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News
31 Jul 2026
CIOs face IT knowledge loss as baby boomers retire
As baby boomers retire, CIOs risk losing critical institutional knowledge. CIO Joe Locandro explains how to identify knowledge gaps and preserve expertise with storytelling and AI. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jul 2026
AI as a mindset: A growth guide for CIOs
CIOs are working hard to make the most of AI. But using it solely as a technology to automate workflows, rather than as a mindset for growth, can limit its potential. 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
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Blog Post
08 Feb 2011
Software tools can be basis for successful ITIL strategy
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) can be a useful tool -- for those who have ventured into it. Just 40% of 169 IT managers at midmarket firms surveyed by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com last year ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Feb 2011
IT innovation is just a matter of time
Innovation is a popular topic among IT professionals and media. It's also one of the more misunderstood concepts. If you ask 10 CIOs what IT innovation means to them or to their companies, you will ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2011
IT offshore outsourcing markets, options on the rise, Gartner says
The never-ending quest to cut IT costs is opening up new IT offshoring markets. Here are a look at Gartner's latest assessment and a new index from IT advisory firm TPI Inc. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2011
Offshore outsourcing: China runs the sun, will it rule the cloud too?
Gartner came out with its annual list of the top 30 countries for offshore outsourcing. Despite my complicated relationship with lists (totally sucked in and deeply skeptical), I've found the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jan 2011
Data center transformation: Evolution or revolution?
As we continue to chronicle the "disappearing" data center, we have to consider the ongoing transformation of the enterprise application. Software as a Service, Web-based applications, cloud ... Continue Reading
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Tip
12 Jan 2011
Private cloud computing is more than a virtualized environment
Private cloud computing will take hold in 2011, experts say, as enterprises move beyond a virtualized environment to such cloud attributes as metered use and chargeback. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Jan 2011
CIO resumes: Passing the eyeball test and the black ink test
Judging character and qualifications is a tough thing. The annual debate over the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting is going on, following the announcement of the two newest members, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Dec 2010
Post-WikiLeaks computer security measures include hired hackers
Those of you who find the Wikileaks story fascinating, as I do, might enjoy zooming through Red's Query, a fictional piece of work by technology media executive Eric Lundquist. The last quarter of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Dec 2010
Spreading cheer and good health through a virtual reality game
We got Kinect. For Christmas and the winter ahead, my husband said. For when the house is empty again and the weather outside is frightful. It will be good for our health, he told me. I do not play ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Dec 2010
Forget virtual machine management -- go to the cloud
There are still many IT shops that have not virtualized the majority of their servers. Many still haven’t moved virtual machines (VMs) to a production environment yet. In fact, some may sidestep ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Dec 2010
Can the use of social media skew sales forecasts?
Best Buy uses social media like a pro, or as professionally as a business can, given the newness of the communication mode. The company's Twelpforce service enlists the passion of Best Buy's entire ... Continue Reading
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Podcast
13 Dec 2010
CIO podcasts: Information technology and leadership news and tips
At SearchCIO.com, we're always looking for new ways to deliver the latest IT news and trends. Download these podcasts and listen on the go! Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Dec 2010
Budgets, big data and staffing among top CIO concerns
There's good news for CIOs who need to find a way to do more with less: most IT budgets will stay flat or even increase by as much as 10% in 2011, according to a live survey of more than 2,000 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Dec 2010
Outsourcing vs. insourcing: The line's not so clear
An important part of a CIO's job is understanding which IT functions are best handled by others and which should be kept in-house. But the answer is not always so clear-cut in the outsourcing vs. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Dec 2010
An old data center infrastructure looks new in a coat of green
Thinking about heading out to Gartner Inc.'s 29th annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas next week, I'm reminded of how much data center infrastructure has changed since the mid-1980s, when ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Dec 2010
How do you know if your SaaS provider is healthy? Here's the scoop
How do you know if your SaaS provider is a good choice? A session at the recent MIT Sloan CFO Summit provided some insight that might prove useful the next time you're vetting a SaaS provider. The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Nov 2010
Social bots by 2015, and other technology predictions from Gartner
Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us. Time to bring out the 2011 technology predictions. Hot off the presses from the Gartner research files are the consultancy's top ... Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Nov 2010
99.999 (Five nines or Five 9s)
In computers, 99.999 (often called "five 9s") refers to a desired percentage of availability of a given computer system. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Nov 2010
In the absence of spreadsheet management, horror lurks
Is the spreadsheet dead? Has the cockroach been eradicated? A half-billion people use Excel. For a story this week on spreadsheet management, I not only learned that the spreadsheet is alive and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Nov 2010
The eyes have it: CIOs need video content management -- now!
I am entertained by a good video as much as anyone, I dare say, especially those made by a close relative in the science field, and any number of YouTube hits as well (for example, Hahaha and David ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2010
Why some IT executives are gung ho about cloud computing technology
If the turnout at the recent Society for Information Management (SIM) meeting in Boston is any indication, IT executives are seriously interested in cloud computing technology. And although ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Oct 2010
Agile adoption basics, and basic mistakes
I came across a helpful post on the Edge of Chaos/Agile development blog on the 10 most common mistakes for agile adoption. No. 1: Don’t start with a tool. Choosing a tool will only slow down agile ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Oct 2010
Business intelligence technology 3.0 is all about control, but whose?
