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Malware intrusions at hospitals: Why so many?
- TechTarget 06 Apr 2016 -
CIO guide to business networking: It's not about you
- News Director 31 Mar 2016 -
CASB: Good cloud security tool, weird name
- TechTarget 31 Mar 2016
The recent spate of malware intrusions isn't a fluke, says Chris Ensey. The Dunbar Security Solutions COO says healthcare institutions have some work to do.
Looking to win friends and make connections in high places? The most important networking rule to remember is also a pretty simple one: It's not about you. That's according to Todd Cohen, author of ...
Heard of a CASB? It's a cloud security tool that detects what users are doing what in the cloud. Many see promise; some don't like the name.
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Apple fight gives customers sway in privacy debate
- TechTarget 31 Mar 2016 -
Data privacy issues loom as FBI-Apple fight ebbs
- TechTarget 31 Mar 2016 -
To beat odds, procurement officers should focus on value, not cost
- Editorial Director 30 Mar 2016 -
What happens if FBI-Apple case goes back to court?
- TechTarget 29 Mar 2016 -
If grid goes down, public and private sectors on hook
- TechTarget 21 Mar 2016 -
Leatherman Tool Group sees sluggish data center performance during ERP upgrade
- News Director 18 Mar 2016 -
Blockchain tech: U.S. representative calls on fintech community to educate Congress
- Editorial Director 09 Mar 2016
The FBI-Apple fight has pushed encryption and data privacy into the mainstream. People know more about the issues now, so the privacy debate could heat up.
The data privacy issues kicked up by the FBI's now-dropped legal battle against Apple are enormous – and will likely be in the public eye for years to come.
Chief procurement officers (CPO) have a very short window of time in which to make their mark at a company: The average tenure is less than five years.
The FBI-Apple case is closed, but legal questions linger. If it goes back to court, and the bureau wins, that will pose major challenges for security teams.
A cyberattack on the nation's electrical grid could cripple the nation. The public and private sectors need to cooperate on efforts to recoup.
The problem: Leatherman Tool Group Inc., a manufacturer of multifunction tools and knives based in Portland, Ore., updated its 20-year-old, DOS-based ERP system with Microsoft Dynamics AX, ...
Blockchain technology -- perhaps the hottest topic in the financial tech community -- has finally made it on the radar of the U.S. Congress, but it's been a long haul, much more education is needed ...
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RSA Conference 2016: Apple 'goofed' in data encryption fight with FBI
- Site Editor 03 Mar 2016 -
Consumer privacy rights herald 'third wave' of Web content management
- Editor at Large 29 Feb 2016 -
The four facets of an Agile PMO
- News Director 29 Feb 2016 -
PMOs could benefit from supporting, adopting Agile
- News Director 29 Feb 2016 -
Students' tech smarts pose challenge for college IT teams
- TechTarget 29 Feb 2016 -
Robots, security as a service, cloud galore, shape ITO-BPO 2016 outlook
- Editor at Large 29 Feb 2016 -
Do the feds need Apple to bypass smartphone encryption?
- TechTarget 23 Feb 2016 -
U.S. lacks law to make Apple help bypass encryption
- TechTarget 23 Feb 2016 -
Life under a new encryption law
- TechTarget 23 Feb 2016 -
A crash course in 3D thinking for the enterprise
- News Director 23 Feb 2016 -
3D printing prepares to grow beyond rapid prototyping
- News Director 22 Feb 2016 -
Study: Interest in location intelligence technology nascent but rising
- News Director 16 Feb 2016 -
Two CEO-CIO partnerships on display at CIO conference
- Editor at Large 11 Feb 2016 -
Driverless cars not a 'solved problem,' says MIT professor
- TechTarget 09 Feb 2016 -
Pet insurer integrates online and call center data
- News Director 08 Feb 2016 -
Fight threats to information security: Inform your people
- TechTarget 04 Feb 2016 -
Defining the CIO position: Don't box yourself in
- Editor at Large 31 Jan 2016 -
CIO report: Three CIO archetypes and how each delivers IT value
- Editor at Large 31 Jan 2016 -
A CIO's advice for cloud security in the cloud age
- TechTarget 31 Jan 2016 -
IT job skills, digital mind-set in short supply
- Editor at Large 31 Jan 2016 -
Digital business disruption roils the manufacturing sector
- Editor at Large 31 Jan 2016 -
Vendor PTC makes play for augmented reality technology
- News Director 31 Jan 2016 -
Innovation contests can work, but only if managed properly
- News Director 29 Jan 2016 -
A big data pilot needs the right stakeholders
- News Director 27 Jan 2016 -
Headhunter dismisses 'rock star CIOs,' extols corporate values
- Editor at Large 27 Jan 2016 -
Public or private cloud infrastructure: What's cheaper?
