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Are you ready to go omnichannel?
22 Nov 2013 -
Twitter IPO success a turning point for social networks?
08 Nov 2013 -
Tech tikes: Great mobile experience crucial to win over future users
01 Nov 2013
They say you can't be all things to all people, or in a million places at once. Well, "they" are going to fail at business as the age of the customer continues to entwine with the digital age. It's ...
When news first broke about the pending Twitter IPO, it was widely speculated whether it would mirror Facebook's fumbled launch. After all, both are social networks, both are of questionable ...
We probably didn't need a study to tell us this, but in case there was any doubt, babies are bonkers for mobile devices. Tablets, smartphones, you name it, they want to rub their little mitts on ...
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HealthCare.gov could've used a heavy dose of project governance
25 Oct 2013 -
BlackBerry's demise puts mobile innovation in question
27 Sep 2013 -
Apple iOs 7 gives a little love to the enterprise
13 Sep 2013 -
Microsoft's Nokia acquisition has potential to shake up mobile market
06 Sep 2013 -
Social shopping -- former mallrats turn to mice
23 Aug 2013 -
Extra! Bezos's big buy brings digital age to doorsteps
09 Aug 2013 -
The tangled Web of data privacy issues
02 Aug 2013
If you're one of the thousands (millions?) of Americans who've run up against the mess that is federal health insurance exchange website you may be wondering -- in colorful language -- how such an ...
When it comes to chatter about BlackBerry's fantastic tumble there's plenty being said about who did what wrong and at what point and why. But this week's Searchlight looks at the whole sad story ...
Sooo, who wants a gold iPhone?!* If Apple's annual Cupertino hype-o-rama failed to excite you with it's new colors and cheaper prices for iPhones, that may be because you came in a little late. If ...
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad mobile world. For the most part that world is being lorded over by Android (Google) and Apple. And while some have pooh-poohed Microsoft's Nokia acquisition as a weak, ...
There's a lot to hate about going to the mall. In fact, after the age of 17, there's pretty much nothing to like. And yet, there is something about that communal "does this look good on me?" ...
Are we not in the digital age? Why would someone who could afford to buy absolutely anything choose to buy The Washington Post? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's purchase of the paper certainly had ...
It seems we've all been so wrapped up in where, when and how the government is spying on our communications we forgot all about how our employers do it too. In a week rife with news related to ...
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Data scientists need to earn trust
26 Jul 2013 -
Sophisticated retail data collection programs up the creep factor
19 Jul 2013 -
Samsung's Jay-Z mobile app launch a how-not-to reminder for CIOs
12 Jul 2013 -
How much is your data privacy worth?
14 Jun 2013 -
Looking forward to the day we don't talk about women in tech
10 May 2013 -
Amazon expands empire to social networking
29 Mar 2013 -
Don't forget to count yourself among data analytics tools
15 Mar 2013 -
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 -
BYOD has a long life ahead of it
08 Feb 2013 -
Information security breach turned into teachable moment
01 Feb 2013 -
Data mining for social solutions
25 Jan 2013 -
TMI? What to do with all this digital information
18 Jan 2013 -
CES no longer a hot ticket?
11 Jan 2013 -
DCIM will have star turn in 2013 and other technology predictions
04 Jan 2013 -
Master list: Information technology news and 2013 predictions
28 Dec 2012 -
Uniquely naughty threats to information security
21 Dec 2012 -
Trying to get it right with social media, mobile applications
14 Dec 2012 -
Privacy policy shortcuts are something to be thankful for
21 Nov 2012 -
Importance of data security is no secret
16 Nov 2012 -
STEM is the star of Election Day 2012
09 Nov 2012 -
Agile technology a beacon in Hurricane Sandy
02 Nov 2012 -
Time to scare up a mobility strategy
26 Oct 2012 -
Newsweek is dead, long live digital disruption!
