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Microsoft

Prepping for the revised Daylight Saving Time. Are you ready?

We’re down to less than a week to go. Are your systems ready for the revised Daylight Saving Time (DST)? Ours are, we think. But who knows? We are as prepared as can be, but mostly we’re at the mercy of our many vendors to tell us how their applications were written to handle date ...

Data Centers

Of course we’re prepared. Just wait one or two or three more years…

Okay, raise your hand. Who wants to be first? You, in the back. You’ll do. No, you can’t back out now. I don’t care if the person beside you did say you were raising it to win a door prize. Here’s a door prize for you. Now, let’s say your data center gets destroyed in ...

CXO

Outsourcing IT not quite as easy as it sounded

Because IT budgets continue to be squeezed during the annual budget process at many companies, there probably aren’t many IT pros that haven’t given some thought to the possibility of being outsourced. Or worse, you’ve already experienced losing your job due to outsourcing. Whatever the case may be, like it or not, it’s obvious that ...

Enterprise Software

Providing remote access to private healthcare data

We have access to nearly everything on-line – news of any variety, email, blogs (ahem), sports scores (congrats Colts!), music, family photos and our finances. But why is our healthcare data still largely missing in action? It’s not because IT is incapable of making it accessible. It’s more about the skittishness of the healthcare industry ...

CXO

The effects of letting others drive

Do you ever wonder who is driving the bus? Did your company leaders really decide all on their own to be the flag bearer for that particular vendor’s fresh new technology? It seems some IT managers can get as caught up in the hype of a new product as kids can with a new toy. ...

CXO

Is it time to reduce the complexity of our solutions?

There are many information technology trends to observe if you’re in the business long enough. For instance, when I began we spent much of our time replacing thin-clients (aging dumb terminals) with full-blown Windows installations and bloated software clients. The trend was to push more horsepower out to the users and distribute the processing to ...

CXO

Experience vs. degree debate to heat up in the future

The landscape for IT professionals has changed much over the last decade. Most new entrants in the field today arrived by way of college degree in Information Science – ready and eager to get their careers started, but noticeably “green” with inexperience. The seasoned pro may even snicker a bit at just how inexperienced some ...

Security

Security alerts often go unnoticed by IT pros. Why?

In a time when data security is so important, how well does your company monitor who is accessing your data? My guess is not very well at all. Even though corporate compliance laws such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley help keep data protection fresh on the minds of CIOs, there are still many reasons why our ...

Security

Fully disclosing the year 2006

The end of another year demands a certain amount of reflection – both personally as well as professionally. The New Year naturally prompts us to consider what we’ve accomplished during the last twelve months, and dupes us into creating lofty goals for the days and weeks ahead. Maybe we can blame it on bubbly-induced optimism. ...

Security

CRM solutions don’t often include IT details, but they should

Even though IT is integral in implementing any form of full-scale Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, IT departments at opposing companies rarely have anything resembling a synergistic relationship. The reason, of course, is that IT is most often not the customer. We act more as a conduit for business solutions. But by taking a closer ...

PURPOSE These guidelines from TechRepublic Premium will help you define the necessary ingredients of a security policy and assist in its proper construction. They’re designed to work hand in hand with the subjective knowledge you have of your company, environment and employees. Using this information, your business can establish new policies or elaborate on those ...

PURPOSE Recruiting an Artificial Intelligence Architect with the right combination of technical expertise and experience will require a comprehensive screening process. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: DETERMINING FACTORS, DESIRABLE PERSONALITY ...

PURPOSE Hiring the right Autonomous Systems Engineer requires a specific and precise recruitment process, supported by a thorough understanding of the project requirements. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: DETERMINING FACTORS, ...

billelmore

Prepping for the revised Daylight Saving Time. Are you ready?

Of course we’re prepared. Just wait one or two or three more years…

Outsourcing IT not quite as easy as it sounded

Providing remote access to private healthcare data

The effects of letting others drive

Is it time to reduce the complexity of our solutions?

Experience vs. degree debate to heat up in the future

Security alerts often go unnoticed by IT pros. Why?

Fully disclosing the year 2006

CRM solutions don’t often include IT details, but they should

Guidelines for building security policies

Hiring kit: Artificial intelligence architect

Hiring kit: Autonomous systems engineer

Hiring kit: Application support engineer