CIO News

Citizens and watchdog groups are clamoring for greater efficiency and transparency from government agencies, and governors expect their CIOs to find ways to improve both.

As if running a government cyber-security program wasn't already challenging, a recently released report by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Partnership for Public Service titled Cyber In-Security reminds us that one of the critical, nontechnical problems lurking on the horizon is the shrinking number of qualified cyber-security experts interested in ...

A 20-year Conservation Department veteran will be Missouri's new technology chief.

To all those IT leaders - and I'm happy to say it's a steadily diminishing number - who believe it's not part of the CIO's job to connect with customers and tout the company's business value, please consider IBM's new CIO who in just two months on the job has "lost count" of how many fellow IT leaders from around the world have called him for ...

The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite.

Terry Kline likes Windows 7, the iPhone, a PC on a USB drive and cloud computing services.

Kalypso will lead a panel of CIOs from The Dannon Company, Greatwide Logistics and Oregon State University at SIMposium 09 to discuss best practices for driving innovation across the organization and sustaining disruptive positive change SEATTLE, WA, November 05, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kalypso, the world's premier innovation consulting firm, ...

Red Hat , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced momentum in support for high-end workloads on Linux with the expansion of its Advanced Mission-Critical Program offering for customers.

On their wish lists addressed to IT leaders, finance chiefs want more risk-management awareness and better communication on project delivery.

International experience, particularly in the U.S., is proving to be highly valuable to prospective employers and the recruiters who work for them.

Christine Connelly says the NHS will run "a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010" to provide community, child health and acute systems for trusts in the South of England.

Xobni Corp. is releasing an enterprise version of its Microsoft Outlook search app.

Unisys Corporation today announced the latest in a series of aggressive moves to expand the full spectrum of secure cloud computing options available to enterprise CIOs.

Denver, CO - November 3, 2009 - Storage Fusion today announced the newest release of its comprehensive SRA service using a flat rate pricing model that sets a new standard for cost effective SaaS delivery.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, especially for IT. Go to the state of Iowa's Web site , and you can see that of the $2.5 billion in federal economic stimulus money earmarked for the state under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , $553 million has already been spent on health, education, infrastructure and other programs ...

Quintiles Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer William "Bill" Deam has been named to the "CIO Hall of Fame" which selects honorees for their leadership in the CIO community and contributions to the advancement of the profession.

Last week's announcement that the city of Los Angeles was moving to Google Apps was quite a blow to Microsoft.

Companies worldwide are slashing spending on information technology because of the global downturn and will have to learn to do more with less, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Monday.

Times are tight; CIOs are canceling vendor software maintenance contracts or going with third parties for maintenance to save money.

In the past we have profiled the innovative work of people like Adrian Holovaty who does some exciting things through programming that allow data to tell their own stories.