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How to Tell Your Board of Directors About IT Value

Board members don't want to hear about technology. You need to tell them how you're helping the company make money.

How to Build an IT Team That Helps Your Company Make Money

Generating revenue for his company is the focus for the CIO of pharmaceutical testing company MDS.

Wal-Mart Tries Widgets, Other Web 2.0 Technology to Lure Customers

Retailers haunt Twitter, offer widgets, do online promotions to chase an illusive consumer dollar during a bad economyn

Getting Clueful: The Series

"How it works" isn't always the key issue in understanding a technology or a business initiative. Often, you have to listen to the practitioners to avoid doing really, really dumb things.

Regulations Are Just a Security Distraction

Quick Coding: Windows Mobile Developer Builds an App a Day in June

How Do Business Analysts Become Business Leaders?

A Forrester Research report offers several career paths for business analysts, details what IT skills are important, and provides survey results on what next-step positions offer the most opportunity.

Job Search Tips: Questions to Ask to Learn More about IT Leadership Positions

Understanding expectations going into a new job better prepares you for success in that role.

CISecurity Guide to VMware Security Falls Far Short

First major guide to securing virtual infrastructures ignores some of the most critical issues for VMware users.

Forrester: Corporate Blogs Fail to Engage Customers

By writing blogs as if they were press releases, corporate blogs, often written by executives, have failed to capture their intended audiences in any meaningful way, Forrester says.

Report Ranks Top 10 CRM Vendors

A new AMR Research report breaks down leading CRM vendors SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com and others by 2007 revenues and software growth rates in the $14 billion market.

Twitter’s Potential for Business Users

Watching the emergence of Twitter, a microblogging tool that allows people to post updates in 140 characters or less, IT leaders are beginning to think about how the technology could be used in their organizations.

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Budget Blowback: Virtualization Isn’t as Easy as it Seems

Virtualization's main benefit goes beyond saving money, but once you save some, you may have to save a little more, and a little more, and…

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless

From being a control freak to being a vendor puppet, here are nine behaviors management needs to steer clear of or risk being labeled "clueless."

Why Are We Still Using Business Cards?

Open Source CRM Delivers More Control, Less Cost

IT leaders who can get past the idea that open-source CRM software doesn't cost enough say they like the power and flexibility of owning their own code.

Can SAP’s Global Reach Help It Weather the U.S. Economic Storm?

A new ChangeWave survey finds that U.S. companies are spending less on SAP software. However, SAP execs say not to worry, as they look to Asia and Europe to buoy sales.

RIM BlackBerry How To: Set Custom Ringtones, Notification Profiles and Exceptions

Your BlackBerry lets you assign specific ringtones to individuals and even create your own phone profiles and exceptions so important calls can still ring through when the device is on vibrate. Here's how.

Good Virtual Security Requires Better IT Teamwork

VM security requires expertise in OS, storage and networks, a combination that's rare even in VM administrators.

Seven Tips for Managing a Multiple-Vendor Virtualization Environment

With Microsoft Hyper-V's arrival, more IT departments will be using and testing a combination of VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtualization technologies. Do you know how to avoid the risks that come with a multiple-vendor virtualization environ

SEC XBRL Mandate: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You

Large companies must comply with the new XBRL mandate for year-end financial reports beginning this year. Don't know what it is? The Extensible Business Reporting Language reduces internal manual processes for operations, management and financi

How to Read Ads for CIO Jobs

By paying attention to the language hiring managers use in job ads and the emphasis they place on certain skills and requirements, you can determine more quickly and easily what the job is really about, and thus, what to highlight on your resume to g

Web 2.0’s Impact On Your Job Search – Name Recognition? Or A Transition?

Intel Passes on Vista for Own Employees

The Accountability Trap

Accountability without authority is a recipe for failure. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen to you.

