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• Five common disaster planning and recovery pitfalls to avoid

  Testing the efficacy of your enterprise's disaster planning and recovery strategy is crucial to avoiding common pitfalls. In this slideshow, learn about five DR follies to avoid. Continue Reading

• CIOs share secrets on reaping hybrid computing benefits

  These CIOs were early adopters of hybrid computing architecture. Here they share their tips for reaping the benefits and dodging the landmines. Continue Reading

• Hacker mindset a prereq for security engineers, says Markley CTO

  In this video excerpt, Markley Group CTO Patrick Gilmore talks about why today's ideal security engineer is someone who is paranoid, aggressive and really liked to hack stuff as a teenager. Continue Reading

• Hopper: Crunching big data, making travel easier

  Startup Hopper has set its sights on disrupting the travel business, with a hefty assist from big data and an aggressively agile work environment. Continue Reading

• Disaster prevention and mitigation strategies: Strike early and often

  Prepare for IT disaster of any kind with this Essential Guide, which offers CIOs advice on prevention, mitigation and business continuity. Continue Reading

• IT disaster recovery plan: What's your testing timetable?

  SearchCIO's tweet jam participants debated and deliberated on a well-considered IT disaster recovery plan test schedule. Read their conclusions in this #CIOChat recap.Continue Reading

• Is your CEO to blame for shadow apps?

  SaaS risk, part two: The C-suite can take part of the blame for shadow apps by encouraging IT to focus on money-making IT systems at the expense of other lines of business. Also, security tools that pay dividends for CIOs.Continue Reading

• Shadow apps: Turning SaaS risk into CIO strategy

  What can businesses' willy-nilly adoption of SaaS apps do for CIOs? Remove the invisibility cloak, and shadow apps become a golden opportunity to enable business goals, beef up security and save money.Continue Reading

• Social networking tools are the new email: Three tips from a CTO

  It's past time for CIOs to embrace enterprise social networking tools, says SearchCIO expert Niel Nickolaisen. Seek them out, measure their business value, and don't get discouraged if at first they don't succeed.Continue Reading

• Internal vs. external customers? CIO Brook Colangelo doesn't buy it

  At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, IT is adopting 'radical simplicity' to better serve its internal and external customers.Continue Reading

• Seven data science lessons from McGraw-Hill Education analytics guru

  What programming language should every data scientist know? How should data scientists be trained? Why do you need more women on your team? McGraw-Hill Education's Alfred Essa answers those questions and more.Continue Reading

• Is it time to revamp your disaster recovery management program?

  Disasters of all stripes -- from hurricanes to data leaks -- are bound to happen, and happen often, so a solid disaster recovery management program is a must. Take this quiz to find out if your DR plan is up to the task.Continue Reading

• Managing IT services at breakneck speed

  Managing IT services has always required meeting users where they want those services. But in the age of cloud, mobile and self-service IT, enterprise CIOs have little choice but to re-examine and, in many cases, completely revamp their IT service ...Continue Reading

• How to prevent spyware on mobile devices

  Security expert Michael Cobb offers suggestions to prevent spyware from infiltrating mobile devices.Continue Reading

• Daimler Trucks CIO: Pivotal student experience shaped leadership style

  Daimler Trucks CIO Dieter Haban's bitter lesson as a young postdoc made him a better CIO.Continue Reading

• The cancer patient comes first for CTCA CIO when setting IT strategy

  CIO Kristin Darby prioritizes competing IT demands at Cancer Treatment Centers of America by putting the patient first.Continue Reading

• Top CIOs reveal their biggest information technology issues

  We asked some of today's leading CIOs to share their biggest IT challenges of the past year and how they overcame them.Continue Reading

• The CIO cloud blueprint: A strategic planning guide

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how to craft an enterprise cloud blueprint that supports your organization's software and infrastructure needs.Continue Reading

• The new infonomics reality: Determining the value of data

  Is your enterprise ready to derive top dollar from your data? Infonomics is the field that treats corporate information as a valuable asset, but how to properly assign that value is the million-dollar -- or is that billion-dollar? -- question...Continue Reading

• AT&T CIO built IT career by taking on 'least comfortable' roles

  AT&T CIO and 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award winner Thaddeus Arroyo built a CIO career by taking on roles where he felt 'least comfortable.'Continue Reading

• Five questions your CFOs are asking about security and risk management

  CFOs peppered a panel of security experts on how to establish security in a software as a service (SaaS) world.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Evolving threats warrant strong cybersecurity program, strategy

  CIOs must craft a cybersecurity program and strategy strong enough to combat today's breed of breaches. In this quiz, learn how to battle cybercrime.Continue Reading

• Leading the digital enterprise: Five tips on how to get there

  This year's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium focused on the digital enterprise and how the line between internal and external customers is blurring.Continue Reading

• How does focusing on UX help CIOs demonstrate VDI ROI?

