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• Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties

  By Fred O'Connor | 23 May, 2012 21:35

  Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 May, 2012 05:29

  CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Medical firm avoids Exchange nightmare with outside help

  By Tim Greene | 22 May, 2012 05:31

  International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run.

• Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 22 May, 2012 00:55

  David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which dates back to Cobol's early days in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

• Five ways to send a custom software project off the rails

  By David Taber | 22 May, 2012 00:34

  This all happens in big cloud projects as well. There are many contributing factors to these bad outcomes-chief among them adversarial incentives, inappropriate metrics and lack of collaborative infrastructure-but those aren't the root cause.

• IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through '13

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:47

  IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement, and who might be worried about layoffs, a one-time opportunity to participate in a program that would guarantee their employment through Dec. 31, 2013.

• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• Up-and-Coming Tech Jobs

  By Mary K. Pratt | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Any study of the IT labor market is likely to find that project managers and business analysts are in demand, but what about cloud transformation officers?

• Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers

  By Peter Wayner | 21 May, 2012 23:05

  Your boss wants it yesterday, but it better be good when judged by the standards of tomorrow. Your customers want every feature they can imagine, but don't you dare confuse them by giving them all the buttons they want. Your fellow programmers want your code documented, but they just respond "tl;dr" to anything you write.

• For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  The National Football League may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT, Nancy Galietti, doesn't use the word big.

• CIOs don't need to be business leaders

  By Bernard Golden | 19 May, 2012 06:25

  I have seen pieces asserting that future heads of IT will be from disciplines such as marketing or finance, since technology really isn't that important anymore. I've even seen analyses that say that CIOs no longer need to manage technically capable organizations because infrastructure is being offloaded to outsourcers and on-premise applications are being displaced by SaaS applications.

• T-Mobile USA clarifies job cuts will be net 350, not 900

  By Matt Hamblen | 17 May, 2012 21:59

  T-Mobile USA clarified its latest restructuring plans and said the changes will result in a net 350 job losses, not 900 as reported earlier.

• Equifax eyes are watching you--Big Data means Big Brother

  By Kim S. Nash | 17 May, 2012 10:17

  As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score.

• How to align your IT services strategy with the business

  By Stephanie Moore | 17 May, 2012 10:20

  Today, as companies seek to both consolidate their vendor relationships and multisource, they tend to engage with a small number (typically two to nine) of preferred, very large IT services vendors that can be centrally governed.

• How to make your viral video go 'Kony2012' crazy

  By Aaron Lester | 17 May, 2012 10:24

  Anyone who has spent time trolling social networks, reading a newspaper or just browsing the Internet recently has probably heard of Kony 2012, the mega-viral cause, marketing video that seemed to pop up out of nowhere and captured the attention of millions.