- TechTarget 21 Jan 2016 -
The right time for big data in the cloud
- TechTarget 21 Jan 2016 -
Show me the cloud ROI! It's not always easy
- TechTarget 21 Jan 2016 -
What is private cloud? That depends on who's defining it
- TechTarget 19 Jan 2016 -
Four CIO leadership tips from the CEO of Dunkin'
- News Director 14 Jan 2016 -
May the creative force be with IT teams in 2016
- Editor at Large 31 Dec 2015 -
'People-first' means respect at Perkins School for the Blind
- TechTarget 31 Dec 2015 -
Corporate culture can sabotage success of chief digital officer
- News Director 29 Dec 2015 -
Industry cloud boon for IT, bane for unwary tech vendors
- TechTarget 23 Dec 2015 -
2016 forecast: Industry clouds on horizon? IDC thinks so
- TechTarget 23 Dec 2015 -
The CIO-CTO shuffle
- News Director 22 Dec 2015 -
EmTech 2015: Everyone should get free digital security
- Site Editor 18 Dec 2015 -
CIO role in terror fight plausible -- but not yet likely
- TechTarget 15 Dec 2015 -
The current state of the chief data officer
- News Director 09 Dec 2015 -
Oracle's top 10 CIO challenges in 2015: Were they yours?
- News Director 09 Dec 2015 -
Big companies cozy up to startups to drive innovation
- Editor at Large 07 Dec 2015 -
Forrester: ‘Irrational fear’ holds down cloud desktop use
- TechTarget 07 Dec 2015 -
Private cloud fading, hybrid cloud ascending, Forrester says
- TechTarget 07 Dec 2015 -
Harvard roboticist assembles corps of far-out machines
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2015 -
I, robot, self-replicate -- therefore I am?
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2015 -
Technology, people issues can set back your private cloud journey
- TechTarget 25 Nov 2015 -
Between private cloud heaven and hell
- TechTarget 25 Nov 2015 -
For CIOs, big data conversations shift to IoT
- News Director 25 Nov 2015 -
CIOs make security a priority for 2016, but not privacy
- News Director 24 Nov 2015 -
Six 3D printing myths dispelled
- News Director 31 Oct 2015 -
CIOs' leadership skills help teams see greater vision
- TechTarget 30 Oct 2015 -
Cloud council: Pick PaaS to swiftly develop, deploy apps
- TechTarget 23 Oct 2015 -
Dell-EMC and the cloud joust
- News Director 19 Oct 2015 -
Frito-Lay: 'Omniculturals' at the intersection of IT and marketing
- Editor at Large 16 Oct 2015 -
Gartner Symposium: Why does a CIO need a CDO?
- News Director 08 Oct 2015 -
Gartner Symposium to CIOs: Vigilance, curiosity for better security
- TechTarget 07 Oct 2015 -
Breach-proof? Look for security experts with deep functional knowledge
- Site Editor 05 Oct 2015 -
Are CIOs ready for a hybrid cloud future?
