To Slash Energy Costs, Get Rid of PC’s

With energy prices soaring and corporate cost-cutting at full tilt, it’s almost impossible to avoid the topic of energy efficiency. Just about every product is trying to convince us how green it is. That’s excellent, but how many of us have actually sat down and done the math to see what our IT operations consume and what they cost us?

Cloud Computing Comes Down To Earth

Businesses are testing cloud computing and, in a few cases, beginning deployment. They’re after increased flexibility, agility, and economies of scale, but IT veterans know such gains won’t be effortless. There’s a steep learning curve with this new computing model.

Recovering Servers in the Cloud Affordable For SMBs

For SMBs who need to keep those servers rolling, Geminare shows that cloud-based server recovery can not only be affordable but also easy, and provide fast failback as well.

When I’ve talked to companies for articles about high availability, business continuity, or disaster recovery, particularly keeping server-oriented applications available, there’s often a Bermuda Triangle of handwaving fuzziness about the fail-over and the fail-back, glossing over the time and IT cost to get that transaction database up and running again, or to restore it when the main site is available again — hours to days to rebuilt a database, for example.

4 Steps to Accelerating EHR Adoption

Payment reform, provider support, better products, and enhanced privacy and security will give adoption of electronic health records a needed boost.

Healthcare is one of the most information-intensive and technologically advanced industries in our society. Yet most physicians and hospitals still use information systems that are largely paper-based.

Tips for Bringing IT and the Business Together

The ‘us and them’ relationship between IT and the business needs to become a thing of the past.

Funny thing about the word “and.” You would think it would function as a connector, a word that implies the togetherness of two entities, like “stars and stripes” or “franks and beans.” Yet the phrase “IT and the business” does not work that way. Rather, it connotes separateness and difference, creating an “us and them” perception that belies the actual embedded condition of IT.
“That phrase drives me up the wall,” says Bill Blausey, CIO of Eaton Corporation. “I correct my team if they use it. We are all tied together too tightly to use terms that create separation.”

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