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Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

jvijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan) — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

There's a dramatic transformation going on in business intelligence practices at many companies, prompted by growing interest in analyzing large, diverse data sets and better tools for completing such tasks.

Unified communications still fragmented

(Bob Violino) — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

The technology may get a big push from mobile adoption, but integration among multiple UC components is still a tough slog.

Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?

(Lamont Wood) — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Printers are evolving from passive devices as vendors cram more features into them and buyers find ways to better integrate them into the overall environment.

The upside of shadow IT

julia_king@computerworld.com (Julia King) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

As employees bypass IT and regularly subscribe to collaboration, analytic and other cloud services with the press of a button, some of the savviest CIOs are embracing and even encouraging shadow IT. Here's why.

AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million

(James Niccolai) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

AOL decommissioned nearly 10,000 servers and saved itself $5 million along the way to winning an Uptime Institute contest designed to show the high cost of running inefficient or underutilized IT equipment.

What IT managers say to get the CIO's OK

pthibodeau@computerworld.com (Patrick Thibodeau) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:30:00 GMT

When data center and facility managers meet with the CIO about new equipment, the conversations are rarely easy. The equipment they seek is often expensive, in the six- or seven-figure range, and justifying the expense can be challenging.

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