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• Disaster recovery in the cloud takes on new significance post-Sandy

  As large swathes of the East Coast look to resumes operations in Hurricane Sandy’s wake, disaster recovery in the cloud is taking on new significance. Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery ascends to the cloud

  Advances in cloud computing are taking backup strategies skyward and easing common business continuity concerns. Continue Reading

• Information technology costs must consider the human factor

  Despite the emphasis on products and services, information technology costs are still mostly human, new survey data shows. Continue Reading

• How CIOs can quell email overload by adopting true transparency

  When an NYU sophomore accidentally launched the Reply-All-Calypse, it proved that true transparency is key to preventing email overload. Continue Reading

• IT budgets and project management approaches shifting in 2013

  IT budgets will stay flat in 2013, but CIOs are reallocating funds to focus on three transformational and rapid-fire project areas, according to CEB. Continue Reading

• Information security trends: Uneducated users, mobility boom intensify threats

  CompTIA's information security trends study reveals a dangerous disconnect. IT leaders know end users are a big threat but focus resources elsewhere.Continue Reading

• The network capacity horizon of a mobile world

  Sanctioned or unofficial, mobile devices put pressure on enterprises' network capacity. Different approaches are helping CIOs reduce the strain.Continue Reading

• Tackling network capacity in a bring-your-own-device era

  IT executives offer insights into how they are managing network capacity in light of the mobile IT influx.Continue Reading

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• Four approaches to mobile device protection

  From MDM agents to use agreements, here are four steps to consider for mobile device protection.Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity legislation takes a back seat, again

  Cybersecurity legislation was denied again in a Congress that seems disinterested in facing the truth, but there is plenty of blame to go around.Continue Reading

• Free mobile device policy template examples for CIOs

  Is the influx of mobile devices out of control at your organization? These free mobile device policy template examples can help you create guidelines.Continue Reading

• Data security measures for cloud and mobile that don't put users off

  Put the onus for security on back-end data security measures and vendors, not the end user, when it comes to mobile, social and cloud.Continue Reading

• Ten secrets of success from top CFOs speak volumes to CIOs

  Understand how the business makes money. Focus on continuous improvement. Ten secrets of success of some of the nation's top CFOs speak to CIOs too.Continue Reading

• Chasing down the IT gender gap: Women executives needed in technology

  With few women executives in IT leadership, one study offers a possible solution to help close the tech gender gap.Continue Reading

• As cloud's use expands, cloud SLAs more important than ever

  The growing use of cloud technology doesn't dilute the importance of SLAs. IT leaders and analysts assert they may be more important than ever.Continue Reading

• Where do CIOs see their best opportunities for cutting costs?

  Facing flat IT budgets and under pressure to invest in new technology, where do CIOs see opportunities for cutting costs? Follow the money.Continue Reading

• Female Boston CEO vocalizes opinion on absence of women in technology

  Pamela Goldberg, CEO at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, delves into issues surrounding leadership, job skills and women in technology.Continue Reading

• A CIO's reasoning behind upgrading to Windows Server 2012

  CIO Niel Nickolaisen talks up tech trends and why they point him to upgrading to Windows Server 2012.Continue Reading

• Mobile inventory management keeps business 'alive'

  For Bell Nursery, mobile inventory management will keep business from withering on the vine.Continue Reading

• 'Big data' analytics, number-crunching nation

  If the presidential election says nothing else to CIOs, it demonstrates that 'big data' analytics and mobile apps are not technologies as usual.Continue Reading

• CIOs can take leadership role in corporate social responsibility

  Companies that take corporate social responsibility seriously are more trusted by the public, and CIOs can be leaders in making CSR a reality.Continue Reading

• More technology spending in the hands of the business instead of IT

  Gartner Inc. predicts that by 2015, 35% of technology spending won't be controlled by IT but by the business. Here's why.Continue Reading

• Turning paper-and-pencil processes into digital assets triples growth

  An IT leader makes technology a core competency and drives revenue by turning handwritten products into digital assets.Continue Reading

• Is managing BYOD policy a waste of the CIO's time?

