IBM tells employees to shut Siri up and drop out of Dropbox
With about 80,000 employees using mobile devices other than the BlackBerrys the company gives out, IBM has come up with a list of applications that are off limits.
Why CEOs should become more technical
If you are sick to death of hearing about how CIOs must become more like business leaders and less like technology experts, have I got an article for you.
Little $25 computer appears to be catching on
Can the Raspberry Pi, a little computer that costs $25--or $35 for the premium version--change the world?
Group warns of tech talent deficit
Depending on who's talking, the United States might or might not be about to confront a technology talent deficit.
Unmanaged firewall rules can trigger auditor's interest
The more firewalls a company deploys, the more confusing and potentially insecure the firewall rule set becomes.
An IT leader's 'aha' moment in user adoption
Oh how nice it must be to enter the workforce today, when guys like Dan Antion are in charge of IT. Antion, vice president of information services at American Nuclear Insurers, is a true believer in driving user adoption of new technologies by ensuring that the technologies actually help people in their jobs.
Can you get your staff to open up?
Constructive criticism is necessary for improvement, and yet IT leaders are not necessarily going to get feedback from their teams when they need it most.
Self-service BI is the new analytics
Traditionally, businesses needed an idea of what they were looking for in querying their data. With new BI tools, huge quantities of data can be explored and relationships identified even if they were completely unknown at the outset.
Bringing threat intelligence in-house
Threat intelligence is a thriving business, but some enterprises are deciding to take the task in-house.
The humanization of IT and its benefits
Whether you call it user experience management, end user experience or real users management, the quest to ensure that the needs of real, live people are considered when implementing technology could be the most important component in aligning IT with business goals, writes Dennis Drogseth.
Q&A: Drive user adoption by making the user's job easier (or at least not harder)
How the IT chief for American Nuclear Insurers "got religion."
Unified communications adoption remains low
Vendors have been touting the benefits of unified communications for many years now, but a lack of integration among products and a difficulty in coming up with a business case are hampering adoption.
GM to no longer pay for ads on Facebook
Everyone's feeling the pressure to jump on the social media bandwagon, but General Motors has shifted its social media marketing effort into reverse this week.
Why you should treat Facebook like smoking
It's a big week for Facebook, as its stock is expected to be trading come Friday, but the social network's popularity is not necessarily a good thing for other organizations whose employees are online during work hours.
Avoid common business-continuity planning pitfalls
The trouble with establishing a business continuity program is that you just don't know what might disrupt your business down the road. You could be perfectly prepared to withstand earthquakes, fires and tornadoes, but then the levies might collapse and take everyone by surprise.
Microsoft beats Google in cloud bid to L.A. Community College
Microsoft Live@edu will be available to more than 250,000 students and faculty, enabling them to use cloud-based versions of Outlook, Word, Excel...
Unnecessary wireless expenses waste bundles
Recent research suggests that the average company could save a bundle by cutting back on wasteful mobility spending.
How your job might look in 2020
The job of CIO today entails many different challenges than it did a decade ago, including dealing with cloud computing and advanced security threats.
Outsourcing contracts aren't getting any easier
Despite the maturity of the outsourcing market, IT services contracts haven't become any easier, according to lawyers who specialize in these agreements.
CUNA Mutual's CIO also heads up procurement
With increasing frequency, we're coming across CIOs who run not only IT but also another major aspect of their companies.
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