Mobile employees are demanding to use their personal devices to access company data. But are the security risks and management hassles worth it? A trend that is getting a lot of airplay south of the border and in Europe is ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) – when mobile employees use or demand to use their
readmore..CIO transformation to COO and beyond?
Mon, 24 October 2011By: Chee Sing Chan Polish-born and Australia-bred, Cathay Pacific‘s CIO Tomasz Smaczny has a clear sense of where IT is heading –having written papers on IT’s changing relationship with the business plus over 25 years of experience in retail and finance. He talks to Computerworld Hong Kong on the CIO’s path to transformation and possibly
readmore..Top IT skills wanted for 2012
Tue, 04 October 2011By Toni Bowers Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer. (That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009 survey.) Here are the skills that the IT executives say they will be
readmore..The future of IT will be reduced to three kinds of jobs
Fri, 12 August 2011By Jason Hiner Source Takeaway: The IT professional and the IT job market are in the midst of seismic changes that are going to shift the focus to three types of jobs. There’s a general anxiety that has settled over much of the IT profession in recent years. It’s a stark contrast to the situation
readmore..7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job)
Mon, 18 July 2011Exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which any company is created is protected – scrupulously following these shortcuts should also ensure that you
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