than architecture. Perhaps the best practice in SOA is for the CIO to get involved and be a leader in making the business case for adoption of SOA?

Compliance Spending May Be Unpopular, But Offers Benefits Besides Security

Spending now could not only result in better security and compliance, but ultimately higher profits, lower expenses, and improved customer satisfaction and retention. That would paste a smile on the face of the most frugal of CFOs!

Apple Lawsuit Could Decide Whether Network Engineers Are Eligible for Overtime Pay

This high-profile and potentially precedent-setting case is likely to be settled out of court, says a legal expert.

An Earthshaking Use of Open Source

A German scientific institute migrated to Linux and open-source software to monitor global seismic activity data for compliance with the nuclear test ban treaty.

Regulations Are Just a Security Distraction

SEC XBRL Mandate: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You

Large companies must comply with the new XBRL mandate for year-end financial reports beginning this year. Don't know what it is? The Extensible Business Reporting Language reduces internal manual processes for operations, management and financi

The Accountability Trap

Accountability without authority is a recipe for failure. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen to you.

Four Reasons Why Open Source and the Internet Must Play a Role in Medicine

CIO John Halamka explained lessons that hospitals and healthcare can learn from open source initiatives, including why online medical records can ensure a better healthcare community.

The IT Infrastructure Library Can Serve Small Companies: Here’s How

ITIL isn't just for large organizations anymore. Smaller companies can implement the IT Infrastructure Library set of best practices and processes and get value from their information systems. IT leaders share their adoption experiences.