- TechTarget 05 Oct 2015 -
InfoSec leaders: Be the innovation
- Editor at Large 01 Oct 2015 -
Influence better decision making by becoming a 'choice architect'
- News Director 30 Sep 2015 -
Gartner: 'Widening gulf' between digital front-runners and everybody else
- Editor at Large 28 Sep 2015 -
Process re-engineering underpins digital business at UPS
- News Director 28 Sep 2015 -
Digital shift more hype than happening at most companies: McKinsey
- Editor at Large 27 Sep 2015 -
Post-layoff, HP must tackle two cultural issues to stay relevant
- Site Editor 24 Sep 2015 -
KPMG: Death of BPO at the hands of RPA
- Editor at Large 24 Sep 2015 -
Aging2.0: What do business users and senior citizens have in common? Good technology to survive
- News Director 23 Sep 2015 -
Five steps on how to get your enterprise IoT initiative started
- News Director 15 Sep 2015 -
CIOs take to Twitter to crow about Apple-Cisco deal
- Site Editor 08 Sep 2015 -
If big picture is key for digital transformation, is 'starting small' on the way out?
- News Director 28 Aug 2015 -
Dissenting views on Windows 10 privacy
- Site Editor 13 Aug 2015 -
Duolingo cofounder explains crowdsourcing to the MIT crowd
- Editor at Large 31 Jul 2015 -
Loura-isms: How to do IT leadership right from HP's CIO
- News Director 30 Jul 2015 -
John Deere, Home Depot reinvent themselves with digital platforms
- Site Editor 16 Jul 2015 -
Experts: Data privacy and security status quo as consumer apathy prevails
- Site Editor 02 Jul 2015 -
Will Generation M usher in wearables in the workplace?
- Site Editor 29 Jun 2015 -
Generation Mobile: A new breed of workers or unnecessary label?
- Site Editor 29 Jun 2015 -
The value of experimentation and how CIOs could benefit
- News Director 26 Jun 2015 -
Predicting subscriber churn at The New York Times
- News Director 29 May 2015 -
What will the cybersecurity battlefield look like in 10 years? Experts weigh in
- Site Editor 27 May 2015 -
Three questions with TechTarget's new chief data officer
- News Director 07 May 2015 -
Secret searches for chief digital officers
- News Director 30 Apr 2015 -
Gartner: Chief data officer is IT ally, not antagonist
- News Director 29 Apr 2015 -
Out-of-the-box: Pfizer builds brand recognition among Baby Boomers with #FOGO
- News Director 22 Apr 2015 -
IT's hidden issue: Copy data
- News Writer 17 Apr 2015 -
'Do you want fries with that?' Hardee's algorithm excels at upselling
- Editor at Large 16 Apr 2015 -
Integrating digital, physical touchpoints makes for better customer experience
- News Director 30 Mar 2015 -
Security, stability are keys to making Apache Spark enterprise-ready
- News Director 30 Mar 2015 -
Forrester: CIOs will architect and operate the Internet of Things
- News Writer 23 Mar 2015 -
Tresata, Databricks to tackle money laundering
- News Director 20 Mar 2015 -
Bimodal IT may already be in your organization, you just have to find it
- News Writer 16 Mar 2015
SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate on privacy vs. national security triggered by the recent Apple/FBI controversy lit up RSA Conference 2016, provoking sharp disagreement among panelists at one ...
Managing the consumer digital experience ultimately means putting consumers in charge of their digital lives.
The Agile project management office (PMO) leverages the centralized portfolio management team to deliver on projects and products faster, said Michael Nir, president and founder of Sapir Consulting ...
Adopting Agile methodology for IT seems like a no-brainer these days. But CIOs may not anticipate the complications -- such as the culture and language barrier -- Agile can create. Agile ...
College IT teams have their work cut out for them: providing for a generation of people who've grown up using technology for homework and play.
What's happening in the IT and business processing outsourcing industry? Here's the 2016 outlook from the ITO-BPO pros at global law firm Mayer Brown.
The FBI wants Apple to help it disable the smartphone encryption on a device connected to a terrorism case. Here's what to know about a government DIY job.
The government is using a 1789 law to get Apple to help the FBI bypass encryption on an iPhone used by a suspect in the San Bernardino killing spree.
There's no law requiring Apple to decrypt information on a phone connected to December's terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif. But what if a new encryption law were passed?
The 3D printing market may be nascent, but CIOs should start to prepare the enterprise for the emerging technology. According to Shawn DuBravac, chief economist and director of research at Consumer ...
