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CIO careers: Seeking legal experts
16 Apr 2010 -
Computer hardware upgrades and iPhone OS 4: When software spurs buying
09 Apr 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Cloud computing, IT innovation, CIO role and DR/BC
07 Apr 2010
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Five steps to playing a bigger part in your company's M&A
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 07 Apr 2010 -
A move to cloud computing services -- back in 1999
07 Apr 2010 -
BI strategy: What Holy Grail are you seeking?
30 Mar 2010 -
Small IT innovations -- even savvy font management! -- can cut costs
26 Mar 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: National cybersecurity list, basketball technology
22 Mar 2010 -
Success with cloud applications calls for a strong data-privacy policy
19 Mar 2010 -
Up next: Cloud computing management
16 Mar 2010
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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CIO weekly wrap-up: What is Foursquare's draw? Also Balanced Scorecard
15 Mar 2010 -
ITIL framework and IT outsourcing a formidable duo
12 Mar 2010 -
Are you stress testing your IT strategies?
09 Mar 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Web browser wars in Europe, iPad's new ad and more
08 Mar 2010 -
Are innovation strategies back on CIO agendas?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 03 Mar 2010 -
Public sector challenges mitigated by IT governance framework
26 Feb 2010 -
Is it better to work for an outsourcing provider than for corporate IT?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 24 Feb 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Is the Windows 7 phone suited for the enterprise?
22 Feb 2010 -
WordPress problems: Temporary blog failure shows need for DR, BC plans
19 Feb 2010 -
Virtualization aids in disaster recovery when budget is tight
16 Feb 2010 -
Silicon Valley economy: Recession hitting IT hard at its epicenter
12 Feb 2010 -
Beware the dark side of the IT PMO
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 10 Feb 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Super Bowl technology and Google's advertising
08 Feb 2010 -
2009 IT lessons: How did the recession change your IT organization?
04 Feb 2010 -
Merck, Chevron and BP are touting a new IT management framework
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 04 Feb 2010 -
Business intelligence software as a revenue generator
01 Feb 2010 -
The next big enterprise business tool: the iPad? Share your thoughts
29 Jan 2010 -
Oracle plays hardball with Rimini on third-party maintenance
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Jan 2010 -
2010 IT budgets are unsettled and unsettling
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 21 Jan 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Help Haiti using technology, IT outsourcing deals
18 Jan 2010 -
IT and business alignment tactics
12 Jan 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT salaries, security budgets, IT in 2010 and more
11 Jan 2010 -
Can enterprise business intelligence be agile?
08 Jan 2010 -
Customer feedback management: Is anybody listening?
20 Nov 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation
16 Nov 2009 -
UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential
- TechTarget 13 Nov 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation
09 Nov 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT's value, agile methodology, outsourcing and SOA
02 Nov 2009 -
An IT outsourcing contract without penalties? A state pays the price
29 Oct 2009 -
Gen X, not Gen Y, leads adoption of social technologies in workplace
- Editor 09 Oct 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: CIO mistakes, qualities of a good leader and ITIL
05 Oct 2009 -
How Google and Yahoo improved data center energy efficiency
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 24 Sep 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Service portfolio management, ITSM, email scandal
21 Sep 2009 -
Three ways to reach out to women in IT: Mentor, advocate, encourage
- TechTarget 18 Sep 2009 -
IT services outsourcing: Do you have an ‘India-plus-one’ strategy?
28 Aug 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Pros and cons of outsourcing, ITIL framework, PPM
24 Aug 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing, PPM vs. SharePoint, cloud risks
10 Aug 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Leveraging talent, change management, cloud trends
03 Aug 2009 -
A disaster recovery plan meets cloud computing
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 31 Jul 2009 -
How will IT outsourcing play out in companies’ recovery plans?
23 Jul 2009 -
What is transparency, and how is it relevant to IT?
- Editor 17 Jul 2009 -
Is Google Chrome OS a turning point or yawner?
