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Carnival Cruise Lines recently finished switching out its storage area networks from a Fibre Channel-based system to an Ethernet-based storage architecture using a virtualized server infrastructure. Read more...

In the past, CIO had to be tech wizards to keep their jobs. That was then: It is now very different. In an article in the Journal of New England Technology, experts say that CIOs also have to know Read more...

As a CIO, you have to keep up with change, so keep looking ahead and patch problems as they arise. There are always new projects and multiple demands for integration but there is a way to deal with Read more...

Circuit City CIO Bill McCorey detailed how he decided to outsource his IT operations to IBM in an effort to cut costs and to allow internal staff to focus on better supporting workers in the Read more...

Companies of all sizes can now take advantage of high-performance computing (HPC), thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running Read more...

Wisdom is a term that typically brings connotations of years of experience, old age and grandfatherly advice to mind. But as one IT executive defines it, wisdom is a "differentiating and Read more...