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Cloud Apps Soar, CIOs Take on New Role

As cloud apps become more business-critical, the CIO is emerging as the cloud services broker. In this new IT model, which is expected to expand rapidly in the next 12 months, CIOs can push cloud service providers to deliver detailed SLAs.

1 May 2014 4 mins

CIO Cloud Security IT Strategy

What Your SaaS Vendor Doesn’t Know About You

You'd think your SaaS vendors would know a lot more about you and their customers than IBM, Ma Bell or even the NSA. They know every click, login and data entry, right? Not necessarily.

1 May 2014 5 mins

Big Data Marketing SaaS

Why CIOs Shouldn’t Block Rogue Cloud Apps

Enterprises have an average 461 cloud apps running in their organizations (nine to 10 times IT's estimates), according to some reports. Line-of-business managers hesitate to bring in the CIO out of fear of being blocked. If CIOs can remove this

30 Apr 2014 4 mins

CIO Compliance IT Governance

Software Is Eating the World, and It Could Eat Your Business

Marc Andreessen's 2011 proclamation that software is eating the world takes on new significance in light of IDC's prediction that mobile, cloud, social and big data technologies will disrupt firms in every industry. Companies that get this

28 Apr 2014 10 mins

Developer SaaS Web Development

Cloud Attacks Are Following Enterprise Workloads

As more enterprise workloads shift to cloud and hosting environments, cyberattacks that have traditionally targeted on-premises data centers -- such as brute force attacks and vulnerability scans -- are following them to the Web.

23 Apr 2014 7 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Intrusion Detection Software

CIOs and Procurement Pros Partner on Cloud Services

Cloud services can help CIOs free themselves from worrying about managing data centers, scaling capacity, configuring servers, applying security patches and other routine maintenance so they can focus on providing insight to improve the business.

17 Apr 2014 6 mins

CIO Cloud Computing Enterprise Applications

9 Things You Need to Know Before You Store Data in the Cloud

More and more businesses of all sizes are storing some or all of their data in the cloud. But before you move to an online storage provider, there are some things you should know (and ask) about cloud storage and recovery.

16 Apr 2014 8 mins

Backup and Recovery Cloud Management Cloud Storage

6 Amazing Advances in Cloud Technology

The cloud is more than just dirt-cheap data storage and lightning-fast apps. These six innovations show that it's possible to manage servers, develop applications, run virtual machines and even sequence the human genome using cloud technology.

14 Apr 2014 4 mins

Cloud Management Developer Enterprise Architecture

Government CIOs Face Data Center Consolidation Challenges

Federal CIOs face pressure to consolidate their agencies' data center infrastructure. Those challenges go beyond IT, and experts advise CIOs to develop strategic plans so that consolidation improves application delivery and supports priorities s

10 Apr 2014 5 mins

Government IT Green IT Virtualization

In Public Cloud Computing Fight, the Gloves Come Off

Price cuts from Amazon, Google and Microsoft support predictions that the public cloud computing market is a race to the bottom -- for pricing, that is. Customers will no doubt benefit, but cloud providers who aren't one of those three companies

10 Apr 2014 7 mins

Cloud Management Cloud Storage Virtualization

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