Windows 8 Launch: Follow Along at Our Live Blog
It's been a long time coming, but Windows 8 and its tablet-only cousin Windows RT are finally here. Follow all the launch events at our live blog.
7-Inch Tablets That Rival the iPad Mini (and Cost Less)
These seven 7-inch tablets from ASUS, Samsung, Lenovo and HTC compete with and cost less than Apple's new iPad Mini tablet.
The small iPad is just what the official name indeed called iPad mini suggests. Its recognizably the iconic iPad tablet, only its smaller, as Apple announced on Oct. 23.
Apple made a point of doing a side-by-side comparison of its new iPad Mini with Google's Nexus 7 at the launch event Tuesday in San Jose, highlighting the mini tablet's thinness, larger viewable screen area and custom app compatibility.
We live in explosively innovative times for tablet computing. But it didn't all happen overnight. Most attempts to build a tablet-like computer, going back to the '70s, were not successful. Yet every failure was a lesson learned that led us to the iPad.
Marketing professionals are bullish about new technologies and won't let IT slow them down. CIOs must navigate this transition carefully or risk losing status within the organization.
IT professionals who have learned to work across traditional borders are the hot ticket in the current cloud-crazy job market. According to Dice.com, here is a list of the top 10 most available jobs in the cloud.
In the latest installment of CIO.com's resume makeover series, resume expert and career strategist Stephen Van Vreede shows how to produce a clear and simple message that will get IT executives to notice.
Maybe one of the these 13 new machines is really the new Windows device to beat.
IT executives and project management experts share their tips for avoiding some of the most common--and costly--project management mistakes.
How do job seekers from Gen Y, Gen X and the Baby Boomer generation approach their career searches? Turns out social networking knows no age restrictions. Read on for CIO.com's infographic to see where your generation fits--and where you may be missing out.
Growth in business-provisioned cloud contracts, particularly in HR, could outpace traditional IT outsourcing, rattling traditional IT service providers.
News
- Apple to Offer Its Nano-SIM Patents Royalty-Free
- What You Need to Know About 802.11ac
- Tips for Buying a Three-Stream Access Point
- Microsoft, Nokia Will Spend $24 Million on University Program to Boost App Development
- Apple's New IPad Clears China's Regulatory Hurdle
- Who Holds the Keys?
- Microsoft Moves to Slow Google Apps
- Eclipse Readies Browser-Based IDE
- Are Tablets Inevitable As PC Replacements?
- Push Your Cloud Supplier to Participate in CSA STAR
Applications
- Microsoft, Nokia Will Spend $24 Million on University Program to Boost App Development
- Microsoft Moves to Slow Google Apps
- Eclipse Readies Browser-Based IDE
- 10 Questions for Scala CFO Anthony Maddalone
- Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
- Google Ends Chrome Search Rank Penalty Period
- SAS Promises Pervasive BI with New Tool
- Oracle Set to Update Analytics Strategy, Go After SAP Customers
- Wall Street Beat: Tech Bellwethers Offer View Into IT Trends
- Microsoft's Ads, Humor Boost Consumer Opinion of IE
Careers
- Tech Job Seekers Less Likely to Be Asked for Social-Media Passwords
- Indian, U.S. Firms Urge Obama Action on Visas
- Facebook and Senator Fire Back At Password Snooping Employers
- When Will the Offshore Flow of IT and Finance Jobs End?
- Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says
- 'NoOps' Debate Grows Heated
- New Verizon CEO Got $16 Million Pay Raise in 2011
- JOBS Act Would Revive Dot-Com Abuses, Official Claims
- How to Get a Hot Job in Big Data
- IT Skills Shortages Inside Companies Hamper Profitability, Productivity
Cloud Computing
- Microsoft Moves to Slow Google Apps
- Eclipse Readies Browser-Based IDE
- Push Your Cloud Supplier to Participate in CSA STAR
- EBay CISO Receiving Security Industry Lifetime Achievement Award
- AWS Partners with Open-Source Private Cloud Provider Eucalyptus
- AWS Deal Improves Eucalyptus' Chances At Enterprises
- Figuring Out the Data Center Fabric Maze
- AMD's New CEO Likes Basketball and the Chip Maker's Future
- Cloud Security Registry Slow to Catch on
- Amazon Comes Out on Top in Cloud Data Transfer Speed Test
Data Center
- Who Holds the Keys?
- Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
- Genealogists Excited for Release of 1940 Census, Family History Sites Prepare
- Figuring Out the Data Center Fabric Maze
- Nvidia Brings Console Gaming to Ultrabooks with New GPU
- Quantum Unveils Enterprise-Class Cloud Backup Services
- With Tech Breakthrough, Seagate Promises 60TB Drives This Decade
- AMD Reaches for the Cloud with New Server Chips
- China'S Huawei Eyes Bigger Share of Server Market with New Tecal V2 Products
- Linux 3.3 Released, Integrates Android Code
Mobile
- Apple to Offer Its Nano-SIM Patents Royalty-Free
- Hold the Phone: Retailers Eye Payments Via Smartphone
- The Newspaper Industry Must Change, Or Become Yesterday's News
- New iPad: Three Strikes, But Not Out
- As Navigation Looks Indoors, New Uses Appear
- Symantec Details Mobile Device Management Plans
- Angry Birds Space Won't Fly on Windows Phone
- 5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them
- Attacks in Android's Sideview Mirror Are Smaller Than They Appear
- LTE Phone Shipments to Increase Tenfold in 2012, Analysts Say
Web 2.0
- Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
- Facebook Password Requests From Employers Raise Ire of Lawmakers
- Facebook Privacy Debate a Passionate One
- On Facebook, Think Before You "Like"
- Facebook Tips to Make Password Privacy Issue a Non-Issue
- Tech Job Seekers Less Likely to Be Asked for Social-Media Passwords
- Facebook and Senator Fire Back At Password Snooping Employers
- 5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them
- Facebook Warns Employers Not to Ask Job Applicants for Log-in Credentials
- Dutch Judge: Companies Can Lay Off Employees Over Facebook Insults
Virtualization
- Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
- The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Cisco Offers Virtualized Video Surveillance
- VMware Eases Cloud Provisioning
- TuCloud Criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for Virtual Desktop Licensing Debacle
- Is Mobile Virtualization Ready for Your Business?
- Meru Unveils Virtualized WLAN Infrastructure
- 5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS
- Standardizing the Desktop
- ENNI Promises Painless Ethernet Connection to Carriers
Security
- Who Holds the Keys?
- Push Your Cloud Supplier to Participate in CSA STAR
- Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
- Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
- Microsoft Leads Seizure of Zeus-Related Cybercrime Servers
- Facebook Password Requests From Employers Raise Ire of Lawmakers
- Facebook Privacy Debate a Passionate One
- Huawei Told Not to Apply for Australian Broadband Project
- On Facebook, Think Before You "Like"
- Facebook Tips to Make Password Privacy Issue a Non-Issue
Outsourcing
- Indian, U.S. Firms Urge Obama Action on Visas
- Helpdesk Outsourcing Quagmire At Heart of Whistleblower Lawsuit
- Texas Ousts IBM, Takes New IT Outsourcing Tack
- Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says
- 9 IT Outsourcing RFP Response Red Flags
- Is Your Outsourcer Agile Enough
- Lessons Learned: Outsourcing Managed Network Services
- IT Service Providers and Customers Battle Over Data Breaches
- Anti-Offshoring Bill Scores 77 U.S. House Co-Sponsors
- IT Innovation "More Important Than Cost Cutting" - Ovum
Operating Systems
- Google Ends Chrome Search Rank Penalty Period
- Why Linux on the Desktop is Dead
- Microsoft's Ads, Humor Boost Consumer Opinion of IE
- Angry Birds Space Won't Fly on Windows Phone
- Attacks in Android's Sideview Mirror Are Smaller Than They Appear
- Windows 8 Preview Beats Windows 7 in Most Performance Tests
- Nonprofit Open Source Organizations Booming
- Windows 8 Tablet Displays Can Be As Crisp As Apple IPad's Retina
- The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Windows 8 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Upcoming Version of Windows
Data Center Definitions & Solutions
What is a data center? How are data centers managed? What data center technologies should I be aware of?
