MIS.tech: research
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Jeremy Green and Michele Mackenzie, Ouvm
With Google starting to make its own moves, the operator-centric model for mobile location services may be past its use-by date
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Rob Mackinnon, IBRS
Organisations tend to resist change with well-developed immune systems.
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Guy Cranswick, IBRS
Despite Google's inability to supply a basic TCO model for its Apps suite of products, it is stil...
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Warren Wilson, Ovum
No business or business model is recession-proof, but Salesforce.com is making a pretty good case for itself and software as a service (SaaS)
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Alan Hansell, IBRS
A line new manager needs to be aware that the strategies adopted in the IT professional role are unlikely to guarantee success in the new role
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David Mitchell , Ovum
Many IT firms have announced job cuts over the past few months
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Rob McKinnon, IBRS
Economic downturns alter organisational dynamics and can herald changes in the executive power hierarchy
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Charlie Davies, Ovum
Some major issues are dominating the next-generation network (NGN) agenda in France, including which technical solutions and access models to adopt for opening up households to fibre.
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James Turner, IBRS
Inside attackers frequently have a pre-existing grudge which is work-related, so IT management attention must be given now to dealing with the "soft side" of their staff and contractors.
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Guy Cranswick, IBRS
Telstra's last minute bid shows it has bowed to commercial pressure to take part in the NBN.
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David Kennedy, Ovum
Telstra management has said for years that they regard companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft as their real long-term competition.
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Guy Cranswick, IBRS
The problem for some technologies, as they try to defend their purpose and role in a downturn, is their weak business case and lack of track record
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James Turner, IBRS
Despite the growing body of information available on data breaches, many executives remain unjustifiably overconfident in their organisations' security capabilities.
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John Madden, Ovum
It will take six to nine months for the first real signs of progress from the integration of HP and EDS to emerge.
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Dr Kevin McIsaac, IBRS
Resolving these desktop concerns requires much more than simply migrating the existing desktop images to the data centre and running them in a virtualised environment.
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Madan Sheina, Ovum
Can companies really emulate some of the key features of cloud computing in-house?
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John Madden and David Mitchell, Ovum
EDS is now an HP company; HP announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $US13.9 billion acquisition of the Plano, Texas-based outsourcer
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Reuben Tan
The thin client market for the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region continues to grow significantly, pointing to a solid future for this form of 'lean and mean' computing for large enterprises.
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Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum
The cooler financial winds now blowing through the world's credit markets will cut to the bone, and buyers of IT outsourcing services will need to choose partners with the fat to withstand the coming winter
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Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum
Google App Engine, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Apple's MobileMe service have all experienced some high-profile service outages in the past few months
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