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Feature
18 Sep 2026
AI extinction: What IT leaders need to know -- and do -- now
AI extinction concerns are growing among experts, but for enterprises, the focus should be on governance, accountability and risk management to prevent operational failures. Continue Reading
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Opinion
18 Sep 2026
AI ate the first rung of the technology career ladder
As AI automates routine tasks in tech careers, it could deprive junior professionals of learning opportunities. And it may create a workforce that lacks experience and expertise. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Mar 2012
Spring is here, and innovation is in the air
Spring is here, the season of renewal. In honor of this time of all things fresh and new, this week's roundup includes a peek at innovators who inspire an innovator, the ways Best Buy's new digital ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2012
Spring is here, and innovation is in the air
In this week's roundup of news and notable bits from around the Web, spring brings thoughts of innovation. Continue Reading
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News
23 Mar 2012
Will cloud service providers create a jobs boom?
Are cloud service providers fueling major job growth, or just re-employing workers bumped by the cloud? Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2012
A tale of two data quality theories
Data quality still hobbles business intelligence efforts. The question is what to do about it. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Mar 2012
Renewable energy sources scarce, but there's plenty of energy to save
This wasn't a new story, but it was to me. So, I was a little disappointed to read about the dangers of wind power. Dangers? From a clean, renewable energy source? Yes, the magnets used to build ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Mar 2012
The bad example set by the Britannica online edition
This week, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that its most recent print run would be its last, ending a 244-year run of printing out giant tomes. The $1,395 print-bound sets were swooped up by ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2012
Where are the women in computer science?
Women are nearly at parity with men when it comes to bachelor's degrees in science and engineering. So, why are so few women in computer science? Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2012
Siri, find me a good lawyer
In this week’s roundup, a legalpalooza: Yahoo sues Facebook, someone sues Siri and a lawyer slowly backs away from her Pinterest boards. Continue Reading
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News
15 Mar 2012
How big data improves an information security strategy
A security guru discusses new ways of looking at the intersection between big data and an information security strategy. Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2012
Who’s afraid of the iPad 3?
This week’s bits include why the iPad 3 should put a scare in the competition, and an example of how CIOs who consider the consumer come out on top. Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2012
The love-hate nature of unified communications
A unified communications strategy where workers are empowered to make decisions comes up against management's need to control. Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2012
Self-service BI: Power to the user
Self-service BI is another sign that user empowerment is well under way at many enterprises. Continue Reading
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News
03 Mar 2012
Security woes and a different kind of Net threat
We're feeling a little vulnerable this week. Maybe it's because our cache of tech bits is a little heavy on security issues. Continue Reading
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News
02 Mar 2012
The 2020 vision for ERP
The look and feel will change, but the value of ERP will remain as strong as ever through the next decade and predicted "frictionless enterprise." Continue Reading
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Tutorial
29 Feb 2012
Enterprise business intelligence tutorial for CIOs
In this enterprise business intelligence tutorial for CIOs, learn how to get started, what makes BI successful and the future of BI technologies. Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2012
Data loss statistics: Emerging culprits
Social networking, cloud computing and mobile technology create business opportunities. But data loss statistics show these advances create risks too. Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2012
No need to search, they know what you want
Tidbits of news and analysis from the week that was, including another manipulation of big data, three steps to becoming the CIO you know you are and one mobile device that might give you headaches. Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2012
Silence on business analytics speaks volumes
The next time your CIO pals clam up about business analytics, watch out. They're on to something. You should be too. Continue Reading
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News
22 Feb 2012
BI strategies evolve for big data analysis needs
"Big data" is a buzzword no more. CIOs are adapting their BI strategies to meet the challenges of big data analysis. Continue Reading
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News
21 Feb 2012
Mission-critical systems taking on dual roles
As CIOs take on new roles, they are finding new uses for mission-critical systems -- and that in turn is making their role more business-critical. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Feb 2012
Are personal privacy violations just the cost of mobility?
