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Feature
28 Aug 2026
Enterprises aren't rushing to Microsoft 365 E7's AI promise
Microsoft 365 E7 bundles productivity apps with AI tools like Copilot into one SKU, but customers are hesitating to adopt over ROI, hidden consumption costs and contract lock-in. Continue Reading
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News
28 Aug 2026
Where should CIOs invest next? IT leaders weigh in
Six CIOs share where they would invest if their IT budgets increased. AI leads, with data, infrastructure and security investments helping to scale it. 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
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Blog Post
27 May 2010
BP's risk management strategy put planet in peril
A story in this morning's New York Times on BP's risk management strategy will no doubt send chills down the spine of many a corporate risk and compliance officer. The story reports on an internal ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2010
The discovery phase of private clouds
A year ago, when I brought up private clouds to IT executives, many were flat out not interested. Flash forward a year, and their stance has changed. Many IT executives are entering boot camps ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 May 2010
Idea management software: The future is now
Idea management software sounds so futuristic, it makes me think of the movie Minority Report. In fact, ideation management is in the here and now. As SearchCIO.com News Director Christina Torode ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 May 2010
Mars and Venus on the future of IT
It could be I'm overly sensitive to gender issues among the academic scientific elite, having moved to Cambridge, Mass., about the time then-Harvard President Larry Summers made his unfortunate ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 May 2010
Technology job openings surge, headhunters are on the prowl
A report on technology job openings reinforces evidence that the recession is receding. Do you know where your IT staff is headed? It could be out the door. This month's report from Dice Inc., the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 May 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: The future of Flash, Sarah Palin hacker convicted
I'm having a slightly cranky Monday morning. The Greater Boston area is on a "boil water" order due to a catastrophic water main break -- which is most immediately affecting me in that there is no ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Apr 2010
IT hiring: The drama behind the statistics
Well, this sounds like a positive sign of economy -- and IT -- recovery. We've written recently about what CEOs look for in the CIO role, and now The Boston Globe is reporting that IT hiring is on ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Apr 2010
CIO careers: Seeking legal experts
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Apr 2010
More colleges move to cloud email like Gmail, ditch in-house email
Colleges across the country have started turning to cloud email services such as Gmail in an effort to cut costs. It's not entirely surprising, either: IT shops have been toying with the idea of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Cloud computing, IT innovation, CIO role and DR/BC
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
Five steps to playing a bigger part in your company's M&A
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
A move to cloud computing services -- back in 1999
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Mar 2010
BI strategy: What Holy Grail are you seeking?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Mar 2010
Gaga for Google Fiber? We're all a bit crazy when it comes to tech
The Google Fiber for communities deadline is right around the corner. In an effort to test out its plans for high-speed broadband and fiber-to-the-home connections, Google has asked interested ... Continue Reading
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Quiz
23 Mar 2010
IT in 2010: Keeping up with the latest IT management trends
Running IT in 2010 requires CIOs to consider ITSM methodologies, vendor contract renegotiations and investments in new technologies. Have you kept up with IT management trends? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Mar 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: National cybersecurity list, basketball technology
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Mar 2010
Success with cloud applications calls for a strong data-privacy policy
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Mar 2010
Top IT certifications: Do they matter to you?
How important are IT certifications today? As organizations start to hire again (there were 58,229 available tech jobs on Dice.com this month), IT certifications could help potential candidates ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Mar 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: What is Foursquare's draw? Also Balanced Scorecard
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Mar 2010
ITIL framework and IT outsourcing a formidable duo
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Mar 2010
Why one IT guy found Windows 7 to be too user-friendly
There has been a lot of Windows 7 coverage on SearchCIO-Midmarket.com -- everything from planning your migration strategy to making it your last operating system. Part of the appeal of the new OS ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Mar 2010
Are innovation strategies back on CIO agendas?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Feb 2010
Is it better to work for an outsourcing provider than for corporate IT?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Feb 2010
Silicon Valley economy: Recession hitting IT hard at its epicenter
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Feb 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Super Bowl technology and Google's advertising
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Feb 2010
Merck, Chevron and BP are touting a new IT management framework
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2010
Oracle plays hardball with Rimini on third-party maintenance
"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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jan 2010
2010 IT budgets are unsettled and unsettling
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. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jan 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Help Haiti using technology, IT outsourcing deals
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jan 2010
Can enterprise business intelligence be agile?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Dec 2009
Paying the price for server uptime
What’s the price for server uptime? How much would you be willing to invest to maintain five 9s of availability on your mission-critical line of business applications? With limited budgets and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Nov 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Nov 2009
UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Nov 2009
What is transparency, and how can Agile practices help?