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 08 Jul 2009 -
Satyam scandal: Has it affected your IT outsourcing and offshoring?
25 Jun 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, PPM software, compliance in the cloud
15 Jun 2009 -
PPM projects: If portfolio management works, why is it so rare?
11 Jun 2009 -
Twitter for business: A help or a hassle at IT conferences?
28 May 2009 -
Why don’t connected healthcare information systems work?
- Editor 22 May 2009 -
Adding a 'business downturn' clause to your telecom contracts
- Editor 07 May 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Challenges of a state CIO, BPM, SOA and ROI
04 May 2009 -
Oracle buys Sun: When strategic vendors go bye-bye
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 22 Apr 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Private cloud, ID management, security compliance
30 Mar 2009 -
IBM layoffs: India Business Machines Corp.?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 25 Mar 2009 -
Cost savings on IT contractors: How to get the best rates
20 Mar 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, sourcing contracts and IT governance
16 Mar 2009 -
IT centralization grows as approach to IT consolidation
- TechTarget 13 Feb 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: SaaS contracts, vendor management, data protection
09 Feb 2009 -
Desktop virtualization tradeoffs and benefits: What did I miss?
06 Feb 2009 -
Windows 7 migration: First thoughts
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 16 Jan 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: 2009 IT trends, network access control, CPM and BI
12 Jan 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Cutting IT costs, virtualization and more
08 Dec 2008 -
Social networking sites, credit fears leading to new spam attacks
04 Dec 2008 -
A top 10 list for how to be a successful CIO
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 01 Dec 2008 -
SaaS integration easier said than done
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 25 Nov 2008 -
Tech warriors on the offensive
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 31 Oct 2008 -
Halloween costumes for techies
30 Oct 2008 -
Information technology ‘down but not out’ this time around?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Oct 2008 -
Sunrise, sunset: Sun Microsystems’ Bechtolsheim decamps to take on Cisco
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 24 Oct 2008 -
Top 10 strategic IT technologies: Boo!
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 17 Oct 2008 -
How Microsoft takes stock of your online experience
15 Oct 2008 -
Three men arraigned in alleged IT kickback scheme
02 Oct 2008 -
Work email: When it just can’t wait until morning
25 Sep 2008 -
A CIO by way of Jack Welch
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 25 Sep 2008 -
Think like a hacker (and other World of Warcraft-inspired musings)
05 Sep 2008 -
Take this, viruses!
11 Aug 2008 -
Driving while surfing?
31 Jul 2008 -
Maybe I should just keep my money under a mattress?
24 Jul 2008 -
Does it matter who CIOs report to?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 23 Jul 2008 -
TomorrowNow is so yesterday
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 21 Jul 2008 -
Who wants to be a CIO Millionaire?
16 Jul 2008 -
Boston Globe: Cognos contract with state “raises ethical issues”
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 07 Jul 2008 -
All Ears: Susan Cramm on ITopia
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 29 Jun 2008 -
Playing the numbers
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 24 Jun 2008 -
Title Town – it’s all in the stats
24 Jun 2008
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a few hours, I'll be bound for Chicago to learn more about IT services and sourcing, but don't think I would leave you without your weekly wrap-up of CIO content! Check out the latest pieces to ...
Running large data centers is expensive and getting worse. No one knows that more than Google and Yahoo. At a panel on green data centers at MIT’s Emerging Technologies Conference this week, ...
Good afternoon! This past week, SearchCIO.com looked at the importance of service portfolio management and culture management as part of ITSM and ITIL implementations. We also took a look at an ...
A dinner this week on women in IT focused on midlevel women in technology and their challenges in getting ahead, given their frequently high family responsibilities and their own perceptions ...
For quite awhile, many U.S. companies have focused their IT services outsourcing strategies on India due to its market share, low cost of labor and robust vendor market. But now, some companies are ...
