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  • CIOs’ relationship with marketing is weak: survey

    With sales and marketing departments having more control over the technology agenda in many organisations, CIOs need to think about whether they are putting in enough time and effort in their relationship with the chief marketing officer (CMO) as they would with finance and other business chiefs.

    Written by Rebecca Merrett • 21 May 13 09:00

  • Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software

    Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider range of potential users.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 20 May 13 22:36

  • Lessons learned in my virtual desktop integration (VDI) deployment

    As the IT infrastructure manager at Digital Intelligence Systems LLC (DISYS), an IT solutions company, I recently initiated the build-out of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to support our large mobile workforce, and learned some important lessons along the way that may help smooth the way for your VDI rollout.

    Written by Collin Hachwi, IT manager of DISYS LLC, a global IT staffing and consulting firm • 20 May 13 22:19

  • Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train

    Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 20 May 13 21:48

  • How India's IT Outsourcing Leaders Can Stay on Top

    After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.

    Written by Stephanie Overby • 20 May 13 21:47

  • Successful companies embrace shadow IT

    Businesses move quickly, and those that make missteps along the way or fail to adapt to the times rarely go unscathed. Consider the fate of the original 12 companies listed in the Dow. While General Electric is still an independent company, most of the others have been acquired by larger companies or have vanished altogether.

    Written by Quinton Wall, director, technical platform marketing, Salesforce.com • 20 May 13 20:33

  • A sensible approach to big data

    Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world's data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social media to Internet search results and the ever-present email, the rate of data creation is growing exponentially with no signs of slowing.

    Written by Duncan Angove, president, Infor • 20 May 13 20:33

  • The benefits of cloud-based BPM

    In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

    Written by Art Landro, CEO, Cordys • 20 May 13 20:33

  • Reddit IAmA this week to feature Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe

    Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet 40 years ago this week, will get his turn to play social media rock star as the subject of a Reddit IAmA on Tuesday, May 21, at noon EDT.

    Written by Bob Brown • 20 May 13 16:17

  • Smartphones take center stage in two-factor authentication schemes

    We all know that relying on a simple user ID and password combination is fraught with peril. One alternative is to use one of the single sign-on solutions we reviewed last year, but there are less expensive options that could also be easier to install.

    Written by David Strom • 20 May 13 14:30

  • 10 things you may not know about Ethernet

    Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology are reviewed here:

    Written by Jim Duffy • 20 May 13 13:50

  • Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers

    Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier.

    Written by Matt Hamblen • 20 May 13 10:14

  • Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017

    About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 20 May 13 10:14

  • Career Watch: The growth of consulting

    OnForce CEO Peter Cannone says the use of IT contractors is expanding and will continue to do so.

    Written by Jamie Eckle • 20 May 13 10:14

  • US Defense Department approves Apple's iOS devices for its networks

    Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating systems.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 20 May 13 04:46
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    Dual-Persona Smartphones Not a BYOD Panacea

    Mobile vendors are pushing technologies that split a smartphone into two separate platforms for business and personal data. Problem solved, right? Not so fast. It's still easy for employees to circumvent the two worlds.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 17 May 13 17:21

  • Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

    Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 17 May 13 14:32

  • Forrester: Windows 8 faces uphill battle as corporate desktop

    Windows 8 faces an uphill battle to become a standard corporate operating system because many businesses are in the midst of or have recently completed the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 and don't have the stomach for another transition anytime soon.

    Written by Tim Greene • 17 May 13 12:34

  • eBay's CIO succeeds by innovating and 'connecting the dots'

    eBay CIO Scott Seese says he and his team are using technology and innovation to drive the company's mission of connected commerce. He explains how the ecommerce giant taps into the power of social and mobile to help customers find and purchase exactly what they seek from among millions of sellers. Seese also discusses his strategy for success and why it's important to connect the dots.

    Written by John Gallant • 16 May 13 21:01

  • Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands

    The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly 2%.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 16 May 13 20:38
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