By Dennis Drogseth
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Features Article Published May 23, 2012
User experience management can go a long way towards reshaping how the business, IT and IT's customers approach technology decision-making, writes Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates.
By Pam Baker
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Features Article Published May 22, 2012
VMware vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite are giving competitor's more than a few sleepless nights.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published May 21, 2012
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
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published May 18, 2012
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.
By CIO Update Staff
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Features Article Published May 17, 2012
New APQC study details how Caterpillar, General Mills, IBM, Lockheed Martin, and Schlumberger Ltd. are leading the race to source, develop, and retain technical talent.
By Dennis Drogseth
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Features Article Published May 16, 2012
User experience management holds the promise of making IT an extrovert once and for all, writes Dennis Drogseth of EMA.
By Arthur Cole
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Features Article Published May 15, 2012
The major challenge in the cloud will be getting data from place to place so that others can process and manipulate it according to their needs
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published May 14, 2012
Logicalis' Brian Day lays out the five things you really need to focus on to get the most out of your private cloud deployment.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published May 11, 2012
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.
By Pedro Hernandez
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Features Article Published May 11, 2012
HP opens the doors to its public cloud offering in one of the industry's highest profile OpenStack deployments.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published May 10, 2012
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.
By Faisal Hoque
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Features Article Published May 9, 2012
Transforming public sector inefficiencies, from old technologies to poor oversight, will take a renewed focus on technology and enterprise management practices, writes Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published May 7, 2012
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.
By Pam Baker
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Features Article Published May 3, 2012
Even though it's been around for some time, Big Data in many respect is just getting started. Here's a look at few vendors you'll most likely be hearing from soon if you haven't already.
By Pam Baker
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Features Article Published May 2, 2012
RIM's entry in the mobile device management space may be a bit late by some standards but the company is still a player so writing them off just yet is a bit premature.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 30, 2012
You can make a private cloud just as safe as any infrastructure, writes Von Williams of Logicalis.
By Daniel Burrus
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Features Article Published Apr 26, 2012
Ultra-intelligent electronic agents like Siri and 'her' Android-based competitors will shape the future, writes Futurist Daniel Burrus. Are you listening? They are.
By Daniel Burrus
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Features Article Published Apr 25, 2012
Ultra-intelligent electronic agents like Siri and 'her' Android-based competitors will shape the future, writes Futurist Daniel Burrus. Are you listening?
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 23, 2012
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.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 20, 2012
Like everything else in business and IT, it's time rethink the paradigms that made us so successful in the 1990s and 2000s. The 21st Century is here and better models are needed to recapture the high ground and grow, writes Cliff Justice of KPMG.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 18, 2012
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.
By Pam Baker
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Features Article Published Apr 17, 2012
So far the latest version of COBIT, COBIT 5, has flown pretty far under the radar but for those in the know, version 5 couldn't come soon enough.
By Drew Robb
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Features Article Published Apr 17, 2012
Because analytics is the "combustion engine of business," organizations invest in business intelligence even when times are tough. Gartner predicts the next big phase for business intelligence will be a move toward more simulation and extrapolation.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 16, 2012
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.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 13, 2012
It takes a special set of skills to lead a seasoned IT team and the guys from accounting don't have them. Do you?
By Sean Michael Kerner
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Features Article Published Apr 12, 2012
Open source cloud effort gets a major vote of confidence and millions of dollars of support.
By Pam Baker
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Features Article Published Apr 11, 2012
Not only do employees bring their own devices, but they also move corporate data onto the cloud without much thought.
By Pedro Hernandez
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Features Article Published Apr 10, 2012
HP enlists OpenStack as it sets its sights on the booming cloud computing market with a blend of public, private and hybrid cloud services.
By Daniel Burrus
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Features Article Published Apr 9, 2012
We are in the midst of the biggest technical revolution since the PC so if you don't have a mobile strategy in place you need one, writes Daniel Burrus of Burrus Research, in the second half of this two-part series.
By Pam Baker
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Features Article Published Apr 6, 2012
It is uncomfortably common for offshoring projects big and small to go bad. So what do you when this happens? How do you get things back on track and not break the bank? Hint: Money's not the answer.
By Daniel Burrus
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Features Article Published Apr 4, 2012
We are in the midst of the biggest technical revolution since the PC so if you don't have a mobile strategy in place you need one, writes Daniel Burrus of Burrus Research.
By Michelle Maisto
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Features Article Published Apr 2, 2012
To be a business front runner, it's unacceptable to be a year or even six months behind consumer trends. Oliver Bussmann's approach: If you can't beat them, lead them.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Apr 2, 2012
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.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 29, 2012
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.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 27, 2012
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.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 26, 2012
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.
By Jason Druebert
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Features Article Published Mar 23, 2012
It isn't sexy or big but the way to get better at being better is to sit down with some executive leadership and fix problems together, writes Jason Druebert of AT&T Professional Services.
By Faisal Hoque
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Features Article Published Mar 21, 2012
Before ascending into the virtual world of puffy white haze, be sure your strategy is clear enough to keep your focused on the business, writes Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 19, 2012
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.
By Dennis Drogseth
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Features Article Published Mar 16, 2012
Service management tools are a must if you want to get the most out of your cloud initiatives, writes Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 14, 2012
So many high profile security breaches may make it seem like the cyber criminals are winning, but it's just not the case, writes Blake McConnell of Symantec.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 13, 2012
To fundamentally change the way IT was viewed and consumed at Cisco, the CIO transformed IT from technology-focused to services-centric, writes Rebecca Jacoby, Cisco's CIO.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 12, 2012
You can use crowdsourcing like an extension of your marketing, R&D and sales departments to help solve regional challenges collaboratively and bring in new customers, writes Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Features Article Published Mar 9, 2012
Everyone frets about BYOD security, but something as simple as improper expensing policies can lead to unhappy employees and be just as costly and time consuming for everyone, writes Roger Yang of Avema Critical Wireless.
By CIO Update Staff
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Features Article Published Mar 8, 2012
CIOs expect to bring on fewer staff than they first anticipated in the first quarter but most plan to keep their current head count the same. Networking and security pros most in demand.
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