  Is BYOD policy a CIO's problem? Three mobility experts weigh in on whether CIOs shouldn't sweat BYOD but focus on the bigger fish they have to fry.Continue Reading

• IT users are now consumers -- and the path to customer satisfaction

  IT users are now really consumers, and providing them with the technology they crave is the fast path to divining and satisfying customer needs.Continue Reading

• How Mobile IT is Revamping Network Strategies

  Mobile IT is radically changing how CIOs look at security, network capacity and their own IT users and customers.Continue Reading

• Sustainable IT strategy drives socially responsible business practices

  As businesses confront a world with rising energy costs and shrinking resources, a sustainable IT strategy can be a key enabler for change.Continue Reading

• Free IT organizational structure chart templates for the CIO

  Use these free IT organizational structure chart templates to illustrate the relationships and hierarchy between various IT roles in your enterprise.Continue Reading

• IT Leadership Awards move beyond business process improvement

  Our IT Leadership Awards look for innovative ideas in business process improvement that answer unspoken organizational needs.Continue Reading

• Steps CIOs can take to harness digital disruption

  How does a CIO get involved in digital disruption? Analyst Nigel Fenwick offers a framework.Continue Reading

• Unified communications systems can be boon for SMB budgets

  For collaborative potential and cost savings, unified communications systems are worth embracing for SMB and midmarket businesses.Continue Reading

• CIOs must craft a hiring strategy for the 'perfect storm'

  Crafting an IT hiring strategy has rarely been easy. Today, CIOs are facing a confluence of three pressures that make the job even harder.Continue Reading

• Incentive-based pricing models for your next IT outsourcing contract

  Looking to add oomph to your standard IT outsourcing contract? Here are three incentive-based pricing models that might help.Continue Reading

• Newest trends in IT shifting CIO concerns

  The newest trends in IT are shifting CIO concerns. Learn about the driving forces behind these shifts in this video interview with Shvetank Shah.Continue Reading

• Data virtualization plays big in Gartner's future IT trend predictions

  Data virtualization is king: Gartner analyst David Cappuccio predicts five big IT trends for the next five years.Continue Reading

• Gartner makes predictions on the future of information technology

  Gartner analyst David Cappuccio lists top ten trends in the future of information technology.Continue Reading

• The rise of the chief data officer

  Whether you do the job yourself or work alongside the person who does it, the one executive role CIOs must be aware of in 2013 is chief data officer.Continue Reading

• IT service catalog best practices: Is not having one key to better IT?

  Executives talk a lot about IT service catalog best practices, but what if the best approach is not having one? Consultant John Weathington explains.Continue Reading

• Radical change or incremental steps? Digital disruption is both

  Digital disruption is associated with speed and surprise. But CIOs need to know that incremental change also has strong disruptive potential.Continue Reading

• Windows Server 2012 storage feature drill-down

  Independent Windows Server expert Anil Desai drills down into Windows Server 2012 storage enhancements geared toward data center efficiencies.Continue Reading

• Ezine Download: Let's Get Down to Social Business

  This new edition of CIO Decisions e-zine explores how social collaboration is changing both IT and the enterprise as a whole. With the right approach to values, processes, strategies and thinking, IT leaders can leverage social collaboration to ...Continue Reading

• Governance and leadership lessons from a health care CIO

  A seasoned CIO acts as the governance and leadership beacon for a statewide health care initiative spanning 12 groups and millions of dollars.Continue Reading

• Free social media policy template examples for enterprise CIOs

  Searching for guidelines on corporate social media? Use these free social media policy template examples to create a code of conduct at your company.Continue Reading

• Cloud governance: Balancing the risks and rewards

  Cloud governance requires a savvy touch. Find out how to balance the rewards and risks of ad hoc cloud purchases.Continue Reading

• Consumerization reshaping enterprise IT strategies

  Consumerization is reshaping the technologies enterprises choose to, and not to, support, as well as the way vendors cater to business needs.Continue Reading

• Building a digital workplace, one office at a time

  As the digital workplace expands, CIOs must adopt new models for distributing information and gleaning customer insights. Learn more in this podcast.Continue Reading

• Virtual desktop infrastructure saves more than time

  Virtual desktop infrastructure is saving seconds and saving lives at Seattle Children's Hospital.Continue Reading

• The chief security officer of the future will tackle decentralized IT

  The chief security officer of the future will face myriad threats in a decentralized IT environment. Here's how risk management might look in 2020.Continue Reading

• 2013 budget outlook: The two faces of the tech hiring crunch

  Two CIOs have different 2013 budget outlooks, but one problem in common: Tech hiring is tough.Continue Reading

• Building a bona fide business intelligence platform

  How do you launch a BI platform that increases BI experts six-fold? Admit you know less about your data than you think.Continue Reading

• Survey shows sharp uptick in appetite for cloud disaster recovery

  TechTarget's 2012 Cloud Pulse survey shows a growing interest in cloud disaster recovery among businesses already using other cloud solutions.Continue Reading

