Study: U.S., Japan have best IT environments
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The U.S. and Japan have the top national environments for their IT industries to grow and flourish, including intellectual-property protections and IT infrastructure, according to a study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday.
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The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing charts with an IBM prototype machine.
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Times remain tough for IT workers looking for jobs across the U.S., according to a new employment study of the IT marketplace.
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Study predicts better salaries and more competitive IT job market in the next three years.
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TOKYO -- Japan has some of the most congested, confusing, and cramped streets in the world. It also boasts some of the latest technology in zapping computerized data to millions of cars, delivering what may be the world's smartest way to drive.
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Intel, Fannie Mae and Cisco Systems  top the U.S. government's list of FORTUNE 500 companies that  have the best commuting benefits for their employees.
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Cisco Systems of the US, a network equipment company, and computer maker Fujitsu of Japan have formed an alliance to increase Japanese sales.
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Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software.
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(InfoWorld) - IT security remains a top concern of U.S. government chief information officers, but it's also an area where they're making much progress, according to a survey released Monday by the Information Technology Association of America. CIOs told the ITAA, a trade group based in Arlington, Virginia, that they made progress in certifying their IT systems, training IT workers and other employees about cybersecurity, and setting up IT security policies during 2006, said Paul Wohlleben, a partner with Grant Thornton LLP's Global Public Sector, and chairman of ITAA's CIO survey project. Even as multiple reports of missing government laptops and other devices containing personal information came to light last year, federal CIOs said they're making "incremental progress" toward achieving federal cybersecurity mandates, Wohlleben said. CIOs, responding in face-to-face surveys during which they were promised anonymity, told ITAA they're also making progress integrating security into their information architecture, instead of "bolting on" security afterward, he said. And CIOs said they've made progress implementing information privacy programs, although in many cases, the progress was simply getting a privacy program off the ground, Wohlleben said. "Quite frankly, there's not a lot of maturity out there," he said of privacy programs. "For a lot of agencies, they're really taking credit for getting this started. Some things take quite a while to achieve in the federal space." The survey , made up of 47 government CIOs or related officials, found some frustration with agency information security practices, Wohlleben said. Many CIOs said they don't have authority over personal inventory rules covering devices such as laptops, even though the high-profile breaches last year involved laptops, hard drives or other similar devices. "There's a wide range of devices that are not even under the CIOs' control," he said. In May, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced that a laptop and hard drive containing the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and family members had been stolen from an employee's home. Police later recovered the hardware, but the theft set off a series of hearings in Congress about information security practices at the VA and other federal agencies. Some CIOs talked about efforts to encrypt information on devices, and others talked about disabling devices such as flash drives, Wohlleben said. "There's that tension between efficiency and security," he said. "All the CIOs are dealing with that every day." In addition to lost devices, CIOs expressed concern about network intrusions, Wohlleben said. There's a fear of the unknown -- that they're "not in total or near-total control," he said. Among other issues federal CIOs identified as top challenges this past year: -- Enterprise management of IT: CIOs want to see better IT management processes and tools, and they see the need for better project management. -- Enterprise applications: CIOs say that efforts to modernize application systems pose difficult challenges. Projects are complex, requiring improvement to project management and governance capabilities. In addition to IT security, among the issues CIOs identified as achievements was consolidating IT infrastructure. CIOs reported progress in consolidating IT infrastructure into a common, centrally managed platform, ITAA said.
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U.S. workers are the world's most productive, followed by the Irish, though productivity is rising fastest in China and much of the rest of Asia, according to the International Labour Organisation.
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CHIBA, JAPAN -- For Kunio Nakamura, president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., the much-discussed era of the ubiquitous network society, is "just around the corner." And with Japan in the vanguard, much of the world that is already networked will be online, anywhere, anytime, for anyone, by 2010, he said Tuesday in a keynote address on the opening day of Ceatec 2004 in Japan.
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A new survey indicates that CIOs are only hiring for positions that address long-term needs. By TechWeb News. Chief information officers in the US continue to take a cautious approach to increasing IT staff
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TechWeb - E-mail, Web surfing, and shopping also topped the list of computer chores for the vast majority of U.S. adults, according to Harris Interactive.
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The PC industry is doing a better job of satisfying its U.S. customers than in recent years, and improvements to technical support seem to have done the trick, according to the results of a study released Tuesday by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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The U.S. remains No. 1 in the world in high-performance computing, but IBM's Dave Turek examines whether it can maintain its current domination.
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China now spends more on research and development than Japan, but still only invests a little over a third as much as the U.S., according to the OECD.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Two recent studies, one of enterprise router users, the other of LAN switch users, confirm that customers consider Cisco the top dog of the router and switch industry.  The studies, released by analyst firm Infonetics Research, validate a trend seen in previous years.