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Midmarket CIOs are just not that into business process management

Midmarket companies may think that putting processes around purchase orders, claims or employee onboarding and offboarding is akin to having a business process management (BPM) strategy, but in fact those projects are really just traditional workflow management.

At least according to...

March Madness 2009: What network slowdown?

March Madness has officially started. Offices are buzzing with pick-to-win pools, friendly competition amongst peers and co-workers -- and the network slowdown caused by streaming live videos of the game. Is your network up to snuff and prepared to...

IT job opportunities persist, even as recession deepens

As the national job market continues to founder, with total jobless claims reaching a record high of 5.5 million, IT professionals can take solace in a recent report from Forrester Research Inc. analyst Andrew Bartels. The...

Obama chooses a federal CIO: The next generation of CIOs?

President Obama selected Vivek Kundra as his first federal CIO. Kundra, formerly chief technology officer for the District...

Navigating your SaaS contract: Buyer beware?

Even as CIOs face smaller IT budgets in a range of areas this year, one segment that still has traction is Software as a Service (SaaS). The subscription-based software...

Qualities of a good leader: Avoid layoffs at all cost?

An article on our sister site, SearchCIO.com, this week highlighted the qualities of a good leader during a recession, culling advice from leadership experts and CIOs. The list...

What the tweet? Using Twitter as a business tool

It took a lot of coaxing to get me to start using Twitter. It wasn't that I didn’t want to join. It wasn't because I didn’t understand it. I just didn’t get it. I didn’t see what the big deal was. To be frank, I didn’t think I...

Heartland ‘low and slow’ data breach not likely at SMBs?

Reporters hear this a lot when it comes to SMB security: The security risks facing small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are often identical to those at big companies, only different in scale. The spam and viruses coming through email are as much a plague on SMBs as they are on the big guys....

Hyper-V update: Yes, it works with Linux

The Hyper-V experiment continues. My three Server 2008 VMs are extremely stable -- no crashes at all, nine days continuous running. I made a number of restarts to address various upgrades and all three VMs came back automatically. Am also using a VM to test Windows 7, and no problems there...

Is a Windows 7 migration inevitable for XP users?

So Windows 7 is out in beta. My colleague Mark Schlack took it for a test drive and wasn’t impressed (see Windows 7migration: First thoughts). Yet at some point,...