CIO weekly wrap-up: Google Wave, email retention, ITIL, data recovery

Good morning! Last week on SearchCIO.com, we surfed the Google Wave, examined the email retention policy (or lack thereof) that's caused such consternation in Boston, explained how to complement your ITIL framework with other process methodologies, and...
Cost-saving moves push security off list of top CIO management issues

SIM’s annual survey is out, and perennial CIO issues -- IT security and business continuity/disaster recovery -- have plummeted on the lists of both CIO management and technology priorities....
How Google and Yahoo improved data center energy efficiency

Running large data centers is expensive and getting worse. No one knows that more than Google and Yahoo. At a panel on green data centers at MIT’s Emerging Technologies Conference this week, Yahoo’s senior director of data center engineering and operations, Scott Noteboom, described how Yahoo...
CIO weekly wrap-up: Service portfolio management, ITSM, email scandal

Good afternoon! This past week, SearchCIO.com looked at the importance of service portfolio management and culture management as part of ITSM and ITIL implementations. We also took a look at an email scandal that's threatening to rock Boston's mayoral race and...
Three ways to reach out to women in IT: Mentor, advocate, encourage

A dinner this week on women in IT focused on midlevel women in technology and their challenges in getting ahead, given their frequently high family responsibilities and their own perceptions (realities?) of what advancing really demands. The program, featuring Telle Whitney, president and CEO of...
CIO weekly wrap-up: Swine flu preparedness, business continuity, ITIL

I just returned from an amazing week in Costa Rica and have the tan (really, the sunburn) to prove it. Maybe surfing at the sunniest time of day wasn't the smartest move? Anyway, I'm re-discovering how difficult it is to get back into the swing of things at work post-vacation, so this lineup of our...
Looking for low-cost business processes? Check out GE WorkOut and FTD

Some companies are developing their own business process methodologies -- such as GE WorkOut and
Gmail outage raises issue of control

While talking to an IT director about Google’s Gmail outage yesterday, I realized that it wasn’t so much the outage itself that bothered him (his...