Data Center Optimization: Federal agencies must increase server utilization and energy efficiency as they squeeze more computer processing into fewer data centers. We explore how the Army, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and others are doing that.
Future Cities: The world's urban centers are growing, creating a civic management challenge of unprecedented scope and complexity. Our exclusive survey reveals the opportunities and challenges for city planners and municipal IT pros.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt expects strong revenue growth from new software products and services that tie machines to the Internet to allow better data analysis.
City planners and their IT teams are setting big goals -- and facing big challenges -- in the development of tech-enabled "Future Cities," our survey results show.
With Identity and Canvas plans, Salesforce can begin to provide services to enterprise applications that were thought to have been totally separate from CRM.
Part of the challenge of social business is matching speeds between enterprises and organizations like Facebook with a "move fast and break things" philosophy, says Hearsay Social CTO Steve Garrity.
How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with tomorrow's analytics pros.
Ford CTO Paul Mascarenas discusses the company's challenges in recruiting and in developing products, as software becomes more critical to differentiating its cars and trucks.
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.
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Chris Murphy
GE Isn't Running An Industrial Internet Charity, Folks
November 29, 2012 03:25 PM
GE CEO Jeff Immelt expects strong revenue growth from new software products and services that tie machines to the Internet to allow better data analysis.
John Foley
Future Cities: IT Priorities For Urban Transformation
November 28, 2012 12:46 PM
City planners and their IT teams are setting big goals -- and facing big challenges -- in the development of tech-enabled "Future Cities," our survey results show.
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.
Chris Murphy
A Proposal For IT: Set Just One Goal For 2013
November 28, 2012 08:00 AM
Be measurably more relevant to your customers.
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.
Chris Murphy
What GE's $15 Trillion Industrial Internet Needs
November 27, 2012 01:11 PM
GE makes the case that a more business-oriented 'Internet of things' will spur a productivity boom. Not so fast.
David Johnson
4 Key Elements: Strategic IT Plans
November 27, 2012 09:06 AM
Hope is not a strategy. Thousands of IT projects launch every day -- and more than one-third crash before they get off the ground.
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.
Rob Preston
What CIOs Want In Their Successors
November 26, 2012 09:06 AM
Are you an aspiring CIO? Listen to what these leading CIOs say it will take for you to reach that coveted position.
David F. Carr
Few Enterprises Move At The Speed Of Social
November 21, 2012 12:35 PM
Part of the challenge of social business is matching speeds between enterprises and organizations like Facebook with a "move fast and break things" philosophy, says Hearsay Social CTO Steve Garrity.
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.
Rob Preston
Is Technology Innovation Too Incremental?
November 19, 2012 11:02 AM
Two prominent big thinkers think it is. But I’m not buying their unsupported arguments.
Eric Openshaw
Social Analytics Isn't Just For Social Networks
November 15, 2012 12:30 PM
Broadly applied across all company functions, social analytics can focus attention on the most pressing internal performance issues.
Art Wittmann
As AMD Explores Options, Intel Pain Looms
November 15, 2012 09:06 AM
Moore's Law is changing the rules of the game again. This time AMD and Intel could both be on the losing team.
Jennifer Priestley
Big Data Education: 3 Steps Universities Must Take
November 15, 2012 09:06 AM
How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with tomorrow's analytics pros.
Kevin Casey
SMBs Spending on IT, Not New IT Hires
November 14, 2012 02:07 PM
Small and midsize business IT budgets continue to grow but hiring remains stagnant. Here's why IT folk should embrace the trend.
Paul McDougall
Sinofsky's Exit Points To Major Microsoft Shakeup
November 14, 2012 10:06 AM
Windows chief's sudden departure comes amid questions about Windows 8 sales and Microsoft's hardware plans.
Chris Murphy
Why Ford Courts Electrical And Software Engineers
November 13, 2012 08:40 AM
Ford CTO Paul Mascarenas discusses the company's challenges in recruiting and in developing products, as software becomes more critical to differentiating its cars and trucks.
Mark Johnson
Hurricane Sandy: Big Data Predicted Big Power Outages
November 12, 2012 12:07 PM
What can be learned for future weather events? For starters, simulations must happen quickly and no single forecasting model will do.
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.
Patrick Houston
Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You're Disrupted
November 12, 2012 09:06 AM
Even innovators struggle with the pace of change. Here are some of the ways Silicon Valley companies like LinkedIn push the edge without falling off.
Russ Edelman
What Enterprise Social Networks Lack: Purpose
November 09, 2012 09:06 AM
Communities based on shared interests are fine for consumer social networks. At work, only a community of purpose is worth our time.
Paul Cerrato
Health IT: How Not To Get Hired
November 09, 2012 08:05 AM
Brains aren't enough to land that dream job. Humility and a willingness to learn are just as crucial.
Jonathan Feldman
Project Management Offices: A Waste Of Money?
November 08, 2012 12:19 PM
The risks of starting a PMO have never been greater, new research shows. After years of observing project management, I agree.