• The end of offshore outsourcing? CIOs quietly reshoring IT jobs

  U.S. manufacturers are making big news by bringing back offshore outsourcing jobs, but CIOs are quietly reshoring IT jobs as well.Continue Reading

• A cloud hangs over CIO budgets and tech hiring

  CIOs will face more pressure to cut costs, according to the CIO survey from SIM. But the details of CIO budgets and tech hiring are complicated.Continue Reading

• Privacy and data protection governance in five steps

  From data privacy scope to mapping laws to business requirements, Forrester Research outlines five steps to privacy and data protection governance.Continue Reading

• Enterprise cloud services providers: Recent coverage for CIOs

  Does your cloud strategy call for an enterprise cloud services provider -- or several? Review our recent coverage on cloud services pros and cons.Continue Reading

• CIO: Innovation driven by IT simplification processes

  IT simplification processes are driving innovation at insurance company Northwestern Mutual. Learn more in this interview with CIO Tim Schaefer.Continue Reading

• BI and big data: Enterprise CIO Decisions Vol. 13

  CIOs are steering the ship as BI and big data strategies go mobile or rise to the cloud. Find out how in this issue of Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine.Continue Reading

• Cloud applications are the future, but how long will it take?

  Cloud applications will be everywhere someday, but new research says there are still a lot of doubters. What's behind this data?Continue Reading

• Ten social media strategy tips for the IT organization

  Is your IT team tackling social media with aplomb? Here are 10 social media strategy tips and best practices to guide your efforts.Continue Reading

• Avoid data latency with Hadoop, Sears CTO says

  Organizations looking to reduce data latency troubles are turning to the Hadoop framework and data science analytics. Learn more in this video Q&A.Continue Reading

• A CIO blueprint for cloud migration

  Read how University of Nebraska CIO Walter Weir pulled off a massive email cloud migration with relative ease.Continue Reading

• Ten enterprise social media strategy tips for midmarket CIOs

  Social networking engagements require a strong plan of attack. Draw on these 10 enterprise social media tips to guide your midmarket organization.Continue Reading

• Strategies for enterprise storage systems in a virtualized environment

  Take a look at how virtualized environments can benefit from the right enterprise storage strategy.Continue Reading

• Establishing an effective BYOD security policy

  Is your IT staff struggling to keep up with the security demands brought on by trends like consumerization? Let’s face it, shutting your doors to social applications, certain websites and mobile devices can create an unhappy workforce. So how do you...Continue Reading

• Free elevator pitch examples and templates for IT and the business

  An elevator pitch is a great tool for tailored speeches and pitches. To craft your own, check out these free elevator pitch examples and templates.Continue Reading

• In 'big data' visualization, seeing is believing -- but is that good?

  To understand "big data," engaging our visual sense is critical; but getting the art and science right in big data visualization is tough.Continue Reading

• The death of competitive advantage: How Apple Maps drove off the road

  Apple's decision to include homegrown Apple Maps in its latest iPhone offering demonstrates a huge process-fail lesson for CIOs.Continue Reading

• 'Big data' management? More like 'big decisions' management

  'Big data' management worries CIOs, who want to be sure that business intelligence efforts are worth it. To start, make smart big decisions first.Continue Reading

• The new social media security: Smart policy architecture for CIOs

  With intelligent policy architecture, social media security doesn't have to be a CIO nightmare.Continue Reading

• Building an enterprise social network for the 'extended' brain trust

  A chief information architect is handed a challenge: build an enterprise social network for the best brains in the world.Continue Reading

• Should cloud service providers take a vertical tack?

  A specialty approach could be the answer for cloud service providers looking to ease enterprise CIO risk and compliance concerns.Continue Reading

• The 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Secrets to writing a winning nomination

  Winning awards often comes down to writing a captivating nomination. Here's what the judges are looking for in our sites' 2013 IT Leadership Awards.Continue Reading

• CIO guidelines for using social media for business and career growth

  Expert Scott Lowe offers CIOs guidelines on how to use social media for business, career tips and more.Continue Reading

• Avoiding and rebounding from enterprise risks

  Enterprise risks cost more than downtime. Learn how to identify, respond to and recover from disruptive incidents in this expert podcast.Continue Reading

• Why cloud service providers also should be security coaches

  Cloud service providers can serve their customers better by coaching them through gray areas of security and compliance.Continue Reading

• UC and social collaboration platforms: Will the twain ever meet?

