Forrester: To Become More Strategic, IT Needs to Drive Green Projects

The desire to reduce energy consumption represents an opportunity for IT to change their relationships with business leaders, says a Forrester Research analyst, and "position IT as a leader for the business."

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Agile Giants

How big companies are adapting to change

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Microsoft Forecast: Vista is Weak, Office is Strong

Microsoft's earnings report tells the tale of Vista and Office heading in different directions.

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Gen Y Tech Tools May Not Translate to the Real World

Gen Y'ers are used to checking their e-mail, Facebook updates, and texting friends and family whenever they want. But new college grads might be in for a rude awakening when they join the workforce and find that many of the tools they view as essential aren't allowed or banned altogether.

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Spies Recruiting on Facebook, Report Says

Britain's M16 launches series of Facebook ads looking for operational officers.

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OppenheimerFunds Gets Return on Investment from Agile and SOA

OppenheimerFunds learned at least two lessons in its deployment of service-oriented architecture: Let business drive technology instead of the reverse, and switch to Agile development processes early.

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Startup SOA Because It's More Than Integrating Legacy Systems

Many SOA implementations focus on rejuvenating and integrating legacy systems. This has created an impression that SOA is larger companies with years of legacy. In reality, implementing SOA can be a competitive advantage for young companies, especially startups.

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IT Managers Opting for Solid-State Drives Over Hard Disks

They're speedy, can save on electricity and can replace 10 HDDs.

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Business Analysts: A Key to Companies' Success

Companies look to business analysts to facilitate IT-business communication and help determine technology strategies that will drive greater revenue.

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Pentagon Looks to UPS, FedEx, Others for IT Advice

Pentagon gets architecture inspiration from companies for new system.

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Tools for Leading Business Change

As developments such as Web 2.0 change business models, enterprise architecture and IT portfolio management provide strategic tools that CIOs can use to innovate and efficiently execute change. Just remember that these tools are not about IT, but about people, collaboration and culture.

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Enterprises Lack Search Strategies

Employees often can't find the data they need to do their jobs. effectively, a new survey reveals.

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Portfolio Mangement of IT

Using business strategy to manage IT like a portfolio.

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Yahoo Is Out - Who Might Microsoft Look to Acquire?

Consider Microsoft's relative weaknesses -- search, Web advertising and Web 2.0 services -- who could Microsoft target that will provide the same value as Yahoo?

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Microsoft - Yahoo Failed Acquisition: Did Anybody Win?

Microsoft did the smart thing, while Yahoo needs to act fast or face shareholder wrath, analysts say.

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