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Rock Star CIO Scores A CEO Seat
A rare few CIOs make the jump to CEO of their companies. Even fewer jump to vendor CEO roles. John Glaser's doing just that.
Glaser Talks About Healthcare's Challenges, Opportunities
When longtime Partners Healthcare CIO John Glaser leaves his position in mid-August to join Siemens Healthcare as CEO of its Health Services Business Unit, he'll be bringing along solid, on-the-ground experience and insightful perspective about the many challenges facing the healthcare industry.
China Search, E-Commerce Leaders In Dispute
Baidu accused of unfair competition by reducing search results for Alibaba Group retail sites.
China's Alibaba Wants Yahoo Stake Back
The e-commerce leader is seeking to repurchase Yahoo's 40% ownership in the company and list it on China's stock exchange.
Ray Kurzweil On 'The Singularity' Future
The noted futurist has released a movie, The Singularity is Near, exploring how technology may reshape the fabric of our physical reality and life experiences.
Global CIO: 5 Ways Ford's CIO Is Driving Growth
Nick Smither and his team have some ideas worth copying.
If Growth Is Back, Is IT Ready?
As more CIOs get back into growth mode, what are they worried about? Speed and budgets, but so much about business-IT "alignment."
Oracle Offering CTO In A Box
Putting more muscle at the point of revenue, Oracle is supplying its largest customers with "client architects" to advise CIOs "on how to shape their architectures in concert with Oracle's investments," says company president Charles Phillips. He added that these technical advisors "essentially serve as dedicated CTOs for our large customers."
Global CIO: Larry Ellison's IBM-Slayer Is Oracle Exadata Machine
Ellison says his billion-dollar baby, Exadata, is racking up huge customer wins at major IBM accounts due to superior speed and reliability.
Why IT Must Get Back Into Growth Mode
Our research shows a clear uptick in growth-oriented IT projects. But after all the cost-cutting, CIOs must prove they left enough muscle to once again drive revenue and innovation.
Oracle Woos And IBM Sues: Exec Who Knew Too Much
Oracle has recruited a high-level exec from arch-rival IBM to become senior VP of on-demand services and report directly to CEO Larry Ellison, but IBM is suing to stop the move, claiming she "possesses valuable confidential information about IBM and our operations."
Why IT Must Get Back Into Growth Mode
Our research shows a clear uptick in growth-oriented IT projects. But after all the cost-cutting, CIOs must prove they left enough muscle to once again drive revenue and innovation.
Cisco Quad Exec Talks Enterprise 2.0
Part of the first crop of serious Enterprise 2.0 products, Cisco Quad is the networking powerhouse's ambitious attempt to surge to the head of the pack. (My more holistic market take is that Quad is yet another piece of the pie -- alongside Flip and Borderless Networks -- through which Cisco is expanding itself to ultimately become the world's most important technology company; an Intel of the 2010's if you will.) I sat down recently with Murali Sitaram, the Cisco vice president in charge of
Global CIO: Will Social Media Kill The CIO?
As more employees blatantly flaunt IT policies, CIOs are getting crushed between security mandates and social's unstoppable momentum.
Image Gallery: 2010 Global CIOs
See how 10 world IT leaders are driving change and growth.
Global CIO: IBM And Hewlett-Packard Battle Over Booming Mobile Market
While HP's got networking gear and Palm WebOS, IBM's porting its software for mobile use and its Sterling acquisition is critical.
IBM Adds 600 Jobs In Oregon For Mortgage Processing
Expanding its presence in the mortgage-software business, IBM plans to add 600 jobs in Oregon, nearly doubling the size of its mortgage-industry workforce there. Oregon, struggling with an unemployment rate of 10.6%, appears to have edged out bids for the jobs from North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Global CIO: An Open Letter To Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Human beings' 15-second limit: how the iconic iPhone will change the way enterprise apps are written and perform.
Video: SAP Demos StreamWork At Enterprise 2.0
I'm just back from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, where the big takeaway was that collaborative tools are moving out of the hype phase into the implementation mode. This means a raft of products, to be followed by a titanic market battle among Cisco, IBM, Google, Jive, and others. One offering on display was SAP's StreamWork, which adds a business-intelligence twist to the whole workplace social tool thing. Click ahead for the video demo.
SaaS Industry Is Collapsing! And The Sky Is Falling.
In 1977, Digital Equipment Corp. founder Ken Olsen said, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." Another prediction's not quite as atrociously bad but almost: 22 months ago, Lawson Software CEO Harry Debes said the SaaS industry will go "nowhere" and within two years "will collapse." But hey, he's not wrong just yet-he's still got two months to go.
China Mobile Industry Bets On Low Cost Smartphones
Handset makers and wireless providers are targeting the mid-range user to expand the 3G market in China.
Down To Business: War On Business, Part II
Readers weren't shy about weighing in on my column critical of the anti-business movement in this country. Take your best shot, but I'm not backing down.
Global CIO: Cisco's Chambers Calls Out Obama's Job-Killing Protectionism
CEO Chambers is telling all who will listen that high U.S. corporate tax rates are forcing businesses to do most of their investing and hiring elsewhere.
CIO Profiles: Rick Roy Of CUNA Mutual Group
Success comes down to people--customers, employees, partners, and peers--says CUNA Mutual's CIO.
