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Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps, Data

The move deepens the partnership between Google and Salesforce.com and fuels more speculation about a future acquisition, analysts say.

How to Create a Project Management Office and Select Project Management Software

Phil Bertolini, the CIO of Oakland County, Mich., says having clear reasons for establishing a project management office will help IT leaders obtain executive sponsorship and buy-in from resistant IT staffers and business partners.

Veeam Connects Virtual and Physical Management Tools

Virtualization management tool vendor Veeam acquires nworks; new software connects VMware management tools with HP OpenView and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

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.

Embotics Aims to Make Managing Mobs of VMs Easier

Virtualization tools vendor Embotics today launches version two of its V-Commander product, which automates lifecycle management of virtual machines.

Hyper9 Virtualization Management Tool Debuts

New Hyper9 search-based management software discovers and manages virtual machines and their physical hosts; free download designed to complement to VMware Virtual Center tools available in September.

IT Leaders Encouraged to Contribute Enterprise Code to Open-Source Projects

Linux luminaries explain how companies can benefit…including reducing the costs of further development and support…by releasing their in-house customizations to the open-source community.

Can Big Companies Innovate?

SMB Installs Show Virtual Servers Have Come of Age

When even relatively small businesses see the benefitu2014and can handle the cost and complexityu2014of virtualization, you know it's a technology that's here to stay.

Volunteer Opportunity for IT Professionals

What Your Team Can Learn About Innovation from The Simpsons

Creating the longest-running primetime animated TV series — in which it takes nine months to produce an episode — is more like IT management than you might think.

Does playing golf actually help your career?

According to our survey results, playing golf with business peers and corporate partners isn't as critical a career-enhancing and networking activity that everyone once thought it was — especially for those in IT.

Make Your Leadership Messages Memorable

To be heard, leadership messages must reflect your organization's vision, mission and values to your audience — and not your ego.

Firefox 3 Add-Ons: Five Must-Have Social Networking and Business-Friendly Tools

These five add-ons make your browser more social and improve the user interface, while making you more productive. n

Endpoint Security Holes an Open Door for Attackers

A free online scanner reveals that most corporate endpoints fail even basic security tests, according to a Sophos report.

Virtualization 2.0: Whoever’s Most Agile for the Business Wins

Virtualization capacity planning should not be a one-time project. It should be an ongoing discipline for IT leaders who want to increase IT agility for the business. And agility is what gets virtualization masters truly excited.

RideCharge: Reserve Taxis, Pay Fares Sans Cash Via BlackBerry

Week 36: Evaluating “Who Am I?” in Your Job Search – Part 3 of 3

Open-Source SOA Proves Valuable to Business Processes

A presenter from JBoss at the Red Hat Summit itemized the stages of service-oriented architecture, showed how businesses are benefiting today from the company's SOA platform and offered SOA predictions for two years in the future.

Building Open Source Acceptance

The evolution of globalization, security and the green movement propel the need for open source forward, but first a community mindset needs to take shape.

Why Virtualization Will Squeeze Into Every IT Corner

Virtualization will change a lot of the IT decisions you make, by eliminating the PITA factor.

CIOs Promoted to CEO and COO at Pegasus Solutions and Vital Signs

Apple iPhone 3G This, RIM BlackBerry Bold That: How Important is 3G REALLY?

Virtualization and Linux: Red Hat Unveils New Vision

Red Hat announced a trio of virtualization initiatives today and staked out its own turf in the virtualization battle. Here's a look at what these technologies mean to you, starting with the new Embedded Linux hypervisor.

Study: Companies Need Better Enterprise Search

While vendors such as Google and Microsoft have offered companies search appliances, a new study contends that IT organizations have not utilized them. Instead, employees have been forced to use different search engines spread out across disparate ap

Virtualization Security Assessment Guides Inadequate, Tools Lacking

There are almost no tools and only three inadequate how-to guides to assess the security of your virtual infrastructure.

How to Hire Great IT Staff: the Spiegel Brands Interview Process

Hiring managers need to know how to interview people–and know how to do it well–to find the best people for job openings, says Elvis Cernjul, a rising IT leader at Spiegel Brands. He explains why he gets other employees involved in the process and

Master Data Management: Forgiveness for All Past Data-Management Sins?