Each week, we scour the Web and bring you the most tantalizing tidbits that hit our radar. This week, we're looking at the nasty reality of personal privacy violations, the price of insider trading ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2012
Shaping data in ways both scary and sweet
Interesting bits from the Internet that you might have missed, including Target's data analytics and Google's riding the consumerization-of-IT wave. Continue Reading
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News
15 Feb 2012
Is technology leadership training lacking?
A lack of technology leadership training specific to the CIO position leaves the up-and-comers fending for themselves. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Feb 2012
CIOs learning to juggle business growth strategies with technology
You start spending enough time around CIOs and you can really feel the changes swirling around them. On the one hand, CIOs and senior IT executives must drive business growth strategies through ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2012
No honor-student bumper stickers for Steve Jobs
A roundup of items you might have missed from around the Web, including Steve Jobs' high school GPA and a possible storm over cloud privacy in the EU. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Feb 2012
No honor-student bumper stickers for Steve Jobs
Top o’ the week to you. We're as laden with interesting Web tidbits as Adele is with Grammy awards today. Without further fanfare, here are six stories from around the Internet, the leadoff one a ... Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2012
Days are dwindling for successful Windows 7 migration
If you've been hitting the snooze button on Windows 7 migration, it's time to wake up -- you're already late. Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2012
2012 Global IT Forecast
TechTarget asked 2,642 IT professionals and business analysts around the world for their IT forecasts for 2012. The direction of IT budgets and the technologies getting attention may surprise. Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2012
Big data is dead? Long live analytics apps?
The view of BI as an enterprise-wide system similar to ERP is giving way to a more tactical, "disaggregated" approach based on analytics apps. Continue Reading
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News
02 Feb 2012
Is SaaS BI in your 'best interest'?
There's so much to say about cloud-based business intelligence tools. Until the next big story, here are some SaaS BI tidbits to tide you over. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
01 Feb 2012
Shared services strategy guide for enterprise CIOs
With a shared services strategy, enterprises can save on computing costs by not duplicating resources and boost security by keeping services in-house. Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2012
Who's the 'insider' security campaigns target?
Can CIOs learn anything from a security campaign launched by the military more than 60 years ago? Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2012
Shared services model puts focus on external customer
For Owens Corning CIO David Johns, a shared services model is key to a low-cost, high-value IT and business services delivery strategy. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Jan 2012
Shared services are the next generation of IT
Last week I wrote about the transformation of banking services into products. This week I want to discuss different types of services--shared services. One of the first technology news stories I ... Continue Reading
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31 Jan 2012
Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine
The Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine offers senior IT executives insights on pressing technology and management issues. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2012
Cloud-based BI tools a trend with legs
Some are using them already; others want to but aren't. Everyone, however, seems to be talking about cloud-based business intelligence tools. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jan 2012
Google data center solutions to adapt in your own IT shop
Each week, we scour the World Wide Web to give you a quick punch of last week's biggest news stories and interesting blog posts. This week, we're taking a look at whether computer science should be ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Jan 2012
The CIO and the extended enterprise
The CIO role is stretching further into the outer limits of the "extended enterprise." Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2012
CIOs: Should your next IT hire be a consumer advocate?
How IT shops are changing and whom CIOs need to hire are big topics in the age of cloud and mobility. Should consumer advocates be on the list? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jan 2012
Banks on Twitter? Don't bank on it
Recently, I was with my son to open an account at the local branch of my once mighty but now struggling Mega Bank. The customer service rep ran through the "product" options we had for creating his ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Jan 2012
Is rogue technology the cost of end user freedom?
CIOs inherit their predecessors' IT foundation, but as they clean up past mistakes, could they be laying their own foundation for rogue technology? Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2012
CIOs proving the value of technology investments
There's no easy way to prove the value of technology investments, but smart CIOs are finding new ones -- and smarter still, being proactive about it. Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2012
IT chargeback rankles the ranks and IT
IT chargeback is often called a necessary evil for shared services, but many IT executives are saying, "No, thanks" to such service charges. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jan 2012
Time to re-evaluate need for some endpoint security tools?
