15 Ways to Screw up an IT Project

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	15 Ways to Screw up an IT Project Project management experts discuss sure-fire ways to delay or derail a project and--more importantly--how you can avoid these common project management pitfalls. Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault Enterprise Storage eGuide Storage professionals today are dealing with the ramification of a number of new technologies. Trends such as cloud, virtualization, mobility and big data are having a significant impact on how enterprises store data today. Learn More In this Issue Outsourcing, adieu: Companies retake the reins on IT services Ballmer's chance of changing Microsoft? Don't bet on it How Rackspace hires admins: Textbook questions vs. break-fix challenges Georgia's CIO Gets IT Outsourcing Deal Back on Track SAP co-CEO Snabe to step down in 2014 Microsoft, Google not doing enough on smartphone thefts, says SF DA WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Eliminating the Challenge of Remote Backup In today's global economy, many companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to backup processes. Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Read Now Outsourcing, adieu: Companies retake the reins on IT services IT departments are rethinking their outsourcing deals, making them shorter and smaller, taking a stronger hand in managing them or bringing them fully back in-house. Read More Ballmer's chance of changing Microsoft? Don't bet on it Microsoft's attempt to transform its dog-eat-dog corporate culture into a kinder, gentler cooperative climate is likely doomed, an expert in failed business strategies said today. Read More How Rackspace hires admins: Textbook questions vs. break-fix challenges Luke Owen liked working at Rackspace, but he really appreciated the camaraderie he had with some of his fellow employees. They had some ideas about creating a business. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now Georgia's CIO Gets IT Outsourcing Deal Back on Track When the Georgia Technology Authority's plan to transform its aging IT infrastructure was failing to deliver, its CIO decided to rework the high-profile IT outsourcing deal it had struck with IBM Global Services and AT&T. The IT team worked with the vendors to get the relationship and the deal back on course. Read More SAP co-CEO Snabe to step down in 2014 SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe will leave his post in May 2014 to become a member of the enterprise software vendor's supervisory board, leaving Bill McDermott as sole CEO. Read More Microsoft, Google not doing enough on smartphone thefts, says SF DA San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón speaks on July 19 about the reaction of Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Google to his call for more to be done about smartphone thefts. Read More
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