Tag: IT

  • 6 Habits of Top I.T. Groups: A Consultant’s List

    6 Habits of Top I.T. Groups: A Consultant’s List

    Kim S. Nash

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    Advanced I.T. organizations make “aggressive” use of technologies that support a service-oriented mindset and are devoting more time to implementing industry best practices, according to research from Ovum Summit. The Boston-based consulting firm interviewed 300 technology managers and identified six things that the most effective technology departments do, starting with making sure their I.T. projects… Read more

  • Mary Kay Gets IT Makeover

    Mary Kay Gets IT Makeover

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Mary Kay is in the beauty business, though the company’s IT systems were anything but pretty not long ago. It was time for a makeover. In 2004, Mary Kay’s combination of homegrown and packaged applications, installed over time, no longer cut it. So the company turned to Maryville Technologies, of Kansas City, Mo., to implement… Read more

  • Dear Mr. Gates: Save Vista, Open-Source It

    Dear Mr. Gates: Save Vista, Open-Source It

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver the goods? Let’s look at the facts, shall we? Microsoft claimed that more than 20 million… Read more

  • Indicative Takes On Big 4 in IT Service Management

    Indicative Takes On Big 4 in IT Service Management

    Paula Musich

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    Indicative Software on April 10 continued to nip at the heels of the Big Four enterprise management providers when it launched the latest release of its Indicative performance monitoring and troubleshooting tool for distributed applications and infrastructure. Boasting a 100 percent renewal rate with existing customers and a 75 percent win rate once it reaches… Read more

  • How to Tackle the IT Skill Shortage

    How to Tackle the IT Skill Shortage

    Pedro Pereira

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    Cisco Systems told channel partners the week of April 2 that it would help them tackle one of their most vexing problems—finding skilled IT workers. Among other initiatives, the vendor is considering creating a portal for sharing with partners the resumes of candidates for jobs at Cisco. Meanwhile, a bill was being introduced in the… Read more

  • Citrix to Corporate IT: Application Delivery Is Strategic

    Citrix to Corporate IT: Application Delivery Is Strategic

    Paula Musich

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    Citrix Systems has made a bid to become a top-tier applications infrastructure provider by calling on enterprises to recognize the strategic value of the technologies that speed response times for Web-based or Windows desktop applications. To bolster its message, Citrix on April 9 rallied a handful of applications providers and systems integrators to help educate… Read more