IT Management

A new Yankee Group study of enterprise cloud computing services finds cloud contracts full of disclaimers, ambiguous uptime guarantees, and uncertain privacy policies and compliance claims.  read more »

Problems once again wracked Oracle's new My Oracle Support portal this week, with some users reporting difficulties accessing the site.  read more »

Chinese data centre managers have a lot on their agenda this year as apparent from the findings of Symantec's 2010 State of the Data Center study.  read more »

The billion-dollar behemoths are top dogs in enterprise software. But they just might be too big to manage the change that's happening all around them.  read more »

Innovation and use of IT is still limited in universities in East Africa, according to a survey commissioned and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.  read more »

Oracle licensing consultant Eliot Arlo Colon still remembers the enormous global publishing company that was "so darn confident" it would breeze through an upcoming software license audit unscathed.  read more »

Google is offering training to IT professionals Thursday and Friday at the G-Mauritius 2009 at the Ebène Cybercity, situated in the heart of this small, independent, developing state off the east coast of Madagascar. The forum is the first of its kind on the African continent and it is expected that Google will hire some employees there as a result.  read more »

One of India's top universities, Amity, is to offer online IT degrees and diplomas to 100,000 students on the African continent over the next five years.  read more »

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Users who shared their social networking implementation stories at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston on Wednesday emphasized that success requires careful consideration of corporate culture and goals, as well as effective technology.  read more »