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This month's installment of Cutter Benchmark Review is the fourth in our yearly series on IT budgets and the budgeting process. The budgeting process is of critical importance to the IT and business professionals in our readership. That last statement may have never ringed as true as it does today in the midst of the greatest economic upheaval we have witnessed, perhaps in our lifetime. As you get ready to read and evaluate the results of the survey to make sense of what we've uncovered, you need to bear in mind that the data gathered in this survey was collected during the worst economic climate in the modern computer era. Contextual and environmental events of this magnitude have an impact that is felt throughout a benchmarking survey of this kind, beginning with a very low response rate as the belt tightens and IT professionals around the world find themselves working harder, and on more responsibilities, than ever before.
This month's installment of Cutter Benchmark Review is the fourth in our yearly series on IT budgets and the budgeting process. The budgeting process is of critical importance to the IT and business professionals in our readership. That last statement may have never ringed as true as it does today in the midst of the greatest economic upheaval we have witnessed, perhaps in our lifetime. As you get ready to read and evaluate the results of the survey to make sense of what we've uncovered, you need to bear in mind that the data gathered in this survey was collected during the worst economic climate in the modern computer era. Contextual and environmental events of this magnitude have an impact that is felt throughout a benchmarking survey of this kind, beginning with a very low response rate as the belt tightens and IT professionals around the world find themselves working harder, and on more responsibilities, than ever before.
Abstract
Cloud computing describes the state of the art in data center infrastructure and its possibilities. As we explore in this Executive Report by Brian J. Dooley, the cloud provides some hope for handling some of the trickiest issues regarding business intelligence (BI).
Business intelligence (BI) has been evolving recently under the combined pressures of more sophisticated processing requirements, wider access for nonanalysts, and the increasing need for real-time analysis. The need for analysis is acute, yet meeting that need with the traditional enterprise data warehouse structure is viewed as increasingly problematic.
In this issue, you'll discover how a midsized online retailer, still reeling from lawsuits and a highly public data breach, righted its course by implementing a formal risk management program with information security, privacy, and regulatory compliance components. You'll hear from a professional penetration tester, who will tell you why it's in your best interests to have someone like him (or your own IT professionals) break into your network -- and how such tests can benefit everyone from compliance and security employees to your audit and legal departments. You'll even learn how a “global governance” approach can enable you to bring “diverse economic, political, professional, and educational resources” to bear on your organization's security and privacy compliance challenges. Join Cutter Senior Consultant Rebecca Herold, one of Computerworld's “Best Privacy Advisers” of 2008, for a closer look at why this topic should be at the forefront of your agenda.
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8