Farmers, bankers, cops, and doctors aren't so interested in hardware, software, or even "solutions." They want better crops, lower risk, fewer crimes, better care. In creating this special issue, we set out to spotlight on the industries, organizations, and people leveraging IT to transform what they do and how they do it -- warts and all.
Interop: CIOs Eye Cloud With Optimistic Caution
The consensus of the Enterprise Cloud Summit panel was that the cloud promises reduced costs and added IT flexibility, but significant legal and technical challenges remain.
Having rebuilt Whitehouse.gov on the open source Drupal platform, President Obama's new media team is calling on the open source community for new ideas and technology.
4 Data Protection Strategies for Ensuring Business Continuity
As the number of mission-critical servers and storage resources grow, so does the importance of protecting against service interruptions that can threaten an organization's ability to provide access to key data. Get 4 key strategies to protect your company in the case of a disaster. Download Now
When Pressing SEND Gets You Intro BIG Trouble
Protecting confidential data is serious business. Failure may result in fat fines and even jail time - not to mention damage to your brand. Find out how to protect yourself, and your company. Download Now
Open Government: A San Francisco Treat Posted by Fritz Nelson DataSF.org is San Francisco's major foray into open and transparent government; it is the city giving its vital data back to its citizens. We talked with the city's mayor, Gavin Newsom, several members of his technology team, led by CTO Blair Adams, and some of the early developers who have already built applications around the data. We've captured all of this in a new video documentary.
ALSO SEE Google Chrome OS Coming. Got A Netbook Strategy? Posted by Chris Murphy The clock's running. Google expects Web-optimized netbooks running its OS to be on sale before the end of 2010. That gives you about a year to figure out how you want to handle employee use of this next generation of devices. No sense waiting.
Interop: Cloud Computing's Portability Gotcha Posted By John Foley
There were a couple "aha" moments for me at Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit. The first was that some companies are already storing hundreds of terabytes of data in the cloud. The second was that it can be a slow and expensive process to move that data from one service provider to another.
Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Nothing But The Web Posted By Serdar Yegulalp
Today Google aired a webcast where they whipped the curtains all the way off Google Chrome OS for the first time. It's about what most people expected: Chrome OS running on top of a thin layer of Linux, designed for netbooks -- and designed for people whose sole computing experience is the web. It's Google's netbook answer to Android.
Google Chrome OS Won't Launch For A Year Posted By Eric Zeman
Today Google shared some information about its upcoming Chrome OS. First, it said there are no betas, no devices, and the operating system is a full year away from actual launch. The good news is that Google open-sourced the code for Chrome OS today. Updated! Video included.
Blumenthal: Patient Care, Not Tech, Will Drive Meaningful Use Posted By Mitch Wagner
National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal dropped a big hint about upcoming criteria for giving out e-health records grants. He advised healthcare IT managers to focus on "goals of care" rather than technology.
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Image Gallery: Extreme IT: Systems That Can Take A Beating
GM, U.S. Steel, the American Red Cross, and other members of the InformationWeek 500 put their IT systems to the test -- in factories, coal mines, laboratories, steel mills, construction sites, and even in the wake of natural disasters. See how IT gets the job done in the field, under tough conditions.
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