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Key Considerations For SaaS Sourcing

5 Ways to Excite the Generals and the Troops About ERP

Attn BlackBerry Storm, Pearl Users: Reset Minus the Battery Pull with Free QuickPull App

Twitter Tips: TweetDeck App Gets You Organized, Automated

The handy, free TweetDeck app will help you organize personal and business Tweets, automate coordination with Facebook, and more. Here are quick and easy instructions on how and why to get started with TweetDeck. n

What Outsourcer Satyam’s Ownership Change Means to Customers

Satyam's government-appointed board has announced plans to choose a buyer for the troubled outsourcing vendor by mid-April. These legal tips will help the many customers still with Satyam reevaluate their options.

Love for Windows: The Real Thing or a Marriage of Convenience?

From @Gmail to @Yahoo: What Your Personal E-Mail Provider Says About You

If your car says something about you, so does your personal e-mail address. Here's a look at the message — and perhaps age — you're projecting.

Large Data Set Analysis in the Cloud: Amazon, Cloudera Improve Hadoop

Traditional business intelligence solutions can't scale to the degree necessary in today's data environment. One solution getting a lot of attention recently: Hadoop, an open-source product inspired by Google's search architecture.

8-Drive DroboPro: Simple Storage for High-End Users

The Drobo 'storage robot' has proven to be a hit among both reviewers and users, with the company selling more than 60,000 of the automated storage devices during the past 18 months. Now Data Robotics hopes to capture a new audience — incl

Halts in H-1B Visa Hiring?

Are U.S. companies cutting back on H-1B hiring in response to a growing backlash against the foreign worker visa program?

Explaining Salesforce.com to the CEO: Top 5 Misconceptions

When you're ready to revamp CRM and need to explain "why Salesforce.com" to the CEO, you must be aware of myths and preconceived notions already in place. Watch out for these big 5 items that could trip you up.

Why CFOs and CEOs Hate IT: ERP

BlackBerry GPS Navigation Tips: Mastering BlackBerry & TeleNav Navigator

TeleNav Navigator gives BlackBerry and other smartphone owners instant access to a slew of valuable features, including audible driving directions with real-time traffic alerts, various maps and mapping services and local search. Here's how to g

Twitter Tips: How to Safely Blend the Personal and the Professional

Twitter can enhance your personal and professional lives, helping you connect more with friends and learn more from colleagues, customers and peers. But can you tweet to both crowds without getting in trouble or offending someone? Here are some good

Forrester: Microsoft’s Office Web Apps Not a Sure Hit at Enterprises

While Microsoft will finally deliver Office Web apps in beta form later this year, some analysts say this isn't a guaranteed home run in enterprises. Will the economic downturn spur more enterprises to roll out Web apps?

Salesforce’s Force.com Platform, Demystified

The major platform-as-a-service offering eases IT management headaches for CIOs and can cost significantly less to develop than in-house solutions. Here's a plain-English look at Force.com and how CIOs are using it.n

VMware Guarantees 50 Percent Off: Great Marketing, But Is It a Great Discount?

VMware Monday offered a guarantee that it could deliver customers a 50 percent cost savings on server hardware on new projects, provided the customer hired VMware's Professional Services business unit and followed a prescribed set of best practi

BlackBerry Storm Redux: Wi-Fi, “TruePress” Screen Coming to VZW Storm in Sept?

BlackBerry Storm Redux: Wi-Fi, “TruePress” Screen Coming to VZW Storm in Sept?

Smartphones of CTIA ’09: The 10 Hottest Handhelds

Here are my picks for the 10 hottest smartphones at CTIA. Some are available for purchase immediately, while it may be months before others hit U.S. retail stores, if they do at all. Regardless, I just can't wait to get my thumbs on each and eve

HP Announces Data Protector Software Enhancements

HP Friday announced enhancements to HP Data Protector software that offers complete protection for virtual environments and flexible data reduction options, at up to 70 percent less than alternatives. This software lowers the cost of protecting data

FortiScan 1000B Vulnerability Management Solution Introduced

Fortinet has introduced a new vulnerability management (VM) and compliance solution for endpoint assets, including desktops and laptops, as well as other network assets such as servers. Targeted at mid-to-large enterprises and government entities, th

Do You Need an Enterprise Architect?

The ambivalence around whether architects are needed is representative of the role's continuing evolution.

Gartner: 20 Percent of E-Mail to SaaS Platform By End of ’12

The Software as a Service (SaaS) model for e-mail solutions is proving attractive for many customers and will represent 20 percent of the commercial e-mail market by the end of 2012, according to Gartner.

