Recent Articles
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Can Real Business Value Be Gained from Sarbanes-Oxley?
Judging from the results of this month’s research (a joint CIO Insight/Gartner EXP survey of CIOs on the status of their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs), most CIOs feel optimistic about their efforts. Their compliance mechanisms will be completed on time, and the necessary financial data will be rationalized—though it will take a lot of work. Becoming…
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Autonomic Network & Security Administration
Autonomic Software’s ANSA system (Autonomic Network & Security Administration) is a compelling product for businesses that want a thorough and easy-to-use software management solution. A tiny ‘agent’ is installed on each computer in your enterprise (regardless of OS platform), and the agent manages updates and patches and scans assets to help IT administrators keep detailed…
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Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org
In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the Microsoft Corp. suite to a license-free alternative. So when eWEEK Corporate Partner Ed Benincasa shared his desire to perform a user-based comparison between the OpenOffice.org project’s OpenOffice.org suite and Microsoft’s…
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Realtors’ Tech Tools Open Doors to Data
For some real estate companies, investing in and implementing the latest tech gadgetry are the icing on a well-rounded, if not very elaborate, cake. But as obvious as some state-of-the-art trappings such as wide-area wireless connectivity, handheld computers and 360-degree virtual online tours may seem, some say such technology is not all it’s cracked up…
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Blackout Highlights Business-Continuity Drivers
An investigative report issued this week by the U.S. and Canadian governments surrounding the worst power failure in U.S. history is shedding light on the importance of business-continuity planning through findings that the electric-system catastrophe could have been prevented. The U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force placed much of the blame for the Aug. 14-15…
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HIPAA Insecurity
If Chris DeVoney hustles, he can stay one step ahead of the hackers he fears are going to steal patient records. But he doesn’t dare rest. He is the computing director at the clinical research center of the University of Washington Medical Center. In the past year, he has patched and installed software firewalls on…
