IT Leadership

10 CIOs Crowned Compensation Champs

Our study of SEC filings identifies the 10 most highly paid CIOs listed in 2011 proxy statements for Fortune 1000 companies. In addition to annual salaries, these elite CIOs get multi-million-dollar pay packages that rise or fall depending on whether

VMware CEO Paul Maritz Leaves Behind a Vision of IT Transformation

Paul Maritz will officially step down as VMware's CEO on Friday in favor of incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger. Maritz leaves behind an ambitious vision of the future of IT -- a vision in which cloud, big data and mobile drive a complete transformation

VMware Shares Vision, Looks to Horizon

VMware CTO Steve Herrod tells VMworld attendees how the virtualization leader is managing the consumerization of IT. The vision hasn't changed a lot since last year, with one exception. The vision is now an integrated one based on the Horizon Su

Office 365 Earns High Marks in Education, Struggles in Enterprise

Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite is getting impressive grades with educational customers in its first year, but the software-as-a-service offering is struggling to gain traction with enterprise customers.

4 Strategies for Managing Junior IT Professionals

No CIO wants to be a bad manager. This is especially true of an IT department's youngest members, who are eager to make a difference but need some guidance before that can happen. Putting these four strategies into practice will help your junior

Not your grandfather’s outsourcing

10 Key Questions to Assess Application Outsourcing Maturity

More companies are seeking external IT service providers to help them innovate and optimize. The key to outsourcing success only begins with selecting the right partner, there are 10 questions that should be asked in order to assess maturity and iden

10 Online Reputation Management Tips for Businesses

When people search for your business, they should ideally find your company website, your social media accounts and positive posts on review sites. These 10 tips will help your efforts to achieve that lofty goal.

Cloud’s Commodity Pricing Squeezes Service Providers, Creates Opportunities

Cloud service providers are already starting to feel downward price pressures as basic capacity and services are quickly becoming commodities. A price wars heat up, the excess capacity that providers need for peak traffic can become a drag on profits

When BYOD Is a Productivity Killer

BYOD programs are designed to increase productivity, but that's not the case when employees take BYOD phones on international vacations and never check in on work because the company won't pay roaming charges on a non-corporate phone.