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Global CIO: Outsourcer HCL To Cut Insurer's Costs By $150 Million     December 3, 2009
By Bob Evans
HCL is taking on an end-to-end chain of processes in a deal valued at $200 million that blends IT infrastructure and services with deep business processes and more.

Global CIO: Will SAP Move To Tiered Maintenance Fees?     December 2, 2009
By Bob Evans
SAP's intentions are always difficult to discern, but it might be on the verge of revising the support/maintenance fees its customers love to hate.

Global CIO: Fear Of Facebook For The Enterprise     December 1, 2009
By Chris Murphy
Enterprise social networking, at its worst, looks like another way to get buried in data.

Government CIOs Must Focus On Results, Not Data Centers     November 30, 2009
Data center proliferation entails unacceptable cost and risk, says the former CIO of the U.S. Postal Service. With cloud computing as an option, it's time to pursue a more sustainable strategy.

Global CIO: Oracle, Larry Ellison, The EU, And MySQL     November 30, 2009
By Bob Evans
Would you be shocked--shocked!--to learn that the EU's battle against Oracle is all about politics, power, and preserving jobs?

Down To Business: How Indian CIOs Stack Up     November 28, 2009
By Rob Preston
IBM thinks they're more progressive than CIOs elsewhere in the world, given their emphasis on innovation, customers, and other strategic matters.

Practical Analysis: Smartphones -- Passion To Profit And Productivity     November 28, 2009
By Art Wittmann
Mobile apps are hard to support, they're a new development discipline, and they have a squishy ROI--but they can't be ignored.

Global CIO: The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405     November 25, 2009
By Bob Evans
As Thanksgiving looms, we sometimes overlook those better angels of our nature that are all around us. And that's a mistake.

Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent     November 23, 2009
By Fritz Nelson
An interview with the city's mayor and IT principals about DataSF.org and its groundbreaking applications

Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers     November 21, 2009
By Alexander Wolfe
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.