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  • August 26, 2010 26 Aug'10

    Hair-raising approaches to data backups

    We are smack dab in the middle of hurricane season, but SMBs should be keeping an eye on well-intentioned employees in addition to the local forecast. Like the intern who was hired to perform daily ...

  • August 25, 2010 25 Aug'10

    WikiLeaks: When IT security threats are leakers, not hackers

    Last month's release of the incendiary Afghan War Diary by WikiLeaks raised a lot of national security questions, not the least of which is how a large, complex enterprise anticipates the human ...

  • August 24, 2010 24 Aug'10

    Trade promotion management: A missing opportunity?

    If you read Linda Tucci's recent story on the efforts of Tasty Baking Co. to find a workable solution for trade promotion management, you may have been struck, as I was, about why TPM can be such a ...

  • August 20, 2010 20 Aug'10

    The cloud hype cycle will take the industry for a ride

    If you think cloud computing is coming on strong, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Analysts at Gartner Inc. predict that worldwide revenue from cloud services will balloon from $58.6 billion in ...

  • August 20, 2010 20 Aug'10

    Social media risks that will make your hair stand on end

    We've all heard about the benefits of using social media in the enterprise: Brands are enhanced, customers engaged, employees connected. But as summer nears its end, let's gather around the ...

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  • August 17, 2010 17 Aug'10

    Midsized companies migrating to Windows 7 find the payback worthwhile

    If the sagging economy has forced midsized companies to delay hiring more IT staff, maybe migrating to Windows 7 can move them off that dime. In a recent report by IDC, an impressive number of ...

  • August 13, 2010 13 Aug'10

    The feds' identity ecosystem will include national identity cards

    The U.S. government is increasing its efforts to identify, authenticate and authorize people online. This month it's releasing a draft of a Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace proposal ...

  • August 12, 2010 12 Aug'10

    Gartner downgrades 2010 IT spending -- what's in your wallet?

    Gartner Inc. downgraded its forecast for 2010 IT spending worldwide, and now pegs growth at 2.9% rather than the 4.1% growth it forecast earlier this year. Spending numbers for the U.S. market are ...

  • August 11, 2010 11 Aug'10

    Top five free Microsoft downloads

    Every once in a while I like to check out what Microsoft admins are downloading these days. I sometimes do a search on Google, but to get a feel for the work being done in Microsoft shops, I always ...

  • August 11, 2010 11 Aug'10

    Free sample gap analysis templates: Software, security, architecture

    Learn how other organizations tackle gap analysis, from software projects to IT portfolio assessments, in this list of sample gap analysis templates.

  • August 10, 2010 10 Aug'10

    The end of online anonymity, part 2

    Google CEO Eric Schmidt's statement last week about the end of online anonymity recalls similar words by one of his former colleagues, Scott McNealy of Sun, more than a decade ago. McNealy caused a ...

  • August 05, 2010 05 Aug'10

    Enterprise adoption of the public cloud hinges on liability policies

    Of all the potential showstoppers to enterprise adoption of the public cloud -- including such well-touted concerns as security, interoperability and portability -- liability policies have emerged ...

  • August 05, 2010 05 Aug'10

    Agile best practices applied to business problems

    In the past few years, Ross Pettit, client principal at Chicago-based ThoughtWorks Inc., has seen a shift in client requests. The agile software development consulting firm’s projects are still ...

  • July 30, 2010 30 Jul'10

    A world without legacy systems

    How frustrating is it to be one of the little guys without the resources to bear for big projects. Well, those frustrations may actually be easier to deal with than the alternative: Being a large ...

  • July 30, 2010 30 Jul'10

    Catalyst Conference: Is the new BI about less automation -- or more?

    I'm here on the business intelligence track at the Burton Group's Catalyst Conference, trying to sort out the old BI from the new. As you might expect, there is a lot of talk about predictive ...

  • July 29, 2010 29 Jul'10

    How mega data center construction is tied to taxes

    Massive data center construction is happening in places where power is cheap and taxes are low, like Dublin, Ireland. That's where Microsoft built a 300,000-square-foot data center to support ...

