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What Risks Do Corporate Open-Source Contributions Present?

Use Committees Constructively and Bust Bureaucracy

When committees don't work, it's because they're being misused. Here are some simple rules for burying bureaucracy by putting committees in their proper place: as venues for collaboration, not rule making.

MySpace VP Raps About OpenSocial, Developer Platform, and Open APIs

Jim Benedetto, MySpace's vice president of technology and one of MySpace's original architects, discusses the future of application development on social networks and the importance of open APIs.

Credit Suisse Sells Its Own Virtualization Software to Others

The banking giant's desktop and server virtualization management tools will now be sold by DynamicOps, a company Credit Suisse created and solely funds. Here's why Credit Suisse did it.

Five Ways CIOs Can Impress Their CEOs: Today and in the Future

CEOs will increasingly demand that IT leaders excel in leadership, strategic thinking, marketing IT, business and communication. Prepare for the change.n

Electronic Discovery: Are You Really Ready?

There's an urgent need for companies to adopt standardized policies and IT practices for the identification, preservation and ncollection of potentially responsive data.

Virtual Servers in the DMZ Pose Security Risks

Take a close look at the security problems that you could be opening up with virtual servers in your DMZ.

What Does Open-Source Adoption Change?

Who’s the Top IT Industry Analyst and Research Firm?

Does the IT Industry Really Matter?

iPhone 2.0: What CIOs Want to See in Apple’s Next-Gen Smartphone

Apple unwraps its newest iPhone next week, but will it be more enterprise ready? We asked five IT leaders what business-minded features they most want to see in the new Apple iPhone and why.

VMware, Tripwire Offer Free VM Configuration Tool

Free Tripwire ConfigCheck tool sifts through the hundreds of configuration settings within VMware's ESX Server, identifies possible problems, and provides guidelines on how to fix them.

The Many Uses of Enterprise Wikis

Google Sites, part of the Google Apps suite, allows users to create intranets and websites without any programming knowledge. Scott Johnston, product manager of Google Sites, talks about what it takes to make a wiki implementation successful.

Outsourcing: A New Vocabulary

As infrastructure outsourcing evolves and a new business model emerges, the language around it changes as well. These tips will help you stay on top of the terminology.

Desktop Virtualization: Not Quite 31 Flavors, But Close

Talk to VMware, HP and MokaFive and you'll learn that the desktop virtualization market is fragmenting quickly into a host of niches. Can you understand the flavors and guess which will prevail?

Where Are the Legal and Intellectual Property Bodies Buried in Open Source Adoption?

What Should IT Managers Know About Open-Source Licensing?

Week 36: Evaluating “Who Am I?” in Your Job Search – Part 2

A Closer Look at RIM’s BlackBerry Market Share Gain Over Apple iPhone

What Are The Best Open Source CRM Applications?

More on Organizational Realignments and How They Affect CIOs

Five Best Practices for Implementing SaaS CRM

Software-as-a-service CRM has gone mainstream, says Forrester Research. A new report identifies five key strategies and tactics, including building a business case and negotiating a good service contract, that companies have discovered and used to re

Outsourcing 2.0: Workable Business Models for IT Chargeback

SOA is being used to transform the client's IT environment to a suite of managed services, then billing the environment back to the client in a managed pay-per-use model.

Customer Data Should Drive IT Decisions

Universal Orlando's CIO challenges market assumptions to drive business in a shrinking economy

How to Evaluate Vendor Performance

McDonald's supplier of the year award offers tips for getting the most from your technology vendors

How Virgin Entertainment Group Keeps Customer-Facing Transactions Humming at its Virgin Megastores

Credit card transactions comprise between 60 and 70 percent of sales at Virgin Megastores in the U.S. So when the company can't process credit and debit card transactions, it risks angering customers and losing sales.

Evaluating an Open-Source Project’s Business Model

How Do Enterprises Learn About Open-Source Alternatives?

2008 CIO 100 Awards: The Judges

This year's CIO 100 applications were each reviewed by two members of our judging panel

How We Chose the 2008 CIO 100

Our method for selecting this year's winners

Will SaaS Have a Friend in CIOs?

Why Storage and Data Management Will Kick Your Butt

Optical Networking Market Tops $3B; Offers Companies Better Data Traffic

Communicating at the speed of light means better reliability, faster traffic flow and even better security because photons ncan't be hacked. How can you go wrong?

Open Source is Entering the Enterprise Mainstream, Survey Shows

The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane. The study also identifies where the friction is in business open-source adoption, and which application

Citrix and Partners Debut Products at Synergy: Wrap Up

Catch up on the new Citrix, HP and ClearCube offerings.

The IT Infrastructure Library Can Serve Small Companies: Here’s How

ITIL isn't just for large organizations anymore. Smaller companies can implement the IT Infrastructure Library set of best practices and processes and get value from their information systems. IT leaders share their adoption experiences.

CIOs, Technology Vendors Spread Donations Among Clinton, McCain, Obama

In a reflection of broad national trends, Democrats get more donations than Republicans from technologically-savvy executives; luminaries both past and present among IT vendors gave more to Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than to Senator Jo

Tools for Business Process Management

A look at some of the leading BPM vendors and their offeringsrn

Wyeth’s Prescription for Business Process Management Success

By putting business process ahead of technology, the drug giant laid the groundwork for BPM success.

VMware Wastes Strength in Virtualization ROI War with Microsoft

Microsoft and VMware are slugging it out over their respective virtualization ROI calculator tools. VMware has to stand up for itself, sure. But will it make the same mistake that Novell once did?

CIOs Embrace On-Demand Software. Really, They Do.

Due to vendors paying attention to security and compliance concerns, CIOs are looking to utilize the low-maintenance and low-cost associated with SaaS, according to the CEO of one SaaS vendor.

Study: Apple, Nokia, Dell Tops Among Global Supply Chains

AMR Research's annual list of the top 25 supply chains puts Apple at the top for meeting iPhone demand. Procter & Gamble, IBM, Wal-Mart, Toyota top list of global manufacturers and retailers. Read who else is on the list.n

Free BlackBerry Downloads: Five Open Source Mobile Apps

Can't get enough free BlackBerry downloads? Don't worry, we're here to help. This week we've gathered a handful of open source apps to help customize–and optimize–your RIM smartphone.

Crushed by compliance tyrants

5 Things Grady Booch Has Learned About Complex Software Systems

The father of UML and design pattern enthusiast shares his fundamentals about developing, delivering and deploying big software projects.

Inaccurate Information Gleaned from the Web Costs IT Departments Time and Money

A survey commissioned by Safari Books Online finds that IT professionals spend as much as two hours each workday searching the web for information they need to do their jobs. Unfortunately, the information they get isn't always accurate and lead

Finally, someone at Microsoft makes sense

Windows 7: Vista Redux

Google Opens Up Data Center For Third-Party Web Applications

The Google App Engine will be free to software developers for low-bandwidth applications. Need more? Google is in the process of working on a pricing model for hosting applications that grow to have major data center requirements.

Google Outlines Web Development Investments in Three Key Areas

Google's VP of engineering says the company wants to give developers access to Google servers to host their applications, encourage improvements to the Web-browser and put an emphasis on improved connectivity through its mobile Android platform.