Three-dimensional printers aren't exactly a new technology. "It's 30 years old," said Pete Basiliere, a Gartner analyst who's covered the 3D printing market for years. The most widespread and ...
Interest is growing in location intelligence, but the technology isn't a priority for most businesses, according to the third annual Location Intelligence Market Study published last month by ...
Does it make a difference if the CIO reports to the CEO? These two CEO-CIO partnerships make the case for a reporting line to the top.
Vehicles that steer themselves get a lot of press, but MIT's John Leonard said lots of problems need to be solved before driverless cars are commonplace.
The problem: Petplan Insurance Agency LLC, a 140-employee company founded in 2003, wanted to offer its customers a more personal and more relevant shopping experience. The pet insurance company, ...
Instilling an organizational culture to combat the swarm of threats to information security could prove to be the best defense.
Worried about what type of CIO you are? A recent study from Deloitte suggests the CIO position can and should vary depending on the needs of the business.
Part two: A recent CIO report from Deloitte identifies three CIO archetypes. Which type are you?
Cloud is where it's at, says Equinix CIO Brian Lillie, but security needs to be at the forefront. Here are his three tips for strengthening cloud security.
In the shift to digital business, compensation for IT job skills is more volatile than ever, as companies struggle to incorporate cutting-edge technical skills into old business models.
Annals of digital business disruption: David Foote follows the money and finds that hard-core manufacturers are coming to terms with the digital era.
PTC Inc., a software company based in Needham, MA, is in the midst of a transformation. Known for its design software, PLM and service management products, PTC is placing big bets on the Internet ...
Terry Kline is a proponent of innovation contests because he's seen how they can change the work dynamic. "What's made me do it everywhere I've ever worked is that I've had employees who say, 'Hey, ...
Selecting the right big data use case is on every expert's list of big data best practices. Another? Getting the right stakeholders involved. Before CIOs can take a big data pilot into production, ...
Shawn Banerji cringes when he hears someone called a "rock star CIO." "I can't stand the term," he said during a recent phone call from his offices in New York City. "The CIO job or equivalent is ...
Comparing costs between putting data in the public cloud and keeping it in a private cloud infrastructure is tricky. Experts weigh in on how to start.
Companies managing big data in the cloud may want to leave it there for analysis. But there are good times to bring it back to earth.
You want to take advantage of cloud computing but also want to prove cloud ROI? It's not impossible, but be ready to ask some tough questions first.
Organizations that are asked "What is private cloud" may be comfortable answering. They may even say they have one. But many would be wrong, analysts say.
During his keynote talk, Nigel Travis, CEO at Dunkin' Brands Group Inc., provided a handful of leadership tips to the CIOs and senior IT leaders who attended the recent SIM Boston Technology ...
Boston CIOs address the nuts and bolts of innovation at the SIM Boston Technology Leadership Summit.
The Watertown, Mass., school for students who are blind and have low vision embraces people-first language to shape a message of respect.
Digital business has created a new seat at the C-suite table: the chief digital officer. But according to research from Strategy&, a global strategy consulting team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, ...
A new Industry cloud trend may position IT as a strategic business partner -- and it may mean lost revenue for tech companies that aren't vigilant.
Market research outfit IDC predicts industry clouds, joint ventures among businesses in vertical markets, will ascend in popularity, numbering 500 by 2018.
In late October, The New York Times Co. pulled the trigger on a decision that reflects how digitization is disrupting more than business models: It named Nick Rockwell its new CTO. That Rockwell ...
"Our telecommunications networks were not wired for privacy. They were not designed for digital security." That's how Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties ...
Last week, I asked cybersecurity experts about their reactions to calls from President Barack Obama, Congress and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Silicon Valley tech giants to ...
Are chief data officers having a moment or is all the CDO talk hype? According to Google Trends and Google Analytics, it's likely a little bit of both. That was the gist of an analysis of the CDO ...
Oracle published a list back in February of the top 10 CIO challenges in 2015. Last week, Richard Wendell, founding board member of the MIT-affiliated International Society of Chief Data Officers, ...
