s system news from FierceCIO

What's going on with BlackBerry lately? RIM's system went down again on Wednesday, starting around 6am on the East Coast. It apparently got progressively worse during the day, too. The outage Read more...

CIOs must protect their systems from outsiders as well as insiders. A recent survey conducted last month by RSA found that one-third of those surveyed had to work around their organization's security Read more...

If the Service Modeling Language (SML) specification, which was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in March, becomes a standard, it could make disparate network components Read more...

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer describes the arrival and impending deployment of Vista as the dawn of a new era in business computing. While he admits that he can't claim the new operating system Read more...

A new report indicates that many enterprises aren't very focused on, or concerned about, back-end infrastructure security. A key reason is that many tech leaders are relying heavily on product Read more...

Most people would think that states, given the funding levels and the resources available, would have a grip on pulling and aggregating data, but state educational departments across the country Read more...