  How does emphasizing user experience help CIOs demonstrate the ROI of virtual desktop infrastructure? Brad Maltz responds in this Ask the Expert.Continue Reading

• Better data decision making starts with building trust

  Collecting unruly data often results in analytics faux pas. Our #CIOChat-ters discuss better data decision making in our prescriptive analytics chat.Continue Reading

• Free process mapping template examples for CIOs

  We scoured the Web for process mapping template examples to help CIOs better understand how to establish, align and manage IT and business processes.Continue Reading

• Fasten your seatbelts for the new mobility age

  Innovations of the new mobility age, including the connected car, mean that CIOs need to reframe their mobile strategy with a customer-focused slant.Continue Reading

• The mobile customer experience comes first

  As innovations such as the connected car become more commonplace in the consumer marketplace, enterprise CIOs are taking a whole new look at their mobile customer experience strategy. In this issue of CIO Decisions e-zine, SearchCIO looks at ...Continue Reading

• Enterprise cybersecurity is every CIO's problem

  As household names like Target make headlines due to security breaches, many organizations are realizing that a sound enterprise cybersecurity program can be a competitive advantage -- and not only in the eyes of consumers. A dedicated cybersecurity...Continue Reading

• A data Rx that's hard to swallow

  Analytics automation slip-ups have raised concerns about taking every data-driven Rx. #CIOChat-ters share their prescriptive analytics hesitations.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive analytics management advice from the pros

  Prescriptive analytics management requires a forward-looking bent and a focus on fixing flaws. Read what the experts in our e-zine say matters most.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive method of analytics boasts broad benefits

  Can the prescriptive method of analytics improve business outcomes in your industry? #CIOChat participants sound off on the potential and the reality.Continue Reading

• Ten open data examples to get CIOs thinking

  Say hello to open data; the agricultural industry gets "smarter"; and UNICEF innovates: The Data Mill reports.Continue Reading

• Emerging security technology: What's old is new again

  Emerging security technology channels basic logging tools and ancient cultures as IT execs turn to old-school tech to protect precious data.Continue Reading

• Top enterprise IT spending trends and priorities of 2014

  TechTarget's annual IT Priorities Survey shows IT's evolving technology priorities, with virtualization, BI, mobility and more topping the list.Continue Reading

• Quiz: IT outsourcing management considerations for CIOs

  CIOs must be well-versed in IT outsourcing management considerations to succeed in today's business climate. Review recent coverage and take our quiz.Continue Reading

• Chief digital officers are a blessing and a curse for CIOs

  The ripple effect of social media, the powerful position of the CDO and how big data connects with neuroscience: The Data Mill reports.Continue Reading

• CTO takes on cyberthreats with hybrid security built on risk profiling

  A hybrid security defense begins by ranking potential risks by likelihood and impact, then hiring experts to shore up defenses.Continue Reading

• Three reasons tech budgets remain firmly within CIO control

  Forrester's Andy Bartels spells out the reasons CIOs remain central to tech budgets, starting with the reality that CMOs don't want to go it alone.Continue Reading

• Block the cyberhacks, play cyberoffense

  As corporations go high-tech, the bad guys go low-tech around cyberdefenses. Here's what CIOs miss and how to go on the cyberoffense.Continue Reading

• CIOs harnessing and fine-tuning the cloud model -- and here's proof

  CIOs harness the power of cloud computing and fine-tune their individual cloud model to the business' benefit.Continue Reading

• How to hire a website developer that does the business good

  Two small businesses with big website requirements explain how they ultimately got what they wanted in a website developer.Continue Reading

• Free templates: IT vendor selection, social sharing and mobile devices

  SearchCIO has rounded up free templates from around the Web providing guidance on IT vendor selection, social sharing and mobile device policies.Continue Reading

• CIOs should prepare for the battle between old BI and new BI

  BI and analytics will experience rapid adoption in 2014 as BI vendors face a changing market.Continue Reading

• Automated scripts can cause mobile app security problems

  Part two of SearchCIO's six tips for avoiding mobile security mistakes looks at the limitations of non-human safeguards.Continue Reading

• Six tips for avoiding mobile security problems with mobile apps

  Take it from some of the world's biggest brands: Mobile app security problems happen. Here are six tips for avoiding mobile app security mistakes.Continue Reading

• Seven not-so-obvious roles your analytics pro will have to play

  What skills do CIOs need to develop or bring in-house to take on big data and advanced analytics? Here are some not-so-obvious candidates.Continue Reading

• Enterprise risk management strategy: A planning guide for CIOs

  Identify, monitor and vanquish threats to the business with this Essential Guide for CIOs on enterprise risk management strategy and planning.Continue Reading

• Are you keeping up with technology or opening the door for rogue IT?