  • July 29, 2010 29 Jul'10

    Taking notations on agile data modeling

    You can’t talk about agile data modeling without mentioning Scott Ambler, whom many consider the authority if not founder of agile data modeling. In this tip, Ambler takes readers through an ...

  • July 22, 2010 22 Jul'10

    Readers respond to practice and philosophy of IT chargeback

    My thanks go out to readers who were charged up enough to write about the IT chargeback series on SearchCIO.com. Whether you do showback, partial chargeback or chargeback for a profit; charge ...

  • July 22, 2010 22 Jul'10

    Chief data officers: Bringing data management strategy to the C-suite

    John Bottega admits he's a bit of a clotheshorse. The guy likes a quality suit. Actually, he is a connoisseur of fine suits, their fit, their style, their durability. The sleeve on a quality suit, ...

  • July 16, 2010 16 Jul'10

    Chargeback process: An old model heralds changes in IT

    The old chargeback process, revived by cloud computing, could have major ramifications for IT organizations as they revamp to become centralized service providers, experts say. Traditional ...

  • July 15, 2010 15 Jul'10

    Does IT chargeback pave the way to outsourcing?

    If your organization is talking about moving to an IT chargeback or a supply and demand model for IT, could that be its first step on the road to outsourcing? That was an interesting sidelight ...

  • July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

    IT consolidation for business innovation

    I’ve been touching base with IT folks and analysts lately to get a feel for the projects people are working on these days, and the phrases that keep coming up are IT consolidation, modernization ...

  • July 09, 2010 09 Jul'10

    IT chargeback: A political hot potato is tossed up by cloud computing

    A question has been nagging me since I attended Cloud Expo in New York: What metrics can IT departments use to charge back business units for cloud services? Measured service is fundamental to the ...

  • July 08, 2010 08 Jul'10

    Is mobile video conferencing worth considering in the midmarket?

    You share, collaborate and inform via email, phone, instant message and more -- all because face-to-face time can be difficult to pull off in our increasingly busy schedules. And while some ...

  • July 08, 2010 08 Jul'10

    Think lean before you start agile projects

    In the past few weeks I’ve been writing about agile projects, Scrum vs. waterfall or using the two project approaches together, and a theme that keeps coming up when I talk to project managers is ...

  • June 18, 2010 18 Jun'10

    Self-service technology transforms universities into 'schools of one'

    IT executives who are grappling with social media and self-service technology will sympathize with their counterparts in higher education. The technology sophistication of current university ...

  • June 17, 2010 17 Jun'10

    New England GiveCamp: One NERD and multiple IT project success stories

    A lot of projects fail. If business requirements aren't clear or gathered effectively, or if the scope of the project is inaccurate, failure happens. But this past weekend, at New England GiveCamp ...

  • June 11, 2010 11 Jun'10

    Pundits blur lines between effect of cloud services and the Internet

    Cloud computing has been around so long, even the CTO Power Panel at the recent Cloud Expo couldn't identify its origins. "What was the year that BusinessWeek published the cover story on Amazon's ...

  • June 10, 2010 10 Jun'10

    When it comes to an agile model, failure is an option

    It’s OK to fail when taking an agile approach to a business service or software development project, but if you fail, fail fast. As one expert explained to me, if you don’t fail, you don’t really ...

  • May 27, 2010 27 May'10

    Is the new CIO role of today cultivating CEOs of the future?

    The CIO role is changing -- there's no doubt about that -- but the question remains: What does the new CIO role comprise? During her keynote presentation at the Forrester IT Forum in Las Vegas this ...

  • May 27, 2010 27 May'10

    BP's risk management strategy put planet in peril

    A story in this morning's New York Times on BP's risk management strategy will no doubt send chills down the spine of many a corporate risk and compliance officer. The story reports on an internal ...

  • May 25, 2010 25 May'10

    The discovery phase of private clouds

    A year ago, when I brought up private clouds to IT executives, many were flat out not interested. Flash forward a year, and their stance has changed. Many IT executives are entering boot camps ...

  • May 21, 2010 21 May'10

    Idea management software: The future is now

    Idea management software sounds so futuristic, it makes me think of the movie Minority Report. In fact, ideation management is in the here and now. As SearchCIO.com News Director Christina Torode ...

