Forum: General IT Management

Hi All, I'm interested in some books that are relevant reading for CIOs. For example, the CIO of the Sierra Club likes John Graham's Outdoor Leadership. He feels it's very appropriate to...

Is the current wave of IT outsourcing leading to low morale at your company's IT department?

I continue to see surveys indicating IT spending will rise in 2004. However, the percentage of that increase continues to drop from an optomistic 8% in Q3 to the latest news from Gartner that IT...

Is it just me or is my in-box filling up with more and more graphic porn related spam?

A legislative bill has been introduced that would bar companies from receiving federal loans and grants if they lay off U.S. workers and hire foreign workers in their place. Is this out of line or...

Anyone out there using Voice over IP yet? We're running a few stories on it this week and it'd be interesting to know what actual users think. I tried it about four years ago and the quality just...

Here's an example of that email that has been sent to a lot of people today whcih was mentioned in the "inbox porn" thread. It appears to be from the administrators of whatever email domain you are...

The U.S. Department of Justice is taking on Oracle and it's attempted takeover of PeopleSoft. I hate to see the government involved in the market, but I don't see this hostile bid doing enterprise...

hello.. this is my ST time here.. I'm an IT student and I'm looking for basic general information about IT and i don't know where to find this information.. can you please guide me and let me know...

Has anyone been hit with MyDoom.F yet? It's supposed to be picking up momentum Wednesday. They say it deletes random Microsoft Word and Excel files, along with photos and movies on the infected...

After reading story about the Blaster worm I am puzzled. If this was really a case of stolen code from a Microsfot supplier, then how can they suspect it will be used for an attack? Whoever...

This <a href="http://www.cioupdate.com/career/article.php/11048_3316341_1">article</a> on CIO Update contains some interesting survey data about CIOs and their staffing plans for the next year. An...

WiKID Systems has developed a unique two-factor (something you know, something you have a la an ATM card) system for network access & LAN password resets. We combine strong, fast asymmetric...

E*Trade just announced the creation of a new position, the chief risk officer, in response to Sarbanes-Oxley and to manage the governance and maintenance of a "risk-intelligent organization"...

There's an editorial in today's New York Times about the growing problem of spyware on computers. It doesn't sound like the author has a lot of confidence in legislative solutions -- and after the...

I can't beileve that Microsoft was issued at patent on XML. It seems like every time you turn around, someone has been issued a patent for technology that is already widely used. Like Tivo getting...