Author: David

April 12, 2011 Off

The Role of the CIO in an IT Factory

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author:  Michael Vizard.

Many chief information officers are really CIOs in name only. Far too many of them spend most of their time managing infrastructure rather than actual business information. In effect, the CIO is really the chief "infrastructure" officer.

April 12, 2011 Off

In Search of a More App-friendly Cloud

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

When you get right down to it, the cloud isn’t about speed or flexibility or scalability or any of those infrastructure functions that IT worries about. It’s about applications.

April 12, 2011 Off

Security ‘is not the only concern when conducting email marketing’

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: James Glass.

Firms in New Zealand that rely on email marketing strategies are among those to have been warned of some of the factors they must address when operating such a system.

Russell Parsons, writing for Marketing Week, explained security is the obvious item on the agenda, but there can be several others.

He noted there are numerous benefits to email marketing, such as reliability, a low carbon footprint and the ability to target the right audience.

April 12, 2011 Off

Cost is no longer main driver for cloud adoption

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author:  Anh Nguyen.

Just 16 percent of UK firms consider cost to be the main driver for initial cloud adoption, a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has found.

The majority of respondents (53 percent) said that the flexibility that cloud services enable in a business is now more likely to encourage them to start using cloud computing. This was particularly true for businesses with fewer than 20 employees.