IT workloads up as tech added sans staff
As data centers continue to add technology, they aren't necessarily adding people to manage their servers, new surveys have found.
As data centers continue to add technology, they aren't necessarily adding people to manage their servers, new surveys have found.
Today, almost 50 per cent of companies have a centralized vendor management group in place, with 11 per cent planning to introduce one this year. Why are we seeing the growth of this unit within the organization? The main drivers for a business to invest in a VMO are to get more value out of existing suppliers and to lower overall costs through better rate negotiations and demand consolidation. Most often, the VMO is either housed in IT or procurement, depending on the business, and consists of two to ten people who are responsible for overseeing the big picture of vendor management.
We all understand the advantages partnering can bring to business. But, as any CIO who has had to negotiate a partnership-gone-bad knows, adversity is not often a good bedfellow when it comes to keeping partners — and your CEO — happy.
A former Intel executive has admitted passing on company information in the ongoing Wall Street insider-dealing trial involving technology companies.
Waitrose has experienced serious speed and navigational problems on its new £10 million website, leading angry customers to complain on the supermarket's web forum and forcing the chain to <a href="http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/customer_notifications.html">apologise</a> to customers.
CIOs should focus on content creation while sharing non-core infrastructure with other institutions, according to Commonwealth Bank group executive for enterprise services and CIO, Michael Harte.
Windows Intune, Microsoft's Web-based PC management and security platform, is available today for purchase or for a 30-day free trial.
ORLANDO -- Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Tuesday that the proposed <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214822/AT_T_s_takeover_of_T_Mobile_creates_largest_U.S._carrier">$39 billion AT&T takeover</a> of T-Mobile USA would "stifle innovation and put too much power in the hands of just two carriers."
Australia is becoming an increasingly attractive destination for developers and other IT professionals, according to AbsoluteIT's latest Employee Intentions Survey.
The London Stock Exchange has admitted that last year's dismissal of Turquoise chief executive Eli Lederman was unfair.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2010/032510-andreas.html">CSOs</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2008/051208sec2.html">CISOs</a> may feel more pressure from a new breed of security professional - the chief information risk officer - now that the federal government has made risk management mandatory and spelled out in a new document just how risk ought to be assessed and dealt with.
What are the key challenges for your career? As we look across the IT career landscape there are a number of new challenges. The whole IPv6 migration issue has changed some <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030711-career-watch-six-promising-technology.html">job opportunities</a> for example. <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/enterprise1/020711-ecs-main.html">Cloud computing</a> offers to bring more IT jobs and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/101609-cybersecurity-quiz.html">security</a> issues could change everyone’s job at some point. Here we take a look at some of the hot topics trending in the career world.
E.ON, which is in the midst of a major efficiency programme, has said IT outsourcing is playing a major part in the changes.
PALM DESERT, Calif. - Insurance companies are always trying to peer into the future to determine risks. It's an approach that Frank Wander, the CIO and senior vice president of Guardian Life Insurance Co., uses as well in planning his company's IT direction.
The IT industry has been urged to help the sector skills council e-skills UK address the skills shortage in cyber security.