Cloud Computing

Florida CIO Takes Election to the Cloud

On election night, as the rest of us again wondered what was going wrong in Florida, the CIO of Florida's Department of State had a different perspective: He was bearing witness to the successful culmination of 17 months of hard work.

Private cloud ‘very important’ for ANZ Banking Group: CIO

Salesforce.com’s Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together

As Salesforce.com's SaaS offerings become more sophisticated, configuration and deployment gets more complex. In response, enterprises are increasingly turning to partners for implementation help.

Mobile, BI and Cloud Drive Increased IT Spending

CIO Tech Priorities research shows that top IT decision-makers plan to increase spending over the next 12 months. The largest chunk is expected to go to mobile technology, cloud computing services, and business intelligence and analytics. CIOs offer

How to Use Social Media to Create Business Value

According to a report from IBM, 62 percent of enterprises will increase social business spending in the next three years. But companies are still struggling with the cultural changes that a social business implementation requires. Here's a look

Cloud creates more work: Study

Employees Engage in Rogue Cloud Use Regardless of Security Policies

Studies show that employees are engaging in rogue use of the cloud, even when IT organizations say they have clear formal cloud policies and penalties for violation of the policies.

Microsoft’s Cloud Services Mix Leaves Many Vendors in the Dust

IBM became 'Big Blue' because it leased hardware and provided free software, but its collapse divorced the two. The growth of the cloud has caused another marriage, one that brings together software and services. Vendors such as Amazon, Goo

Q&A: Domino’s Group CIO, Wayne McMahon

How Big Data Will Separate Haves From Have-Nots

Walt Hauck, the former straight-talking CIO of Dun & Bradstreet, says big data represents a corporate turning point this decade no less disruptive and revolutionary than the Internet in the 1990s. Find out why Hauck thinks the big data 'have