19 Oct 2012 -
Europe's public cloud problem is everyone's problem
12 Oct 2012 -
Every little byte helps - teaching tech matters
05 Oct 2012 -
Data center energy questions spark heated debate
28 Sep 2012 -
Big demand for big data analytics pros
21 Sep 2012 -
Gamification proves powerful weapon against security lesson boredom
14 Sep 2012 -
A little healthy competition helps drive tech innovation
07 Sep 2012 -
Something to Tweet about: Social media skills help pay the bills
17 Aug 2012 -
CIO lights up Olympics with green tech innovation
04 Aug 2012 -
Olympic-size woes and the dark side of tech innovation
27 Jul 2012 -
Conquering brain drain and big data analytics
20 Jul 2012 -
Scary-good tech innovations
13 Jul 2012 -
Pondering BPM applications and summer reading lists
06 Jul 2012 -
A revolutionary idea to promote women in computer science
29 Jun 2012 -
Summer brings the heat and cool tech innovation
23 Jun 2012 -
What the Queen of Soul can teach about social CRM
16 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 -
Disaster recovery documentation falling short
16 May 2012 -
BI? Website relaunch? It's all about mobile app design
09 May 2012 -
With tech innovation, countries starting out with less are doing more
04 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 -
More women in information technology is mission of university prez
06 Apr 2012 -
Spring is here, and innovation is in the air
23 Mar 2012 -
Siri, find me a good lawyer
16 Mar 2012 -
How big data improves an information security strategy
14 Mar 2012 -
Who's afraid of the iPad 3?
09 Mar 2012 -
Security woes and a different kind of Net threat
02 Mar 2012 -
No need to search, they know what you want
24 Feb 2012 -
Shaping data in ways both scary and sweet
17 Feb 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 -
Application portals for mobile device management are no joke
13 Dec 2011 -
Outlook 2012: Monetizing IT
07 Dec 2011 -
Social BPM pushes process out to users, customers
16 Nov 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 -
Some ISVs' virtualization licensing terms a moving target
10 Aug 2011 -
Two outsourcing strategy tips for emerging tech, outside the contract
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 04 Aug 2011 -
Enterprise mobility and the privacy debate
03 Aug 2011 -
Comic-Con: IT innovation lessons from dudes in Stormtrooper suits
- TechTarget 22 Jul 2011 -
For CIOs, there is a lot more than Hadoop to managing large data sets
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 07 Jul 2011 -
How enterprises are testing the mobile business app waters
30 Jun 2011 -
Six tips on avoiding social media project meltdowns
23 Jun 2011 -
Collaboration tool standardization prevents the death of ideas
16 Jun 2011 -
Does your business know the enterprise can't be run on rogue IT?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 16 Jun 2011 -
Workforce of the future is in the hands of the CIO
03 Jun 2011 -
NASA takes off with an open government and cloud infrastructure plan
22 Apr 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 -
Phasing in desktop virtualization
24 Feb 2011 -
Converged infrastructures promise to simplify private clouds
28 Jan 2011 -
Offshore outsourcing: China runs the sun, will it rule the cloud too?
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 27 Jan 2011 -
The enduring value of starting cheap in offshore IT outsourcing
- Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy 20 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 -
WikiLeaks shines a light on corporate security policies
17 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
They're a hot commodity in high demand. They're the cool kids who know how to get down and dirty with the big data. They're the data scientists, the folks who give meaning to, well, just about any ...
Have you ever felt like you were being watched? Well, get used to it. More and more retailers are getting sophisticated with their data collection programs. From mobile device tracking to ...
Poor Jay-Z already had 99 problems, now an app glitch is one. Actually, the big fail that was the "Magna Carta The Holy Grail" album mobile app launch was more of a problem for business partner ...
If the government sent us discount coupons would we feel differently about their data collecting "habits"? This week the Searchlight looks at a few of the many, many opinions and players currently ...
Jennie Lamere did something pretty cool. The 17-year-old high school senior beat out 80 competitors to win a recent hackathon. The prize-winning innovation is an app that called Twivo that can be ...
The old saying goes that you can't be all things to all people. But Amazon is sure as heck gonna try. In this week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight, the king of digital disruption shows how it's done. ...
When it comes to making big business decisions, data analytics tools are great to have in your arsenal. But as the lead item in this week's Searchlight reminds us there is one tool IT leaders ...
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 ...
Cruising around the Web this week, I happened upon one of those stories that you just know can't be serious. I don't mean that in an Onion-y way, more of a the-writer-is-doing-this-to-get-attention ...
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 ...
We are beyond up to our figurative eyeballs in data. Digital information is everywhere and no one can honestly say they've figured out just what to do with it. Businesses want to harness and ...
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 ...
Every new year it's the same old thing - everybody calling the next big thing. But heck, who doesn't enjoy a little crystal ball gazing. In this week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight we pass that ball ...
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, ...
