opinion Cloud CIO: The Two Biggest Lies About Cloud Security Treating the cloud security discussion as a black-and-white issue, where public clouds are insecure and private cloud are secure, is overly simplistic and leaves organizations that pursue either type of cloud environment vulnerable. By Bernard Golden May 27, 2011 9 mins Cloud Computing Private Cloud Virtualization opinion Microsoft’s Deafening Silence on Windows 8 Tablet Features Microsoft has been tight-lipped about Windows 8, but the company is finally taking tablets seriously. Here are four reasons why. By Shane O'Neill May 26, 2011 4 mins Data Center news BlackBerry PlayBook Battery Tips: How to Make Your Tablet Last Longer A recent BlackBerry PlayBook OS update has weakened overall tablet battery life for many RIM PlayBook owners. Here are six quick and easy PlayBook battery tips and tricks to help counteract the update's negative effects and boost your tablet By Al Sacco May 26, 2011 9 mins Laptops Small and Medium Business Smartphones reviews What We’re Reading from the June 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine Books, blogs and research on IT, management and leadership By CIO Staff May 26, 2011 3 mins opinion Email Overload: Twitter Now Sends @Reply and Retweet Alerts Twitter's newest feature fills your inbox fast. Here's how to disable the setting and get an email reprieve. By Kristin Burnham May 25, 2011 2 mins Enterprise Applications opinion Damn the Silos, if They Harm Data Security The more I cover compliance — which is a lot these days — the more I realize that organizations still have work to do in discovering and protecting sensitive data. I actually think the problem is a simple one, and it follows that old adage: "T By Sandra Gittlen May 25, 2011 3 mins Compliance Data Management Data and Information Security feature Does Your IT Idea Have Legs? Entrepreneurial CIOs offer some ways to tell By Kim S. Nash May 25, 2011 2 mins Financial Services Industry opinion Turning Cool IT Ideas Into Revenue CIO entrepreneurs tell how theyu2019re creating new businesses with internal IT By Maryfran Johnson May 25, 2011 2 mins Innovation opinion From the CEO: The Next Big Land Grab Is Business Process CIOs can raise their business-value quotient by taking ownership By Michael Friedenberg May 25, 2011 2 mins IT Leadership feature The CIO of 2014: Venture Capitalist, Orchestra Conductor, Contract Negotiator Managing technology is becoming less important to the CIO role than managing change. You can already see it happening. By June Drewry and Madeline Weiss May 25, 2011 4 mins Business Intelligence CIO Cloud Computing how-to Hiring Manager: A Q&A with Atish Banerjea, CTO of Dex One A CTO outlines his new role and how heu2019s building an agile IT team. By CIO Staff May 25, 2011 3 mins Careers tip Trust Yourself to Be a Leader Your behavior as a leader can either stymie change or inspire it. To guide your team successfully, you have to follow your intuition and practice fundamental leadership skills. By Jack Bergstrand May 25, 2011 3 mins Innovation tip Five Things You Need to Know About MySQL MySQL may already be in your enterprise. Here are the basics on the open-source database. By Chris Kanaracus May 25, 2011 2 mins Data Center Data Warehousing feature How to Turn a Great IT Idea Into a Commercial Success Entrepreneurial CIOs at Union Pacific, FedEx and other companies tell how theyu2019re transforming internal IT into revenue-generating products By Kim S. Nash May 25, 2011 16 mins Innovation how-to IT Roles Shift with Move to Cloud When Steel Technologies outsourced its back-office systems, a business-focused IT team emerged By Stephanie Overby May 25, 2011 3 mins Cloud Computing IT Leadership tip Yum Brands’ Recipe for Global Collaboration The KFC and Taco Bell franchisor wants to make its internal global collaboration and social-networking site a must-visit destination for employees By Kim S. Nash May 25, 2011 3 mins Enterprise Applications Innovation Social Networking Apps news BlackBerry PlayBook Apps: 10 Must-Have Downloads, All Free Quality apps for RIM's new tablet are few and far between right now, but they do exist. CIO.com's Al Sacco recommends 10 great PlayBook apps currently available and worthy of your attention. By Al Sacco May 24, 2011 6 mins Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business Tablets opinion What I Learned Screening IT Resumes for CIO.com’s Makeover Here are the six most common mistakes IT professionals make trying to sell themselves on their resumes. By Meridith Levinson May 24, 2011 5 mins Careers news Outsourcing Customers Focus on SLAs to Detriment of Business Transformation Two-thirds of outsourcing customers and providers say they spend too much time on SLAs and not enough on business outcomes, negating