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Case Study
Avoiding Vendor Lock-in – ITC Shows the Way
Vendor lock-in is a treacherous shackle that restrains most enterprises’ IT systems, thereby restricting business growth. Read on to know how the ITC Hotel Group found a way to break this shackle.
Feature
IT Career Tips to Avoid the Job Hopper Label
Is being considered a job hopper the kiss of death for job seekers or is it the new norm? It all depends on the underlying reasons and how it's presented.
13 Tips for Keeping IT Projects Under Control
How do you keep IT projects under control? Project managers and project management experts share their top tips for keeping IT projects on schedule.
IT Workers to Management: NOW Can We Telecommute?
IT helps others to work remotely but rarely gets to join in. Is that fair?
How-To
Free Amazon Web Services -and How to Make the Most of Them
If you avoid some gotchas and keep a close eye on resource usage, you can have a handy server in the Amazon cloud for free.
Wanted: IT Staffers with Vertical Industry Chops
Fast-changing business processes and ever-mounting government and industry regulations are complicating day-to-day operations -- and making deep vertical industry expertise a must-have.
How to Avoid the 7 Outsourcing Nightmares
Like any other major business and technology initiatives, outsourcing comes with risks, regardless of how experienced the outsourcing provider is or how good the move looked initially.
Interview
We Have Huge Expectations from Our Converged Infrastructure Solutions: Stephen Miles
Stephen Miles, VP, Service Assurance, APAC, CA Technologies, talks about the company’s role as an innovator in the converged infrastructure space, and how it expects to make it big with this portfolio.
CIOs Who Try to Maintain Walls Shall Perish: Adriana Karaboutis
Adriana Karaboutis, Global CIO at Dell, speaks about being a part of business transformation and the internal IT team’s role in helping make this happen in rapid time.
Changing a Vendor is the Easiest Way Out: Kapil Pal
Kapil Pal, Head-IT, Pepsico India, speaks about the changes CIOs must look forward to in order to adapt to current trends in the Indian outsourcing industry.
Video
IT is Becoming More about Services, and not Technology - David McNally
During his keynote session at the CIO Summit, David McNally, IT executive advisor, IDC USA, helped CIOs peer into the future of technology empowered to take on such an all-encompassing role.
News
Capgemini Partnership to Support NetSuite Enterprise Push
NetSuite has partnered with systems integrator giant Capgemini to help the cloud software vendor gain more business with enterprise level customers.
Outsourcing Could Solve Your Growth and Hiring Dilemmas
The Southeast Asia region will see a hiring spree in 2013, with more than 90 percent of employers in Singapore alone stating that they are definitely hiring or at least looking to maintain their current headcount.
Salesforce.com to Buy Clipboard, Shutting Down Service
The Clipboard service and its apps and extensions will be discontinued on June 30. Until then, existing users of Clipboard will be able to export their clips for offline use.
Opinion
5 Lessons for IT from the Boston Marathon Bombings
The CIO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center learned a few things last week
The Secret Sauce of Shared Services
Despite shared services’ proven track record, multitudes of Indian CIOs haven't really gotten their feet wet yet. Here’s why—and how—they should.
The Amazon Outage in Perspective: Failure Is Inevitable, So Manage Risk
Many people are outraged by this, feeling that a service provider should take responsibility for ensuring 100% (or at least "five nines") of service availability. Amazon's attitude, they imply, is irresponsible.
Slide-Show
Truth in IT Job Postings: What Those Want Ads Really Mean
Make no mistake about it: There's a massive difference between what employers say and what they actually mean
Nine Most Endangered Species in the IT Workforce
Darwinism is no stranger to IT. Given the pace of innovation, today's plum post is almost always one shift away from becoming tomorrow's pink slip.
Industry 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid at all Costs
These supposed industry best practices are sure to sink your chances of IT success.
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