• IT industry may be damaged by vendor buyout trend

  IT managers have been warned to closely assess their vendor relationships as a wave of buy outs and acquisitions sweep the globe, leaving the market dominated by a few key players.

  By Lisa Banks | 29 September, 2010 12:22

  Tags: Amit Midha, Bill Barney, Bill Teuber, CIO role, consolidating IT and shared services, dell, EMC, forbes, forbes CEO global conference 2010, Intel, mcafee, ovum, vendor management

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  Government must rethink IT management strategy: analyst

  A lack of flexibility towards IT management in the government sector may hinder the development of cloud computing and virtualisation.

  By Lisa Banks | 07 September, 2010 11:00

  Tags: CIO Government, cloud, cloud computing, government, kevin noonan, vendor management

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  Customers can gain from being a vendor reference

  No IT vendor's news announcement is truly complete without a couple of glowing quotes from customers; nor is any vendor conference really a success unless the company has lined up a few satisfied CIOs to talk up their strategy and products.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 November, 2009 08:20

  Tags: marketing, vendor management

Whitepapers about vendor management

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  Learning To Compete: IT’s Next Transformation

  CIOs must become competitive players in managing relationships between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerisation, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC explores this transformation as a leadership opportunity, as an opportunity to create new models for IT, and as a catalyst to fundamentally change the dynamic between IT and the business. Embedded videos feature CIOs from T-Mobile USA and Wharton School of Business and a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers.

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  EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Transform your future

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

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  Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise - How to Tackle Your Bad Information