  • May 21, 2010 21 May'10

    Mars and Venus on the future of IT

    It could be I'm overly sensitive to gender issues among the academic scientific elite, having moved to Cambridge, Mass., about the time then-Harvard President Larry Summers made his unfortunate ...

  • May 20, 2010 20 May'10

    USB memory sticks spark concern -- but still prove hard to pass up

    "Is this safe?" seemed to be the first question out of everyone's mouth when a colleague of mine was handing out USB memory sticks at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The tiny memory sticks did ...

  • May 19, 2010 19 May'10

    Technology job openings surge, headhunters are on the prowl

    A report on technology job openings reinforces evidence that the recession is receding. Do you know where your IT staff is headed? It could be out the door. This month's report from Dice Inc., the ...

  • May 18, 2010 18 May'10

    Why using Microsoft Excel in SMB IT makes sense

    It's no surprise that many organizations are using Microsoft Excel. Evolving from more than just a simple spreadsheet application, Excel is used for everything from simple project management to ...

  • May 13, 2010 13 May'10

    In lieu of customers, cloud vendors form partnerships at Cloud Expo

    Sys-Con, creator of the sixth international Cloud Computing Expo held last month in New York, blamed a real cloud for the absence of traffic on its show floor. It wasn’t enterprise concern over ...

  • May 06, 2010 06 May'10

    The future is here, says Microsoft CIO, and it is 'Avatar'

    Microsoft CIO Tony Scott was the keynote speaker at a modest but interesting gathering of CIOs in Boston yesterday, and he more or less stole the show, arriving in a rumpled suit and displaying the ...

  • May 03, 2010 03 May'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: The future of Flash, Sarah Palin hacker convicted

    I'm having a slightly cranky Monday morning. The Greater Boston area is on a "boil water" order due to a catastrophic water main break -- which is most immediately affecting me in that there is no ...

  • April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

    Disaster recovery plans gain traction in the cloud

    Midmarket companies’ disaster recovery plans are heading into the cloud. An informal survey by Forrester Research of its SMB customers showed that 12% to 15% are using online backup services. ...

  • April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

    IT hiring: The drama behind the statistics

    Well, this sounds like a positive sign of economy -- and IT -- recovery. We've written recently about what CEOs look for in the CIO role, and now The Boston Globe is reporting that IT hiring is on ...

  • April 23, 2010 23 Apr'10

    Antivirus software update goes rogue, corporate email security scares

    Wednesday was a busy -- read: frustrating -- day for many organizations using McAfee Inc.'s antivirus software or Google Inc.'s Gmail. Problems with the two popular services raised concerns about ...

  • April 20, 2010 20 Apr'10

    Gartner's take on emerging business intelligence technology

    The most tangible success measure of business intelligence technology is usage -- and mainstream BI just isn’t there, and won’t be for some time, according to Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel. The ...

  • April 16, 2010 16 Apr'10

    CIO careers: Seeking legal experts

    Of all the conversations I had with attendees this week at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas, it was actually one with Gartner analyst Debra Logan about CIO careers that ...

  • April 15, 2010 15 Apr'10

    More colleges move to cloud email like Gmail, ditch in-house email

    Colleges across the country have started turning to cloud email services such as Gmail in an effort to cut costs. It's not entirely surprising, either: IT shops have been toying with the idea of ...

  • April 09, 2010 09 Apr'10

    Computer hardware upgrades and iPhone OS 4: When software spurs buying

    As an iPhone 3G owner, I was very excited to hear about the Apple iPhone's newest operating system, the iPhone OS 4 software upgrade, planned for deployment this summer. Actually, I've never felt ...

  • April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: Cloud computing, IT innovation, CIO role and DR/BC

    I'm a bit late with this post this week, but you can still catch up SearchCIO.com's latest news on cloud computing, IT transformation, the evolving CIO role and IT business continuity and disaster ...

  • April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

    Five steps to playing a bigger part in your company's M&A

    I spoke with Gartner analyst Dave Aron for my story today about the CIO role in a merger and acquisition. The topic seemed timely: A variety of reports suggest that corporate M&A activity is ...