CIO 100 2012
The 2012 CIO 100 Awards honor 100 companies that are accelerating business results by innovating with technology. Find out who they are.
See why Gartner places Adobe in the leadership magic quadrant. Web content management technology has evolved to enable enterprises to optimize man hours and assets to drive demand and easily support digital marketing strategies in an ever changing market.
Sponsored by Adobe Systems
PostgreSQL is an open source, object-oriented, RDBMS that offers agility, efficiency and security to enterprises without the license fees and support costs of proprietary databases. This paper explores PostgreSQL's 20-year history, successful installations and how to get started with a deployment.
Sponsored by Bull HN Information Systems, Inc.
By 2016, fewer than 5% of enterprises with more than 1,000 employees will manage two or more forms of virtual machines (VMs) heterogeneously. Offerings competitive with VMware's products have been improving, and the pricing gap and concern over lock-in are increasing enterprise interest in heterogeneous virtualization. Prospective virtualization users should examine second sourcing, but be wary of heterogeneous virtualization management.
Sponsored by Gartner Group, Inc.
In the already overhyped cloud computing market, hybrid cloud computing is emerging as the next big thing. To get past the hype, IT leaders should assess how hybrid cloud computing fits into their road maps, and determine which of its many forms makes sense (and which don't) for their enterprises.
Sponsored by Gartner Group, Inc.
Join EMA Managing Research Director, Scott Crawford, and Bit9 Director of Product Marketing, Ian Lee to learn how today's Application Control and Whitelisting solutions gives organizations more than a strong answer to today's more demanding threats. Attendees will learn how today's technologies make effective security more transparent and adaptable to business requirements than ever before.
Sponsored by Enterprise Management Associates
A simple online assessment tool that helps you determine the best deployment option for integration with your trading partner community.
Sponsored by IBM
Through a combination of new technologies, efficient design and the exploitation of cloud-type services, next-generation data centers could evolve into environments that are 40% to 60% smaller.
Key Issues Gartner Addresses:
- What are the key trends in data center design?
- What can CIOs do to extend the life of existing data centers?
- How can external services be leveraged safely as part of data center planning?
Sponsored by Gartner Group, Inc.
IT operations continues to undergo significant changes to help the business grow and innovate. But aside from being innovative and agile, IT operations must also achieve higher levels of availability, meet compliance requirements and reduce per-unit service delivery costs. At the same time, it is facing the challenge to implement and manage new technologies (such as virtualization, composite applications and cloud-based services) and investing in ITIL and process improvements.
Key Issues Gartner Addresses:
- What IT operations management trends should organizations monitor through 2016?
- What immediate actions can be taken to improve ITOM investments and efficiencies?
- How can the business value of IT operations be measured?
Sponsored by Gartner Group, Inc.
Executive Women in IT (EWIT)
The CIO Executive Council launched an initiative dedicated to advancing women in IT and in business. The Executive Women in IT (EWIT) Leadership Connection provides access to peer advice, events, resources and tools to help women on their journey to success. Learn more
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The Evolution of Enterprise IT from Systems of Record to Systems of Engagement
This one hour webcast will discuss the emergence of consumer-driven, social collaboration networks that are forcing companies' IT infrastructure to evolve and become the foundation of a new way of doing business. For the past 30 years, corporate leaders have spent trillions of dollars on "systems of record" that carry out critical functions, from supply chain management to financials. Now they must learn how best to layer "systems of engagement" on top their current enterprise IT infrastructure.
Join us for a presentation by business strategist and advisor Peter Moore, who will discuss the overall dimensions of this transformative change and how CIOs can take a leadership role in helping their companies get out in front of it.
Learn more
Content Download – Youth in IT Webcast: Internship Program Best Practices & Lessons Learned
The Future-State CIO®
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