their ability to exploit opportunities to achieve strategic business transformation, according to a recent Accenture By Stephanie Overby May 24, 2011 3 mins Outsourcing how-to LinkedIn Quick Tip: iPhone App Introduces New Gesture Features LinkedIn rolls out a new update to its iPhone app that simplifies the news browsing experience with the flick of a finger. By Kristin Burnham May 24, 2011 3 mins LinkedIn Small and Medium Business iPhone news BlackBerry PlayBook Quick Tip: How to Type Special Characters CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco explains how to type special characters, such as letters with umlauts and accents, as well as symbols, on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet's touch-screen keyboard. By Al Sacco May 24, 2011 2 mins Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones opinion Automating Contract Management If there's one thing that can weigh down the savviest of CFOs, it's contract management. These days, detailed contracts outline every aspect of thousands of projects from concept to completion. Skipping any of the benchmarks or review perio By Sandra Gittlen May 23, 2011 2 mins IT Leadership IT Strategy news Will Skype Be Another Microsoft License Gotcha? Skype may be a beloved consumer product, but enterprises should beware of sneaky Skype charges, and will need to keep a close eye on Microsoft enterprise agreements to ensure they're not suddenly paying for a service they're not using. By Shane O'Neill May 23, 2011 4 mins Microsoft Office Office Suites Small and Medium Business feature The Need for More than Just Speed: CPU Tips for PC Buyers On the heels of Intel's new "Sandy Bridge" chips, here are six questions you should ask yourself about microprocessing power when shopping for a new computer. By Bill Snyder May 23, 2011 5 mins Computers and Peripherals Consumer Electronics Laptops opinion Q&A With Michael Ali, VP & CIO, Harman International Integration is the ultimate goal for CIOs determined to get the most out of IT investments for the benefit of their businesses By Forrester Research May 20, 2011 3 mins IT Leadership opinion End-User Computing Manifesto, v3 Companies used to value employee innovation. The value is still there. The interest? Here's one way to increase it. By Bob Lewis May 20, 2011 5 mins IT Leadership feature Outsourcing’s Odd Couple: Xerox and ACS, One Year Post-Merger The CIO of Xerox and the COO of ACS's IT outsourcing group spoke to CIO.com about the synergies between the two companies and the value of their partnership for CIOs. By Stephanie Overby May 20, 2011 8 mins Mergers and Acquisitions Outsourcing opinion Cloud CIO: How IT Can Become a Cloud Service Provider Operating as a cloud service provider (CSP) requires acting like a business, not a cost center, and marrying infrastructure agility with operational capability. Here, CIO.com's Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Bernard Golden outlines the core co By Bernard Golden May 20, 2011 7 mins CIO Private Cloud Virtualization feature Gmail Tip: Now AIM and Gchat Share Contacts Google and AOL now allow importing contacts to and from Gchat and AIM, giving users the opportunity to choose one platform over another for all messaging purposes. Here's how to do it. By Kristin Burnham May 20, 2011 3 mins Internet Social Networking Apps feature Introducing the Safe Social Media Background Check Social Intelligence, a California-based startup that conducts background checks on employees' social networking activity, claims to protect job seekers' privacy on the Web and to limit employers' exposure to employment discrimination s By Meridith Levinson May 20, 2011 7 mins IT Jobs Legal Social Networking Apps opinion Don’t Gamble Your Company’s Reputation on Data Governance Today's growing challenge: Data. There is suddenly too much of it, and while firms rush to mine it, they do so without adequate regard for the risks in keeping and using it. By Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan May 20, 2011 6 mins CIO Data Breach Data and Information Security feature Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps How did Microsoft win over the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina for an Office 365 migration? Better license packaging on a bigger ecosystem of apps at an affordable price u2014 an advantage Microsoft can often wield over cloud rival Google. By Shane O'Neill May 20, 2011 5 mins Microsoft Office Office Suites SaaS opinion Return of the Stupid CRM Data Corruption Tricks Take this updated quiz to see how many of the Top 10 corruption mistakes you and your CRM team have made this year. By David Taber May 19, 2011 5 mins CRM Systems Data Center feature Calculating Virtualization and Cloud Costs: 4 Approaches For IT departments wanting