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12 Big Data Trends Changing the Face of Business

Big data is slowly but surely changing the way companies do business. Here's a look at 12 trends shaping big data and the future of business.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 24, 2013 7 mins

Big Data Data Management

5 States That Offer Big Data Center Appeal

Whether it's to ameliorate disaster recovery or accommodate growth, many businesses are in the market for a new data center. These five states in the contiguous United States offer a variety of benefits, from low taxes to renewable energy to hig

By John Brandon

Jul 24, 2013 4 mins

Disaster Recovery Green IT High-Performance Computing

Will Wearable Technology Kill the Smartphone?

When it comes to emerging technology, 'wearables' may be the talk of the town these days. But don't throw away your trusty smartphone. It may become the driving force behind wearable technology such as glasses, watches and clothing.

By Tom Kaneshige

Jul 22, 2013 4 mins

Consumer Electronics Smartphones

Georgia’s CIO Gets IT Outsourcing Deal Back on Track

When the Georgia Technology Authority's plan to transform its aging IT infrastructure was failing to deliver, its CIO decided to rework the high-profile IT outsourcing deal it had struck with IBM Global Services and AT&T. The IT team worked

By Stephanie Overby

Jul 19, 2013 5 mins

CIO Government IT Outsourcing

Windows To Go: The Forgotten Version of Windows 8

The ability to carry a Windows 8 image on a USB stick, plug it into any Windows 8 PC and separate corporate and personal data should appeal to anyone who frequently travels or simply hates lugging a laptop around. But Windows to Go isn't catchin

By Rob Enderle

Jul 19, 2013 5 mins

Microsoft Office Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform

The project to deliver a ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds has become one of the fastest growing open source projects in history.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 19, 2013 5 mins

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Open Source

National Data Breach Notifications Would Replace ‘Patchwork’ of State Statutes

Technology trade group executives make the case for a single, nationwide standard for notifying customers in the event of a breach.

By Kenneth Corbin

Jul 18, 2013 4 mins

Government Intrusion Detection Software Technology Industry

4 Things CIOs Need to Know About Microsoft’s Reorg

The entirely expected Microsoft reorganization, and the accompanying memo from CEO Steve Ballmer, suggests that the company plans to focuses on devices, the cloud and a much shorter development life cycle. This will have a major impact on how your IT

By Jonathan Hassell

Jul 17, 2013 6 mins

Laptops Small and Medium Business Tablet PCs

Adobe is poised to update its social media tool with new analytics and campaign management features that government agencies can use to broaden their interactions with the public.

By Kenneth Corbin

Jul 17, 2013 3 mins

Government IT Social Networking Apps

A Closer Look at AT&T Next and T-Mobile JUMP! Upgrade Options

AT&T and T-Mobile are shaking up the wireless industry with two new plans that will allow customers to upgrade to new devices much more frequently, breaking from the two-year device-upgrade cycle. CIO.com's Al Sacco compares T-Mobile's

By Al Sacco

Jul 16, 2013 6 mins

Carriers Small and Medium Business Smartphones

How Big Data Can Help Retailers Optimize Mobile

Delivering a dynamic and engaging mobile experience is becoming essential to retailers, and big data marketing applications company BloomReach believes that its new big data application is the key.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 15, 2013 4 mins

Big Data Browsers Content Management Systems

How Justin Rattner Built Intel’s Secret Weapon

Intel CTO Justin Rattner, who recently announced his departure, leaves behind a legacy of putting people back in technology development. He helped put Intel chips in more products, but he also encouraged innovation that improves everyday life. Becaus

By Rob Enderle

Jul 12, 2013 5 mins

CTO Computers and Peripherals IT Leadership

IT Increases Application Outsourcing Despite Disappointing Strategic Value

Five out of 10 outsourcing buyers will up their bets on applications outsourcing, according to a joint survey from KPMG and HfS Research, but they continue to be disappointed by providers' analytical capabilities and innovation.

By Stephanie Overby

Jul 12, 2013 5 mins

IT Strategy Innovation Outsourcing

Can BYOD Breathe New Life Into the Virtual Desktop?

Seattle Children's Hospital isn't your typical BYOD story. Its mobile device strategy isn't bound by onerous user policies and monitoring software. Rather, the hospital's CIO reports an interesting twist: BYOD is resuscitating ill

By Tom Kaneshige

Jul 10, 2013 7 mins

Careers Desktop Virtualization Healthcare Industry

EMC ‘Bringing the Sexy Back’ to Data

When it comes to backup and recovery, IT is struggling to meet business demand within most enterprises–and the problem stands to get only worse. EMC believes the answer is a more open and agile protection storage architecture.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 10, 2013 6 mins

Backup and Recovery Data and Information Security SAN

Economic Impact of Cyber Espionage and IP Theft Hits U.S. Businesses Hard

Amid a week of economic meetings between top U.S. and Chinese officials, lawmakers hear warnings about escalating costs of theft of U.S. firms' intellectual property.

