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Unlike doctors, accountants and lawyers, the CIO is a relatively new profession. There are few master's programs that give you a degree in being a CIO and fewer training courses at the undergraduate Read more...

IBM has purchased a storage services company to help it compete in the high-growth, high-margin software and services field. Big Blue picked up NovusCGIB, part of its strategy of becoming a larger Read more...

Just how do you maintain a competitive edge, stimulate innovation and align IT with key business objectives? James Barrese, VP of systems and architecture at eBay tackles some of these issues in a Read more...

According to an ongoing survey by the Society of Information Management, IT organizations that follow a federated model are probably better aligned with the business. Federated models combine the Read more...

Your IT department probably has a host of application developers, IT managers and programmers, but does it have an information steward? How about a mobile application developer? The IT department Read more...

If your organization has been compromised, create a plan and form a committee consisting of representatives from each business unit, the corporate attorney, the corporate compliance officer or Read more...

Determining whether your company is getting enough value from its IT investments is one of the most difficult things to measure. Making sure that you're measuring accurately means taking advantage Read more...

While the role of CIO is of chief importance in many companies, some companies are actually eliminating it, citing a desire to roll the tasks into another business unit and other strategic and Read more...

With the New Year just six weeks away, here comes a encouraging report on how today's IT enterprise will quickly morph into an invigorated, innovative business unit, taking a more critical role in Read more...

Indiana's CTO admits that when he was brought in to revamp the state's IT agency and infrastructure, he had never seen such a messed up scenario. But with the support of the governor, Gerry Weaver Read more...