How does a big company that is not exactly at a loss for new product ideas drive innovation? When a PepsiCo division focused on "breakthrough innovations" was looking for a second opinion on a slew ...
Got desktop as a service? Probably not. A recent report from Forrester Research says most organizations aren't lining up for the PC-sized version of cloud computing -- at least not yet -- citing ...
Part one of this two-part interview with Forrester Research analyst Glenn O'Donnell focuses on desktop as a service, a cloud computing category the research outfit said is having trouble making it ...
A swarm of mechanical flies. A sheet of material that folds itself into an insectoid robot and scampers off. A Gumby-like figure using thick limbs to crawl across the floor. They're not the stuff ...
I've been thinking about purpose lately -- specifically, about what having purpose means to human beings. Many of us would say our purpose is to be a good father or mother or daughter. We'd say our ...
Choosing the right technology for your private cloud is no doubt crucial -- there are incompatibility issues and the threat of creeping complexity -- but finding the right people for your cloud ...
When Alan Waite first started talking about the difficulty of private cloud computing, he likened what could go wrong to the nine circles of hell in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the 14th-century work ...
The big data conversations among CIOs and senior IT leaders are starting to shift to the Internet of Things, according to Jill Dyche, vice president of best practices at SAS Institute Inc. "I still ...
TechTarget's 2015 Annual Salary and Careers Survey results provided another reminder that while security is a high priority for CIOs and senior IT leaders, privacy is not. When asked to select ...
CIOs who've taken a more conservative stance on 3D printing may want to think again, according to Pete Basiliere, an analyst at Gartner Inc. "It's imperative that the IT organization be prepared ...
The years and days leading up to the anticipated Y2K computer glitch were frenzied for anyone in IT. Rafael Mena, who was a software development project manager at Florida's Orange County ...
The need for speedy development and deployment of applications is a real one -- which is why organizations shouldn't pass on PaaS. That was the gist of a talk on platform as a service by Mike ...
Senior IT leaders and analysts called the $67 billion Dell-EMC deal a good thing, for the most part. A combined and stable Dell-EMC should offer CIOs a great source of products for their company ...
Ram Krishnan has a big job in IT. He is the chief marketing officer (CMO) at Frito-Lay North America, a $14 billion division of PepsiCo. In addition to Fritos corn chips and Lay's "Betcha can't eat ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- How can a chief data officer (CDO) help a CIO? Gartner analyst Debra Logan counted the ways at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo. As businesses go digital, many CIOs will need help, ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- At an event where predictions of tomorrow's technology held center stage -- algorithms operating cars, smart machines helping call center agents do their jobs better, "robo-bosses" ...
Security breaches occur so often now that it's a rare week when one doesn't make the headlines. Companies that hope to have a chance against these constantly evolving threats need to be hiring a ...
The fear of being out-competed by a born-digital upstart is so strong in today's business climate, it requires a new verb. Businesses will do anything to keep from getting "Ubered" -- that is, ...
Emily Mossburg, a principal at Deloitte & Touche LLP, provided information security leaders with some useful insight yesterday into why their jobs are so freaking hard. The occasion was the ...
NEW YORK CITY -- Decisions are oftentimes colored by environment. Consider the humble cafeteria. "When you walk into a cafeteria, something comes first, something comes last," Katherine L. Milkman, ...
By 2020, more than 7 billion people and businesses -- and close to 35 billion devices -- will be connected to the Internet. The prediction, from IT consultancy Gartner, helps make that current "It" ...
United Parcel Service Inc.'s transformation from analog to digital business is well-known in the logistics industry. At the recent Big Data Innovation Summit in Boston, Jack Levis, director of ...
McKinsey & Co. published new data this month on how C-suite executives rate their progress on digital initiatives. Bottom line for CIOs: The shift to digital is a super-high priority for the ...
For last week's Searchlight column, I approached SearchCIO expert and former Citigroup CIO Harvey Koeppel to get his take on HP's layoff of 30,000 jobs in its Enterprise Services business as it ...
Bangalore, Delhi, Manila, Cebu City, Shanghai. CIOs have traveled far afield in search of cheap labor for business process outsourcing (BPO). But according to a recent report from Cliff Justice, ...
