What is ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)

What is ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)

ITIL, or Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a framework that is created and developed by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in England. ITIL is a collection of best practice governance of information technology services in various fields and industries, from manufacturing to financial, industrial large and small, private and government.

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Search Services & Search Engines, and How They Work

Search Services & Search Engines, and How They Work

Search services are organizations that maintain databases accessible through websites to help us find information on the internet. Examples are Yahoo!, Bing, Google, Ask.com, and Gigablast, to name just a few. Search services also maintain search engines, programs that enable to ask questions or use keywords to help locate information on the web.

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What is COBIT

What is COBIT

COBIT (Control Objective Information & Related Technology) is an IT governance framework and support tools that will help the top-level IT management to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues and business risk issues. COBIT enables clear policy development and implemented to control all aspects related to an organization's information technology. COBIT emphasizes regulatory compliance and helps organizations to increase the value of their IT systems up and help the alignment between information technology goals and objectives. In addition…

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When Computers and Communications Combine

When Computers and Communications Combine

Sometime in the 1990s, computers and communications started to fuse together, beginning a new era within the Information Age. The result has been expanded into five developments; they are convergence, portability, personalization, collaboration, and cloud computing.

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Future Developments in Computing

Future Developments in Computing

In 2002, IBM launched a service, Virtual Linux Service, selling computer processing power on an as-needed basis, in the same way that power companies sell electricity. When, for example, a company wants to update its email or other programs, instead of buying more servers or the latest hardware to provide processing power, it rents the processing time on Linux servers. By now, many companies have gone into the business of what is now called application virtualization.

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Where is Information Technology Headed ?

Where is Information Technology Headed ?

How far we have come. At the beginning of the 20th century, most people they would live the same life their parents did. Today most people aren’t surprised by the prediction that the Information Age will probably transform their lives beyond recognition. Let’s consider the trends in the development of computers and communications.

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The World is Flat : 10 Flatteners (#6 to #10) and Triple Convergence

The World is Flat : 10 Flatteners (#6 to #10) and Triple Convergence

Continuing the previous post "The World is Flat : 10 Flatteners (#1 to #5)", this post tries to explain the next flatteners from #6 to #10 and explain three additional components that acted on the flatteners to create a new, flatter global playing field.

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The World is Flat : 10 Flatteners (#1 to #5)

The World is Flat : 10 Flatteners (#1 to #5)

From previous post about "The World is Flat : New Version of Globalization", Friedman terms globalization into three stage. Globalization 1.0 is related to countries and governments power. In Globalization 2.0, multinational companies lead the way in driving global integration. The last, Globalization 3.0 emerges the new small forces to cooperate and compete individually in the global arena.

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The World is Flat : New Version of Globalization

The World is Flat : New Version of Globalization

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity.

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Is IT Still a Policy Issue ?

Is IT Still a Policy Issue ?

In May 2003, the Harvard Business Review published a sensational article (Nicholas G. Carr, "IT does'nt matter"). In response, the magazine received a flood of mail that was published in the next issue ("Does IT Matter?" Harvard Business Review , June 2003)

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What is e-Learning ?

What is e-Learning ?

Information technology (IT) development increases fast, a concept and mechanism of learning (education) based on IT becomes not-avoided again. This concept that is then famous with the title e-Learning brings influence the transformation from conventional education into digital form. This transformation is not only in contents but also in its system role.

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