  Unified communications and social collaboration are different, often competing tools in the quest for anytime, anywhere (with anyone) computing.Continue Reading

• The data wars are just beginning

  In the coming data wars, many companies will be left out in the cold, and big data analytics won't be their only problem.Continue Reading

• SearchCIO.com Enterprise IT Leadership Awards 2013: Top CIOs sought

  SearchCIO.com's Enterprise IT Leadership Awards 2013 are underway! Enter your CIO/IT exec who demonstrates technology innovation and business acumen.Continue Reading

• SearchCIO-Midmarket.com 2013 IT Leadership Awards: Nominations sought

  SearchCIO-Midmarket.com's 2013 IT Leadership Awards are underway! Enter your CIO/IT exec who demonstrates technology innovation and business acumen.Continue Reading

• The power of social networks and Generation Facebook strategies

  The rise of Generation Facebook means that new rules must be applied to managing and empowering employees via social networks; here are a few to start.Continue Reading

• Cloud-based storage, replete with pros and cons, gaining traction

  Cost savings, security assurances, ease of use and consumerization all have a hand in growing popularity of cloud-based storage.Continue Reading

• Should CIOs be responsible for social media best practices?

  Should CIOs be involved in social media roles within their companies? These social media best practices for CIOs may surprise you.Continue Reading

• Back-to-school time: 10 free business training online courses for CIOs

  September means it's time to go back to school -- even for CIOs. Check out these 10 free business training online courses from Stanford and moreContinue Reading

• Awash in tools, CIOs strive to fit storage strategy to business need

  New tools add all kinds of options for an enterprise storage strategy, but for CIOs, one constant holds fast: Do what's best of the business.Continue Reading

• Digital media strategy tops CIOs' priorities

  CIOs say digital media strategy leads business innovation and competitive advantage project initiatives, according to Harvey Nash CIO 2012 survey.Continue Reading

• Making a business case for data storage and backup

  CIO Niel Nickolaisen lays out how he gets the business to invest in storage and backup technologies starting with a business case for the value of data.Continue Reading

• New Kindle SD price point very seductive to CIOs -- and consumers

  Amazon's Kindle SD is a low-cost tablet for the masses. Will CIOs jump? Our latest CIO Matters column discusses the tidal shift in consumerization.Continue Reading

• The social networking revolution will go only as far as the people

  The social networking revolution is upon us, but will it change business for the better? It will go only as far as the people participating in it.Continue Reading

• Cloud service providers push data ownership, lukewarm on SLAs

  Cloud service provider execs from Microsoft, Amazon.com, Rackspace and Salesforce.com take on the intricacies of SLAs and data ownership.Continue Reading

• Let's get down to business with social collaboration tools

  Social collaboration tools hold the power to deliver increased value to your customers while promoting employee engagement. So, how can CIOs make the most out of collaboration and solidify the alignment between business and IT? This new edition of ...Continue Reading

• Government CIO headlines mobile and online collaboration effort

  One government CIO is building relationships via a mobile collaboration effort. Learn more in this video interview with Boston CIO Bill Oates.Continue Reading

• Should social business strategy fall under the purview of the CIO?

  "Social business strategy" might be just another buzzword -- or it might be a chance for the CIO to take on a powerful new enterprise role.Continue Reading

• Free PICK chart templates: Organize ideas for IT and the business

  Use these free PICK chart templates as a resource to help IT and the business organize ideas and prioritize IT projects.Continue Reading

• The POTUS demonstrates business transparency through social media

  When President Obama asked Reddit users to ask him anything, he gave CIOs a lesson in business transparency.Continue Reading

• Four big cloud providers respond to four big cloud computing questions

  Execs from cloud providers Microsoft, Amazon, Rackspace and Salesforce speak on top customer questions: security, outages, SLAs and data ownership.Continue Reading

• Business technology strategy: Where's the beef?

  Research shows there may be some disconnects in how corporations are executing their business technology strategy.Continue Reading

• How to succeed in social networking and collaboration

  Enterprise social networking and collaboration efforts come with high failure rates. Here's how to beat the odds.Continue Reading

• Customizing outsourcing IT operations critical for midmarket CIOs

  When outsourcing IT operations, midmarket companies sometimes find that a better and less expensive workforce lives much closer than India.Continue Reading

• Redefining education with digital learning in the cloud

  MIT and Harvard are redefining education with digital learning programs in the cloud. Learn more in this video interview with MIT's Anant Agarwal.Continue Reading