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Article | 12/08/2011 HP offers integrated management for IT services
In what the company describes as a premium service, Hewlett-Packard is offering to help the world's largest organizations impose some discipline on ho...
Article | 5/08/2011 Former Microsoft exec, Obama donor named new U.S. CIO
WASHINGTON - Longtime Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel is set to become the nation's second federal CIO, replacing outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kund...
Article | 30/07/2011 SAP project issues hurt Ingram Micro profits again
Ingram Micro's profits were dragged down for the second quarter in a row due to problems with an SAP implementation in Australia, the technology distr...
Article | 13/07/2011 CIOs see promise in public Cloud storage
Three quarters of companies are either currently using or plan to use public cloud storage offerings. What's more, all organizations with more than 50...
Article | 29/06/2011 In another shake-up, Twitter co-founder Stone steps away
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is stepping away from his day-to-day duties at Twitter.
Article | 28/06/2011 Oracle Fusion Applications pricing revealed
Oracle has quietly revealed pricing information for its long-awaited Fusion Applications, suggesting the software may now be generally available or wi...
Article | 16/06/2011 Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT
Last week's blog post, Cloud CIO: Yes, Your Job is at Risk, was one of the most widely-read-and definitely the most -post I've ever written for CIO.co...
Article | 11/06/2011 Midmarket CIOs have analytics on the brain
Implementing business analytics has risen to the top of midmarket CIOs' to-do lists, according to a new IBM study announced Friday during an event in ...
Article | 7/06/2011 Cloud CIO: Yes, your job is at risk
Left unsaid--typically, anyway--in most discussions about cloud computing is the implicit threat that it will be the cause of job losses. The clamorou...
Article | 1/06/2011 Spending on new software projects rises, survey says
For the first time, companies around the world are planning to spend as much on new software projects as they do maintaining existing systems, accordi...
Article | 26/05/2011 Zuckerberg talks kids, gadgets and his legacy
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday he's not actively working to allow kids under 13 on the social networking site, that Facebook isn't develo...
Article | 24/05/2011 Xerox CEO, an Obama appointee, may send jobs to Indian firm
WASHINGTON - Xerox Corp., whose CEO Ursula Burns is advising President Obama on exports, last week told its product engineering employees that it is i...
Article | 24/05/2011 Twitter to leave empty CTO post unfilled
Twitter's CTO left the company last week and there's no move afoot to replace him.
Article | 21/05/2011 FAQ: SAP's HANA in-memory computing platform
This week's SAP Sapphire Now conference marked about a year since the company launched its HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance) in-memory comput...
Article | 18/05/2011 SAP goes after Oracle's database with ASE
SAP will finish porting its ERP (enterprise resource planning) application to the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database later this year, gi...