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Is Your Business at Risk?: 10 Things Every CFO Should Know About IT Security

The irony in today's business world is that the same technology that has advanced communication, productivity, and efficiency has also made companies vulnerable to a host of threats that can cripple day-to-day operations. For this reason, executives need a basic understanding of IT security so they can assess their vulnerabilities...

Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, CenterBeam, Security

White papers 2008-06-01

IT doesn't really matter--or does it?

IT doesn't really matter--or does it?Amen, brother!While you are at it, try and run your F500 without the IT staff. Better yet, take a look at the model set in motion by the monkey-assed MBAs where business decisions are based on quarterly earnings. Never mind that if we...

Tags: Strategy, Outsourcing, American Business, information technology, CenterBeam

Discussion threads 2003-10-29

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SAP internalizes social networking for business

SAP doesnt yet offer Web 2.0-style social networking capabilities in its solutions that tap into the wisdom of employees, partners and customers, but it has an internal service, called Harmony. Dennis Moore, general manager of emerging systems, called it a "MySpace for the enterprise," speaking at SAP Sapphire in...

Tags: General, Social networking, SAP, MySpace, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Others concur: SMBs should be outsourcing (and good vendors mention the alternative)

Others concur: SMBs should be outsourcing and good vendors mention the alternativeOutsourcing will also spread to large corporations whose primary businesshas nothing to to with computers. In a matter of time there will be no good reason to have email servers, web servers, database servers, workgroup file servers,...

Tags: small and medium business, outsourcing, Eng, Manf, outsource, e-mail, server

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

Others concur: SMBs should be outsourcing (and good vendors mention the alternative)

There's been quite a lot of feedback to my blog post the other day regarding how small/medium buisnesses should really be thinking about outsourcing all of their IT or as much of it as possible. Most of the feedback seems to concur that it really makes...

Tags: information technology, small and medium business

Blog posts 2006-09-22

What's the true cost of running email in-house?

What's the true cost of running email in-house?The Hidden Yet Explosive CostIve seen users store mail locally on their laptops even when the mail services are externally handled.The Hidden Yet Explosive CostThere's another hidden, potentially explosive cost: smaller businesses without full-time IT staff, backrelease unsupported Exchange or none, who end...

Tags: e-mail, outsource, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2006-02-17

Yes. You should outsource your e-mail

Yes. You should outsource your e-mailno advantage by outsourcing email1) the bandwidth is already there in the form of internet access.2) All email takes is running Exchange servers. They are pretty low maintenance.3) Outsourcing requires the business to pay a monthly fee. Keeping it inhouse is far more cost...

Tags: Email content, Email server, e-mail, outsource, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2006-02-15

Yes. You should outsource your e-mail

In response to yesterday's post about how Google may soon let you host your email systems under your domain names on its servers powered by GMail, ZDNet reader JM James thinks I was off my rocker when I wrote:In fact, I'm willing to bet that better than 90 percent of...

Tags: e-mail, outsource

Blog posts 2006-02-15