Three Cloud Storage Use Cases Ready for Prime Time: Forrester

Despite the confusion surrounding what cloud storage really means and how it might be used, few advances in storage have been hyped as much as "cloud storage."

CIOs: Empower Your Employees' Use of Consumer Tech

How empowered are your employees to solve customer and business problems? What's your role in empowering them? These questions are often absent from IT's mission, but not from the minds of those it serves.

Microsoft to VMware: Windows is Still Relevant in the Virtualization Era

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz's argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world.

What CIOs Look for in an Enterprise Architect

CIOs need enterprise architects. "It's a unique personality-negotiation skills as well as technical skills," says John Ericksen, chief operating officer and leader of technology and orate services with PNC Financial Services Group. " They're hard to find."

Cisco’s UCS Platform: All You Need to Know

Cisco has long advocated a systems-based approach to building enterprise networks, saying an end-to-end Cisco infrastructure is worth more than the sum of its parts. Last year it expanded that vision to encompass the whole data center.

Virtualization: Cutting Back to Get Ahead

Desktop PC virtualization is the most sought-after technology among CIOs, with 45 percent showing interest, according to the latest CIO Technology Priorities Survey. That's up 10 percent from this January.

It's All About the Top Line

Bravo! Over the past 18 to 24 months, CIOs from around the globe have done an amazing job of optimizing, consolidating and standardizing IT operations. You've accelerated business priorities and driven organizational efficiency to new heights. Against the backdrop of the Great Recession, we've seen CIOs from a diverse mix of companies (such as Alcoa, GM and the New York Times) stepping up to deliver.

Bridging the Gap in Cloud Security

When Merit Medical moved its training and office productivity applications to the cloud, it chose two vendors-Google, whose Apps Premier suite was selected for its low cost and ease of use, and eLeap, which hosts a training application for sales agents. The company then wanted end users to be able to share content while keeping data protected, all with a single, secure log-in.

IT Works Out, Gets Fit

The phrase "team-building exercise" has a literal meaning for the IT staff at JM Family Enterprises

Sticks and Stones: Picking on Users AND Security Pros

I took my share of name-calling as a kid. I did my share of name-calling, too. We're taught that nothing good comes of such behavior. I've been thinking a lot about that since writing an article two weeks ago called " Security blunders 'dumber than dog snot'" during the 2010 USENIX Security Symposium.