Good morning! This past week, SearchCIO.com looked into the pros and cons of outsourcing in several countries in Asia, put out our latest FAQ on the ITIL framework and put your project and ...
Welcome back from the weekend! Ease yourself into your Monday morning by checking out the latest content from SearchCIO.com on IT outsourcing, using project and portfolio management (PPM) software ...
Good afternoon! This past week on SearchCIO.com, we highlighted tips for leveraging employee talent, looked at ways to avoid IT project failures using change management strategies, and examined ...
David Shacochis, vice president, research and development at IT provider Savvis Inc., reminded me the other day that there is a big difference between a disaster recovery (DR) plan and business ...
As IT outsourcing is one of the core areas I cover for SearchCIO.com, I am, of course, interested in how both offshoring and onshoring will fare in the coming months. According to some ...
We’ve all heard about Obama’s promise for government transparency, but what about IT transparency? First, what is transparency? Transparency is basically defined as openness and accountability in ...
Nothing fuels the tech press like wars. So I have no doubt that we will see an endless string of reports from the battlefield over the next many months on the struggle between Google and Microsoft ...
For those keeping an eye on IT outsourcing and offshoring, there were a couple of noteworthy pieces of news this week regarding the artist previously known as Satyam Computer Services Ltd. First, ...
This past week, SearchCIO.com looked at developing a business intelligence (BI) strategy, implementing project and portfolio management software, practicing innovation in a time of economic crisis, ...
My story this week on the University of Utah's project and portfolio management (PPM) program stood out from other PPM pieces I've reported because, in this case, the portfolio piece of the program ...
I'm still reflecting on last week's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, where my colleagues and I gathered a lot of good information on CIO leadership, IT outsourcing, health care, CIO innovation and more -- ...
In a perfect world, connected healthcare information systems would be easy to use, offer doctors a way to effectively communicate with their patients without any barriers or restrictions and give ...
Telecom providers will do whatever it takes to keep your business, even in a business downturn. And that’s not just lip service. Did you know that you can insist on a “business downturn” contract ...
This past week, SearchCIO.com was all over business process management, from BPM and service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how they work together to how to find fast ROI using BPM. We also ...
This decade has seen a lot of consolidation among both software and hardware vendors. Sun bought StorageTek, Sun bought MySQL. Oracle bought Sun, Oracle bought BEA (one of many midsized middleware ...
Welcome back from the weekend! Here are the latest stories from SearchCIO.com, dealing with the private cloud, identity and access management, and some very newsy security standards for compliance ...
The news today from The Wall Street Journal that IBM is expected to cut a large number of U.S. workers in its global services unit and move that work to IBM employees in India reminded me that IBM, ...
I was talking to IQNavigator the other day. They have software that helps companies manage what they spend on contingent workforces, such as IT contractors, and on vendor services, among other ...
This past week, SearchCIO.com homed in on business intelligence strategy, IT transformation, cost reduction tips for your strategic sourcing contracts and IT governance in an economic recession. ...
Of interest to me this week: stories of how CIOs are approaching IT consolidation not just in the data center, but also in their organizations. It’s no surprise that flat or reduced budgets impel a ...
Welcome back, readers! This past week at SearchCIO.com, we covered desktop virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS) contract negotiations, IT vendor management offices and data protection ...
A couple of recent stories, "VDI vs. fat clients: The tradeoffs," and "Virtual desktops and virtualized applications: An FAQ for IT executives," caused a few readers to reach out to tell me I ...
OK, there’s no getting around it. This year is going to be the Year of Reading Endless Speculation and Lightly Informed Commentary About Windows 7. Feature Bingo, Shipping Date Roulette – you’re ...
Post-holidays, we're back in full swing here at SearchCIO.com. Here are our latest stories and briefings: Looking forward: Trends in IT management and budgeting for 2009 - Consider this your ...
In case you missed it, we've had a very active discussion on FatWire's sex-site demo at a Boston Web 2.0 conference. Feel free to add your own views and, while you're at it, check out our stories ...
