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Seven Open-Source Mac Apps You Need Right Now

"Free business Macintosh applications" is not a contradiction in terms. Here are several open-source enterprise Mac OS X applications that you can put right to work.

Rentable Virtual Infrastructure: Right For You?

A service provider supplies the equipment and manages the infrastructure and operating system, and you just pay monthly fees. Is rentable virtual infrastructure a smart fit for you? SaaS companies are among early customers.

Why Social Computing Aids Knowledge Management

Social networking tools promise to help companies harness the knowledge inside the heads of their employees and put it to work for the business.n

Ranking RIM BlackBerry RF Radiation Levels by SAR: How Does Your Smartphone Measure Up?

SAP Skills Shortage Costs SAP’s Customers, Partners and, Ultimately, SAP AG

ERP, NetWeaver and BI skills development are a priority for SAP as the spread of its software outpaces the supply of people to implement it. SAP now reaches out to prospective IT workers and offers online courses in multiple languages to attract new

Give Me a Virtual Desktop, or Give Me a Mallet

After a long day with a laptop that went haywire, I want a virtual desktop. And a heavy mallet. I know the PC support folks are with me on this, even though you probably won't hear vendors pitch it as a use case for desktop virtualization.

Can virtualization improve security?

For some IT shops, virtualization gives a false sense of security. The same threats from the physical world still apply in the virtual world.

Lockheed Martin Shows Off Internal Social Software Platform

The aerospace giant used SharePoint and has deployed it to a small test group. Lockheed plans to go enterprise wide once the social software tools mature more during the next year.

Portfolio Mangement of IT

Using business strategy to manage IT like a portfolio.

What this week’s CIO Magazine Tells Us About IT

A CIO Commits Suicide

Use Your Citysense: Free BlackBerry App Finds Busiest Bars, Hotspots

Trendlines from 6/15/08: New, Hot, Unexpected

In this issue: Low-cost laptops; Wi-Fi on campus; Africa eyes outsourcing; Execs on globalization; Software piracy on the rise; and CIOs and social responsibility.

The ROI of Enterprise 2.0: Four Ways Wachovia Justified Wikis, Blogs and Other Social Networks

How do you invigorate Gen Y workers and capture the deep smarts of Baby Boomers? For banking chain Wachovia, the answer lay in wikis and other Web 2.0 tools for the enterprise.

Microsoft’s CardSpace Attacked by Researchers

Research shows Microsoft's CardSpace is vulnerable.

In Security

Customer data breaches just keep getting worse.

Black Gold, Green IT

Oil companies use BI to increase profits. You can, too.

Technical Difficulties with “CIO Job Search” Blog – Part 2

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Apple iPhone 3G and the Enterprise: What CIOs Wanted vs. What They Got

iPhone 3G: How Apple’s New Smartphone Measures Up to CIO Wants, Needs

Curious about just how "enterprise-friendly" that next-generation iPhone will be? Check out our chart of CIOs' most wanted iPhone features to see how Apple's new smartphone stacks up.

Microsoft’s Virtualization Big Picture: Worth the Wait?

Microsoft has a comprehensive and integrated pitch regarding virtualization management. But the current reality is considerably less complete.

Three Things the CIA Learned About Implementing an Enterprise Wiki

The CIA's Intellipedia, built on wiki technology, is a central repository where 16 agencies collaborate on key topics and challenges facing the intelligence community. At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, two officials who have championed

How a Mid-Market IT Leader Saves Big With Desktop Virtualization

Your IT Budget: When Cutting Costs, Look to the Future

If your IT budget must be cut, make sure you preserve your organization's muscle by retaining key positions and consulting with business users about project priorities.

Google: Four Trends Will Move Applications to the Web

Cloud computing is for real, and it's being fueled by four big trends, including horizontal collaboration among end users, Google Enterprise exec tells attendees at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

H-1B Visas Don’t Need to Be Capped, They Need to Be Eliminated

We don't need "guest workers," we need to work with the resources we have. Here's how to kill H-1B visas and still get the technology workers we need.

Enterprise 2.0 Faceoff: Microsoft Lags Behind IBM in Social Software

Innovation Is Required to Succeed

Quality, teamwork, leadership, and accepting risks are some of the key factors that support innovation, suggests Neil Armstrong.

Inside Oracle’s Plans to Conquer the SMB Applications Market

Oracle's Accelerate program for small and medium-sized organizations relies on Oracle partners and industry-specific application sets. And the key, says Oracle's Tony Kender, is faster, easier and cheaper implementations for smaller organi

Clear Channel Broadcasting Better IT Integration Between Software Development and Operations

The media company discovered a weakness in developing Web services and SOA applications: the ability to monitor and track transactions to locate system failures.

BlackBerry How To: Determine Memory Use, Avoid Performance Degradation

Load up too many apps without proactively managing your BlackBerry's memory and you could end up with an underperforming–or even worse, frozen–smartphone. Here's how to determine memory use, as well as total application space, and avoid

Software Licensing and VMs: Watch The Costs

Software manufacturers need to change the way licensing works and use non-hardware based licensing solutions that can work more easily within a virtual environment.

Is Supply Chain Leadership Your Next Move?

CIOs can make compelling candidates for chief supply chain officer. Four CIOs explain how they made the move.

Gas Prices: How Oil Companies Use Business Intelligence To Maximize Profits

Every day, oil companies harness gushers of data to assess market conditions for a gallon of gas. Learn how they match the right tools rnwith information to maximize profits.

Windows Mobile Chief All Smiles in Shadow of BlackBerry, iPhone

Three Things I Want to See at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference

Building an Open Source-Ready IT Organization

How to Manage the Generation Gap

Understanding Gen Y, Gen X and baby boomers, and how to get the best from each.

How CIOs Can Make Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Work for Them

Tips for effectively managing IT in a MAD world, from staff support and business expectations to juggling priorities.

CIO: still too busy with IT to be a corporate strategist?

Smartphones in the Enterprise: No Love for Windows Mobile?

Should IT Leaders Worry about Fragmentation in the Open Source Community?

Democratic Convention to Showcase Video Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta

A year ago, long before Barak Obama's rise as the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, the party convention's IT team began preparations for a blogging and multimedia party. n

Inside Virtual Iron’s New Strategy

New service offerings and partnerships aim to win over midmarket IT shops.

Flexible Workplace: Lots of Talk, Little Action

Who's afraid of the flexible workplace? Too many enterprises: Employers are missing opportunities to harness the business value associated with workplace flexibility for employees, says expert Karol Rose.

Future of Virtualization Management Tools: Vizioncore’s Take

What's the hardest part of a virtual environment to monitor today? Are enterprises wasting money on storage for VMs? What's next for virtualization management tools? Vizioncore president Chris Akerberg tackles these questions and more.

Which Virtualization Technologies Are Ripe: Forrester’s Picks

A new report from Forrester Research ranks 17 virtualization technologies on whether they're ready for prime time or too green for picking.

Understanding What Google Apps Is (And Isn’t)

The search giant says its Google Apps is a supplement, not a replacement, to Microsoft Office, aimed at helping users collaborate online. What remains to be seen is whether Google's efforts to strengthen the security of web-hosted Google Apps wi

Eight Reasons Why Companies Still Say ‘No’ to SaaS

Amid growing SaaS hype, many enterprises have discovered sound reasons to ignore software-as-a-service. Here are the top eight, according to Forrester Research.