If cheesy holiday movies have taught us anything, it's that everyone deserves another chance. We're not so sure, however, whether that sort of goodwill extends to overhauled social networks. So, ...
Thanksgiving is here and, in accordance with tradition, this week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight seeks to stuff you full of tasty bits and give you a few things to be thankful for. On the menu is a ...
Unless you've taken a post-election sabbatical from the news, chances are you're suffering from CIA-FBI scandal fatigue. We at SearchCIO.com Searchlight know how exhausting the 24-hour news cycle ...
This just might go down as the year they really put the "science" in political science. From geophysicists to data scientists, nerds ruled Election Day 2012 with dead-on outcome predictions and ...
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 ...
If you're an East Coast dweller, Halloween probably isn't the scariest thing headed your way next week. (Which reminds us, CIOs, is your DR/BC plan "Billion-dollar storm" proof?) But we at ...
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 ...
Blame it on the rain. Sorry if we just put that Milli Vanilli song in your head, but it's the best way we can explain how this week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight wound up so cloud-focused. The ...
What if you had skills so powerful they could change the course of the U.S. economy? You'd try to pass that awesomeness along, right? Well, great news SearchCIO.com Searchlight readers -- you ...
Ladies and gentlemen! Are you ready to rumble?! It's time for Data Center Energy Use Smackdown 2012! OK, so things have been a little more dignified than that, but the start of The New York Times' ...
In this week's SearchCIO.com Searchlight we have a bevvy, a big ol' bonanza -- ok -- a bunch of interesting bits you may have missed in your own web travels. Read about why being brainy is ...
Not all aspects of dealing with technology are fun. But sometimes technology itself can pep things up. This week, the SearchCIO.com Searchlight shines upon a few examples of the innovative thinking ...
For some folks the start of the fall season brings thoughts of leaf peeping and apple picking. But at SearchCIO.com Searchlight we can't help but think of competition. A presidential ...
Mid-August is here, when the uptick in back injuries from lugging mini-fridges and long goodbye-hugs remind us it's college move-in time once again. And like so many wide-eyed, hot plate-toting ...
Every four years, it's the same thing. We sit and watch the summer Olympics in awe of human physical potential and our minds begin to wander. What if we'd kept up those swimming lessons? If only we ...
Can you believe what a disappointment these games are turning out to be? Oh, we're not talking about the Olympics. We're referring of course to Zynga's recent woes. Yes, in life, as in the ...
Is there anyone out there who didn't have the longest, hottest week since ever? We're going to keep this brief, as our brains are more melted than hoax-ified Canadian currency. Good thing this ...
Why is it that Friday the 13th only seems scary when it falls in October? Didn't those unfortunate teens meet their demise at a summer camp? At any rate, in honor of this allegedly spooky/unlucky ...
Is this the official holiday weekend or was that last weekend? Mid-week holidays are so confusing. One thing we do know for sure is that summer is now in full swing. To celebrate, we've got ...
Who went and put a holiday in the middle of the week? Well, if you're not getting a long weekend out of it, at least the Fourth will break up your week -- goodness knows summer weeks are always ...
Don't know about you, but we here in the Boston area have had just about enough heat in the first two days of summer to last all season. They say it helps to think cool thoughts -- it ...
It's Father's Day weekend and what does this week's roundup have for all the dads? Potpourri! Yeah, we know, that sounds even worse than another tie. But we mean it more like the Jeopardy! category ...
The Late Show Top 10, Billboard's Hot 100 -- everybody loves a good list. (Except, perhaps, those of the "to-do" variety.) To help satisfy that hankering for digestible order, this week's roundup ...
Unless you've been living in outer space (or on MySpace), it's impossible not to know that today is the day Facebook drops its privacy settings and friends the NASDAQ. News and analysis abound, but ...
I spoke with a CIO years ago who went around his data center and randomly shut down servers. He did this for two reasons. For starters, if no one noticed that the server was off for a week, it ...
Enterprises are outsourcing mobile app design and keeping the names of their partners a closely guarded secret for competitive gain. IT departments are being asked to redesign customer-facing ...
When is the last time you actually dedicated time to innovative thinking? If it's taking you a while to answer (or you don't have time to remember because you're too busy working), you're not ...
Sometimes innovation begets innovation. This week, check out a gaming company that took the rather innovative step of eliminating hierarchy in the workplace and found it led to -- innovation. On a ...