Boston was selected to participate in a unique challenge known as 30in30in30: That's 30 pitch events in 30 cities in 30 days. Who's doing the pitching? Startups, many of them with a technology ...
If CIOs and IT leaders want an Internet of Things (IoT) initiative to be successful, they're going to need to work with the business. But expect the relationship between the business and IT to wax ...
Last week, the Apple-Cisco deal barely got a rise out of the analysts I spoke to. This is the partnership between Apple and Cisco aimed at assuring enterprise IT professionals that both companies ...
CIOs taking the big data, cloud, analytics, digitization, [fill in the blank] plunge are often given this piece of advice: Start small. But new research jointly conducted by MIT Sloan Management ...
When I talked to two analysts about whether recent criticism of Microsoft’s new privacy policy for its Windows 10 operating system (OS) was overstated -- one tech writer went so far as to say the ...
When Luis von Ahn was 12, he dreamed of becoming a "gazillionaire" by building a chain of free gyms where the kinetic energy people expended on exercise equipment would be captured and sold to ...
Ralph Loura, CIO of the enterprise group at Hewlett-Packard, participated on a panel at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium where he served up plenty of food for thought for IT leaders. Here are ...
Platforms aren't just for the software industry anymore. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), today's connected, digital customers are looking to buy "outcomes," or measurable results, ...
Last month, Apple chief exec Tim Cook gave an impassioned speech chiding tech companies such as Facebook and Google about their data collection and monetization practices and how they're stepping ...
In part one of this blog post, Gartner analyst and mobile expert Ken Dulaney discussed why the label Generation Mobile is unnecessary and whether he believes U.S. mobile workers indeed feel guilty ...
Perhaps more than how seemingly clueless they are toward politics and economics, Millennials are often characterized by how much they live on their smartphones. What's more, a growing number of ...
CIOs are, by now, familiar with the phrase "fail fast." It's the idea that experimentation and getting new products to market quickly can expose flaws and weaknesses (and sometimes all around duds) ...
Is Christine Hung, the head of data science and engineering at The New York Times Co., stealing a page from the telecommunications playbook? At the recent CDO Summit in New York City, Hung ...
At MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, cybersecurity experts painted a grim picture of the state of cybersecurity today. As positive as the speed of technology change is for the next Ubers and Netflixes of ...
Chief data officers, a relatively recent breed of executives, are often associated with highly regulated and data-heavy industries like insurance, government, health care and financial services. ...
Is the chief digital officer's star being eclipsed by the chief data officer's? Google news alerts and job postings for chief data officers outpace those for chief digital officers by a factor of ...
Data and technology are intricately linked, so it's logical to assume the role of the chief data officer (CDO) should be a function of IT. But, according to Gartner analyst Debra Logan, that ...
Pfizer Inc. may be known for blockbuster prescription drug products drugs like Viagra and Lipitor, but building out that kind of brand recognition isn't easy. Consumers can't buy most Pfizer ...
Copy data -- when used as a term and not meant as an imperative -- is a problem that every organization has, said Phil Goodwin, research director of IDC's Storage Systems and Software research ...
CKE Restaurants, parent company of Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast-food chains, is finding out that if you want to sell people food they didn't know they wanted, leave it to an algorithm. Recently, ...
If businesses want a fresh and competitive mobile strategy, they'll need to break mobile out of the bubble it's been living in. "We're in a post-mobile world," said Kelly Manthey, vice president of ...
Apache Spark, an open source big data processing engine, is trying hard to become the new darling of big data. But is the technology enterprise-ready? The answer to that question is it's getting ...
Although the IoT is being defined by the business right now, CIOs will end up running it, Frank Gillett, principal analyst serving CIOs at Forrester Research, wrote in a briefing. It's a pattern ...
NEW YORK CITY -- Money laundering is a team sport. "The process of cleaning dirty money involves moving funds through an intricate and interconnected series of accounts," said Katie Levans, ...
Having the right talent in your organization is crucial to success. When a company is lagging and just can't seem to pull ahead of the competition in its marketplace, one solution is to acquire a ...