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Doug Henschen
5 Cloud App Trends To Expect In 2013
January 02, 2013 09:06 AM
We'll see more mobile options and embedded analytics, of course, but surprises will include growth in financial apps and big-data insights.
Doug Henschen
Oracle Q2 Results: Ellison Spins On Sun
December 19, 2012 09:21 AM
CEO Larry Ellison talks up Oracle's Sun acquisition even as hardware sales slide 23%. Software sales rise.
Charles Babcock
Cloud Computing: Best And Worst News Of 2012
December 19, 2012 09:06 AM
What were the key developments for enterprise cloud computing this year? Let's look at four big wins -- and three setbacks.
Eric Lundquist
7 Ways Outsourcing Has Changed
December 18, 2012 09:06 AM
The old role of outsourcers -- doing repetitive stuff overseas because it is a lot cheaper -- is history. See what's coming to take its place.
Charles Babcock
Why Amazon's Cloud Business Is Like Kindle Sales
December 07, 2012 01:30 PM
Amazon Web Services is cheap upfront, and Amazon only gets paid if people keep using it, CEO Bezos says.
Fritz Nelson
Mark Hurd Interview: Oracle Leading Or Following?
December 06, 2012 11:12 AM
Oracle President Mark Hurd talks strategy with InformationWeek's Fritz Nelson and some CIO customers. Watch the interview and read our analysis.
Thomas Claburn
Social Networks Continue Push For Control
December 06, 2012 09:06 AM
The Internet was supposed to facilitate direct connections between individuals and disempower gatekeepers. Instead, it has become a massive man-in-the-middle attack.
TJ Keitt
Cloud Collaboration Tools: Big Hopes, Big Needs
December 06, 2012 09:06 AM
Cloud-based collaboration tools give enterprises valuable advantages, but vendors must step up now to answer some key questions on security and integration.
Eric Lundquist
Celtics, Nets Score With Unified Communications
December 03, 2012 09:06 AM
NBA teams' IT executives explain how and why they decided among on-premises, hybrid and hosted technology services.
Doug Henschen
SAP Clings To A Dated Cloud Apps Strategy
December 03, 2012 08:36 AM
As cloud vendors Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Workday look toward larger companies, SAP courts small and midsize firms.
Charles Babcock
Salesforce.com Wants Developers To Think Big
November 28, 2012 10:15 AM
With Identity and Canvas plans, Salesforce can begin to provide services to enterprise applications that were thought to have been totally separate from CRM.
Jonathan Feldman
Is There A Case For Ditching Dropbox?
November 27, 2012 02:10 PM
Competing vendors who come at CIOs with a "more secure" file sync solution are missing the point.
Fritz Nelson
Next Valley View: Tech's Feisty Upstarts
November 26, 2012 11:02 AM
Watch November 28 at 11 PT as our live Web TV show brings you up to speed on how Dwolla, Exec, SugarSync and others are upsetting the status quo.
Art Wittmann
HP's Identity Crisis Continues
November 21, 2012 09:06 AM
HP's problems go much deeper than poor sales in core businesses and some alleged accounting mischief by Autonomy.
Eric Lundquist
5 Innovative Ideas For Enterprise CIOs
November 19, 2012 01:31 PM
The role of the CIO is changing rapidly. These innovations could help you keep pace and increase the value of your business.
J. Nicholas Hoover
Time To Deliver On Federal IT Reform
November 13, 2012 01:23 PM
First four years of the Obama Administration were marked by the beginnings of significant changes in federal IT. Execution will be the name of the game during the next four.
Eric Lundquist
IT's Future: Less Building, More Bundling
November 12, 2012 09:06 AM
With human resources, marketing and other departments going in different technological directions, IT's new mission is to tie all the company's services securely together.
Charles Babcock
VMware Does Complicated Dance With Open Source
November 09, 2012 10:20 AM
Now that VMware owns Nicira, how will Nicira continue to lead development of virtual networking in OpenStack? Nicira founder Martin Casado explains.
Jonathan Feldman
5 Ways To Survive The Coming IT Apocalypse
November 05, 2012 09:47 AM
We IT leaders say we believe in the new ways. But we won't survive if our actions don't match our words.
Howard Anderson
Why Private Clouds Will Prevail
November 02, 2012 09:06 AM
Stu Laura, our irascible CIO, discusses the promise and pressures of private clouds.
Charles Babcock
VMware Revenues Show Cloud Worries
October 29, 2012 09:43 AM
VMware rules the virtualization market and wants to do the same with cloud. Can it pull that off and continue its fast-paced growth?
John Foley
How The Feds Drive Cloud Innovation
October 26, 2012 11:10 AM
NASA, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies are shifting toward more strategic and complex cloud applications, as they try to drive down costs amid flat IT budgets.
Fritz Nelson
Next Valley View: Dial C For Controversy
October 22, 2012 04:39 PM
Tune into the next episode of our live Web TV program, Valley View, October 24 at 11 am PT. We'll go one on one with Cisco's Chambers and Oracle's Hurd, plus explore where the Obama administration's stimulus money ended up.
Charles Babcock
Did OpenStack Let VMware Into The Henhouse?
October 19, 2012 09:08 AM
VMware has paid its way onto the board of OpenStack, the open source alternative for enterprise cloud standards. Here's what OpenStack must do now.
John Foley
Expect To Save Millions In The Cloud? Prove It
October 12, 2012 12:15 PM
Top government IT officials will discuss their plans to implement cloud computing and save money at the GovCloud 2012 conference in Washington.