By Kenneth Corbin

Jul 10, 2013 5 mins

Cybercrime Intellectual Property Security

Microsoft Makes Data Mining Self-Service With BI for Office 365

Microsoft is attempting to break down the barriers to business intelligence with Power BI for Office 365, which is designed to let companies gain new insights by tapping both structured and unstructured and internal and external data.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 8, 2013 4 mins

Business Intelligence Microsoft Office Small and Medium Business

16 Great iPhone App Battles

The iPhone has become a battleground for a number of popular mobile app categories. In addition to Apple's own native apps, there is an ecosystem of third-party apps–all fighting for a place on your iPhone.

By Tom Kaneshige

Jul 8, 2013 7 mins

Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business iPhone

How Analytics Is Helping IT Vendors Sell Actual Solutions

For decades, IT vendors have offered small 's' solutions that were really bundles of hardware, software and services that they wanted to sell regardless of what customers actually needed. Now firms such as Dell, IBM and EMC are using analyt

By Rob Enderle

Jul 3, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Laptops Servers

10 Mobile Device Management Leaders That Help IT Control BYOD

Managing devices in a BYOD environment is no small feat, and the right mobile device management product is a key component in making it work. Here are 10 top MDM vendors in the market today.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 2, 2013 5 mins

Careers Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business

Google’s Mob Mentality Defies U.S. Attorneys General

Microsoft eventually learned that you can't win a battle against the government. Google appears poised to learn the same lesson. The difference: Google's fight goes well beyond separating a browser from an operating system and involves ille

By Rob Enderle

Jun 28, 2013 6 mins

Intellectual Property Internet Legal

Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop Looks to Ease Big Data Deployments

Working with partner Hortonworks, Teradata aims to reduce the pain of implementing big data solutions with a host of appliances, customer support and consulting services for Apache Hadoop.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 26, 2013 4 mins

Analytics Big Data Open Source

Taking the Road Less Traveled to Mobilize Desktop Software

Moving complex software to the iPad is no small task–a fact not lost on PerkinElmer when it needed a mobile version of its popular desktop chemistry product. It avoided the temptation to contract young mobile hotshots and instead relied on its veter

By Tom Kaneshige

Jun 26, 2013 6 mins

Consumer Electronics Developer iPad

Splunk Targets Hadoop (and Unstructured Data) With Hunk

The specialist in collecting, monitoring and analyzing big data generated by machines is now extending its capabilities to the universe of unstructured text data with Hunk, a tool that works in Hadoop.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 26, 2013 3 mins

Analytics Big Data

When Customer Service Goes From Bad to Worse

The root causes of the worst customer service and support problems usually stem from bad decisions and sloppy actions in upstream departments. These poor choices make it all too easy for otherwise-innocent service reps to make a bad situation worse.

By David Taber

Jun 26, 2013 7 mins

BPM Systems CRM Systems Supply Chain Management Software

Big Data Analytics Moves to the Cloud

With its new Joyent Manta Storage Service, Joyentu2014a high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics specialistu2014says it offers enterprises a cloud object store and data services platform for spinning up compute and analysis capabi

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 25, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Cloud Management Private Cloud

RainStor Adds Enterprise-Grade Security, Search to Hadoop

The database specialist, which boasts data compression technology that can reduce storage footprint by up to 97 percent, upgrades its database with a host of enterprise-grade security features and search functions to help large enterprises put big da

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 25, 2013 4 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

Best College Tech Majors for Landing a Top Starting Salary

Not all tech degrees are created equal–especially when it comes to what you earn straight out of college. Take a look at where the money is in 2013 for new graduates.

By Rich Hein

Jun 25, 2013 3 mins

Careers Salaries

Hipster Techies Bullied by Hipster Locals in San Francisco

Techies in San Francisco are feeling local ire, accusing them of driving up rent and ruining diversity. Thank the recent tech boom for this culture clash.

By Tom Kaneshige

Jun 24, 2013 3 mins

IT Leadership

15 Free Google Reader Alternatives

Don't get left in the dark when Google Reader shuts its doors on July 1. Check out this list of free alternatives that will let you continue to keep tabs on the news you need.

By Kristin Burnham

Jun 24, 2013 5 mins

Enterprise Applications Internet Web Development

CIO Takes Action to Solve BYOD’s Privacy Problem

The BYOD policy at a California law firm earned the CIO the nickname of Big Brother. However, the sarcasm stopped when he sprang into action and saved the day when an attorney's smartphone was swiped. The case represents the love-hate relationsh

By Tom Kaneshige

Jun 21, 2013 5 mins

Legal Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

Big Data Will Drive the Industrial Internet

While most big data headlines focus on sentiment analysis and other marketing activities, multinational conglomerate GE sees a future in which machine-to-machine communication and big data analytics spur a wave of innovation on par with the Industria

