CIO weekly wrap-up

Good morning! Here are the latest stories from SearchCIO.com:

• IT embraces customer-facing video, social connectivity - Online retailers can court customers and increase their Web-based profits by customizing shopping experiences, enhancing videos and embracing social connectivity.

• Survey: Economy puts nonessential IT projects on back burner - A survey finds nearly half of respondents don’t expect information technology budgets to increase in 2009 and have put nonessential projects on the back burner as economic conditions worsen.

• Data center virtualization quiz for enterprise CIOs - Do you know the benefits of data center virtualization for your enterprise organization? Take the following quiz and find out whether you’re a virtualization expert.

• Shifting IT business models in time of economic crisis - For CIOs who already budget lean, here are four more places to save. You can stop some projects, reduce service levels, increase levels of risk and, yeah, move to the cloud.