Security investments and priorities are a tricky thing to nail down, given that threats are constantly shifting, but one security precaution could be going the way of the dodo bird. Michael Daly, ... Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2012
Re-evaluating endpoint security tools
Has technology advanced to the point that some endpoint security tools -- and the staff needed to support them -- will go away? Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2012
Rosy outlook for services broker model may have thorns
The IT services-broker model might be good for your business, but one CIO cautions against letting the label define your role. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Dec 2011
Bill limiting IT worker overtime pay could put CIOs in a tough spot
With technology boosters like these, who needs Scrooge? That's what many IT folks must be thinking when they take a gander at the sponsors of a bill before the U.S. Senate to limit overtime pay for ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Dec 2011
Overtime pay limit could put CIOs in a tough spot
A bill limiting overtime pay for IT workers is one more example of politicians putting corporate interests ahead of individual workers, opponents say. Continue Reading
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News
21 Dec 2011
'IT as a services broker' model will carry beyond 2012
IT leaders are positioning themselves as facilitators or IT services brokers rather than as the managers and mainframe minders of yore. Continue Reading
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News
16 Dec 2011
CIOs have to be passionate and in fighting trim
To be executive material for the CIO job these days, you'll need more than a well-cut suit. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Dec 2011
Cloud security planning should be part of strategy from beginning
What are you doing about cloud security planning? I say planning because, in a survey of attendees at the recent SearchCompliance.com Making the Case for the Cloud virtual seminar, more than ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Dec 2011
Application portals for managing mobile devices no joke
CIOs are turning to application portals to meet mobile needs while protecting corporate IT policies. Continue Reading
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News
08 Dec 2011
Software laden with technical debt heading for a crash
Enterprise apps are carrying millions of dollars in technical debt, one study says. CIOs need to zero in on the mistakes that could level their companies. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Dec 2011
Can you use the Kindle Fire for business?
Each week, we mine the Web for the jewels of knowledge that appeal to CIOs. This week, we're looking at the trend of using the Kindle Fire in business, what compels women to quit their IT teams and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Dec 2011
Are you at risk? Huge Java vulnerability now weaponized and exploited
It's every CIO's worst nightmare -- that panicked call when you least expect it, delivering the worst possible news: "The firewall has been breached." We know that you do everything possible to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Nov 2011
Tweak your corporate Twitter policy or risk getting p0wned
Each week we scour the Web and bring you the freshest scoop from around the blogosphere. This week, we're serving up tasty helpings of corporate Twitter intellectual property questions, IT ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Nov 2011
PCI DSS compliance may be the answer to more than credit card privacy
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard -- PCI DSS -- has been around for a few years and has seemingly done a good job of keeping credit card data safe. No, it's not a binding regulation, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Oct 2011
How to be a strategic leader in the IT industry
What happened in the IT world last week? Here's the scoop on what you might have missed, including how IBM set an example for strategic leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s recent decision and cloud ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Oct 2011
Apple's Siri speaks to iPhone users, but what is the message?
Full disclosure: I've been an iPhone user since 2008 and I just bought my second iPad. So, I'm not bashing Apple products, and I'm not bashing iPhone users or users of Apple products in general. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Oct 2011
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo urges creative destruction
Creative destruction. I've heard that term a lot this year, although it's hardly a new concept. From what's happening with the Occupy Wall Street madness to the pressure to innovate in the IT ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Oct 2011
The fallout from the BlackBerry outage
Here's what you may have missed last week while you were standing in line to get your new iPhone 4S or waiting for your email during the cataclysmic BlackBerry outage: • As anyone with a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Oct 2011
What can we learn from the Steve Jobs Way?
There have been many timelines, retrospectives and other examinations of Apple founder Steve Jobs' career, aka the Steve Jobs Way, and it would be a waste if we don't learn lessons from him about ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Oct 2011
Be more effective by increasing your business storytelling
It's been a busy week around the Web, and chances are you missed some things. Between the news of the iPhone 4S and Steve Jobs' death, it seems like the Web was absolutely sticky with Apple juice ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Oct 2011
Strong passwords are more important than ever
I recently asked one of my sons for passwords to his online accounts, for gaming, email, etc. Not because I'm nosy but because I'm trying to be a responsible parent and home IT administrator, and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Oct 2011
Whatever happened to last year's promising iPad clones?