Have you had a "taxing" week? Bad puns probably won't make you feel any better, but checking out our weekly roundup of news bits and analysis just might -- it's totally free. Earth Day is coming up ...
Short week? Long weekend? Whether you have something to celebrate or are simply enjoying the extra time off, we invite you to take in this week's roundup of tech bits from around the Web. This ...
Spring is here, the season of renewal. In honor of this time of all things fresh and new, this week's roundup includes a peek at innovators who inspire an innovator, the ways Best Buy's new digital ...
Maybe it's an effect of that "Law and Order" marathon we sat through last weekend, but for some reason we were really drawn to things litigious this week. In this Friday's roundup of news and ...
I learned a new term the other day: data-driven security. I had been talking with Enterprise Management Associates security guru Scott Crawford about remote access security policies in a ...
Friday again already? Wow, things really do move fast in the tech world. In this week's roundup of news bits and opinions, we naturally bring you one of many, many ponderings about the new iPad, a ...
We're feeling a little vulnerable this week, maybe because our cache of tech bits is a little heavy on security issues. And if that's not enough, we round out the roundup with the most nefarious ...
It was a short week for some, but there was no shortage of intriguing news and opinions to sort through. We've rounded up a handful of items to share with you on this Friday, including one of many ...
The week is drawing to a close, and for some of you there's a long weekend ahead. Why not use a bit of your extra leisure time to peruse some interesting news from around the Internet that you ...
Top o’ the week to you. We're as laden with interesting Web tidbits as Adele is with Grammy awards today. Without further fanfare, here are six stories from around the Internet, the leadoff one a ...
Security investments and priorities are a tricky thing to nail down, given that threats are constantly shifting, but one security precaution could be going the way of the dodo bird. Michael Daly, ...
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 ...
What do a Gartner analyst, a Forrester analyst, the CIO of a group of community colleges, and mobile device management (MDM) vendors have in common? (No, this isn't the setup for a bad joke.) ...
Opinions about the top trends for the coming year are starting to trickle into my inbox. Most of these "Outlook 2012" predictions are about the certainty of economic uncertainty. I know, however, ...
Social business process management, or social BPM, promises to address the age-old problem of having a small group of business analysts or technicians create business processes, only to get ...
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 ...
When it comes to virtualization licensing terms, what is it going to take for some independent software vendors (ISVs) to stop dragging their feet? When I asked IT executives at the recent Gartner ...
In our SearchCIO.com tip sheet this week on outsourcing strategies for emerging tech, outsourcing adviser Andy Sealock explains how contracting for new technology is different from procuring ...
There was an interesting side conversation during the Q&A portion of a session on enterprise mobility at last week's Gartner Catalyst Conference. Someone asked the panel what they thought about ...
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 ...
No matter the topic at hand, lately my conversations with CIOs turn to Big Data -- or, to use my editor's preferred term, large data sets. CIOs have Big Data on the brain -- and for good reason. ...
While you're debating whether to develop native mobile business apps, use HTML5 for mobile or take a hybrid approach using PhoneGap, one enterprise IT exec highly recommends asking for an ...
You have to admire Kevin Jones, NASA's social media organizational strategist. He stood up at this week's Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston and laid bare his social media project failures. Jones was ...
When I covered Microsoft, I appreciated the grass-roots SharePoint efforts across businesses small and large. Unsatisfied with the capabilities of a given collaboration tool, knowledge workers ...
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 ...
You couldn't go far at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium held recently in Cambridge, Mass., without hearing about the workforce of the future and how the CIO will help develop what some people are ...
Don't be surprised if NASA's Nebula cloud becomes the model -- and maybe the mother -- of cloud infrastructure in the U.S. NASA is embarking on an ambitious plan to overhaul its existing data ...
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 ...
Desktop virtualization gives the business peace of mind. That was the bottom line when I asked Todd Bruni, director of client services for Christus Health, about the benefits of building a virtual ...
Just when you thought you understood private clouds, along comes converged infrastructure. You wouldn't be wrong to wonder, are they the same thing? A private cloud, most people agree, is a ...
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 ...
Being the lowest-cost service provider of offshore IT outsourcing pays off in ways that go beyond being -- well, the lowest-cost IT service provider. Rock-bottom prices attract new customers, who ...
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 ...
The WikiLeaks debacle has put a spotlight on the need for better corporate security policies and new technology approaches. But even these safeguards are no guarantee in an age where data is so ...
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 ...