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• 14 May 2013

• News: Q&A: Nick Carr on 10th anniversary of 'IT Doesn't Matter'

  Nick Carr rocked the tech world with his controversial essay in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, titled "IT Doesn't Matter." Carr claimed companies were overspending on IT and that the competitive advantage to be gained by tech investments was shrinking as technology became more commoditized and accessible to everyone. On the 10-year anniversary of the article's publication, Carr talked with Network World's Ann Bednarz about what he got right, what he got wrong, and how the piece remains relevant today.

• News: Nick Carr's 'IT Doesn't Matter' still matters

  Nick Carr's article "IT Doesn't Matter" was published in in Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and ignited an industry firestorm for its perceived dismissal of the strategic value of IT.

• News: NetSuite to increase focus on ERP for manufacturers

  Capitalizing on apparent demand from customers, NetSuite is adding new capabilities aimed at manufacturers to its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

• News: First California lawsuit over mobile privacy issues crashes

  A California state court has dismissed a closely watched lawsuit charging that Delta Air Lines failed to comply with state privacy laws for mobile applications

• News: Fed offensive fueling hacker underground, report says

  With the government said to be the biggest buyer of malicious tools, some fear it will weaken the nation's cyber defenses -- public and private

• News: Data centers show signs of 'green fatigue'

  A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overachievers like Google and Microsoft.

• News: How to Know When to Hire Internally and When to Look Outside

  Finding and retaining top talent is a never-ending battle in a market as competitive as IT, which according to BLS stats boasts a 3.5 percent unemployment rate compared to the national average of 7.5 percent. A well-planned recruitment and retention program is the difference between success and failure. "Always be recruiting," says Ron Lichty, co-author of Managing the Unmanageable, "We consider recruiting and hiring to be the most important tasks a manager has."

• News: IDC: MENA businesses should prepare for cloud transition

  Businesses in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face significant transition and data storage challenges as the regional cloud market continues to grow, according to a report from IDC.

• News: Clean bill of health: How Zulekha Hospital achieved ISO 20,000 certification

  A normal business may see much sense in improving the service management of its IT department. If the improvements increase IT's efficiency, reduce costs and minimise downtime, ROI is easily measured.

• News: Google rival Foundem urges EU to reject remedies

  A Google competitor that filed a complaint against the search giant said on Tuesday that the company's proposals to address the European Commission's antitrust concerns do no such thing.

• News: SAP says HANA will power all cloud applications

  SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire conference.

• News: Outlook.com to let users engage in IM chats with Gmail users

  Microsoft is upgrading its new Outlook.com webmail service so that its users can communicate with Gmail users via instant messaging.

• News: How one woman's abduction led to the Watch Over Me app

  "Send me home, please."

• News: Companies, government unprepared for new wave of cybersabotage

  Intelligence not the only part of government that has struggled. Senate has not moved on legislation to back President's order on cybersecurity

• News: MYOB acquires BankLink for $NZ 136 million

  MYOB Holdings subsidiary, MYOB Finance NZ Limited, has inked an agreement to purchase Media Transfer Services (MTS) company, BankLink.

• News: Thomas Duryea secures contract with MCRI

  IT infrastructure solutions provider, Thomas Duryea, has secured a contract with Australian child health research institute, Murdoch Childrens' Research Institute (MCRI), to design and deploy a new storage infrastructure platform.

• News: Australian education cycle "problematic" for the IT industry: AIIA

  IT industry veterans may bemoan the fact that companies do not train their staff as rigorously as they did one or two decades ago, but the AIIA said the issue is more about tertiary education.

• News: Ingram Micro sees surge in uptake of Cloud services offerings

  Resellers are becoming more interested and involved in Cloud services, according to leading distributor, Ingram Micro which has seen a surge in the uptake of its Cloud services products.

• News: Ingram Micro to distribute Actifio Copy Data Storage (CDS) appliances

  Ingram Micro has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for enterprise storage management specialist, Actifio.

• News: China still safe for IT outsourcing, despite US security concerns, says vendor

  China's reputation for security may have been marred by recent U.S. accusations of state-sponsored hacking but the nation is still a safe place as a tech subcontractor for foreign businesses, according to one of China's largest IT outsourcing vendors.

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