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 21, 2013 7 mins

Energy Industry Healthcare Industry Manufacturing Industry

What’s Next in IT: Intelligent Systems, Stressed-out Staffs

The future of IT will be systems that are intelligent enough to detect and solve problems without human interaction, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle conjectures. This will be great for analytics but bad for security–and it may leave IT workers reachin

By Rob Enderle

Jun 21, 2013 4 mins

Big Data High-Performance Computing Intrusion Detection Software

IT Outsourcing Industry Doing Little to Prepare for H-1B Visa Reform

Though IT outsourcing vendors and clients cite concern over the potential H-1B visa reform currently heading to the senate for a vote, they are, for the most part, taking a wait-and-see approach and are doing very little to prepare for the possible e

By Stephanie Overby

Jun 21, 2013 7 mins

Government H-1B Visas Regulation

How to Make SharePoint 2013 More Mobile

Microsoft's SharePoint 2013 offers improved mobile features, however, enterprises need stronger capabilities and may need to turn to third-party applications to make SharePoint fill those growing mobile needs.

By Juan Carlos Perez

Jun 20, 2013 8 mins

Microsoft Office Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

5 BYOD Pitfalls and How You Can Avoid Them

Vague policies, rogue apps, zombie phones can doom even the best 'Bring Your Own Device' intentions. But the good news is it's not too late to make game-changing adjustments.

By Tom Kaneshige

Jun 19, 2013 6 mins

Legal Privacy Smartphones

HTC One vs. Samsung Galaxy S4: 5 Reasons to Choose the One

CIO.com's Al Sacco compares the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One, two of the most popular Android phones today, and lists reasons why smartphone buyers might want to choose the One over the GS4.

By Al Sacco

Jun 19, 2013 7 mins

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Samsung Galaxy S4 vs. HTC One: 5 Reasons to Choose the GS4

CIO.com's Al Sacco compares the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One, two of the most popular Android phones today, and lists reasons why smartphone buyers might want to choose the GS4 over the One.

By Al Sacco

Jun 19, 2013 6 mins

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Federal Government Wrestles With Big Data and Sequestration

The federal government may be able to save as much as $500 billion via big data initiatives, if those projects can weather the effects of the budget sequestration.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 19, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Government Government IT

How to Evaluate the Risk of Outsourcing Locations

IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may

By Stephanie Overby

Jun 18, 2013 4 mins

Outsourcing Risk Management

Most Data Breaches Caused by Human Error, System Glitches

Companies can significantly decrease the cost of data breaches by teaching employees not to cut corners and by adopting a strong security posture and an incident response plan.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 17, 2013 6 mins

Compliance Cybercrime Regulation

5 Ways to Evaluate Your IT Outsourcing Maturity

Answering these questions will help you determine your IT organization's outsourcing maturity in order to improve your IT service provider outcomes.

By Stephanie Overby

Jun 17, 2013 3 mins

IT Governance IT Strategy Outsourcing

‘Stop Watching Us’ Coalition Aims to Stop NSA’s PRISM Surveillance Program

Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others from across the political spectrum join forces to flood members of Congress with letters seeking revisions to the Patriot Act and reforms that will rein in the NSA's surveillance of

By Kenneth Corbin

Jun 14, 2013 4 mins

Government Privacy Regulation

How IBM Beat Up HP in Las Vegas

IBM and Hewlett-Packard recently held events in Las Vegas. IBM went first and demonstrated how its customers will use Watson to change the world. HP responded by bringing executives on stage to talk about new products. HP can't let its competiti

By Rob Enderle

Jun 14, 2013 5 mins

CRM Systems Enterprise Architecture Mobile Device Management

Microsoft Launches New Embedded OS to Harness the Data of Devices

Microsoft has unveiled the latest version of its Windows Embedded CE operating systemu2014Windows Embedded Compact 2013u2014to help organizations capture the data of programmable logic controls and machine-human interface panels.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jun 13, 2013 4 mins

RFID Small and Medium Business Smartphones

How Facebook Hashtags Impact Your Privacy

Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and other social networks, Facebook finally gets hashtags. Here's what you need to know about the new feature and a look at how it does–and doesn't–impact your privacy se

By Kristin Burnham

Jun 13, 2013 3 mins

Facebook Privacy Social Networking Apps

Obama’s Cybersecurity Mandate Hits First Milestone

Government officials stress collaborative, voluntary approach as first wave of deliverables under the White House's executive order on cybersecurity comes due..

By Kenneth Corbin

Jun 12, 2013 5 mins

Government Government IT Regulation

Federal CIOs Need More Authority to Better Manage IT

Seeking ways to reduce duplication in federal IT spending and managing IT more efficiently, Senate panel hears pleas for stronger central authorities for department and agency CIOs.

By Kenneth Corbin

Jun 11, 2013 5 mins

CIO Government IT Leadership

Dell Targets Federal IT With Government Cloud Services

PC giant unveils far-ranging government cloud offering that features both dedicated, private deployments as well as shared, multitenant systems with turnkey security and compliance features.

By Kenneth Corbin

Jun 11, 2013 5 mins

Cloud Management Government Government IT