• 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.

• Five key Interop 2012 takeaways for CIOs and other IT pros

  By Jeff Vance | 15 May, 2012 01:29

  Big trade shows like Interop can be confusing. So many vendors, so much noise, so much spin, so little clarity. Searching for technology trends among the tchochke seekers, spokes-models and aggressive PR reps can feel like a hopeless task.

• Is your Cloud provider exposing remnants of your data?

  By Thor Olavsrud | 10 May, 2012 23:31

  If your organization uses a multi-tenant managed hosting service or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud for some or all of your data—and you aren't following best practices by encrypting that data—you may be inadvertently exposing it.

• Wireless carrier CEOs focus on spectrum and trust

  By Kenneth Corbin | 10 May, 2012 01:46

  In an industry marked by heated rivalry and frequent corporate sniping, the top executives at the nation's leading wireless carriers are united in their call for policymakers to free up more spectrum to boost the capacity in their mobile broadband networks.

• Samsung, Qualcomm Team to Advance Wireless Charging

  By Kenneth Corbin | 09 May, 2012 23:55

  Wireless heavyweights Samsung and Qualcomm have joined forces with five other firms to form a coalition that will work to address an array of issues surrounding wireless power chargers.

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