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What is your pandemic plan? If you don't have one, you better start writing it now. With the number of swine flu cases growing in the United States, companies need to take a hard look at how they can... Read more...

It's no surprise that the global IT market is shrinking, just like the U.S. IT market. A new Forrester Research study predicts that global spending on IT products and services will drop by 3 percent... Read more...

Cisco Systems Inc. launched a multi-pronged effort this week to make its products better suited for handling the ever-increasing amount of video traffic."Video is becoming the dominant traffic on... Read more...

A new Forrester study says there will soon be a proliferation of "technology populism." That means that IT professionals will be rethinking how they currently evaluate, provide and support collective... Read more...

CIOs must get ready for 2008. The seas are shifting, and what was hot in 2007 might be cooling off in 2008. There are plenty of challenges ahead for the New Year, starting with the demand to... Read more...

There are plenty of good things to say about outsourcing and plenty of bad things, too. A new trend is beginning to emerge as some companies are losing faith in the value of sending work overseas.... Read more...

There's a growing demand for archiving software among CIOs who want to protect their systems from incidents involving disaster recovery and business continuity, according to market research firm IDC,... Read more...

Despite recent reports that IT spend is expected to increase, companies are still going to expect some serious cost reductions and improvements in efficiency. As one IT research analyst explains,... Read more...

Tech industry research analysts says that the next generation of IT professionals will be "versatilists," and that IT enterprises will need to attract some young, savvy tech minds in order to stay... Read more...

If you're looking to communicate your IT department's true impact to the business, a good strategy may be a four-prong approach mapped out by a tech research firm. Cutter Consortium says the... Read more...