In search of information for a story on business intelligence technology 2.0, I was informed politely by the head of the BI practice of a global IT provider that I was at least six years behind the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Oct 2010
Mobile workforce will soon demand iPad-type tablets
If ever there was a no-brainer reason to get an iPad, or some kind of equivalent thin tablet computer that will be coming soon from HP or Dell, it's as a journalist covering a remote assignment. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Oct 2010
Social media may not be a revolution, but it's in your enterprise
The social media multiverse is all a Twitter about the fact that one of today's most popular intellectuals has written an article saying that the revolution will not be tweeted. You should read his ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Sep 2010
Managing expectations for DR in a virtual server environment
We've been looking at evolving technology strategies around disaster recovery in a virtual server environment this week at SearchCIO.com, but some of the best advice I heard came down to managing ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Sep 2010
Supporting cloud services is a quandary for IT
A CIO was recently approached by a business line manager about a problem with a cloud service. The manager asked if the CIO could help resolve the issue, and the CIO gave him a flat-out “No.” It is ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Sep 2010
Women in IT band together at VMworld 2010
Navigating the crowded halls of VMworld 2010 in San Francisco last week, I couldn't help feeling drawn to the signage developed for this year's event: "Virtual Clouds, Actual Roads. " The backdrop ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Sep 2010
Improving business services management, one vehicle at a time
It's funny the places where you can gain some insight about business services management. Last week, I spent two hours waiting at my local Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to exchange a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Sep 2010
VMware luminaries say virtualized environments lead to IT as a Service
Hall D in San Francisco's Moscone Center was an electric mecca this week, as tens of thousands of IT professionals gathered to hear VMware Inc. luminaries discuss the future of IT as a Service at ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Aug 2010
WikiLeaks: When IT security threats are leakers, not hackers
Last month's release of the incendiary Afghan War Diary by WikiLeaks raised a lot of national security questions, not the least of which is how a large, complex enterprise anticipates the human ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Aug 2010
Trade promotion management: A missing opportunity?
If you read Linda Tucci's recent story on the efforts of Tasty Baking Co. to find a workable solution for trade promotion management, you may have been struck, as I was, about why TPM can be such a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Aug 2010
The cloud hype cycle will take the industry for a ride
If you think cloud computing is coming on strong, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Analysts at Gartner Inc. predict that worldwide revenue from cloud services will balloon from $58.6 billion in ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Aug 2010
The feds' identity ecosystem will include national identity cards
The U.S. government is increasing its efforts to identify, authenticate and authorize people online. This month it's releasing a draft of a Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace proposal ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2010
Top five free Microsoft downloads
Every once in a while I like to check out what Microsoft admins are downloading these days. I sometimes do a search on Google, but to get a feel for the work being done in Microsoft shops, I always ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Aug 2010
The end of online anonymity, part 2
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's statement last week about the end of online anonymity recalls similar words by one of his former colleagues, Scott McNealy of Sun, more than a decade ago. McNealy caused a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Aug 2010
Agile best practices applied to business problems
In the past few years, Ross Pettit, client principal at Chicago-based ThoughtWorks Inc., has seen a shift in client requests. The agile software development consulting firm’s projects are still ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Jul 2010
Catalyst Conference: Is the new BI about less automation -- or more?
I'm here on the business intelligence track at the Burton Group's Catalyst Conference, trying to sort out the old BI from the new. As you might expect, there is a lot of talk about predictive ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jul 2010
Readers respond to practice and philosophy of IT chargeback
My thanks go out to readers who were charged up enough to write about the IT chargeback series on SearchCIO.com. Whether you do showback, partial chargeback or chargeback for a profit; charge ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jul 2010
Chief data officers: Bringing data management strategy to the C-suite
John Bottega admits he's a bit of a clotheshorse. The guy likes a quality suit. Actually, he is a connoisseur of fine suits, their fit, their style, their durability. The sleeve on a quality suit, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jul 2010
Chargeback process: An old model heralds changes in IT
The old chargeback process, revived by cloud computing, could have major ramifications for IT organizations as they revamp to become centralized service providers, experts say. Traditional ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jul 2010
Does IT chargeback pave the way to outsourcing?
If your organization is talking about moving to an IT chargeback or a supply and demand model for IT, could that be its first step on the road to outsourcing? That was an interesting sidelight ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jul 2010
IT consolidation for business innovation
I’ve been touching base with IT folks and analysts lately to get a feel for the projects people are working on these days, and the phrases that keep coming up are IT consolidation, modernization ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jul 2010
IT chargeback: A political hot potato is tossed up by cloud computing
A question has been nagging me since I attended Cloud Expo in New York: What metrics can IT departments use to charge back business units for cloud services? Measured service is fundamental to the ... Continue Reading
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Quiz
23 Jun 2010
Cloud computing service quiz for enterprise CIOs
Is your organization ready to ramp up its cloud computing service offerings? Read these recent stories and take our quiz to assess your cloud computing readiness. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2010
Self-service technology transforms universities into 'schools of one'
IT executives who are grappling with social media and self-service technology will sympathize with their counterparts in higher education. The technology sophistication of current university ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Jun 2010
New England GiveCamp: One NERD and multiple IT project success stories
A lot of projects fail. If business requirements aren't clear or gathered effectively, or if the scope of the project is inaccurate, failure happens. But this past weekend, at New England GiveCamp ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2010
When it comes to an agile model, failure is an option
It’s OK to fail when taking an agile approach to a business service or software development project, but if you fail, fail fast. As one expert explained to me, if you don’t fail, you don’t really ... Continue Reading