Is Outsourcing Cost-Effective?

Efforts to reduce IT costs to meet budget reductions often include outsourcing, but in the current economy, will it actually help the bottom line?

The New Facebook: Three Easy Tips for Sorting Through the Noise

Thanks to Facebook's recent redesign, a massive amount of content continually flows down the middle of your Facebook homepage. How can you keep up with it, never mind find the bits you really want? From Friend Lists to RSS feeds, here are three

Why Chiquita Said ‘No’ to Tier 1 ERP Providers and ‘Yes’ to SaaS Apps from Upstart Workday

The inside story of why Chiquita Brands CIO Manjit Singh ignored the SaaS FUD from the world's leading ERP vendors and, instead, chose an on-demand HR platform from upstart Workday to roll out to its global operations. The lesson: A bigger softw

Office 14 Web Apps: Microsoft Takes on Google Docs and Netbooks

Office 14 will finally deliver useful Web-based versions of Office Apps. As Microsoft fights back against Google Docs, it's also providing a way for Office apps to run on Linux-based netbooks.

How to Harness Instinct and Intuition to Make Better Business and Career Decisions

Most IT professionals rely too much on external data to make business and career decisions. Even when a "gut feeling" warns of a bad decision, they often ignore their instincts. In this Q&A, a psychotherapist explains how listening to y

My Favorite Use For Metrics: Improving Day By Day

CIOs wear more hats

The Future Data Center: Three Ways to Advance Your Career

Demise of the Outsourcing Mega-Deal?

While EDS's recent billion-dollar contract win may not be an indication that outsourcing mega-deals are back in style, the reports of the death of the long-term, asset-heavy, single-provider deals are somewhat exaggerated.

Macs in the Enterprise: ERP

Cloud computing has made platforms meaningless, which opens doors for Macs to tap into business software.

It’s All Lies! How to Address Defamatory Online Content

A Google attorney offers advice for addressing offensive or untrue online content about yourself and explains how you can work effectively with Google to get it removed from its search results.

IBM-Sun Deal: History Says Timing Is Right for IBM to Acquire

While acquisition talks have broken down for now, historical analysis says there's no time like the present for IBM to gobble up Sun, or perhaps better yet, part of Sun.

Power: One Cloud Cost Advantage That May Be Irresistible

Can cloud providers achieve economies of scale that preclude almost any organization's data center from being cost-competitive? Doing the math on one real-life example, a Microsoft data center, gets pretty interesting.

Would Twitter Have a Better Home at Google or Facebook?

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Microsoft Risks Being Stuck in the Middle of a Netbook Price War

Netbook vendors continue to debate whether these small wonders should be $300 gadgets or more full-featured $500-plus models. But Microsoft's profits may be vulnerable in either scenario, analysts say.

Palm: Pre Touchstone Wireless Charger and Battery Cover to be Sold Together

Professional References: What Do People Really Say About You?

You may be surprised to learn how often professional references speak ill of the job seekers they purport to represent.

Why Zoho Has a Manic Strategy for Selling Software

While many software start-ups focus on perfecting one product in an effort to get bought by bigger competitors, Zoho keeps adding to its massive list of applications that span the whole software market, competing with Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce.com a

Bernie Madoff’s Client List vs. MDM Software: Lessons Learned

What can master data management software analysis of Bernie Madoff's client list teach businesses about the danger of data silos? Plenty, says MDM vendor DataQualityFirst.

Retail Banks Unify Systems to Fight Crime

Financial institutions are cutting the cost of crime-fighting by consolidating divisions and their IT systems. A Deloitte exec said a bank's numerous channels of operations make fighting crime ever more complex.

BlackBerry at CTIA: Virtual Tour of RIM’s BlackBerry Booth

Couldn't make it to Las Vegas for CTIA Wireless Spring 2009 and Research In Motion's BlackBerry App World announcement? No worries. We bring the show to you in this virtual tour of RIM's CTIA BlackBerry booth.

Top 5 Virtualization Skills Enterprises Want Now

It's a mixed blessing that you can deploy virtualization quickly: If your team lacks experience and knowledge, speed can kill, impacting security and application performance, just for starters. No wonder virtualization skills remain hot even in

Opera Software at CTIA: No New BlackBerry-Specific Browser; Ball is in RIM’s Court

PrimeTime2Go for BlackBerry: TV Shows Coming Soon to Your RIM Smartphone

It’s not you. It’s the economy.

Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer: Balancing Needs of Users with the Business of Social Networks

Facebook has built out some of the most sophisticated privacy settings for any social network. But CIO asked Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer, are people actually using them? And if they are, what effect does that have on Facebook&#