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  • News: Is Office 365 Right for Your Enterprise?

    Company: Microsoft

  • News: Why CIOs Should Clone Themselves

    Don't we all sometimes wish we could be cloned? As a mom of two small boys with a full-time job editing this magazine, I dream daily of being duplicated.

  • News: Analysts Advise CIOs and Employees Make Decisions Together

    Employees no longer rely on IT to provision and deliver technology. Data center functions are outsourced; workers increasingly use social media, mobile tools, the cloud, and video to bypass IT. Many CIOs are concerned they they're losing control of their domain. Welcome to the "empowered era."

  • News: How to Make EA Make Sense to Your CEO

    How a CIO talks to other business leaders about planning and implementing enterprise architecture (EA) makes a huge difference to the success of the effort. But all too often, the discussion becomes a soup of technical jargon and business buzzwords. A simple, coherent message is key.

  • News: Taking the Guesswork Out of Mobile BI

    Mike Relich, CIO of Guess, wants to take the guesswork out of mobile computing. He welcomes mobile devices of all sorts for corporate use, charging his team to find ways around any processing power, presentation or security issues.

  • News: What CIOs Should Do About Rogue IT

    The CEO has fallen head over heels for his iPad. The marketing team has set up shop on every social media site known to man. The sales group has secretly purchased its own software-as-a-service subscriptions. Meanwhile, the VP of operations is wondering whether there isn't something better out in the cloud that the company could use to run its supply chain.

  • News: Ruby on Rails 3.1 will make the apps run faster

    Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has released version 3.1 of his open-source Web application development framework, adding new features that should speed the rendering of Web pages for users.

  • News: In fortified data center, NYSE runs 'gated' trading cloud

    Hurricane Irene mattered not to NYSE Euronext's large data center, which is built on land high enough to avoid 100-year floods and just about everything else.

  • News: How a global enterprise virtualised Exchange 2010

    Global organisations often face the challenge of distributed IT environments and, consequently, duplicated effort when it comes to IT. And it was this scenario that Chris Haaker, faced as principle architect at Reed Elsevier.

  • Opinion: Teagueduino Teaches You How To Bring Your Ideas To Life

    Arduino microcontrollers are pretty awesome. Without the help of an Arduino chip, there would be so many robots and hacks that GeekTech would never have had the pleasure to write about., Using an Arduino or similar microcontroller boards does take a bit of practice and patience, especially if you don't already know how to program.

  • News: Financial Times trades App Store for Web app

    Apple's rules on in-app purchases have claimed a prominent victim: The Financial Times's iOS apps--one for the iPhone and one for the iPad--were removed from the store this week, after the publication declined to make the changes required by Apple's terms.

  • News: Salesforce.com revs up mobile strategy with HTML5

    Salesforce.com is placing HTML5 at the forefront of its mobile strategy with an upcoming product, Touch.Salesforce.com, that will automatically render its applications on touch-enabled devices like Apple's iPad, the company plans to announce Wednesday during its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

  • News: Google Apps Quick Tip: How to Work Offline

    Traditionally, if you found yourself without an Internet connection -- say at the airport, on a train or in the midst of a hurricane (ahem, Irene) -- you were usually out of luck if you wanted to get some work done.

  • Opinion: Firefox's Rapid Release Schedule Draws More Blame

    Mozilla's new rapid release schedule for its Firefox browser has come under considerable fire in recent weeks, and over the weekend even more fuel was added to the conflagration.

  • News: VMware strives to expand security partner ecosystem

    VMware yesterday said it has added more security vendor partners to its vShield product-development program in which security firms work with the company to develop data protection specifically designed for VMware's flagship virtualization platform, which today is vSphere 5.0.

  • News: Sprint cheers government move to halt AT&T-T-Mobile deal

    It's not often that a company will cheer when the government directly intervenes in its industry, but things are different when you face potential oblivion without government action.

  • News: Google adds offline access to Gmail in Chrome

    Chrome browser users will be able to access Gmail when they're not connected to the Internet starting Wednesday and will gain similar offline capabilities for Docs and Calendar in the coming week, the company announced on Wednesday.

  • News: VMware prepares for the post-PC world

    With more than 50 per cent of total workloads now virtualized and a new virtual machine born every six seconds, VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) CEO Paul Maritz told attendees at VMworld 2011 that the post-PC era is on the way, and with it will come profound changes for IT management.

  • News: VMware brings service providers into hybrid cloud

    Making clear that it won't be able to realize its vision of the enterprise hybrid cloud alone, virtualization vendor VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a number of offerings to help service providers extend hybrid cloud capabilities to enterprise customers at its VMworld user conference.

  • News: New channel chief promises changes at VMware

    Promising an end to the siloed approach the virtualization vendor has taken to its channel ecosystem, VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) introduced its new worldwide channel conference this week at its VMworld user conference, and promised the company will get easier for partners to work with.