  • April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

    A move to cloud computing services -- back in 1999

    Back in 1999, the beta for Amazon EC2 was seven years away; Google Apps, was well, a gleam in Google’s eye; and Erik Dubovik was moving business processes into the cloud. It wasn’t called cloud ...

  • April 02, 2010 02 Apr'10

    Microsoft business intelligence tools here in May

    I just got word from Microsoft that they plan to release Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 -- with the new Microsoft business intelligence (BI) features -- on May 12. To back up a bit, we wrote about ...

  • March 30, 2010 30 Mar'10

    BI strategy: What Holy Grail are you seeking?

    Gartner’s BI Summit is just around the corner, and I’m eager to see how attendees’ business intelligence strategies and priorities have changed. When I went to the show last year, a big topic of ...

  • March 26, 2010 26 Mar'10

    Small IT innovations -- even savvy font management! -- can cut costs

    How's this for IT innovations that make cost-cutting a breeze? Wisconsin Public Radio is reporting that the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its email system from ...

  • March 25, 2010 25 Mar'10

    Gaga for Google Fiber? We're all a bit crazy when it comes to tech

    The Google Fiber for communities deadline is right around the corner. In an effort to test out its plans for high-speed broadband and fiber-to-the-home connections, Google has asked interested ...

  • March 22, 2010 22 Mar'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: National cybersecurity list, basketball technology

    Like many of you, I'm caught up in the passage of health care reform here in the U.S. If you're interested in the health care system dovetails with your interest in technology, be sure to check out ...

  • March 19, 2010 19 Mar'10

    IT execs weigh in on cloud computing and IT business transformation

    I was at a Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) event the other day on transformation: how CIOs are transforming the business and the role of IT, but what struck me is how little a role ...

  • March 19, 2010 19 Mar'10

    Success with cloud applications calls for a strong data-privacy policy

    Public agency CIOs and IT executives are joining the move to cloud applications, while making sure their data privacy policy remains strong. As I've stated previously on this blog, public-sector ...

  • March 18, 2010 18 Mar'10

    Top IT certifications: Do they matter to you?

    How important are IT certifications today? As organizations start to hire again (there were 58,229 available tech jobs on Dice.com this month), IT certifications could help potential candidates ...

  • March 16, 2010 16 Mar'10

    Up next: Cloud computing management

    With the market saturated with cloud computing platforms and services, it was inevitable that another crop of vendors would emerge to help enterprises make sense of it all. I’m talking about the ...

  • March 15, 2010 15 Mar'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: What is Foursquare's draw? Also Balanced Scorecard

    Happy soggy Monday from the rain-soaked East Coast! We've had a pretty easy winter so far, but these April showers sure are coming early and strong. So, I've seen a lot in the mainstream media this ...

  • March 12, 2010 12 Mar'10

    ITIL framework and IT outsourcing a formidable duo

    I haven't tackled IT Infrastructure Library as a topic in the forefront of any stories of late, but that changed this week as I researched my piece on IT infrastructure outsourcing and how a strong ...

  • March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10

    Why one IT guy found Windows 7 to be too user-friendly

    There has been a lot of Windows 7 coverage on SearchCIO-Midmarket.com -- everything from planning your migration strategy to making it your last operating system. Part of the appeal of the new OS ...

  • March 09, 2010 09 Mar'10

    Are you stress testing your IT strategies?

    I recently spoke with Robert Kaplan, author of the Balanced Scorecard, about how he would revise his framework given the economic meltdown in the last few years. The addition he would make is a ...

  • March 08, 2010 08 Mar'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: Web browser wars in Europe, iPad's new ad and more

    I'm back from a couple of days off in Los Angeles – my first trip to southern California, and a well-timed one as I got to witness some of the pre-Oscar hoopla for myself. Now, it's back to the ...

  • March 04, 2010 04 Mar'10

    Reasons to adopt desktop virtualization

    Desktop virtualization is not the slam dunk that server virtualization is in terms of cost savings. In a recent article, I talked to experts about how the cost of desktop PCs was replaced by even ...

  • March 03, 2010 03 Mar'10

    Are innovation strategies back on CIO agendas?

    IT innovation, that fraught phrase, has come roaring back after maintaining a polite silence during the fiscal misery of 2008 and 2009. Companies are starting to broadcast their efforts to foster ...

