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EA and IT Governance: a Systemic Approach

2009-11-09T12:15:49Z

... Enterprise Architecture (EA) is much debated. IT Governance is generally viewed as an integral part of corporate governance and EA considered as a collection of artifacts to be governed within ITG, but there are also views that IT Governance is a ...

Leveraging the Power of Change Auditing - InformationWeek

2009-11-05T15:44:35Z

Leveraging the Power of Change Auditing
InformationWeek
With the reliance on technology to conduct business, interact with customers, and meet auditing requirements, “store doors” need to remain open at all times ...
Public Sector Security: Leveraging Enterprise Infrastructure IntegrityInformationWeek

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The Real Time Infrastructure Ultimatum

2009-11-06T18:15:00Z

As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with the help of Google, Amazon and a host of other cloud (and not so cloud) players.

Secure Enterprise Clouds

2009-11-07T22:30:00Z

There is so much waste in the data centers of Fortune 1000 companies today that a CIO – as an officer of the company – could be considered in breach of their fiduciary duty to stockholders given the dollars in question. Of course that requires costs transparency, so sadly most are safe for now. It seems that every new technology innovation brings the promise of greater efficiencies and cost savings but in reality tends to leave a mess of ‘legacy’ infrastructure on the floor that results in a net higher TCO than the CIO had in the first place. So what does this have to do with Cloud Computing? While there is no shortage of companies trying to ply their wares as the ideal enabler for Cloud, I am surprised by the lack of attention from vendors that have the most to gain – the Cloud providers themselves. If I put on my CIO shoes here are the things I care about:

Firefox flaws account for 44% of all browser bugs

2009-11-09T21:13:00Z

Firefox accounted for almost half of all browser vulnerabilities in the first six months of 2009, a Web security company claimed today.

The True Costs of Virtual Server Solutions - TechRepublic

2009-11-09T12:08:17Z

The True Costs of Virtual Server Solutions
TechRepublic
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How to Compare Patch Management Software

2009-11-09T05:00:00Z

Patch management software helps organizations acquire, test and install code to fix known vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications. It also helps them assess exposure and prioritize patches (given your specific environment), identify missing patches that need to be remediated and produce real-time reports for compliance and other auditing needs.

SOA Security Solutions: Four Patterns to Grow On

2009-11-04T22:25:00Z

How can you combine diverse products into an SOA security solution for today's needs as well as leave a path for tomorrow's demands? Forrester's Randy Heffner shares four broad solution patterns.

How Data Validation Will Make Your Life Easier

2009-10-30T14:00:24Z

As a clinician, you want to know if data being entered into the system is accurate, clean, correct and useful. Data validation often called “validation rules” or “check routines” are built into systems such as EHR systems. These rules check for correctness, meaningfulness, and security of data. For example, the system would automatically disallow or question a user trying to enter eligibility results into the patient’s address field. Validation rules may be automated because the software company uses a data dictionary, or data may be checked by an explicit application program validation logic. To participate in quality reporting, such as meaningful use, PQRI or ePrescribing reimbursement incentive programs, you want to know if the data extracted from the system will be accurate and relevant.

HIPAA’s Security Rule is as much about good business practices as it is about securing confidential patient information. Data integrity, one of the pillars of HIPAA’s Security Rule, contains overarching security themes that pose layered questions, such as, how does the system’s functionality allow you to know who has been in the system, what did the user do with the content after he or she accessed it, or did the system block a potential intruder who did not use the correct user ID and password?

When evaluating an EHR system, you want to ask how data validation functionalities work. So during the EHR due diligence, I would ask, “How does your EHR software enable the practitioner to generate quality measurement reports, (suggest you hold up the Meaningful Use Matrix), and how do we validate the data going into the system is accurate and placed in the correct fields?” As an EHR project manager, I request a data validation report on the third and fifth day of Go-Live week so that we can quickly catch and retrain data entry errors.

Using Virtualisation To Consolidate Existing IT Resources

2009-11-05T18:34:37Z

Server virtualisation is held up by most vendors as a paragon of virtue when it comes to cutting costs and simplifying an organisation's IT resources.

Information Management Platforms: The Next Generation – Cloud Plays a Part

2009-10-29T19:45:00Z

Describing today’s enterprise IT environment as “complex” would be a gross understatement all things considered. The intricate model needed to support day-to-day business operations boggles the mind, with much of the complexity attributed to evolving applications, and the way people use data.

The API Is the New CLI

2009-11-04T11:18:00Z

Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever purpose a developer might dream up. It enables providers and enterprises alike to turn infrastructure functionality into services. Need compression? Caching? Routing? Load balancing? Via service-enabled management APIs these can become services, provisioned and released through the invocation of a service. When expanded to include the sharing of actionable data – performance statistics, status, availability of application services (context!) – this integration becomes the mechanism through which a dynamic infrastructure is created. One that reacts to events and conditions in the network, storage, application network, and application infrastructure in real-time.

How to pick a server virtualization vendor

2009-10-26T23:47:56Z

Buying server virtualisation software is not easy, thanks to vendors' lock-in tactics, not-so "optional" extras and technology shifts. In this story, we help you to understand these factors to make the best choice for your organisation.

Adopting agile development methodology is a stretch, but the exercise pays off

2009-10-28T22:42:17Z

Organizations including British Airways have learned that agile software development methodologies really do speed up software projects, at the expense of some pain as you stretch out to achieve agility.

Six mistakes that make SOA implementations fail

2009-10-29T23:32:27Z

Learn the six top risk factors that can derail an SOA project.

Server virtualisation: Why CIOs should start small but think big

2009-10-27T15:19:01Z

It might not currently be as widespread as industry hype might have it - but server virtualisation is poised to grow rapidly as smaller businesses catch on to the benefits.

Server virtualisation allows multiple instances of an operating system to run simultaneously within one physical server, cutting the amount of hardware organisations have to buy and manage. And because fewer physical servers are required, virtualisation also helps to cut energy costs: no small thing for CIOs and CFOs after a recent study found that, thanks to rocketing energy prices, it now costs more to power some servers than to buy them in the first place.

Virtualisation: How to get real benefits from your virtual investment

2009-10-19T15:01:01Z

The mighty twin combination of cost-cutting (driven by the recession) and a desire to reduce IT power consumption (to tackle climate change) means virtualisation has become one of the hottest topics for the IT community, with a whole raft of associated terms such as bare metal hypervisors, virtual machines, and utilisation rates becoming standard parts of the vocabulary of the average CIO.

Virtualisation, is essentially about cutting the connection between the operating system and the underlying hardware it operates on.

Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs

2009-10-23T11:22:01Z

Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury.

Because it lacks the expensive licensing that is often the hallmark of proprietary software, open source is regularly touted as a way for IT departments to make their budget stretch a little bit further and it has already enjoyed considerable success in certain areas of the enterprise, such as web servers.

Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software

2009-10-28T15:05:01Z

It's a question many CIOs are wrestling with: can open source help make your IT budget stretch a little further in these tough economic times?

While some CIOs are enthusiastic about the potential savings that can be made, others still warn of the hidden costs that can lie in wait for the unwary.

Cloud computing: Winners and losers - GCN.com

2009-10-27T15:07:25Z

Cloud computing: Winners and losers
GCN.com
'We will also need auditors who can learn that it's no longer about auditing a server, but a service,” he added. Soderstrom echoed concerns that a key ...

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