Laura Smith Contributor Laura Smith writes about computer technology from Swampscott, MA. Laura Smith’s Most Recent Content CIO NASA takes off with an open government and cloud infrastructure plan 22 Apr 2011 CIO Cloud service providers urge lawmakers to postpone legislation 14 Apr 2011 CIO Multi-tenancy leads to risky development on cloud platforms 08 Apr 2011 CIO Cloudsourcing and lean methodology tap customer input 01 Apr 2011 CIO The need for IT innovation leads to aggressive collaboration 29 Mar 2011 CIO IT innovation isn't new, but essential to maintain a competitive edge 11 Mar 2011 CIO Companies eyeing cloud brokers to manage multiple cloud services 04 Mar 2011 CIO An IT exec's agile quest leads to cloud services 18 Feb 2011 CIO The Feds tap NIST to accelerate adoption of public cloud standards 04 Feb 2011 CIO Converged infrastructures promise to simplify private clouds 28 Jan 2011 CIO Private cloud computing is more than a virtualized environment 12 Jan 2011 CIO Post-WikiLeaks computer security measures include hired hackers 23 Dec 2010 CIO WikiLeaks shines a light on corporate security policies 17 Dec 2010 CIO Budgets, big data and staffing among top CIO concerns 10 Dec 2010 CIO An old data center infrastructure looks new in a coat of green 02 Dec 2010 CIO ISVs' software licensing agreements bend with the times 18 Nov 2010 CIO 'Trucknet' to what's next for cloud data delivery: WAN accelerators 05 Nov 2010 CIO Why some IT executives are gung ho about cloud computing technology 29 Oct 2010 CIO Unlikely to join Twitter, IT would rather be 'LinkedIn', guru says 22 Oct 2010 CIO Mobile data security spans policies, budgets and backups 12 Oct 2010 CIO Wit and wisdom from the world of disaster recovery solutions 07 Oct 2010 CIO Managing expectations for DR in a virtual server environment 30 Sep 2010 CIO Mobile phone security policies give IT some control over the influx 16 Sep 2010 CIO Women in IT band together at VMworld 2010 09 Sep 2010 CIO VMware luminaries say virtualized environments lead to IT as a Service 01 Sep 2010 CIO The cloud hype cycle will take the industry for a ride 20 Aug 2010 CIO The feds' identity ecosystem will include national identity cards 13 Aug 2010 CIO Enterprise adoption of the public cloud hinges on liability policies 05 Aug 2010 CIO How mega data center construction is tied to taxes 29 Jul 2010 CIO Readers respond to practice and philosophy of IT chargeback 22 Jul 2010 CIO Chargeback process: An old model heralds changes in IT 16 Jul 2010 CIO IT chargeback: A political hot potato is tossed up by cloud computing 09 Jul 2010 CIO Self-service technology transforms universities into 'schools of one' 18 Jun 2010 CIO Pundits blur lines between effect of cloud services and the Internet 11 Jun 2010 CIO In lieu of customers, cloud vendors form partnerships at Cloud Expo 13 May 2010