Things getting hectic as you enter Q4? It seems like no matter what you do, you still just keep feeling like you're two steps behind. We know how it feels, and we're here to make it better. We've ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Sep 2011
GE's journey from waterfall to Agile practices
General Electric Co. turned to Agile practices to revamp software development in its Energy division. Now Agile is making its way across the company. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Sep 2011
SIM CIO survey: IT budgets trend up, BI reigns as top CIO investment
When asked, "Are you better off than you were three years ago?" most IT organizations answer in the affirmative. IT budgets, hiring and salaries are on the rise at the majority of companies, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Sep 2011
Taking business back from cloud service providers
One in five of the companies responding to a Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) survey of cloud trends said they are moving some or all of their outsourced cloud systems back ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Aug 2011
Rooftop solar panels look to be a sound green investment
Rooftop solar panels are finally turning on a light bulb over some business leaders' heads. A big office park in my town is putting up solar panels on the roofs of two parking garages on its ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Aug 2011
Death to the HP TouchPad tablets! Long live the king!
It's been a busy week in tech, with the demise of WebOS on everyone's lips and the inevitable budget crunch as we prepare for 2012. Never fear: We've scoured the Web so you don't have to! Here's a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Aug 2011
How the Google acquisition of Motorola affects your mobile workforce
It's been a busy week in tech. Google's acquisition of Motorola has everyone wondering how it will affect their mobile workforce. Here's a tasting menu of the choicest bits around the Web, ... Continue Reading
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Quiz
15 Aug 2011
Test your social media risk management IQ: A SearchCompliance.com quiz
Proliferating social networks have cast a spotlight on social media risk management. Take our quiz to find out if you are up to speed on social media. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jul 2011
Does your Internet usage policy make your employees cry?
How are you feeling today? Lonely? Upset? Vaguely withdrawn from society? If so, quick -- check your Twitter stream on your smartphone. Better now? We've all heard BlackBerry jokingly referred to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Jul 2011
IT transformation means one thing: New IT job skills needed
I found it amusing/disturbing during the NFL player lockout that players were worried about making ends meet. Many players should certainly learn new job skills for when their playing days end, but ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jul 2011
Comic-Con: IT innovation lessons from dudes in Stormtrooper suits
There are a few annual events I adore even though I'll never ever go to any of them: Burning Man, SXSW, TED, and this time of year, Comic-Con. When you're hyper-focused on IT innovation, you ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jul 2011
IPad Bluetooth keyboards, iPad’s own keyboard vulnerable to hackers
Were you on vacation and unplugged last week? While you're planning your shopping list for the week, you might want to add an iPad Bluetooth keyboard and a 20-foot touch-screen wall. Here's what ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jul 2011
What chief information officers have in common with Kevin Bacon
What does a chief information officer have in common with Kevin Bacon? Mathematics. The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game has been around for a while. It proves that all of us are more intertwined ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jul 2011
Can the new Google social network overtake Facebook?
Facebook and Google have been at war for years. They want your eyes on their sites, and they'll do anything toward that goal. You've undoubtedly heard about the potential new heir to the Facebook ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Jun 2011
Even the Geek Doctor couldn't save Google Health
My first thought when I heard that Google Health is shutting down is, "what's the Geek Doctor going to do?" My second thought was shock. Dr. John Halamka, aka the "Geek Doctor," has been one of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jun 2011
Vulnerability in Dropbox security leaves user accounts wide open
No bones about it: Dropbox security just took a huge dive in user confidence. This past Sunday, Dropbox user accounts -- all of them -- were open and accessible to the world, no password required. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jun 2011
Does your business know the enterprise can't be run on rogue IT?