to do chargebacks or cost-justification, figuring virtualization and cloud services ROI is tricky, at best. Experts outline four methods you can use to break down costs and returns. By Kevin Fogarty May 19, 2011 5 mins Cloud Computing Virtualization news BlackBerry PlayBook: New Details on Deploying Bridge, Bluetooth Security CIO.com's Al Sacco shares fresh advice on the process for corporate BlackBerry Bridge deployment via BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), plus new information on BlackBerry PlayBook Bluetooth security. By Al Sacco May 19, 2011 4 mins Small and Medium Business Smartphones Wi-Fi opinion Isn’t It Time CEOs Were Held Accountable For Technology? CEOs should be viewing technology as important enough for the success of the company by having CIOs as direct reports. By Forrester Research May 18, 2011 4 mins IT Leadership opinion Are You Exposing Your Private Facebook Lists? Here's how I discovered my "Limited Profile" list was visible, and how you can ensure yours is private. By Kristin Burnham May 18, 2011 4 mins Enterprise Applications news BlackBerry PlayBook Battery Life Weakened by OS Update A number of BlackBerry PlayBook owners are reporting decreased battery life following Research In Motion's (RIM) most recent tablet OS update, and in some cases the problems seem to vary in severity based on tablet storage capacity. By Al Sacco May 18, 2011 3 mins Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones opinion Blogging From the IBM Big Data Symposium – Big Is More Than Just Big An understanding of Big Data is emerging that encompasses more than just volume. My thoughts as I listen to IBM talk about it. By Brian Hopkins May 16, 2011 3 mins Enterprise Applications feature Chromebook: Are You Really Ready to Marry Google? It's not a laptop. It's not a netbook. Exactly what is a mobile device based on Google's Chrome OS? Bill Snyder breaks down the pros and cons of this cloud-minded groundbreaker.n By Bill Snyder May 16, 2011 5 mins Cloud Computing Mobile Small and Medium Business opinion When Did Marketing Become A Dirty Word? In this digital marketing age, marketing isn't a dirty word, it's a discipline fundamental to the success of every organization By Forrester Research May 16, 2011 3 mins IT Leadership news Facebook Combats Spam, Clickjacking, With Four New Security Features Facebook beefs up its security measures to ward off spammers, clickjackers and malware. Here's what you need to know about Facebook's latest efforts to protect users from malicious software. By Kristin Burnham May 13, 2011 4 mins Facebook Security Social Networking Apps news Microsoft’s Frenemies: The Necessity of Partnering Up Microsoft's partnerships with RIM, Nokia and Yahoo (and acquisition of Skype) underscore the need to form alliances against Google or Apple in certain markets. By Shane O'Neill May 13, 2011 4 mins Internet Small and Medium Business Smartphones feature Offshoring: 7 Tips To Prepare for India’s Proposed Privacy Rules India's proposed data privacy regulations could create serious logistical problems for offshoring customers if passed. Offshore outsourcing attorneys and analysts explain how the data protection rules will impact customers. By Stephanie Overby May 13, 2011 4 mins Compliance Government Regulation opinion How to Get Smarter About CRM Security The biggest money-saving strategy of all is to avoid implementing requirements that turn out to be fake. Surprisingly, some of the biggest candidates can be in security. By David Taber May 13, 2011 6 mins CRM Systems Security opinion Facebook Shows Paranoia with Google Smear Campaign Facebook suffered two blows this week: another alleged privacy breach and an uncovered whisper campaign against Google. By Kristin Burnham May 12, 2011 4 mins Enterprise Applications news Microsoft Office Alternatives: Many are Trying, Few are Buying Enterprises are intrigued by Office alternatives such as Google Apps, Zoho and OpenOffice.org, but not as a replacement for Microsoft's cash cow. At least not yet, writes Forrester. By Shane O'Neill May 12, 2011 4 mins Microsoft Office Office Suites Social Networking Apps reviews What We’re Reading from the May 15, 2011 Issue of CIO Magazine Books and blogs on leadership, management and IT By CIO Staff May 12, 2011 3 mins tip 3 Ways to Get a Bigger Bang for Your IT Buck Getting the most value from IT investments is an art. Try these three techniques to cajole and nurture end users into exploiting new technologies fully, or change course when the business needs change. By Rick Swanborg May 12, 2011 4 mins Innovation feature Joining the Unified Storage Crowd EMC is catching up as it adapts its product line to support unified storage. Can it maintain its influence? 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