Infrastructure news from FierceCIO

The AAA organization for Western and Central New York receives an average of 6.5 million calls from its members annually. To better link its contact centers with branch offices and accommodate a Read more...

Information technology is playing a big role in helping financial firms deal with the dual pressures of increased regulation and a tough economy, but the technologies themselves are creating new Read more...

Not so long ago Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) was the foremost networking gear provider, and it pretty much stuck to its knitting, partnering with Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and IBM (NASDAQ: IBM) (and, to a Read more...

Dean College in Franklin, Mass., got a relatively early start in wireless networking, offering access to faculty and students in the late 1990s. A decade or so later, rising network demands brought Read more...

When confronted with a tragedy like last week's earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan, I don't think our minds can begin to process the magnitude of loss and suffering. And so we Read more...

Large vendors have been ramping up the rhetoric surrounding the virtue of end-to-end systems, but analysts at Gartner argue that multi-vendor networks not only reduce costs but simplify operations, Read more...

More businesses are seeking help with moving IT infrastructure from physical to virtual to cloud, as they realize just how many technologies and models need to be addressed in that process. Getting Read more...

It's important not to forget about consolidating data centers when companies merge. It's a big change, and it means there are loads of data that must be consolidated and a map must be created for the Read more...

It's tough to read the tea leaves, but there are some positive signs for IT workers, according to an analysis by Foote Partners. While the overall national unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, an Read more...

The numbers are quite disturbing, and should be sobering for CIOs whose operations have been hit hard by the economic downturn. A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute found an alarming degree of Read more...