John Chambers On Speed: How To Accelerate Decisions
If you think Cisco's been aggressive with acquisitions and product launches in the past, you'd better tighten your shoelaces because John Chambers says the company's new management structure has slashed decision-making times by more than 90%.
Bringing Cloud ROI Down To Earth
The calculation on whether to outsource a given IT function must be based on data loss risk, lock-in and availability, total cost, reasonable investment life spans--and consensus on when good enough is all you need.
Social Networks Pose E-Discovery Risks
Growing corporate use of Twitter, Facebook, and cloud-based applications are creating new e-discovery demands, but c-level awareness of risks remains scarce.
Bringing Cloud ROI Down To Earth
The calculation on whether to outsource a given IT function must be based on data loss risk, lock-in and availability, total cost, reasonable investment life spans--and consensus on when good enough is all you need.
Hospital Order Management Platform Slashes Purchasing Costs
Seventeen hospitals will save millions of dollars by combining their purchase orders through VHA SupplyNetworks ordering system.
Global CIO: 10 Indispensable Insights On Cloud Computing
Analyzing the cloud's impact on everything from security to the CIO to corporate culture, a new book on the cloud revolution by my outstanding colleague Charles Babcock is an absolute must-read.
Nokia Lowers Earnings Forecast
While shipments of Apple, Blackberry, and Android-based devices are on the rise, sales of Nokia devices are declining.
Hewlett-Packard Picks Five Winners Among Global Clients
At HP's Software Universe event this week, five global customers received Awards of Excellence in the categories of Transformation, Business Agility, Cost Optimization, Business Impact, and Outstanding Achievement. One winner rolled out "an IT operational model that can be supported by less than one quarter of the merged staff."
Global CIO: Delta Air Lines CIO Describes IT's Dazzling Future
As Delta's CIO completes the massive IT integration with Northwest, she turns her passionate leadership to creating EXCEPTIONAL customer experiences.
Microsoft Is Hiring 500 Cloud Specialists To Battle Google
Microsoft is hiring up to 500 sales reps for its public-sector cloud-computing solutions to add more firepower to its intensifying competition with Google for the hundreds of millions-and potentially billions-of government dollars being pushed into the cloud.
Global CIO: Will Salesforce.com's Soaring Stock Puncture The Cloud?
An investment manager lists 15 reasons--15!--to avoid Salesforce.com's stock. Could that sentiment spread to product purchases as well?
Beacon Program Director Clarifies 'Meaningful Use'
Health IT pros are advised to look beyond implementing new IT systems to focus on showing how those systems will improve healthcare delivery.
Why Steve Jobs Hates Enterprise IT
It's because buyers of enterprise IT are sometimes "confused."
Global CIO: Can Jive Drive Social Business Software?
Jive says Social Business is software's most important category in a decade, and some powerful partners agree. Will CIOs buy it?
Analytics Gallery: 2010 State Of Storage Report
A sampling of exclusive InformationWeek Analytics research, as it appears in "Breaking Point: 2010 State of Storage Report," our deep-dive analysis into enterprise data and related storage requirements, as seen through the eyes of real-world business technology pros.
Fujitsu, Toshiba Consider Merger
Combining the companies' cell phone operations would create Japan's second largest handset maker.
Global CIO: Oracle Layoffs Threaten Larry Ellison's Credibility
Oracle has every right to cut employees while integrating Sun, but the problem is that Larry Ellison said very specifically that would not happen.
Global CIO: 10 Reasons CIOs Will Get Fired This Year
The business world has changed fundamentally, but some CIOs cling to the past. And the price they'll pay is losing their jobs.
The Use Of Health IT Outside The U.S.
While the push is on for mass adoption of e-medical record systems in the U.S., clinicians in many other countries are already accustomed to using digital health records in the care of their patients. What can we learn from each other?
HUD Constructs IT Transformation
Department of Housing and Urban Development CIO Jerry Williams discusses how IT is moving from overlooked to a central player in the agency's work.
Dell Dives Deeper Into Data Center
A day after I posted "Oracle Seen Axing Opteron On Sun Servers," we have fresh evidence that the processor wars between Intel and AMD are far from over. The news comes in the form of a slew of announcements from Dell, which include servers variously featuring Intel's Westmere Xeon orl AMD's enhanced Magny-Cours Opteron.
Global CIO: Hewlett-Packard's Missing Link Is Analytics
The oncoming information explosion can bury you or provide unique competitive advantage. HP says the key is analytics.
Oracle Seen Axing AMD Opteron On Sun Servers
Word has been swirling now for a couple of months that Oracle is going to abandon the use of AMD's Opteron processor on future Sun servers. (Oracle has owned Sun Microsystems since January.) This talk started with an Australian blog post in early May. While Oracle hasn't confirmed the report, it hasn't issued a denial either. Here's what I found out direct from the horse's mouth.
Verizon Touts Its Smartphones Against iPhone Buzz
A video promoting Verizon's variety of smartphones and mobile operating systems was released a few hours before Apple's unveiling of the latest iPhone.
These Private Cloud Stats Surprised Me
We've heard plenty of worries about public cloud computing, so I wasn't shocked that just over 63% of companies have no plans for it, in our recent survey. But I was surprised at the level of interest in private clouds: 58% are using or plan to use this architecture.
HTC EVO 4G Sets Sprint Sales Records
First-day sales of the dual 3G/4G smartphone set a record for the most phones ever sold in one day for the mobile carrier.
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