CRM Collaboration: Real Estate Firm Implements Zimbra For All Its Agents

The CIO of Zip Realty talks about embedding Zimbra on top of his homegrown CRM system, and how agents have been able to customize their email and calendars with Web 2.0 features such as tagging.n

Entourage, IT Style: The CIO’s Trusted Advisers

What's it take to be a superstar CIO? One thing is an entourage of trusted advisers, including project managers, recruiters, publicists and troubleshooters who keep top CIOs at the top of their game.

Meet the Millionaire CIOs

CIOs rank among top paid execs at 47 Fortune 1000 companiesn

SOA, WOA, Web 2.0 and Other Picture Post Cards

The success of service-oriented architecture will hinge on its roots in Web-oriented architecture.

BlackBerry Users Get a Gaggle of New Google Mobile Features

Google mobile search gets more BlackBerry-friendly, with improved results, enhanced navigation and related search terms. If you're searching the Internet with your RIM smartphone, the user experience should get a lot better.

VMs You Can’t See Can Definitely Hurt You

Data breach report shows big danger from systems that share a lot of the same attributes as virtual server installations.

RIM BlackBerry Bold, Apple iPhone: Who’s Beating Who to the 3G Punch??

Wetware’s Revenge….

3-D Printer RepRap Clones Itself—Well, Almost

The self-replicating printer can print three-dimensional objects–and it's been released as open source.

Devil May be in Hyper-V Details, But VMware’s Focus Shouldn’t Be

Hyper-V's key is in architectural detail, but VMware's fate lies in its reaction to the big picture.

Trendlines from 7/01/08: New, Hot, Unexpected

In this issue: SAP skills gap; CIOs' campaign donations; Mash-ups; Virtual worlds; and CIOs Reap Realignment Benefits.

How a Marketing Firm Implemented an Enterprise Wiki

Using a wiki from Socialtext, a social software vendor, CoActive, a New York-based marketing firm, has been able to take critical work out of e-mail boxes and put it into one transparent, searchable portal.

Deadline for PCI Compliance Is Now

These tips can help you make sure you are PCI compliant and tell you what it may cost your company if you aren't.

How One Company Used Virtualization to Lower the Cost of Disaster Recovery

Vincent Biddlecombe, CTO of Transplace, explains how his company used virtualization in a four-step disaster recovery plan. The process offers a simple way to recover operations fast and at a relatively lower cost than traditional disaster recovery s

Growing from Programmer to CEO

Mike Kistner has moved in and out of IT leadership and business operations positions with HFS, Super 8 Motels, Cendant and Best Western. In June 2008, he was promoted from COO of Pegasus Solutions to CEO. Here, Kistner discusses how his career took f

Microsoft Releases Hypervisor Users Call Fast, Stable, Efficient

Microsoft announces it will release Hyper-V to manufacturing; VARs and end users laud its performance and ease of use, though Microsoft's management tools have not yet caught up.

Virtual Networking Best Practices Up for Debate

When it comes to laying out a virtual network for the best performance, redundancy, and security, every company seems to have its own ideas. And even security experts don't have all the answers about virtual networks yet.

Who Moved My Goalposts?

Should BlackBerry Users Demand Overtime Pay? Some Lawyers Advise Drafting Corporate Use Policies Now

New CIOs at PR Newswire, eDiets, MediaWhiz and more

Brownfield Development: An Agile Approach to a Waterfall Problem

The "Brownfield" application development lifecycle differs from that of the traditional waterfall method employed on large-scale developments and instead utilizes a more agile approach, write the authors of Eating the IT Elephant, in this s

RIM Smartphone How To: Use Your BlackBerry as a Bluetooth Modem for Your PC

Using your RIM BlackBerry as a tethered modem for your laptop can help avoid pesky hotel, cafe and airport hot spots and save a stack of cash. But in this wireless world, who wants to be "tethered?" Follow these steps to cut the wire and

Managing and Motivating Developers: Tips for Management Cluefulness

Encouraging productivity from your programming staff–at least in the developers' estimation–requires a few special techniques.

Coaching Style Matters in Managing Millennials

Perks pale in comparison to challenging job responsibilities for Gen Y employees. Learning coaching basics can make the difference between mere compliance and active contribution and problem solving.