• Download InfoWorld's special report on IT consumerization

  By InfoWorld staff | 02 May, 2012 23:41

  By now, IT has seen a stream of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more enter the business. There's no stopping the consumerization trend, but IT can ease the transition and its own workload.

• CIO's digital spotlight on BYOD

  By CIO Staff | 01 May, 2012 08:26

  The fact that your employees--not to mention your CEO--are bringing their own devices to work is well-known. Now the question is, how can your IT department approach this BYOD phenomenon?

• Strategic guide to IT talent management

  By CIO Staff | 30 April, 2012 23:48

  There's an IT "talent war" going on. You're competing with cloud providers, IT vendors, Google and Facebook -- not to mention other corporate IT shops--for great IT talent. On top of that, there's a shortage of people with skills in the hottest technologies of our times: data analytics, mobile apps and cloud computing.

• Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 April, 2012 03:33

  Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bearer for a series of appliances that combine its software with storage, networking equipment and Sun servers.

• Oracle rolls out updates to JD Edwards ERP applications

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 April, 2012 08:12

  Oracle on Monday rolled out what it called major upgrades to its JD Edwards line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications during the Collaborate user conference in Las Vegas.

• In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

• Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?

  By Lamont Wood | 08 May, 2012 20:56

  Out went 42 aging black and white copiers with interface boxes that let them serve as printers. In went 42 new networked multi-function printers (MFPs) that could do color printing and copying and scan directly to e-mail, fax or files. And the owner, the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO, saves $19,000 yearly.

• True tech confessions: Sinners and winners

  By Dan Tynan | 07 May, 2012 22:55

  We all make mistakes. But when you work in IT, those errors can quickly go public.

• IT's worst addictions (and how to cure them)

  By Dan Tynan | 13 February, 2012 22:15

  Are you a jargon junkie? Got an insatiable appetite for information? Do you rule over your company's systems with an iron fist, unwilling to yield control until someone pries the keyboard from your cold, dead hands?

• With thick skin, Google CIO finds job rewarding

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 14 January, 2011 05:25

  When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google's CIO in May 2008, he knew what he was getting into: supporting a user base full of technology experts and computer industry stars, like co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt and Vice President Vint Cerf. In a recent interview with IDG News Service, Fried spoke candidly about his job and shared tips and advice for fellow CIOs, including the urgent need for tablet device strategies. An edited transcript of the interview follows.

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