MAY 2010 ISSUE

 

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Computerworld / May 2010

NEWS DIGEST
4 Expert Sees RP Leading in Mobile Commerce | SAP Sees Success in Pay-Per-User Scheme

5 Security Monitoring Slowly Going Intelligent, Digital | Intel Ports Nehalem to Next-gen Xeon Processors

6 Davao Named Top Next-Wave City for 2010

OPINION
8 Managing Technology The Philippines as No. 1 by Michael Alan Hamlin
10 RealIT: The Inside Track Defining Moment by Ivan Uy
56 Executive Briefing Getting the Right Balance of Application Outsourcing Providers to Succeed by George Son Keng Po

STRATEGIES & TACTICS
12 The Mobility Effect. The renewed preference for mobile devices is ushering in a new era of computing and employee productivity—but how are modern-day CIOs and IT managers coping
with the fast-paced use and development of mobile devices in the enterprise?

16 10 Mobile & Wireless Technologies That Should Be on Your Radar

SPECIAL REPORT 

20 2010 Polls: The Promise of Automation. Critics say there will be a 100% failure of elections, but the Comelec thinks otherwise, promising a speedy and accurate count.

CIO ROUNDTABLE
22 Crossing the Skills Gap. For this issue’s CIO Roundtable, we invited four IT executives to thresh out the issues they face in getting the right people with the right skills and, more importantly, keeping them.

CHANNELS
28 Forging Strong Partnerships. A robust partner network and innovative technological offerings have been the keys to success for security appliance vendor Cyberoam.

SECURITY

32 Tips for Crafting a Great Workplace IT Security Awareness Program. Transparency is the best tool to promote information security, says an expert.

33 Endpoint Security Gets Complicated. Users say protecting network endpoints is becoming more difficult as the type of endpoint devices — desktops, laptops, smartphones — grows, making security a complex moving target.

GREEN IT
36 CIOs Urged to Sustain Business Growth via Green IT. There is no escaping green IT, as consumers, regulators and investors all want businesses to adopt greener practices throughout their operations.

37 Green IT’s Next Steps. New software and hardware will help tame the energy beast.

WIRELESS
40 The iPad and Accessories. What You Need to Know.

EXECUTIVE BRIEFING
44 Leveling the Playing Field. For e-Commerce retailer Island Rose, technology has become their main partner for growth.

45 Focusing on Core Competencies. In the dog-eat-dog world of business, staying on top of the heap means leveraging every tool and strategy possible in order to gain a competitive advantage.

OUTSOURCING
46 Cloud Computing Shakes Up Traditional IT Outsourcing. The cloud is turning the traditional IT services industry on its head.

REVIEW CENTER
48 Storage to Go. Shiny and compact in a sleek aluminium enclosure, the Iomega eGo is slightly bigger than an iPhone and weighs less than 200 grams.

POWER TOOLS
50 Apple iPad. The device runs on Apple’s A4 chip and can play back 720p high-definition
video.

51 Western Digital AV Portable Media Drive. The new My Passport AV portable media drives, offered at 320GB capacity, is the perfect choice for a home theater media system.

52 Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z. Lenovo begins its journey into the all-in-one computer fray with the release of its ThinkCentre A70z, a “compelling alternative” to the traditional PCs, and costs only a meager P40,000.

CAREER WATCH
54 I Was A CIO: Do COOs make CIOs redundant? According to the largest global survey of CIOs, the role of today’s CIO continues to profoundly evolve.

55 Tech Motivator. Motivation has a deeper meaning for Carlo Cagalingan, an IT executive who claims to have discovered its art of efficiency, especially among IT professionals.

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