Online video’s next frontier

For all the YouTube addicts out there (myself included), there's an interesting blog post on NYTimes.com this week about online-video attention spans. According to Saul Hansell,...
IT research gurus cash in, as economy sinks

If the economy puts your job at risk, you might want to consider a career at those places that are always giving you advice. Both Gartner Inc. and Forrester Research Inc. beat earnings estimates for the third quarter. Gartner’s quarterly profit of 19 cents a share easily beat Wall Street...
Tech warriors on the offensive

Downturn, shmownturn. Your peers at technology companies apparently don't need a global recession to get their juices flowing. A new survey of 151 U.S. technology company executives by Deloitte Consulting...
Halloween costumes for techies

In honor of Halloween, Kristen Caretta, associate editor of SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, and I decided to get a bit silly and dream up our top 10 Halloween costumes for the IT set. Wear these to your office party and wait for the...
Information technology ‘down but not out’ this time around?

Forrester Chairman and CEO George Colony has a reassuring blog out this morning on the impact of a global recession on tech. His take? Technology had its Great Depression in 2001-2003, and this time will be different....
CIO weekly wrap-up

Here's a rundown of the latest content on SearchCIO.com:
- Gartner: 25 ways to cut IT costs -- Cutting costs is "never...
Sunrise, sunset: Sun Microsystems’ Bechtolsheim decamps to take on Cisco

Sun Microsystems co-founder, early Google backer and computer engineer extraordinaire Andreas von Bechtolsheim is leaving his job as chief architect at Sun to apply his considerable talents to Arista Networks, a company he started as a sideline four years ago. The startup, which sells cloud...
Trimming IT costs: What are the best methods?

I've noticed that our readers have a penchant for a list-based story now and then, and Linda Tucci's report from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008 in Orlando was no different. Her list of 25...
CIO weekly wrap-up

Good morning! Here are the latest stories from SearchCIO.com:
Top 10 strategic IT technologies: Boo!

Virtualization -- the ghost in the machine -- won top place in Gartner's annual list of IT technologies that will likely impact your business in the next three years. Cloud computing came in No. 2. The power of the Web made itself felt, with Web-oriented architecture, enterprise mashups and social...