The question to Warren Ritchie, CIO at the Volkswagen Group of America, was pretty standard: What was the biggest surprise he faced when he came into the IT world? Ritchie was speaking at the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jun 2011
Public-sector CIOs leading IT transformation
I'm not sure about you, but my first impression of government's use of technology is that they are still working off VAX computers and dumb terminals. But, really, it's quite the contrary. Here are ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jun 2011
TrueCrypt and Dropbox go together like peanut butter and chocolate
We've scoured the Web and compiled a crib sheet for the best and most interesting tidbits from around the IT blogosphere last week, including using TrueCrypt and Dropbox for data encryption, the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Jun 2011
Outsourcing services need the right mix of commodity and strategy
Discover Card has made a celebrity out of "Peggy," but despite the credit card provider's efforts to humorously discredit outsourcing services in former Soviet Bloc countries, Ukraine is seeing ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 May 2011
Failed promotion for Amazon cloud storage affects consumer confidence
It's one of those things that looks fantastic on paper: Introduce your cloud service to the consumer market by packaging it with a super-cheap, eagerly anticipated superstar's new album. Amazon did ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 May 2011
CIO innovation is about getting ahead of the problems
My colleagues and I in the CIO/IT Strategy Media Group have spent much of the first half of 2011 talking with CIOs about innovation. So much time that I think I might go crazy asking another ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Apr 2011
PlayStation Network breach is Sony's shameful nadir
Another week, another major hack. It seems these things go in cycles. There was a major breach at email provider Epsilon earlier this month. But the recent attack on the PlayStation Network is ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Apr 2011
What does it mean that Wal-Mart is buying social media company Kosmix?
When I read the news that Wal-Mart is buying a small software company specializing in social networking, thoughts swirled. How they swirled! Kosmix upsets the Wal-Mart cosmos. All that stuff about ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Apr 2011
Cisco killed the Flip camera and other surprises
The news last week that Cisco killed the Flip mini-camcorder -- or, as Cisco put it, restructured its consumer products division -- is full of surprises. First, I have to admit, even as a Cisco ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Apr 2011
In the cloud, even custom apps will be a commodity
I'll make this short because God knows you've read enough about cloud computing and its software variation, SaaS. This concerns the cloud and custom apps, in particular the proprietary apps and IT ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Apr 2011
What have we learned from the Epsilon security breach?
My wife and I started getting the emails April 4. Best Buy. Our bank. Other e-commerce sites we had shopped. The impact of the Epsilon security breach was far and wide. My first thought was that at ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2011
Are CIO leadership skills moot if the business has you pigeonholed?
Are you lacking in CIO leadership skills, or do you lack CIO leadership qualities because the business has boxed you in, pigeonholed you as the IT guy? The question came up at a private dinner for ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Apr 2011
Are the Mozilla Firefox 4 and IE9 releases wreaking havoc on your old apps?
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 4 dropped within a week of each other, and now that the dust has settled, Internet users are finding that there are pieces of their daily lives ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Apr 2011
Cloudsourcing and lean methodology tap customer input
Whether your IT organization is thinking about becoming lean or using cloudsourcing techniques, it all boils down to customer input. After all, they're the ones on the front line, with the best ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Mar 2011
The need for IT innovation leads to aggressive collaboration
IT innovation is what happens when there's no money for new equipment but plenty of fresh ideas emanating from all parts of the business. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Mar 2011
Why aren't more women in executive careers in IT?
Tuesday was International Women's Day. The United Nations' theme for 2011: "Equal access to education, training and science and technology." Last week at the FusionCIO conference in Madison, Wis., ... Continue Reading
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Definition
07 Mar 2011
control framework
A control framework is a data structure that organizes and categorizes an organization’s internal controls, which are practices and procedures established to create business value and minimize risk. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Mar 2011
Companies eyeing cloud brokers to manage multiple cloud services
Some IT departments are aggressively adopting "cloud-first" strategies for new deployments. Instead of buying new servers, they're looking at Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); rather than ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Mar 2011
What would an Internet kill switch really mean?
The Internet shutdown in Eqypt last month raised questions regarding whether the U.S. would be able to do the same with a so-called Internet kill switch bill. This is not the first time such a bill ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Feb 2011
Effects of the Egypt Internet shutdown
It's a sign of how dependent our lives have become on the Internet, or more accurately, of "being connected." News of Egypt cutting off Internet and cellular service for five days this week shocked ... Continue Reading