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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
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
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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