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What's the future of ERP? What kind of a silly question is that, you may be asking yourself.

"This year's top priorities include consolidation, shared services and budget control." -- Utah CIO and NASCIO President Steve Fletcher The National Association of State Chief Information Officers has published the top 10 policy and technology priorities for state CIOs in 2010 .

ANZ has picked Anne Weatherston to take on the CIO role left vacant by Peter Dalton.

The Homeland Security Department plans more oversight of major acquisitions, including information technology buys, as the department plans to control spending, a top DHS official said today.

Mumbai, Nov 19 : Chief Information Officers of Indian companies appear to be more progressive than their counterparts in other countries and were looking to make innovation real and expand business impact for their respective organisations, according to a global study carried out by IBM.

The highly sought-after awards recognise excellence across eleven categories, highlighting the UK's top public sector innovators in the use of technology, enabling businesses and citizens to better communicate with councils, central government, NHS and other public sector organisations.

IT professionals asked to do more work for less pay and fewer benefits might be able to forgive their employers' financial choices, but industry watchers say high-tech workers won't soon forget being treated poorly during the most recent economic recession and will look to find other employment opportunities as soon as the recovery gets under way.

Tags: Wall Street , Aite Group , Technology , Vendor , Survey , Aite Group recently asked 80 North American financial institution CIOs which technology vendors they use and admire most.

A new global study of Chief Information Officers and IT decision makers reveals hidden insights into the practices and technologies that are unlocking efficiency and innovation in large businesses worldwide.

When my colleague Chris Murphy recently raised the issue of IT's impact on brand, and specifically the role the CIO plays in brand development, a reader responded by calling Chris' thoughts "blindingly obvious." The reader later added, "I can't believe that there's a CIO on the planet who doesn't understand this." Sadly, there are plenty of CIOs ...

For CIOs, the temptation to put the big squeeze on vendors must be high. Many have endured years of licensing and maintenance increases from vendors, increases that have only abated temporarily due to the recession's toll on IT budgets.

Now is the time to step up and take the lead in building these crucial relationships.

IBM on Monday announced plans to deploy an internal cloud computing environment that will make more than a petabyte of information - the equivalent of 100 times the content of the Library of Congress--instantly available to employees under a project called Blue Insight.

Until very recently the network and security operations for American Systems, a Virginia-based IT management and consulting firm, were two distinct and separate entities.

Terry Kline likes Windows 7, the iPhone, PCs stored on USB drives, and cloud computing services.

Red Hat, Inc. , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has been named Large Technology Company of the Year by the North Carolina Technology Association in its 2009 NCTA 21 Awards.

The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week.

How many CIOs see themselves as social evangelists? Following on from my last post - "The CIO And Social Media: Social Police?" a ' you might have guessed Ia TMm a big proponent of Social Computing to drive organizational transformation and increase profits.

The Society of Information Management hosts a great event every fall to bringA IT leaders together for information sharing and inspiration.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC announced that Valorec Services AG, a Swiss environmental and waste services company, has almost quadrupled its deployment of the RSA SecurID On-Demand Authenticator for secure, remote network access in order to help guarantee business continuity.