Although IT clearly has a stake in the CMS platform, it’s a big mistake to let IT monopolize the selection process, writes John Fairley of Walker Sands.

Companies are fast realizing that IT applications are becoming an ever increasing critical component to generate revenue, profits and to remain competitive, writes Marcos Jimenez of Softtek.

If you wait long enough, it will make sense to skip Windows 7 and go straight to Windows 8, writes Aaron Suzuki of SmartDeploy.

When evaluating the Cloud solution, read the fine print and know exactly what you are agreeing to, writes Bill Abram of Pragmatix.

There is inherent risk in any outsourcing relationship but these five factors will help minimize the risks of offshoring, writes Ramesh Dorairaj of MindTree.

Critical path problem solving presents the problem, the steps to solve it and the solution in a clear and concise way, writes John Jankowski of JanCom Technologies.

But the huge strides made in this area in recent years are real and measurable, writes Jennifer Marsh for Rackspace Hosting.

The social enterprise is not just Facebook at work, writes Ben Pring and Paul Roehrig of Cognizant.

BYOD will have an impact on every facet of telecom expense management, writes Matt West of NPI.

As in any relationship, the key to success is a true interest in understanding each other's differences, and making the most of them, writes Fernando Alvarez of Capgemini.

Like every other disruptive technology that advanced into the enterprise, security will be key to successfully deploying BYOD, writes Kevin Flynn of Fortinet.

Without the right security frameworks in place, the transformative potential of social enterprise technologies will be far outweighed by risk, writes John Thielens of Axway.

Obama gives the order to take the U.S. government's IT security into 21^st Century, writes Paul Kenyon of Avecto.

If you don't put together a secure BYOD policy, which is entirely doable, your employees will write it for you, writes Jim MacLeod of WildPackets.

CIOs and CFOs must work together to reap the full benefits of cloud computing, writes Tom Adams of HP Financial Services.

As the economy rebounds, employment in the technology segment continues its pattern of outperforming the general labor market and the competition for talent is heating up. 

While IT pros are in demand as much as ever how you still need to have the right mix of skills and outlook to stay relevant in today's cloud-powered world, writes Shawn Edmondson of rPath.

Based on IAITAM's research, cloud is not providing the savings everyone hoped for. The reasons are many but it starts with poorly defining why you are moving to the cloud in the first place, writes Barbara Rembiesa of IAITAM.

How can your business can maneuver the regulatory alphabet soup to ensure your cloud provider neets the latest standards?, asks Caroline Lowden of Cbeyond.

The chance of a "Big-D" disaster are always remote but the odds go up in June in North America so it pays to revisit your business continuity plans and makes sure they are going to work, writes Paddy Falls, CTO, Neverfail.

The trick is to understand what information is truly important and which can just flow by, writes Ian Rowlands of ASG Software Solutions.

The consumerization of IT is enabling a whole generation of new workers to work where they want, when they want and this can great benefits for your customers if you play the trend right, writes Jamie Ryan of Aspect.

If you've taken the time to figure out your own private cloud then you've done enough of the require leg-work to take advantage of public clouds, as well, writes Mike Martin vice president, Cloud Solutions Group, Logicalis

A best practice is a practice linked to measurably better outcomes. In other words, best practices enable you to do something better, faster, or cheaper, writes Lauren Trees of APQC.

Logicalis' Brian Day lays out the five things you really need to focus on to get the most out of your private cloud deployment.

Everyone's keenly aware of managing unstructured data and its legal implications but the real problem with ediscovery lies with massive dynamic structured data repositories, writes David White of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Given everyone's reliance on mobile devices and the BYOD phenomenon that CIOs are only starting to get their heads around, charting a roadmap for mobile communications across the enterprise is critical now -- as in today, writes Tom Chew of Slalom Consulting.

There's plenty of ways to do things right (and wrong) but the tools are there to help you with the first part at least, writes Steve Pelletier of Logicalis.

You can make a private cloud just as safe as any infrastructure, writes Von Williams of Logicalis.

There's a little more to it than getting in touch with Amazon and giving them your credit card number, writes by Mike Martin of Logicalis.

Like everything else in business and IT, it's time rethink the paradigms that made us so successful in the 1990s and 2000s. The 21^st Century is here and better models are needed to recapture the high ground and grow, writes Cliff Justice of KPMG.

Just like 'Thinking outside of the box', IT-business alignment is a term on the wane, but, what it stands for – people working together collaboratively to solve common problems – never goes out of vogue, writes Ken Pedersen of Geneca.

Private clouds will alleviate some concerns like security but they are no panacea. The journey to the cloud will change almost everything you think you know about IT, writes Kevin Gruneisen of Logicalis.

It takes a special set of skills to lead a seasoned IT team and the guys from accounting don't have them. Do you?

IT can help make or break the business these day so it's time you embrace the reality that the CIO is as much a part of the C-suite as anyone else, writes Frank Petersmark of X by 2. Here's how.

Once the hand that reached across the chasm between IT and the business, business analysts have become a rare commodity in most IT departments. This is bad news for the CIO, writes CIO Insight contributor and author Marc Schiller.

Few technologies can really be called "disruptive" or "game changing," but the move to mobile computing is one of them, writes Brian Duckering of Symantec.

Because innovation just doesn't happen, IBM, Kennametal, and Mayo Clinic all actively engage their staff and customers to help them come up with the ideas that improve products, processes and relationships, writes Becky Partida of APQC.

Because innovation just doesn't happen, IBM, Kennametal, and Mayo Clinic all actively engage their staff and customers to help them come up with the ideas that improve products, processes and relationships, writes Becky Partida of APQC.