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In addition, CIOs and IT managers were exploring investment opportunities in the infrastructure.

Telemedicine has been around since the 1990s, but psychiatrists say it's increasingly used to treat remote patients as technology and security improves, and prices drop.

Business Process Management software for the midmarket announces record revenue growth in 2011, despite today's challenging economy.

Wynne Systems has hired Olivier Hertu as project director of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations.

CIO - RESTON, Va.-- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Friday pitched a message of hands-off government to a regional technology group here, arguing for an innovation policy that would see lower corporate taxes, fewer regulations and a more generous immigration policy for skilled workers.

CIO - Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits.

No more. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a U.S. federal agency that studies climate and the environment, plans to replace some of its employees' "It all comes down to economics," Joe Klimavicz, NOAA's chief information officer, said in a phone interview on Friday.

I had a long lunch with a friend of mine who was interviewing at an analyst firm that freely shares opinions on Enterprise and Business Architecture, mostly from the E-I-T-A perspective.

A lawyer at Google had some interesting things to say about privacy this week, namely how protecting customer data could be a competitive advantage.

When a vendor goes straight to the end user with the sales process, it puts IT in a bad position.

Health IT executives at hospitals and physicians' offices should start working now to implement technology that fosters greater patient engagement, enhances patient care coordination, and advances their organizations' ability to electronically capture data for quality reporting--all three of which providers will need to compete in the upcoming ... (more)

Overall demand for IT services will continue to grow in 2012 as productivity efficiencies from IT are now a well-accepted reality, according to a senior executive of a major IT service provider.

IT leaders are reluctant to implement desktop virtualisation strategies because they are worried about purchasing the wrong solution, according to a new report entitled Solutions Guide Desktop Virtualisation by industry analysts Ovum .

The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says.

SAP and Oracle are on a cloud buying spree. While that's exciting for Wall Street it belies a bigger epiphany for the software industry.

LONDON, February 9, 2012 - As enterprises across the eurozone continue to prioritize enterprise mobility strategy within their firms, CIOs are elevating mobile enterprise applications as a means to transform their business, according to a new study from International Data Corporation .

CIO - WASHINGTON -- Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against ... (more)

More than half of UK businesses are concerned about the safety of their data as cloud computing takes off but their fear is not preventing adoption, with 23 per cent of CIOs already using the cloud and a further 53 percent planning to do so within the next 12 months*. Steve Salmon, principal advisor within KPMG's CIO Advisory practice, says: "The ... (more)

Computerworld UK - IT is becoming a victim of its own success, according to the Wellcome Trust's head of IT Mark Bramwell.

Computerworld UK - IT is becoming a victim of its own success, according to the Wellcome Trust's head of IT Mark Bramwell.