• Successful companies embrace shadow IT

  By Quinton Wall, director, technical platform marketing, Salesforce.com | 20 May, 2013 20:33

  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.

• Companies explore self-detonating data as security control

  By Ellen Messmer | 02 May, 2013 18:33

  The popular Snapchat photo-messaging app used mainly by Android and iOS mobile device owners to share images that then self-destruct after 10 seconds is the sort of security idea that businesses say can help them secure online transactions with business partners.

• Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

  By Jim Duffy | 12 April, 2013 12:23

  SDNs aren't just for data center networks, despite the best-use-case-scenario arguments for network virtualization and flow management pervading the industry.

• Know the key legal and security risks in a cloud-computing contract

  By Lucas Mearian | 02 April, 2013 19:27

  You're no longer in control of your data once you hand it over to a cloud storage provider, but you're legally still responsible for it. Knowing what's in your cloud-provider contract is critical, says tech attorney Milton Petersen.

• Workday Focuses on Its Post-IPO Future

  By Chris Kanaracus | 28 March, 2013 17:24

  Workday's HR software-as-a-service tool wins praise for ease-of-use, but it remains to be seen whether the company's financial module will be adopted as quickly

• Squeezing savings from the Cloud

  By Nancy Gohring | 22 April, 2013 10:05

  Calculating the real ROI of Cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money.

• Social networking drives business processes at Pandora and Rosetta Stone

  By Kristin Burnham | 26 March, 2013 20:09

  Pandora and Rosetta Stone have embraced social business tools and the Cloud to cut costs, increase productivity and improve collaboration. Learn how these two companies overcame security concerns, gained executive buy-in and more.

• Review: Office 365 turns up the heat

  By Doug Dineley | 27 February, 2013 11:20

  Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management

• Chicago's CIO doesn't believe in 'good enough'

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 04 January, 2013 11:16

  Brett Goldstein brings a deep background and big plans for the city's IT.

• 2012: The year Cloud computing took a bite out of IT

  By Eric Knorr | 24 December, 2012 11:17

  As new public cloud plays leap in and the private cloud slowly evolves, we're on the brink of a shift to cloud computing for critical business workloads

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