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October 29, 2010  1:54 PM

Why some IT executives are gung ho about cloud computing technology



Posted by: 4Laura
CIO, Cloud computing

If the turnout at the recent Society for Information Management (SIM) meeting in Boston is any indication, IT executives are seriously interested in cloud computing technology. And although questions from the floor tended to be practical -- as...

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October 28, 2010  2:01 PM

Business intelligence technology 3.0 is all about control, but whose?



Posted by: Linda Tucci
Business Intelligence, CIO, predictive analytics, social analytics

In search of information for a story on business intelligence technology 2.0, I was informed politely by the head of the BI practice of a global IT provider that I was at least...

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October 22, 2010  1:28 PM

Unlikely to join Twitter, IT would rather be ‘LinkedIn’, guru says



Posted by: 4Laura
CIO, collaboration, LinkedIn, social networking. Twitter

Those of you trying to figure out how to back up a virtualized environment efficiently ought to check out Greg Schulz's blog about data footprint reduction. The 1% of IT staffers who join Twitter (according to Schulz) might even send...

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October 21, 2010  4:16 PM

Gartner Symposium: IT trends you can use — the sound bite version



Posted by: Linda Tucci
Gartner Symposium, IT trends

I started my week perched on a straight-back chair and juggling a tape recorder at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011. Many of Gartner's 10 top strategic IT trends and technologies laid out in the opening keynotes--

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October 15, 2010  2:12 PM

A bevy of APM announcements bolsters cloud computing solutions



Posted by: 4Laura
APM, application performance management, CIO, Cloud computing, mobile computing

OK, OK -- I winced at this week's forward-looking piece by SearchCIO.com News Director Christina Torode about mobile being the new black. Those of us who are still trying to figure out...

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October 14, 2010  1:28 PM

Thanks to USPS IT innovation, ‘the check’s in the mail’ won’t cut it



Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO, CIO leadership, IT innovation

The U.S. Postal Service and IT innovation doesn't strike me as a natural pairing. But after listening to CIO Ross Philo, a Brit who was

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October 7, 2010  9:35 PM

Wit and wisdom from the world of disaster recovery solutions



Posted by: 4Laura
business continuity, CIO, Disaster recovery, Virtualization

For those of you who spend your days thinking about business continuity, and your nights tossing around disaster recovery solutions, I thought I would share some of the...

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October 6, 2010  3:30 PM

How to use Twitter, if you’re a CIO? With discipline



Posted by: Linda Tucci
CIO, CIO careers, Social media, Twitter

How do you tweet? I'm supposed to use Twitter for work, but I don't. Now I believe I know why. According to two CIOs who do, David Buckholtz and Ralph Loura, tweeting requires first, "a moment" that drives home the benefits, and second, the will to form a new habit. The two were featured in a...

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