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Monitoring Vs. Spying: Are Employers Going Too Far?

The email brouhaha that erupted at Harvard recently did not meet my definition of spying. If your company monitors, do it with reasonable cause.

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5 Items Should Top Obama's Technology Agenda

From infrastructure to tech education, here's what I want to see on the to-do list for the next four years.

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Goodbye DR, Hello Resiliency

No enterprise can afford downtime in today's business climate. To stay always-on, you must create an environment of business resiliency that goes...

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After Flashback, Apple Walled Gardens Won't Help

Apple and other vendors will use the Flashback botnet as reason to move forward with desktop walled garden restrictions. Here's why that approach...

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No Hands-Free Phones In Cars: Why Stop There?

Let's outlaw distracting passengers in the name of safety. Or perhaps we can regulate a one-gag-per-passenger rule.

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Security Tips Cyber Monday Madness Teaches Us

You're not as locked down as you think. It's utterly impossible to secure an organization without having the buy-in of the employees.

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Global CIO: IBM-Google Security Snafu Shows #1 Vulnerability Is Ignorance

IBM's ranking of software vendors by vulnerabilities is riddled with errors, so Google intervenes and goes from worst to first.

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Global CIO: Google, At Last, Goes For Microsoft's Throat

It's getting serious about enterprise IT.

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Global CIO: In Age Of Google Hack, Verdasys Redefining Cybersecurity

After a huge victory protecting Ferrari's racing secrets, Verdasys is racking up big wins among large enterprises seeking new approaches.

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Global CIO Quick Take: Don't Crown Salesforce Cloud King Just Yet

CEO Marc Benioff has something most companies don’t--blockbuster sales results. But in his latest market expansion, he's in for a fight.

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Global CIO: IBM Calls Out Oracle's Ellison On Database Claims

Ellison said Oracle-Sun "blew the doors off" IBM's top database system, but IBM says he's blowing hot air.

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Global CIO: CIOs Bet Big On Data Center Strategies

Cloud sounds good, but it's still often a brick-and-mortar decision.

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Global CIO: Data Centers Behaving Boldly: Meet Tech's New Rock Stars

From Disney tourist attraction to economic-growth saviors to nuke-hardened The Bunker: data centers, always strategic, are becoming way cool.

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Global CIO: After Google Cyber Attack, CIOs Must Find The Body

The Aurora attacks from China are incredibly advanced and malicious, says McAfee's CTO: "Where's the body?"

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Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Top 10 Reasons For Buying Sun

New customer value, Sun's great technology, an IBM fixation, resetting the IT landscape, something deeply personal, and more.

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Global CIO: UPS Provides Peek Into Future Of Wireless

Watching what UPS is doing with its wireless devices has been a good indicator of where the industry is headed

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Global CIO: Salesforce.com CEO Benioff On IT Scams And Cloud Power

In Part 2 of our Salesforce.com analysis, Benioff describes the power of the cloud and proves it with his company's incredibly lean IT infrastructure.

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Global CIO: Will Steve Jobs Ban Google From AppleWorld?

An imaginative Apple investor says Steve Jobs is preparing to rock Google's world.

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Global CIO: Salesforce.com CEO Benioff On Beating Microsoft & SAP In The Cloud

Part 1 of 2: The cloud's foremost evangelist and highest achiever opines on those two rivals plus partner/competitor Oracle.

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Global CIO: IBM CFO Offers 7 Key Insights In Earnings Analysis

IBM's CFO sheds light on atypical opportunities, applications outsourcing, retail resurgence, business analytics, and more.

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Global CIO: Dell And The Pursuit Of Google

Huge buyers such as search engines have reshaped the top end of the server market. That's forced Dell to turn its traditional mass-market business...

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Global CIO: IBM Iowa's Birthday: IBM Gets $52M, But What Does Iowa Get?

IBM promised 1,300 jobs for incentives of $52M but isn't releasing hiring figures. That's not right.

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Global CIO: Oracle Foes Scurry To Curry Favor With Dictatorships

Spurned by his former heartthrob heroes in the EU, MySQL's founder now sings the praises of Russia and China.

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Global CIO: 5 More CIO Imperatives For 2010

A media-company CIO calls passionately for more R&D, mobile, insights, simplification, and speed.

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Global CIO: SAP Blows Huge Opportunity With Timid Support Changes

SAP is overblowing its new support plan, which gives customers only marginally more choice.

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