  Is your IT organization keeping up with technology or falling hopelessly behind? Discuss whether past-its-prime tech justifies a turn toward rogue IT.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive analytics: Start with the business problem

  Learn how some organizations are pioneering prescriptive analytics to revolutionize how work gets done. For starters, focus on the business problem.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive analysis: Just what the doctor ordered

  Prescriptive analysis could do some of big data thinking for us -- if only we'd let it. This CIO Decisions e-zine explores the growing analytics field and the strategies at work.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive analytics: Conquer the next business frontier

  Is an optimized future within our grasp? With prescriptive analytics, it just might be. Businesses have long used data analytics to find out what happened and why. Today, some companies are using prescriptive analytics tools to identify what might ...Continue Reading

• IT leaders rethink definition of 'rogue IT' and focus on user needs

  Bring your own technology has CIOs reconsidering their definition of 'rogue IT' and refocusing their attention on user needs and innovation.Continue Reading

• Prescriptive Analytics: The Next Frontier

  Is an optimized future within our grasp? With prescriptive analytics, it just might be. Learn more in this month's issue of CIO Decisions e-zine.Continue Reading

• CIOs architect a cloud computing business model, with watchful eye on costs

  CIOs dissect the true enterprise costs and value of the cloud computing model and, in the process, secure that elusive 'seat at the table.'Continue Reading

• CIOs exploit the cloud computing model for business gains

  So, cloud spells the end of corporate IT? Not for these CIOs. They're exploiting the cloud computing model to benefit their businesses.Continue Reading

• A CTO reflects on VDI implementation trials and errors

  CTO Niel Nickolaisen reflects back on the reasons some of his VDI implementations never made it past the experimentation stage.Continue Reading

• 14 questions that drive cloud computing strategies in the right direction

  Stop debating what the cloud is and start asking these 14 questions that develop cloud strategies for the business worth talking about.Continue Reading

• Take off the tech hat when contemplating cloud adoption strategy

  Isn't the cloud just outsourcing, the Internet? IT strategy expert Harvey Koeppel ponders the winding (and often misleading) paths to cloud adoption.Continue Reading

• Plenty of drivers to craft a hybrid cloud strategy, but caveats too

  Keeping the data center but keen on cloud? Take in this tip to learn about building a strong hybrid cloud strategy.Continue Reading

• Don't analyze this, not all data is a big deal

  Searchlight looks at putting the brakes on over-collecting data, why Quicken Loans will win March Madness, Google's research methods and more.Continue Reading

• Top 5 lessons from the data sports craze

  Proper presentation of data will help analytics gain hearts and minds.Continue Reading

• Free IT templates for CIOs and technology managers

  SearchCIO rounded up free IT templates from around the Web to help technology managers organize their IT departments, projects and service offerings.Continue Reading

• Top 5 Dysfunctions that Mean Trouble for your IT Team

  Find out 5 pain points that could be plaguing your IT team.Continue Reading

• Follow the flying car 'proof of process' business model to $1 billion?

  Faster and safer than a car, easier to operate than a plane, more convenient than commercial flying, here comes the flying car -- again.Continue Reading

• Rogue and shadow technology: Do you know where your IT is?

  Organizations with rogue or shadow technology might be taking some risks, but they're also enabling business agility. Discuss with us in #CIOChat.Continue Reading

• Talking SMAC with Dell CIO Andi Karaboutis

  Dell CIO Andi Karaboutis talks about the demand for SMAC -- social, mobile, analytics and cloud -- and Dell IT's progress on self-service analytics.Continue Reading

• How Dell CIO turned Dell IT from order takers to business partners

  Dell CIO Andi Karaboutis spent Dell's first year as a newly private company turning her 5,000-strong IT group into a business juggernaut. Here's how.Continue Reading

• Big data in motion

  Organizations of all shapes and sizes are finding that moving large data sets around presents a number of network challenges. So what are the problems, the solutions and the workarounds? In this SearchCIO handbook, we confront the obstacles posed by...Continue Reading

• CIO Leadership: Qualities, Quotes, and Quandaries

  Expert insight and input from the top CIOsContinue Reading

• Data Analytics Do’s and Don’ts for the CIO

  How to cull valuable business insights and communicate them effectively.Continue Reading

• Sources of IT Dysfunction: How People, Politics, and Personal Relationships Come into Play

  Experts reveal signs of distress plus the secrets to achieving synergy.Continue Reading

• The Dynamic of IT Teams in 2014

  5 big dysfunctions that will hurt your IT team. How to avoid these pitfalls and turn a dysfunctional team around.Continue Reading

• Good Communication: The Do’s and Don’ts for Data Analytics

  5 lessons from the sports data craze- Improve data analytics with solid communication.Continue Reading

• When does more data trump clean data?