  • February 26, 2010 26 Feb'10

    Public sector challenges mitigated by IT governance framework

    My background is in community journalism, so public sector challenges -- strained municipal budgets and efforts to improve education, health care and other city services -- are all too familiar to ...

  • February 24, 2010 24 Feb'10

    Is it better to work for an outsourcing provider than for corporate IT?

    Consultant Tom Young has been mulling over the good, the bad and all the ugliness of outsourcing contracts for 13 years, eight of them with the IT advisory firm TPI, where he is managing director ...

  • February 22, 2010 22 Feb'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: Is the Windows 7 phone suited for the enterprise?

    The New York Times caught my eye today with this piece on whether the Windows 7 phone will be better than the iPhone for the enterprise. The BlackBerry is still the undisputed leader and the iPhone ...

  • February 19, 2010 19 Feb'10

    Social Connector ushers Microsoft into social networking tool fray

    Twitter, schwitter: We've all been overexposed to social networking tools and news. But good, bad or ugly, Microsoft's inclusion of LinkedIn as an officially supported plug-in for Outlook is a ...

  • February 19, 2010 19 Feb'10

    WordPress problems: Temporary blog failure shows need for DR, BC plans

    It's been a week of mea culpas. Following Google's admission that it didn't handle the launch of Google Buzz very well, on Thursday WordPress, a leading provider of blogging platforms to ...

  • February 16, 2010 16 Feb'10

    Virtualization aids in disaster recovery when budget is tight

    Many large companies try to maintain hot sites that are in lockstep with the production environment, but this disaster recovery plan isn’t always realistic. Configurations drift, or IT staff simply ...

  • February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10

    Silicon Valley economy: Recession hitting IT hard at its epicenter

    A few weeks ago, over a delicious dinner of Thai food with my uncle visiting from the Palo Alto area, I went on and on about my job here at SearchCIO.com and about all the various social media ...

  • February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10

    Beware the dark side of the IT PMO

    Ten minutes after filing a story on the virtues of an enterprise project management office, I got a call from a CIO I’d gotten to know over the years informing me that he had been fired. On a ...

  • February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: Super Bowl technology and Google's advertising

    Super Bowl Sunday was yesterday, so let the Monday-morning quarterbacking begin! The turning point in the game was the Saints' decision to go for that onsides kick at the beginning of the second ...

  • February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

    2009 IT lessons: How did the recession change your IT organization?

    I can't believe it's already February (and thank goodness: I wouldn't have been able to wait much longer for "Lost" to return!). Here at SearchCIO.com, even though a full month of 2010 is behind ...

  • February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

    Merck, Chevron and BP are touting a new IT management framework

    It’s easy to forget how young a discipline IT is, given its enormous presence in our lives. Yesterday, however, that fact was front and center, as I watched the top IT talent at Intel Corp., Merck ...

  • February 01, 2010 01 Feb'10

    Business intelligence software as a revenue generator

    You’ve gotten them: those 10-page documents detailing your cell phone bill, credit card account or bank statement. But now, because of the economy, you may start to receive those statements in an ...

  • January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10

    SharePoint 2010 good, Enterprise 2.0 tools may be better

    If you've missed the SharePoint boat, now might not be the best time to buy your ticket. While Microsoft unveiled some new features in SharePoint 2010, new users might not find them compelling ...

  • January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10

    The next big enterprise business tool: the iPad? Share your thoughts

    OK, OK, enough with calling Apple's new tablet computer the "iTampon." The name "iPad" is worth a giggle, maybe, but one of the top-trending topics on Twitter? Please. Let's put our adult hats on ...

  • January 27, 2010 27 Jan'10

    Oracle plays hardball with Rimini on third-party maintenance

    "This case is about the massive theft of Oracle's software and related support materials through an illegal business model by Defendant Rimini Street and its CEO and President, Defendant Seth ...

  • January 21, 2010 21 Jan'10

    2010 IT budgets are unsettled and unsettling

    After a week or so on the phone with any CIO I could get in touch with, here’s my super-unscientific prognostication on IT budgets in 2010: IT spending and CIO priorities are all over the board. ...

