When a contentious relationship exists between business and IT, the latter constituency often gets the blame. Yet to be completely fair, the cause of misalignment falls as much on business as it does on IT.

The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project has released its predictions for Atlantic basin hurricane activity in the new year. The initial extended-range forecast calls for 11 to 16 storms to form in 2010.

Almost a year ago we looked back on 2008 and remarked on three things: the financial state of the insurance industry, the corresponding software market, and the "arrival" in our market of giant software vendors.

Outsourcing processing tasks provides managers with the time to manage the talent and employees with the time to focus on their real jobs.