  As CIOs support real-time data use, they're faced with a tough question: How clean is clean enough?Continue Reading

• External social platforms replace the company intranet

  The power of social platforms, hijacking the shopping experience and two-speed IT: The Data Mill reports.Continue Reading

• BYOD acceptable use policy requires answering the five W's

  A BYOD framework is built by asking the five W's on many acceptable use policy levels, explains mobility expert Craig Mathias in this webcast series.Continue Reading

• The four cornerstones of a successful BYOD program

  A BYOD security policy is one cornerstone of a successful BYOD program. Learn why flexibility is also crucial to BYOD success, in this webcast series.Continue Reading

• The appification trend may be hurting technology as a whole

  Searchlight looks at whether the appification trend is bad for tech as a whole, plus a plea for the Web's future, Google is full of Fiber and more.Continue Reading

• Strong CIO/CMO alliance paves way for data-driven marketing strategy

  IT and marketing executives illuminate the need for building a strong CIO/CMO alliance and offer steps to get you there.Continue Reading

• It's time to merge asset and configuration management tools

  Big data is one reason CIOs should be thinking about merging asset and configuration management tools; licensing risk exposure is another.Continue Reading

• Big data to CIOs: Learn to extract value from disruptive technologies

  SearchCIO's Harvey Koeppel takes an unflinching look at 10 disruptive technologies and comes up with seven ways in which they change how IT gets done.Continue Reading

• Configuration management, IT asset management need to be integrated

  To align configuration management and asset management processes, ITSM expert Derek Lonsdale says start with the data and use an integrated tool set.Continue Reading

• CIO careers: A guide to getting ahead

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how CIOs in high-level careers in IT are driving their enterprises -- and profession -- forward.Continue Reading

• Careers in information technology: A CIO guide to getting ahead in IT

  In this CIO Essential Guide, learn how CIOs in high-level careers in IT are driving their enterprises -- and profession -- forward.Continue Reading

• Advice for small business owners on whether to build a mobile app

  Building a mobile app can give small business owners a competitive edge, but it's not for everyone. Christine Parizo explains why.Continue Reading

• Enabling workforce mobility

  Enabling workforce mobility goes beyond purchasing smartphones and tablets for enterprise staff or initiating bring your own device (BYOD) programs. The task at hand for progress-minded CIOs is enabling digital business through the use of these new ...Continue Reading

• CIO advice for wrangling rogue IT in the consumerization age

  Not all rogue IT is bad for business. Here, we look at how CIOs keep tabs of the tech outside of IT and handling risk.Continue Reading

• Out of the shadows: Rogue IT is becoming CIO business as usual

  The consumerization of IT and increasing demands for business agility are forcing the evolution of rogue IT. How are CIOs responding?Continue Reading

• Rogue technology and the Big Bad Wolf

  When thinking of rogue IT in today's enterprise, envision the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.Continue Reading

• Rogue technology: What lies beneath

  Rogue technology can wreak havoc on legacy systems and expose companies to serious security threats. Yet business people often need quick, over-the-counter products to solve business problems, and CIOs and business executives must balance the need ...Continue Reading

• How to build an agile startup, and other tips from CIOs

  In the latest issue of CIO Decisions e-zine, CIOs at enterprise organizations tell us how they've nurtured an agile startup culture in IT.Continue Reading

• In dark days for privacy, protecting data gets more hands-on

  In the Searchlight, protecting data is getting more hands-on as Snowden leaks mount. Plus, get moving on big data, get hired at Google and more.Continue Reading

• Why is 'bring your own encryption' (BYOE) important?

  In this Ask the Expert, Forrester analyst James Staten details the importance of the bring your own encryption (BYOE) fad as a cloud security model.Continue Reading

• On a day of praise for disruptive technologies, a word of caution

  A former Google engineer schools aspiring disruptors on what really matters when deploying disruptive technology for human consumption.Continue Reading

• Free project management template examples for strategic IT planning

  These free project management template examples from around the Web provide project guidelines and strategic IT planning tools to CIOs and IT leaders.Continue Reading

• The enterprise data hub poised to become the heart of data management?

  Moving big data can cause network strain, leading some businesses to turn to the enterprise data hub.Continue Reading

• Overcoming the big data bottleneck caused by data in transit

  By investing in new technology, a research consortium avoids the big headache caused by big data in transit.Continue Reading

• Enable mobile workers by enabling digital business: Eight tips for CIOs

  From 33,000 feet up, traveling 420 miles per hour, expert contributor Harvey Koeppel offers CIOs eight tips for keeping pace with mobile workers.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Careers in information technology and how to get ahead

  Attention, readers with careers in information technology: Take this quiz and learn how to get ahead, earn more money and hone project ambitions.Continue Reading