At a time when most IT companies are reducing employee numbers to cut costs, tech majors such as Wipro, TCS and Infosys are rechanellizing their manpower. Sabbaticals are more common and people on the bench are being asked to undergo longer and more...
Asian firms get help on innovation
SINGAPORE--Accenture has opened a center designed to help clients in the region develop innovative strategies, focused on maximizing opportunities and minimizing risks in the rapidly-changing economic and business environment.
Consulting teams at...
IT security spared from budget cuts
KUALA LUMPUR--Despite the economic headwinds buffeting the Asian region, organizations are not cutting their budgets for information security--at least, for now.
Aran Buckley, Standard Chartered Bank's global head of information security, said the...
User community growing influence on business
Businesses that depend heavily on social networks and user communities will need to deal with data privacy policies more carefully than their peers, experts say.
Facebook, for instance, last month bowed to user complaints and backtracked on its decision...
Microsoft hit with patent suit over update tech
Microsoft is facing another patent infringement suit, this time over the technology it uses to automatically update Windows, Office, and other programs.
In a lawsuit filed March 20, BackWeb Technologies charges that Microsoft's Background Intelligent...
Cybersecurity review is putting emphasis on privacy
As the National Security Council works on its comprehensive review of federal cybersecurity programs for President Obama, it is going to great lengths to consider privacy and civil liberty issues, some Congress members said Thursday.
The House...
Report: Rogue antivirus software pays off for scammers
Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try install rogue antivirus software, according to a report due to be released by security firm Finjan on Monday.
Finjan's Malicious...
Gartner: Outsourcing prices to fall 10 percent
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between 5 percent and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming...
Define Projects Without Pain
Optimal Trace 5.0:
Projects live or die with requirements, but Optimal Trace tosses them a lifeline.
By Peter Varhol
Every successful IT project begins with requirements. You don't embark on building and implementing a new system...
IE 8 Pulled Out of the Fire
Plus, 'Vista Compatible' plaintiffs get hit again, Mimosa takes on SharePoint, and more.
by Doug Barney
I've been getting mail from dozens of IE 8 beta and release candidate users and the reports aren't good. The pre-release software was flakier...
HP India Launches ‘HP Software University’ In partnership With IIHT
In partnership with the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology (IIHT), Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched ‘HP Software University’ (HPSU) on Thursday.The first of its kind program in the non-enterprise training space will concentrate on the increasing...
Lessons in unemployment from the dot com bust
Crossloop co-founder Mrinal Desai shares his story of a long stint he spent being unemployed after the dot com bust earlier this decade, in hopes that it might help a few of the many high-quality technology professionals searching for work right...
Job-related spam on the rise
Riding the coattails of the worsening global economy, spammers are employing various job and finance-related guises in hopes of exploiting users hunting for jobs.
According to Symantec's latest spam report, spammers are sending out e-mail messages...
Analysts: Acer-Gateway move puzzling
Acer's recent push into the business notebook segment in Europe through its Gateway brand, has drawn criticism from analysts based in Asia.
Bryan Ma, director of personal systems research at IDC Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that...
Seven benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure
With the ever increasing prices of upgrading desktop computers, virtualization of the desktop is becoming very appealing.
For IT administrators with a lot to deal with in today’s corporate infrastructure, here are some of the benefits of virtual desktop...
iSCSI storage networks--full separation or not?
Today's tech landscape has a convergence of services ending up on the network. One that can be contentious is storage networks.
Managing storage networks for services like iSCSI is relatively new in network architectures. iSCSI storage systems have...
Easily manage software projects with Lighthouse
Need to get a handle on a software development project? Justin James suggests considering Artifact Software's Lighthouse product.
Artifact Software's Lighthouse is a comprehensive tool that makes it easier to manage software projects.
I recently had...
Survival of the smartest – How to thrive In a slumping economy
Commentary--While our current economic state is one that most businesses have never experienced, the need to evaluate processes and optimize efficiencies is a no longer an option that can be put off to the next planning cycle.
This economy will rebound,...
Microsoft's DNS Patch Flawed, Security Official Says
Patch Tuesdays usually bring a nightly ritual of "coffee, bad jokes and really bad music" for Tyler Reguly, senior security engineer at San Francisco-based nCircle. However, this time, the routine was interrupted by his company's discovery of a major...
Firms to wring business outcomes in outsourcing
SINGAPORE--In an environment of cost-cutting and flat budgets, businesses in Asia are increasingly looking for service providers that can guarantee business outcomes, according to an analyst.
With the downturn, there will be a greater demand for outsourcing...
Filesystem fragmentation--A security threat
By Chad Perrin, Special to ZDNet Asia
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 01:37 PM It may not be immediately apparent, but filesystem fragmentation is more than just a minor annoyance; it can also up the level of risk to your system and data security.
Filesystem...
Running Exchange Server 2007 in a virtual environment
In efforts to virtualize everything from the lowliest application server to the highest-end database server, Exchange servers look like scrumptious candidates. But do watch out for caveats.
With the release of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Windows...
Windows 7 Beefed
Plus, the new OS won't get any virtual tricks, IE 8 is declared the fastest browser, and more.
by Doug Barney
Microsoft tries as much as possible to lock down new product features early in the beta, and then drives to make sure...
Bridging the Business and IT Divide
Leadership is all about people. In the simplest terms, you can’t be a leader without followers. And to inspire and motivate people to follow, you need a clear vision and the ability to articulate it. Moreover, leaders need to be professionally and technically...
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