From Information Week: As Hurricane Katrina cuts a wide swath of destructionthrough parts of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, many businesses have been forced to activate emergency backup plans...

There are extremely few CIO bloggers in the blogosphere, so I am very proud to feature a Q&A session with Will Weider, CIO of Affinity Health Systems, who blogs at The Candid CIO. Affinty Health...

Tablet PC in hospitals...Overlake Hospital Medical Center...seems to be a leading(most talked about) example in the use of Tablet PCs (other technology) in hospitals.....in part due to a video by the...

HDI, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, is conducting quarterly Support Center Leadership Forums. HDI's Support Center Leadership Forums provide...

Via Jeff Nolan and Sadagopan ... Jason Stamper at Computer Business Review reports on his exclusive interview with TIBCO's CEO, Vivek Ranadive after TIBCO's announcement of "Time-Based...

Reader Clinton made a good comment on a prior post entitled, "SAP Supports Corporate Governance Software", which addresses a reseller agreement by SAP with Virsa Systems, a Kleiner Perkins...

Charlie Russo, News Writer for SearchCIO.com, recently interviewed me for his article "C-Level Bloggers Follow The Rules". The article includes some thoughts on why there aren't more...

Platform vendor BEA, which has been sort of stuck as of recent (e.g., squeezed by IBM, JBoss, Oracle), has acquired leading portal vendor Plumtree for $200 million. Via SYS-CON Media: Under terms of...

The Healthcare Information Systems Blog has a post that points readers to a rare healthcare provider turnaround success (case is Detroit Medical Center [DMC]) and highlights how problems can be...

Terry Gold (CEO/President Gold Sys) has a very realistic (pretty funny) post on "Organisation's password management". Security experts have long recommended that computer users choose...

Debra Chamra has a good article at Local Tech Wire on outsourcing CIOs. If your organization hasn't thought about this before, perhaps a snip from the article's section entitled,...

Zoli Erdos has a good post that assimilates his own plus additional thoughts from around the blogosphere in the context of product management releases. As an end user, Zoli takes the position that...

First it was about offshoring software development services to India. Next offshoring moved beyond software development, and signs are emerging that business functions such as financial analysis,...

If one does a Google search on "help desk certifications", one turns up close to a half million results, and the number of sponsored links on the sidebar runs so long that a continuation...

Couple of days back we had a post discussing MySQL & thier excellent results, now MySQL has another boost, Novell and Dell are to resell thier Network Product. At the LinuxWorld Conference &...

Finance executives don't know what they don't know it seems. Perhaps CIOs can help out. A recent press release by Accenture reads, "Majority of Finance Organizations Need to Improve...

NewsGator is in 'da houseenterprise. I had a 45-minute demo and chat with Sandy Hamilton, executive vice president of sales and marketing for NewsGator. The focus of the discussion was on...

Information Week carries a new piece titled "Finding the Customer", in which he highlights the benefits/success of Email Survey and other tech tools that are being leveraged by marketing...

HDI, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, is conducting quarterly Support Center Leadership Forums. HDI's Support Center Leadership Forums provide...

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that it has just completed the best quarter (April-June) in the company's ten-year history. Due in large...

Covalent Technologies an enterprise open source solutions provider announced at the 7th Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) that it has made a strategic equity investment in WSO2.WSO2...

The Economist, has an article which deals with the issue of how multi core processors is going to affect "Enterprise Software Licensing". There has been a lot of talk about it in the...

A university, a start-up company and chip maker are pushing a proposal for a standard model to rate open-source software to provide customers with a better sense of the maturity of the more than...

The Indian BPO industry is putting a self-regulatory body to monitor security and data privacy in an attempt to deal with concerns over security and privacy of data being farmed out to outsourcing...

Physical hygiene in hospitals is an area of importance for obvious reasons. What's less obvious is that IT hygiene of medical devices like ultrasound machines is also important. The Health Care...