  • January 18, 2010 18 Jan'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: Help Haiti using technology, IT outsourcing deals

    To our readers in the U.S., happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! I'm guessing some of you have the day off and won't see this post until later in the week, but I wanted to catch you up on the buzz on ...

  • January 15, 2010 15 Jan'10

    Migrating from XP to Windows 7: When, why and how?

    I've recently spoken with a lot of IT managers about Windows 7 in preparation for upcoming coverage. Overall, everyone wants to know when they should migrate from XP to Windows 7 and why they would ...

  • January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10

    IT and business alignment tactics

    IT and business alignment is a challenge with which CIOs struggle daily, and it's bound to remain that way, with recent data showing that IT managers are predicting smaller budgets for 2010. So ...

  • January 11, 2010 11 Jan'10

    CIO weekly wrap-up: IT salaries, security budgets, IT in 2010 and more

    I'm going to try something a little different here from now on. In addition to summing up the latest from content from SearchCIO.com on IT salaries, security, lesson for 2010 and more, I'm going to ...

  • January 08, 2010 08 Jan'10

    Can enterprise business intelligence be agile?

    Instead of spending years developing an enterprise business intelligence strategy to consolidate BI tools and come to a corporate-wide agreement on key performance indicators, some enterprises are ...

  • December 11, 2009 11 Dec'09

    Paying the price for server uptime

    What’s the price for server uptime? How much would you be willing to invest to maintain five 9s of availability on your mission-critical line of business applications? With limited budgets and ...

  • November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09

    Customer feedback management: Is anybody listening?

    I recently made my first big purchase -- a new vehicle -- and I made my mind up pretty much before I entered the showroom floor, thanks to customer feedback I gathered on the Internet. What ...

  • November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09

    Salesforce.com's Chatter: A collaboration tool worth talking about

    Salesforce.com has announced that it has developed a collaboration platform that brings social networking into the enterprise -- Salesforce Chatter. And for the more than 60,000 Salesforce.com ...

  • November 16, 2009 16 Nov'09

    CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation

    Last week was a busy one for SearchCIO.com, with SOA topping our slate. We have best practices for SOA implementation, SOA for business process transformation, SOA in action at Amtrak...you get the ...

  • November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

    UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential

    Last week at the University of Maryland’s 10th Annual CIO Forum, a succession of CIOs from the government, health care and publishing industries described how they are harnessing IT innovation with ...

  • November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

    What is transparency, and how can Agile practices help?

    As I was interviewing experts and practitioners this week on the uses of Agile practices, the term transparency kept popping up in comments about the benefits of using this type of software ...

  • November 09, 2009 09 Nov'09

    CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation

    Good morning! We're enjoying some beautiful Indian summer weather here in the Northeast -- if only every Monday could start like this! Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked to Virginia's CIO about ...

  • November 02, 2009 02 Nov'09

    CIO weekly wrap-up: IT's value, agile methodology, outsourcing and SOA

    Happy belated Halloween! I hope everybody who celebrated had a great time -- any creative IT-related Halloween costumes you'd like to tell us about? Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked about ...

  • October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09

    An IT outsourcing contract without penalties? A state pays the price

    You hear a lot of analysts, clients and, of course, vendors touting the benefits of IT outsourcing, especially as the U.S. emerges from this economic recession, which the latest government numbers ...

  • October 22, 2009 22 Oct'09

    Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2010

    Gartner's list of technologies that bear examination during the next three years show an agile, mobile, secure enterprise that can spot early warning signs and predict trends.

  • October 09, 2009 09 Oct'09

    Gen X, not Gen Y, leads adoption of social technologies in workplace

    CIOs should look to Generation X, not Generation Y, to be the early adopters of new and social technologies within their organization. Contrary to what you’d think, Generation X workers (roughly ...

  • October 09, 2009 09 Oct'09

    The challenge of managing risk when IT budgets tighten

    I see an interesting sea change when it comes to risk: Thanks to the recession, as IT risk management is constrained by tightening IT budgets, the risk of doing business goes up. As part of my ...

  • October 06, 2009 06 Oct'09

    GPS devices, geolocation data create privacy, security risks

    Emerging technologies that allow users to broadcast geographic locations raise many issues for companies, CIOs, while legislatures and the FTC consider legal aspects.

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