August 25, 2010 3:57 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
IT security,
WikiLeaksLast month's release of the incendiary Afghan War Diary by WikiLeaks raised a lot of national security questions, not the least of which is how a large, complex enterprise anticipates the human element when it...
August 20, 2010 2:21 PM
Posted by: 4Laura
CIO,
Cloud computing,
cloud computing adoption,
cloud hype,
cloud market trends,
cloud services adoptionIf you think cloud computing is coming on strong, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Analysts at Gartner Inc. predict that worldwide revenue from cloud services will balloon from $58.6 billion in 2009 to $148.8 billion in 2014. Both the speed and scale of enterprise deployments are accelerating,...
August 20, 2010 11:17 AM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Enterprise 2.0,
Social media,
social media risksWe've all heard about the benefits of using social media in the enterprise: Brands are enhanced, customers engaged, employees connected. But as summer nears its end, let's gather around the blogfire to recount a few scary stories about
August 13, 2010 12:57 PM
Posted by: 4Laura
Add new tag,
CIO,
cybercrime,
federated identities,
identity management,
national identity cards,
single sign-onThe U.S. government is increasing its efforts to identify, authenticate and authorize people online. This month it's releasing a draft of a Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace proposal that includes promoting a "national identity...
August 12, 2010 5:46 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
IT spendingGartner Inc. downgraded its forecast for 2010 IT spending worldwide, and now pegs growth at 2.9% rather than the 4.1% growth it forecast earlier this year. Spending numbers for the U.S. market are even more modest: The...
August 6, 2010 11:56 AM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
BI,
catalyst conference,
data management,
fungible assetsWhat's data fungibility have to do with delivering business insight? No, really, I'm asking.
According to Burton Group analyst Lyn Robison, one reason CIOs are struggling to deliver business insight to the business -- as...
August 5, 2010 9:41 PM
Posted by: 4Laura
CIO,
Cloud computing,
liability policies,
public cloud,
risk managementOf all the potential showstoppers to enterprise adoption of the public cloud -- including such well-touted concerns as security, interoperability and portability -- liability policies have emerged as the one most likely to derail progress. It doesn't take an actuarial degree to predict that at some...
