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TotalCIO is the blog companion to SearchCIO.com, which examines strategic issues that are important to CIOs, CTOs and other senior IT leaders. TotalCIO is the home for short articles that provide color and add depth to the coverage on SearchCIO.com.
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As cybersecurity takes the spotlight, CIOs need to step up
08 Mar 2013 -
Some extra compensation could prompt innovation
22 Feb 2013 -
It's time to roll the dice with social networking
15 Feb 2013
From the breakout sessions to the lounges to the main stage, at this week's Fusion CEO/CIO Symposium in Madison, Wis., privacy and cybersecurity were on nearly everyone's mind. Recent high-profile ...
Big tech companies like Apple and Facebook are accustomed to encouraging and fostering IT innovation among their employees and getting results. This week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight finds the ...
Attention, businesses that aren't actively making use of social networking sites and tools: Go directly to obscurity, do not pass Go, do not collect market share. For you see, Monopoly game maker ...
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Information security breach turned into teachable moment
01 Feb 2013 -
Data mining for social solutions
25 Jan 2013 -
CES no longer a hot ticket?
11 Jan 2013 -
Master list: Information technology news and 2013 predictions
28 Dec 2012 -
Uniquely naughty threats to information security
21 Dec 2012 -
Agile technology a beacon in Hurricane Sandy
02 Nov 2012 -
Newsweek is dead, long live digital disruption!
19 Oct 2012
Technically the public didn't need to know about the recent information security breach at "The New York Times." No customer information was compromised and no damage was done to affiliated ...
Data mining is often associated with Big Brother-esque marketing tactics: Someone out there is assessing your personal shopping habits and other bits of info in order to sell you something they ...
As the folks at HowStuffWorks tweeted earlier, it seems like half the Internet is home sick today. Here at SearchCIO.com Searchlight, we're lucky to have a very flexible work-from-home policy that ...
Here at SearchCIO.com Searchlight, there's nothing we like better than a good list -- it is, after all, our stock in trade! So it is our great pleasure to bring you, in these dwindling days of ...
It's December 21, 2012 and since we're writing this and you're reading it, looks like that so-called Mayan apocalypse won't come to pass. Well, that's a relief. Now that the world isn't ending, ...
It's easy to feel a little jaded about the prevalence of technology these days. The capacity for constant connection means we're never really alone. Sometimes it's too much, but then something like ...
This week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight comes to you from Forrester's Digital Disruption Forum in Orlando, which in turn inspired our findings around the web this week. From the sleepy South, comes ...
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A little healthy competition helps drive tech innovation
07 Sep 2012 -
CIO lights up Olympics with green tech innovation
04 Aug 2012 -
A revolutionary idea to promote women in computer science
29 Jun 2012 -
Summer brings the heat and cool tech innovation
23 Jun 2012 -
Social media tips and other helpful lists
02 Jun 2012 -
Really big deals: Facebook IPO and SEC guidance on cybersecurity
18 May 2012 -
BI? Website relaunch? It's all about mobile app design
09 May 2012 -
Promoting innovation, from boss-less offices to tweaking big data
27 Apr 2012 -
Eco-friendly technology: Green means go, especially in Nebraska
20 Apr 2012 -
Spring is here, and innovation is in the air
23 Mar 2012 -
No honor-student bumper stickers for Steve Jobs
13 Feb 2012 -
Time to re-evaluate need for some endpoint security tools?
05 Jan 2012 -
Bill limiting IT worker overtime pay could put CIOs in a tough spot
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 23 Dec 2011 -
SIM CIO survey: IT budgets trend up, BI reigns as top CIO investment
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Sep 2011 -
Taking business back from cloud service providers
21 Sep 2011 -
Comic-Con: IT innovation lessons from dudes in Stormtrooper suits
- TechTarget 22 Jul 2011 -
Does your business know the enterprise can't be run on rogue IT?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 16 Jun 2011 -
What does it mean that Wal-Mart is buying social media company Kosmix?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 21 Apr 2011 -
In the cloud, even custom apps will be a commodity
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 13 Apr 2011 -
Are CIO leadership skills moot if the business has you pigeonholed?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 07 Apr 2011 -
Cloudsourcing and lean methodology tap customer input
01 Apr 2011 -
Companies eyeing cloud brokers to manage multiple cloud services
04 Mar 2011 -
Offshore outsourcing: China runs the sun, will it rule the cloud too?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Jan 2011 -
Post-WikiLeaks computer security measures include hired hackers
23 Dec 2010 -
Spreading cheer and good health through a virtual reality game
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 22 Dec 2010 -
Can the use of social media skew sales forecasts?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 15 Dec 2010 -
Budgets, big data and staffing among top CIO concerns
10 Dec 2010 -
Outsourcing vs. insourcing: The line's not so clear
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 10 Dec 2010 -
An old data center infrastructure looks new in a coat of green
02 Dec 2010 -
Social bots by 2015, and other technology predictions from Gartner
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 30 Nov 2010 -
In the absence of spreadsheet management, horror lurks
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 10 Nov 2010 -
The eyes have it: CIOs need video content management -- now!
