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Consolidating Your Data Center? Avoid These Pitfalls

Data center consolidations are complex. Watch out for these four common mistakes.

Business Intelligence: A Technology Category in Tumult

Market consolidation, technical complexity and customer confusion about BI capabilities are powerful and stubborn forces that will continue to shape the business intelligence applications market in 2008.

Study: Nokia, RIM Lead in Smartphone Innovation, Implementation Strategy

Nokia is the number one smartphone vendor based on innovation and implementation strategy, followed by RIM and Samsung, a new smartphone vendor ranking says.

Unified Threat Management, Demystified

Considering unified threat management (UTM) appliances that combine many security jobs? Here's some advice from CIOs who've tried these all-in-wonders on for size.

Marathon’s Virtualization Tool Simplifies Disaster Recovery

Marathon's everRun VM holds appeal for CIOs who need to protect critical business applications running in VMs, without the cost and complexity of traditional high availability products. In one plus, the software doesn't require a SAN.

Hardcore Facebook Fans Join Apple and Linux Boosters as the Most Vicious

Do Consultants Have What It Takes to Be CIO?

Intelligence Community to Start Using Virtual Worlds

Using IBM's Sametime collaboration suite, as well as a virtual worlds platform from Forterra systems, the intelligence community will use virtual environments to discuss key topics such as preventing terrorism.

How Small Companies Can Make a Big Impact with the IT Infrastructure Library

The IT Infrastructure Library set of best practices and processes help organizations get value from their information systems. But you don't have to be a big global company to benefit from ITIL.

Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo: The Battle for Online Superiority Gets Serious

Microsoft's longtime rivalry with Google moves to a new level…one where it could actively compete with Google in services, such as maps, e-mail, instant messaging, e-commerce and music on demand.

How-To Video: Install and Use Six Free Killer BlackBerry Apps

Get more from your Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone by quickly learning to install and use a half-dozen free downloads. This video shows you how.

IT Winners and Losers: Verizon Wireless, Jerome Kerviel Up; Bear Stearns, Hannaford, The Spam King Down

Winners this week included a more open Verizon Wireless and two recently freed men (sort of): Jerome Kerviel and Joseph Nacchio. There were plenty of losers: an amazing fall at Bear Stearns, grocer Hannaford Bros., SaaS adoption rates and The King of

Server Benchmarks: Have They Outlived Their Usefulness?

Week 29 Time Works Against Your Job Search in a Bad Economy

The Madness Starts Today: Don’t Fight It

Third Cube from the Left

Lost in a twisty, turny maze of corporate passages.

Who are the IT Department’s “competitors”?

My Visit to Sun

New Privacy Features in Facebook Make It Easier to Manage Identity

Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?

Apple iPhone Users Devour Most Mobile Content, Research Shows

Who Will Teach?

We need science and technology teachersu2014and the money to pay themn

Inside One CIO’s Storage Nightmare

Kindred Healthcare CIO Rick Chapman faces a torrent of data, 400 terabytes strong and growing. Storage, he says, has become a hidden cost of health care. But he's employing a new cost-cutting weapon: virtual tape library technology.

Out of Control

Sometimes to stay in control, you have to let go.

Trendlines From April 1, 2008: New, Hot, Unexpected

In this issue: New York Talk Exchange maps telecommuting traffic; Vanity Googling pays off professionally; Microsoft implements energy-saving strategies; American companies embrace mobile apps; Retailers see the value of BI; Tech CEOs press Congress

How Will Outsourcing and Offshoring Impact Women in Technology?

Women have played a key role in technology from the first computer program in the 1800s to C-level leadership positions today. How will outsourcing and offshoring affect their roles in the future?

Enterprise Web 2.0 in Your Pocket

Poll: Which Smartphone/PDA OS(s) Does Your Organization Support? Why?

Three Ways to Cut Technology Energy Costs Right Now

Thinking about reducing your company's environmental impact can seem like a daunting task. So don't. Instead, here are three nsimple things IT departments can do today to start saving energy costs. n

BlackBerry or iPhone: Which Horse Will You Back?

BlackBerrys and iPhones are vying for the top spot of business-class users. The competition is a lot fiercer than it may appear, even in enterprises that already support Macs.

Nine Things Managers and Employees Need to Know About Layoffs

Whether you're showing employees to the door or being shown the door, you must avoid legal trouble. Veteran employment attorney Jay Warren shares the top layoff mistakes that companies make and outlines employee rights at pink-slip time.

Do You Know Where Your Infrastructure Is Managed?

Vendors don't always have to tell you when they send work offshore.

Outsourcing: The Pros and Cons of Offshore Remote Infrastructure Management

Remote infrastructure management outsourcingu2014the hot buzzword for offshoring IT operations worku2014is big business for India's IT services providers and a competitive imperative for U.S.-based outsourcers. But it may not be right for you.

Are We Seeing a More Enterprise Apple (For Real This Time)?

BlackBerry, Corporate Smartphone Digital Cameras: Problems and Solutions

How a European Bank Got Oracle to Surrender Key Software Licensing Points

A Forrester Research report offers a rare look inside a multimillion-dollar Oracle database negotiation and how one bank held its ground on a critical contract clause that's typically "not up for negotiation" with software vendors.

Tips to Avoid SOA Implementation Problems

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is all the rage because it offers tremendous benefits with a promise of increased agility and business alignment if you do it right. However, make a misstep and you can "fail spectacularly."

CIO’s Green IT Survey: Cost Cutting, Social Responsibility Drive Environmental Moves

An exclusive CIO survey of 280 executives show that most don't measure the impact their organizations have on the environment.n

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Telecommuting

CareGroup CIO John Halamka takes an in-depth look at the policies and technologies necessary for supporting flexible work arrangements.

Virtualization Security Hole Plugged by Altor’s New Tool

Virtualization startup company's new security tool allows IT to see and analyze traffic between virtual machines, plugging a security hole that has long troubled virtualization experts.

JetBlue’s CIO Gets a New Boss

IT’s Report Card: Doesn’t Play Well With Others

Inflexible, out-of-sync with business needs and unresponsive. No, that's not your users — it's how the non-IT executives see your technology group, according to a new survey of 1,650 executives.

PHP’s Enterprise Strengths and Weaknesses, Take 2

Zend's John Coggeshall responds to CIO.com's earlier PHP article with his own list of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of PHP application development.

How PayPal Keeps E-Commerce Humming in 15 Languages at Once

PayPal VP Matthew Mengerink shares an exclusive look at how his IT team cracked the problem of efficiently pushing localized PayPal site updates for 15 countries from France to Poland, simultaneously. If you're struggling with localizing content

Enterprise Wikis Seen As a Way to End ‘Reply-All’ E-Mail Threads

Socialtext's president and co-founder talks about wikis as an enterprise collaboration tool and what wikis mean to companies, their IT departments, and a whole new generation of workers.n

Consumer Technology Poll: CIOs Still Fear Web 2.0 for the Enterprise

From blogs to wikis to hosted e-mail from Google, CIOs, on the whole, value command and control over user empowerment.n

IT Winners and Losers: YouTube Fans and IBM’s CEO Up; Eliot Spitzer, the ‘Sparking’ iPod, H-1B Debate and Wal-Mart’s Linux PC Down

Winners this week included YouTube fans everywhere and IBM's chief. There were plenty of losers: the "sparking" iPod, those on both sides of the H-1B debate and the $199 Linux PC at Wal-Mart.

The IT language irony, that wasn’t

Clean technologies – the strategic opportunity for the CIO

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