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Agility And What’s Keeping You From It

In our Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2011, we asked business technology leaders to rate IT’s ability to establish an architecture that can accommodate changes to business strategy.

16 Apr 2012 3 mins

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4 New IT Outsourcing Pricing Models Gain Popularity

Enterprises that have gone the outsourcing route now expect more value from their IT service providers and IT service vendors want potentially higher-margin work. The combination has resulted in several new pricing models. CIO.com looks at four emerg

13 Apr 2012 6 mins

CIO IT Strategy Outsourcing

Chevron’s CIO Talks Transformation and Why IT Leaders Should Smile

In the latest installment of the CIO Interview Series, Louie Ehrlich, CIO and president of Chevron Information Technology Company, talks about the most important things he's learned leading a giant, global IT team through massive change. His ans

12 Apr 2012 2 mins

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IBM and HP Take Different Tacks to the New Cloud

Tech giants IBM and HP recently made major cloud announcements, but the differences between the two are striking. CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle explains how HP's move was tactical and meshes with the recent leadership change, while IBM is playin

12 Apr 2012 5 mins

Cloud Computing IT Strategy Private Cloud

How the Cloud Democratizes and Complicates Disaster Recovery

When it comes to disaster recovery, the cloud is showing itself to be a mixed bag. CIO.com's Jeff Vance explains how the great shift in technology has both lowered the entry barriers for DR technology and given smaller businesses what could be a

11 Apr 2012 8 mins

Disaster Recovery IT Strategy Private Cloud

Seeking Innovative Ideas? Read Something Quirky

CIOs are under pressure to come up with innovative ideas for the business. One way is to subscribe to a few obscure publications (print or online) that will trigger ideas outside your usual thinking patterns.

11 Apr 2012 3 mins

IT Strategy Innovation

13 Tips for Better Joomla CMS Security

With the surging popularity of Joomla, it's no surprise hackers are drawn to it as well. Don't panic, however. There are a number of things you can do to strengthen your security and turn your Joomla website into a fortress. Read along as w

9 Apr 2012 9 mins

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RIM Should Attack Apple, and Partner in the Enterprise

The BlackBerry maker has fallen on hard times, but the turnaround strategy the company's laid out will take it in precisely the wrong direction. RIM needs to take dead aim at Apple's iPhone with a full-bore consumer push, and save the partn

5 Apr 2012 5 mins

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Global Business English Skills Declining

IT leaders concerned about the language barrier when sending work overseas may not feel any better after seeing a new analysis of language placement test scores. Latin American countries, in particular, lag in the ability to understand and communicat

5 Apr 2012 4 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy Outsourcing

Cloud Computing Done the Netflix Way

What can Netflix teach enterprises about data center operations and always-on reliability? Netflix is a consumer-facing Web shop with only a few applications--a completely different infrastructure challenge, right? Wrong. CIO.com's Bernard Golde

5 Apr 2012 8 mins

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