Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Outside of the West, IT spending will be in single digits; not nearly as anemic as in the US, UK, and Europe. The continued erosion of the global economy, including the prospect of negative GDP growth in many major countries, has led IDC to update its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2009. The IDC…
Today many organizations are considering whether to keep IT functions internal or outsource them to a third party. There a number of factors that need to be considered when choosing a service provider. (Or, if you already have one, you can still evaluate their role in your organization using these guidelines.) First and foremost this…
The final entry to CA’s series on project management best practices is an overview of the control objectives for information and related technology (COBIT) methodology. Where both PMBOK and PRINCE2 are more project intensive, COBIT takes a top-down approach for managers and auditors to ensure governance over key issues such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The newest…
BANGALORE (Reuters) – Repair work has started on one of three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle East and Asia, a cable operator said, and a repair ship was expected to reach a second cable on Tuesday. Undersea cable connections were disrupted off Egypt’s northern coast last week when segments…