Symantec has released its MessageLabs Intelligence 2008 Annual Security Report, and social networking sites and the credit crisis are providing new platforms and fears upon which new spam attacks ...
The Society for Information Management recently asked a panel of CIOs to talk about the attributes of a successful CIO. For CIO Karan Sorensen, an emphasis on the greater good is a must --from ...
Questions for you Software as a Service (SaaS) devotees about SaaS integration: Did your vendor give you enough information up front about the potential difficulties of integrating the SaaS ...
Downturn, shmownturn. Your peers at technology companies apparently don't need a global recession to get their juices flowing. A new survey of 151 U.S. technology company executives by Deloitte ...
In honor of Halloween, Kristen Caretta, associate editor of SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, and I decided to get a bit silly and dream up our top 10 Halloween costumes for the IT set. Wear these to your ...
Forrester Chairman and CEO George Colony has a reassuring blog out this morning on the impact of a global recession on tech. His take? Technology had its Great Depression in 2001-2003, and this ...
Sun Microsystems co-founder, early Google backer and computer engineer extraordinaire Andreas von Bechtolsheim is leaving his job as chief architect at Sun to apply his considerable talents to ...
Virtualization -- the ghost in the machine -- won top place in Gartner's annual list of IT technologies that will likely impact your business in the next three years. Cloud computing came in No. 2. ...
At the Web Experience Forum in Boston yesterday, Mark Hydar, principal group manager for global quality of service (QoS) initiatives for Microsoft, discussed "Microsoft Live: Reinventing the MS ...
Three Boston-area men have been arraigned in connection with allegedly setting up kickbacks from a vendor in exchange for securing computer software and service contracts for Partners Healthcare. ...
With the growing popularity of smartphones and business VPNs, it's getting tougher and tougher to let an email just sit in your inbox unread for any period of time - even in what are technically ...
I recently interviewed Carole Cotter, CIO of Lifespan Corp., a health care system affiliated with Brown Medical School in Providence. R.I. Cotter talked about how her IT department balances the ...
Yesterday, I attended Forrester's security forum in Boston. In one of the morning sessions, "Exploiting Online Games," Gary McGraw, chief technology officer at Cigital (and co-author of a book by ...
From the "tools you can use" file, CNN.com has a video report today on protecting yourself from unsavory e-mail attachments. CNN's computer expert Ken Colburn is a big proponent of the web site ...
As if having a computer at the office and at home - with a BlackBerry to tide you over when you're not at either of those places - weren't enough, now comes the AutoNet Mobile, which transforms ...
There have been a lot of scary bank-related headlines the past couple of weeks, but I have to say that this one frightened me more than most: "Security flaws in online banking sites found to be ...
Gather the typical left-brain, articulate, umm-less group of CIOs around a conference lunch table and, guaranteed, the talk will eventually turn to reporting relationships. You answer to whom? ...
SAP AG sends word today that it's putting subsidiary TomorrowNow, which provides third-party support for Oracle and other applications, out of its misery. The German software maker said it will ...
How's this for a headline: "Meet the Millionaire CIOs." In a study of the filings of the 1,000 biggest U.S. companies and their compensation, 47 top technology executives were listed at the top ...
News flash: The Boston Globe reports today that a representative of Cognos ULC, the business intelligence software maker, improperly offered a Massachusetts state official a job in 2006 when the ...
Earlier, I wrote about Susan Cramm, former CIO of Taco Bell turned "leadership" coach, talking about how IT and the business could -- should! -- function in 2015. Cramm was the keynote speaker at ...
Enterprise search stinks: Who doesn’t like a survey that corroborates a pet peeve? Data out today from the nonprofit AIIM finds that 50% of business users believe their company’s internal search ...
I don't look anything like a basketball player, or even the stereotypical fan. I'm 4'11". I prefer high heels and dresses to jerseys and sneakers. Even some of my closest friends said they didn't ...