July 13, 2012 9:04 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Apple,
BYOD,
CEO,
CIO,
collaboration,
enterprise collaboration,
Enterprise mobility,
enterprise mobility; CIO,
innovation,
Microsoft,
mobile applications,
mobile device management,
mobile devices,
mobile IT,
mobile strategy,
mobility,
smartphones,
social collaboration,
social media platforms,
VirtualizationWhy is it that Friday the 13th only seems scary when it falls in October? Didn't those unfortunate teens meet their demise at a summer camp? At any rate, in honor of this allegedly spooky/unlucky day, we've stocked up the roundup with scary-good tech innovations, a howling CEO and a reminder of...
June 16, 2012 1:44 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Big Data,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
data analytics,
data centers,
Google,
innovationIt's Father's Day weekend and what does this week's roundup have for all the dads? Potpourri! Yeah, we know, that sounds even worse than another tie. But we mean it more like the Jeopardy! category -- a blend of disparate pieces of information that are simply interesting to know (and are...
May 25, 2012 2:30 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
agility,
CIO,
CIO role,
Cloud computing,
consumerization of IT,
customer crowdsourcing,
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium,
voice of the customerWhat would the CIO role be without all the hand-wringing over whether it will survive another minute? This week was the annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, "Piloting the Untethered Enterprise," a one-day conference so crammed with provocation, bon mots, covert deal...
May 10, 2012 9:03 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
Competitive advantage,
IT budgets,
IT security,
mobile apps,
mobile devices,
mobile middleware,
Mobile spendingCall it the triumph of consumerism, or just common sense. Mobile computing is on fire in the enterprise -- apps, middleware, tablets -- and the proof is in the pesos, pounds, the...
April 26, 2012 9:37 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
CIO,
Cloud computing,
cloud security concerns,
Data privacy,
Google,
MicrosoftAnother week, another potential woe for the CIO?
Tuesday saw the long-awaited/speculated release of Google Drive, joining the world of such cloud storage service offerings as...
April 17, 2012 7:11 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
CIO,
CIO role,
Cloud computing,
consumerization of IT,
shadow ITThe role of the CIO, the challenges involved and the way it is changing are always front and center for us at SearchCIO.com. Often these conversations are off the cuff -- not meant for...
April 12, 2012 3:53 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
CIO,
Cloud computing,
cloud computing adoption,
cloud vendors,
vendor lock-inI've had my head in the clouds recently. Or I guess I should say, 'the cloud.' I've been chatting with enterprise IT leaders about which systems and applications they've trusted to the hands of cloud service providers. The list runs the gamut. There are the usual suspects -- what one analyst...
April 6, 2012 8:00 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
CIO,
Google,
mobile applications,
Social media,
women in ITShort week? Long weekend? Whether you have something to celebrate or are simply enjoying the extra time off, we invite you to take in this week's roundup of tech bits from around the Web. This week's pickings include some sobering news about Macs and about Google's forthcoming augmented-reality...
March 27, 2012 8:48 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Business,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
IT consumerization,
mobility,
smartphones,
tabletsI was listening in on a Gartner webinar about the personal cloud today, and in the hour-long chat a single word jumped out at me and stuck in my brain: frictionless. "There it is again," I thought.
Just a few weeks ago, in this very spot, I was talking about the whole idea of a
