Author: WTN News

Over the past two days I've been attending sessions at the Security Practitioners Conference, which is run as a component of The Open Group Conference in San Diego. Much of the content yesterday focused on security in the cloud, with bigwigs from Salesforce.com, Amazon Web...

The Wisconsin Legislature will have a lot to think about this year, mainly the worst economy in decades, as it puts together the 2009-11 state budget. One of those things will be the rate of technology transfer from “gown to town,” which was a focus...

John Senne is one of the lucky ones. He got the news that his team at Torex, a global point-of-sale systems provider based in Chicago, was being eliminated in mid-January. Senne, who supported the sales group by building demos of POS systems for potential new...

A new analysis by the New York-based Commonwealth Fund of HIT deployment in seven industrialized countries finds that physicians’ adoption of health IT is highly variable, with the United States lagging well behind the other countries. The study also found that physicians with greater IT capacity...

On January 28th, with absolutely blazing speed and alacrity, particularly by Washington standards, the House of Representatives passed their version of the economic stimulus package, the cornerstone of President Obama's economic policy. The final vote was 244 to 188. Not a single Republican voted for...

In this latest installment from the Life Is Not Fair department, we return to the issue of whether the dogmatic notion of aligning IT with the business was in fact carved on the stone tablets given to Moses. As you wrestle with the pressures of...

Lack of governance is the biggest obstacle to enterprise Open Source implementations. Getting the projects under control is step one. Open source deployments are becoming more pervasive as enterprise IT shops get more comfortable using the software. But open source can present challenges, and organizations would...