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A Federal Mandate To Open Up

Agencies must increase transparency and engage the public in new ways. Here's how they're doing it.

Government Technologist: What's the ROI Of Open Government?

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Eric Zeman

Google's Buzz Skips webOS?
Today Google introduced a new social networking service called Buzz. Buzz works pretty well on the iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. If you're a webOS user, however, you're mostly out of luck.

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Bob Evans

Perverse Policy: UK Govt. CIO Loses Clout If He Spends Less
Calling it "one of the most perverse things I have heard," the CIO of the U.K.'s Revenue and Customs branch said he was warned by Cabinet officials that if he were to find creative ways to cut his $1.2 billion IT budget by 50%, he would be dropped from a top-level group that shapes government purchasing policy and strategy.

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Vanessa Alvarez

Cloud Migrations Trigger Organizational Challenges
When organizations migrate to cloud computing, most of the focus is on technology components such as security, automation, and policy management. There is, however, another key element that's necessary for a cloud model to work within enterprises, and it involves organizational behavior.

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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Some Hot Health IT Stocks Are Cooling
Street.com just released a list of "best and worst" healthcare IT stocks. You'd think with all the stimulus money being waved at healthcare providers to install e-health record systems over the next few years, all health IT stocks would be winners.

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Bob Evans

Global CIO: SAP's Last Chance: It's The Customers, Stupid!
SAP will fix its technology, but its entire future depends on whether it can fix how it views and treats its customers.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: E-Medical Record Pros In Short Supply
With deadlines looming, federal government tries to engineer the huge workforce needed to deploy EMR and other clinical systems.

Stephen Glazier

Global CIO: Software Patents And The CIO
Two recent developments dictate a more hands-on IT organization approach to intellectual property.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: What Could Doom The IT Recovery?
The economy (stupid). Absent more responsible and disciplined fiscal policies, the U.S. tech rebound will be a short-lived phenomenon.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: IT Managers Have Had Enough
Our annual salary survey indicates that security pros aren't getting a sufficient sense that their work and expertise are valued.

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John Foley

Government Technologist: What's the ROI Of Open Government?
Let's stop dancing around open government and evaluate it based on its hard returns.

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Alexander Wolfe

Server Den: Inside HP's Converged Infrastructure
Gary Thome, chief architect of HP's Infrastructure Software and Blades group, talks power and cooling like you've never heard it before. Plus, why he thinks Hewlett-Packard's data-center play tops Cisco.

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Fritz Nelson

Full Nelson: The Growing Threat Of Cyberwarfare
Many more casualities will pile up, but policy and agreements will prove meaningless against today's anonymous cyberwarrior.

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: Why GM's Volt Electric Car Needs An iPhone App
GM is promising a smartphone app that lets drivers remotely track data such as whether the Volt's battery is charged, hoping to ease the fear of running out of juice on the road.