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 03 Nov 2010 -
Why some IT executives are gung ho about cloud computing technology
29 Oct 2010 -
Business intelligence technology 3.0 is all about control, but whose?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 28 Oct 2010 -
Managing expectations for DR in a virtual server environment
30 Sep 2010 -
Women in IT band together at VMworld 2010
09 Sep 2010 -
VMware luminaries say virtualized environments lead to IT as a Service
01 Sep 2010 -
WikiLeaks: When IT security threats are leakers, not hackers
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 25 Aug 2010 -
The cloud hype cycle will take the industry for a ride
20 Aug 2010 -
The feds' identity ecosystem will include national identity cards
13 Aug 2010 -
Catalyst Conference: Is the new BI about less automation -- or more?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 30 Jul 2010 -
Readers respond to practice and philosophy of IT chargeback
22 Jul 2010 -
Chief data officers: Bringing data management strategy to the C-suite
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 22 Jul 2010 -
Chargeback process: An old model heralds changes in IT
16 Jul 2010 -
Does IT chargeback pave the way to outsourcing?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 15 Jul 2010 -
IT chargeback: A political hot potato is tossed up by cloud computing
09 Jul 2010 -
Self-service technology transforms universities into 'schools of one'
18 Jun 2010 -
BP's risk management strategy put planet in peril
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 May 2010 -
The discovery phase of private clouds
25 May 2010 -
Idea management software: The future is now
21 May 2010 -
Mars and Venus on the future of IT
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 21 May 2010 -
Technology job openings surge, headhunters are on the prowl
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 19 May 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: The future of Flash, Sarah Palin hacker convicted
03 May 2010 -
IT hiring: The drama behind the statistics
29 Apr 2010 -
CIO careers: Seeking legal experts
16 Apr 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Cloud computing, IT innovation, CIO role and DR/BC
07 Apr 2010 -
Five steps to playing a bigger part in your company's M&A
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 07 Apr 2010 -
A move to cloud computing services -- back in 1999
07 Apr 2010 -
BI strategy: What Holy Grail are you seeking?
30 Mar 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: National cybersecurity list, basketball technology
22 Mar 2010 -
Success with cloud applications calls for a strong data-privacy policy
19 Mar 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: What is Foursquare's draw? Also Balanced Scorecard
15 Mar 2010 -
ITIL framework and IT outsourcing a formidable duo
12 Mar 2010 -
Are innovation strategies back on CIO agendas?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 03 Mar 2010 -
Is it better to work for an outsourcing provider than for corporate IT?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 24 Feb 2010 -
Silicon Valley economy: Recession hitting IT hard at its epicenter
12 Feb 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Super Bowl technology and Google's advertising
08 Feb 2010 -
Merck, Chevron and BP are touting a new IT management framework
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 04 Feb 2010 -
Oracle plays hardball with Rimini on third-party maintenance
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Jan 2010 -
2010 IT budgets are unsettled and unsettling
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 21 Jan 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Help Haiti using technology, IT outsourcing deals
18 Jan 2010 -
Can enterprise business intelligence be agile?
08 Jan 2010 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation
16 Nov 2009 -
UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential
- TechTarget 13 Nov 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation
09 Nov 2009 -
Gen X, not Gen Y, leads adoption of social technologies in workplace
- Editor 09 Oct 2009 -
How Google and Yahoo improved data center energy efficiency
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 24 Sep 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Service portfolio management, ITSM, email scandal
21 Sep 2009 -
Three ways to reach out to women in IT: Mentor, advocate, encourage
- TechTarget 18 Sep 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Pros and cons of outsourcing, ITIL framework, PPM
24 Aug 2009 -
How will IT outsourcing play out in companies’ recovery plans?
23 Jul 2009 -
What is transparency, and how is it relevant to IT?
- Editor 17 Jul 2009 -
Is Google Chrome OS a turning point or yawner?
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 08 Jul 2009 -
Satyam scandal: Has it affected your IT outsourcing and offshoring?
25 Jun 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: BI strategy, PPM software, compliance in the cloud
15 Jun 2009 -
PPM projects: If portfolio management works, why is it so rare?
11 Jun 2009 -
Why don’t connected healthcare information systems work?
- Editor 22 May 2009 -
Adding a 'business downturn' clause to your telecom contracts
- Editor 07 May 2009 -
CIO weekly wrap-up: Challenges of a state CIO, BPM, SOA and ROI
04 May 2009 -
Oracle buys Sun: When strategic vendors go bye-bye
- Senior Vice President of Editorial 22 Apr 2009
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With technology boosters like these, who needs Scrooge? That's what many IT folks must be thinking when they take a gander at the sponsors of a bill before the U.S. Senate to limit overtime pay for ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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"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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...