January 2007
In this issue:January 2007
This issue looks forward to the incoming year and identifies what technologies and IT trends organizations can expect to endure, which ones are emerging, and which ones seem to be losing steam. The issue begins with an introduction about the general trends the industry has been experiencing since the economic recovery started, and then dives into the major components of the survey: technology, architectures, compliance, staffing and labor trends, innovation, and business intelligence. Explore the renewed importance of alignment, and its incarnation in enterprise architecture development efforts, and discuss concerns about labor issues and looming staffing difficulties for IT shops. Take a close look at SOA implementations, and considers the increasing hype regarding innovation -- without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
December 2006
Many people think of outsourcing as a way to cut costs, but after nearly two decades of global outsourcing, we know that outsourcing initiatives don't always yield the expected value. In next month's issue, we'll explore the many factors organizations must address when deciding where best to source IT services.
December 2006
In this issue, we tackle the following question: how are we doing with the acquisition and retention of mainframe skills in the face of the looming mass retirement of baby boomers?
In this issue:- Mass Exodus: Can the Next Generation Maintain the Mainframe?
- Acquiring and Retaining Mainframe Skills: Lessons Learned to Prevent a Crisis
- Mainframe Expertise: Do We Face a Crisis?
- Mainframe Skills Shortage: How to Prepare For and Manage an Impending Crisis
- IT Workforce Development: Mainframe Expertise Survey Data
November 2006
More than ever, companies are responsible for ensuring the privacy of the personally identifiable information (PII) in their care. The fact that PII is often in the hands of personnel using powerful mobile computers and storage devices away from corporate facilities only complicates matters. Not surprisingly, information security and privacy incidents are on the rise, along with growing public awareness of them.
In this issue:- Avoiding Privacy Pitfalls
- Gone but Not Forgotten: Protecting PII on Discarded Equipment
- Best Practices in Data Destruction
- Building and Buying Privacy-Aware Applications
- Protecting Personal Information Through Anonymization
- Make Privacy a Strategic Factor — The Why and the How
- Delivering a Strategic Data Protection and Privacy Plan to the Enterprise