New Aberdeen research shows why many enterprises are signing on for current vendor-driven MDM initiatives: IT leaders want to correct the data transgressions they've made in the past.

Enterprise 2.0: Three Thoughts on the State of Social Software in Business

While more case studies of companies utilizing social software tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks were unveiled by IT practitioners and business leaders at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, many companies are still introducing themselves to

Mobile Payments: 71 Percent of Consumers Say “No Way” to Online Shopping, Banking via Mobile Devices

Less than ten percent of respondents to a Unisys survey say they've used a mobile device for online banking or commerce. One big problem: Smartphone users donu0019t trust telecomm companies.

VMware and Rivals Focus on Application Performance Management

VMware, Vizioncore, and other vendors and standards groups are quickly adding application performance management (APM) capability into their software and benchmarks as users are increasingly concerned about the availability of resources for applicat

IT Leaders Can’t Get No Job Satisfaction

A job satisfaction survey finds that of all functional executives, IT leaders are least content with their jobs, according to ExecuNet. Read on to find out why.

Virtualization Staffing: Plan Now to Prevent Disaster

You may not need as many virtualization experts on your IT team as you'd think. But you will need a wide range of IT staffers who know virtualization basics, or else your project could be riddled with dumb mistakes.

Digital Natives in Our Midst

Why Microsoft Should Bring Facebook-like Look to SharePoint

Has Anyone Received the $1 Million ‘Report Software Piracy Now’ Reward from the Business Software Alliance?

In a word, no. But that doesn't mean the BSA wouldn't pay it, if the right qualifications were met, says a spokesman. Here's what you need to know about the BSA.

Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft’s LINQ

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid complexity!

Microsoft SharePoint: Project Management Answer for a Multi-Million Dollar Construction Effort

How do you manage the reams of paper and complicated project management timeline related to a $170 million building expansion? For the Van Andel Institute and their consultants, Microsoft SharePoint proved the answer to staying on time and on budget

Closing the Governance Gap With Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

Having problems allocating project resources? PPM measures available resources, such as time and money, against all the proposed projects and applies a consistent methodology to align them with the goals of the business.

RIM BlackBerry Tips and Tricks: More Keyboard Shortcuts for Power Users

Always looking for new ways to do more with your RIM BlackBerry? Learn the following tips and tricks, including two from the co-CEO of RIM himself, and take your smartphone prowess to a whole new level.

The Hiring Manager Interviews: Alan Etterman Shares His Sensible Hiring Practices

The CAO of JDS Uniphase doesn't aim to get the perfect hire every time, and neither should you. In this Q&A, Alan Etterman explains why.

Bill Gates: 10 Unforgettable Moments

A PC industry without Bill Gates is almost unthinkable. And yet it's almost upon us. Here are some fond memories.

Backing Up VMware: Don’t Use the Obvious Solution

Backup and recovery isn't tough; the best option just isn't the one you think of first. Or second.

True Enterprise Architecture

People 2.0 (formerly known as Web 2.0)

Early Adopters’ Secrets For Success With New Tech

CIOs from Virgin America, Vail Resorts, Genentech and The Dannon Company, all early adopters of new technologies, share their secrets for choosing which emerging tech is right for their companies and rolling it out successfully.n

How Ogilvy & Mather’s CTO Finds Great IT Talent

IT job seekers must discuss their past actions to show their knowledge, the impact they have made for their organizations and what they have learned from the experience, says Ogilvy & Mather CTO Yuri Aguiar.

Unified Communications with ROI in Mind

Unified communications (UC) is more than just technology; it represents an entirely new way of company communication and collaboration.

Economic Pressure Makes Retailers Look to Off-the-Shelf Software to Speed Application Delivery

Retailers love to think that their ways of doing business are unique. But a Retail Systems Research report notes that all retailers — from Wal-Mart to midsize players — see packaged and SaaS applications as viable alternatives to in-house developme

Confidential Data: You’re Giving Away Your Corporate Secrets!

In the hands of a skilled attacker, even the most innocuous piece of data can be used to attack the system and gain access to the crown jewels.