May 17, 2013 | SUNIL DESAI

Sunil Desai, Director for Managed Services at Dimension Data Asia Pacific, points out that the bulk of support-related expenses fall outside the scope of traditional support offerings. It is important therefore to identify and eliminate 'hidden' expenses.

May 7, 2013 | ROGER A. GRIMES

The IT world is no stranger to projects that go down in flames. In fact, anyone who has had the unenviable pleasure of participating in a failed IT effort likely sensed its demise well before the go-live date. That sixth sense is invaluable in a competitive field like IT -- but only if it is acted on promptly and professionally.

April 25, 2013 | DEREK DU PREEZ

The oil giant has now extended the deployment to new parts of the business

April 23, 2013 | PAUL GLEN

Five warning signs can warn you that your project team has turned toxic.

April 12, 2013 | JENNIFER LONOFF SCHIFF

IT executives and project managers provide practical advice on how you can best monitor your team and head off potential problems.

April 12, 2013 | DAVID TABER

George Carlin made phrases like 'jumbo shrimp' famous. But the need to control agile projects is no joke. Ask the right questions along the way, though, and you'll bring order to a process than can easily turn chaotic.

April 10, 2013 | MATTHEW HEUSSER

The work is due next month, but you know it won't be done for three months. Now what? A group of programmers and consultants met at a recent software development conference to swap war stories and discuss management and firefighting challenges.

Channel partners are bullish about their growth prospects.

Having had several related discussions this past week while in Washington DC, it is obvious that the question of how to use and manage the growing wealth of data, and incorporate it into an existing information governance organization and infrastructure (however mature or not), is top of mind in the public sector as well.

I was encouraged to see that Huawei had a proper track session on its channel strategy during its 10th Global analyst summit in Shenzhen.

Yes: Employees are doing what's best for the company

Media and IT professionals are buzzing about BYOD thanks to the increasing adoption of personal mobile devices being used for work in China.