As I was interviewing experts and practitioners this week on the uses of Agile practices, the term transparency kept popping up in comments about the benefits of using this type of software ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Nov 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation
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 ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2009
Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2010
Gartner's list of technologies that bear examination during the next three years show an agile, mobile, secure enterprise that can spot early warning signs and predict trends. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Oct 2009
Gen X, not Gen Y, leads adoption of social technologies in workplace
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Oct 2009
The challenge of managing risk when IT budgets tighten
I see an interesting sea change when it comes to risk: Thanks to the recession, as IT risk management is constrained by tightening IT budgets, the risk of doing business goes up. As part of my ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Sep 2009
How Google and Yahoo improved data center energy efficiency
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, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Sep 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: Service portfolio management, ITSM, email scandal
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Sep 2009
Three ways to reach out to women in IT: Mentor, advocate, encourage
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 ... Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Sep 2009
10 must-have steps for an effective SMB information security program
No information security program would be complete without these security tips from the NIST, which has compiled advice just as security threats to smaller businesses are on the rise. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Aug 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: Pros and cons of outsourcing, ITIL framework, PPM
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Aug 2009
Beware of rising server room temperatures
When you’re cranking the A/C during these final hot days of summer, don’t forget about data center cooling as well. The consequences for not monitoring server room temperatures could burn you well ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Aug 2009
Pros and cons of IT outsourcing in popular Asian countries
The benefits and challenges of IT outsourcing in India, China, the Philippines and Vietnam range from pricing to intellectual property barriers. Learn more here. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Jul 2009
How will IT outsourcing play out in companies’ recovery plans?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Jul 2009
With PPM software, don't always throw in the kitchen sink
Project and portfolio management (PPM) software is definitely not overlooked in the midmarket. According to a recent SearchCIO-Midmarket.com survey, 17% use some form of PPM software. But how many ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Jul 2009
What is transparency, and how is it relevant to IT?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jul 2009
Is Google Chrome OS a turning point or yawner?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jun 2009
Satyam scandal: Has it affected your IT outsourcing and offshoring?
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, ... Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Jun 2009
Chapter excerpt: Decision-making processes and IT governance
Find out how sound decision-making processes form the foundation of IT governance policies by allocating decision rights and accountability. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, PPM software, compliance in the cloud
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, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jun 2009
Five key questions about cloud computing
It seems every time I ask someone what they think about cloud computing, I’m asked five or more questions in return: Isn’t what cloud providers offer pretty cookie cutter? Translate that as, “They ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jun 2009
PPM projects: If portfolio management works, why is it so rare?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Jun 2009
Don't be like GM: How a BPM strategy can help you avoid bankruptcy
Midmarket CIOs who think of a business process management (BPM) strategy in its basic form as a tool for putting processes around purchase orders, claims or employee onboarding and offboarding ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 May 2009
Why don’t connected healthcare information systems work?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 May 2009
Adding a 'business downturn' clause to your telecom contracts
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 May 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: Challenges of a state CIO, BPM, SOA and ROI
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 ... Continue Reading
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Definition
01 May 2009
spoliation
Spoliation is the destruction, alteration, or mutilation of evidence that may pertain to legal action. (Continued) Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Apr 2009
Oracle buys Sun: When strategic vendors go bye-bye
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Apr 2009
Is cloud computing a platform or a stage?
Cloud computing is at that early stage where there’s much discussion of taxonomy: Is it infrastructure? Is it Software as a Service? Is it a platform? All well and good, but little discussed so far ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Mar 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: Private cloud, ID management, security compliance
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Mar 2009
Cost savings on IT contractors: How to get the best rates
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Mar 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, sourcing contracts and IT governance
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. ... Continue Reading
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Definition
12 Mar 2009
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a United States federal statute that prohibits a third party from intercepting or disclosing communications without authorization. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Feb 2009
Qualities of a good leader: Avoid layoffs at all cost?
An article on our sister site, SearchCIO.com, this week highlighted the qualities of a good leader during a recession, culling advice from leadership experts and CIOs. The list includes qualities ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2009
Eight qualities of a good leader during a recession
These qualities of a leader during a recession show how CIOs can guide their organization in tough times, making the right IT budget cuts and inspiring employees. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Feb 2009
Desktop virtualization tradeoffs and benefits: What did I miss?
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Jan 2009
The Super Bowl and server virtualization: Don’t drop the ball!
Are you ready for some server virtualization? This year, the Super Bowl will be running on one of IBM's smallest systems, the BladeCenter S. The system will support security and credentialing for ... Continue Reading
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Definition
29 Jan 2009
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is United States federal legislation that promotes accuracy, fairness and privacy for data used by consumer reporting agencies. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jan 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: 2009 IT trends, network access control, CPM and BI
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Dec 2008
Vendor gifts: Holiday cheer or ethical dilemma?
Twas the night before deadline and all through the office, we worked with our heads down, appeasing our bosses. But what to my weary eyes should appear? The USPS delivery, bringing vendor-purchased ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Dec 2008
Recent FBI vishing scam warning an old issue
Last Friday, the FBI issued a warning about a security vulnerability that could be used by cybercriminals to make vishing telephone scams. Vishing (combining phishing and voice) uses Voice over IP ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Dec 2008
Social networking sites, credit fears leading to new spam attacks
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Dec 2008
A top 10 list for how to be a successful CIO
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 ... Continue Reading