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Hybrid Cloud Is Hotel Hero

A hybrid cloud delivers IT efficiencies, and proprietary business intelligence tools, to help hundreds of hotel owners boost profitability.

Big Data Analytics Gets Smarter With Location-based Services

Mapping intelligence isn't just for retailers anymore. Advanced analytics uses location data to reveal new insights about customers and strategy.

How to Balance IT Onshoring and Offshoring

Three CIOs share their strategies for striking a balance between onshore and offshore IT resources to meet business needs.

Fuel Company Takes a Fresh Approach to IT Vendor Management

At Global Partners, IT teaches its vendors how to be strategic partners for the business, not just sell their shiny new boxes.

Windows Server 2003 End of Support Looms

IT organizations must begin putting in place their migration plans now or risk major disruptions in 2015.

7 Free Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools

Get the most out of your team and your budget by taking advantage of these free collaboration and project management tools.

HIMSS Leadership Survey: Everything Old Is New Again

Is BYOD Burning Out Your Workforce?

Employees who buy into the bring your own mobile device lifestyle may be bringing on a lot of stress as well.

10 Ways Big Data Is Changing the Business of Sports

Advances in capturing, storing and analyzing data are revolutionizing every aspect of sports, from training to broadcasting to fan engagement. Here are just a few examples of the ways big data is changing sports.

In Evolving Healthcare Business Model, Tech Plays Vital Role

The healthcare industry's shift toward value-based, coordinated care won't succeed if providers, payers and patients aren't connected to the information they need to make better health and wellness decisions. Entities that fail to do s

Health IT Backers Press Congress for Clearer Roadmaps

Supporters of health tech initiatives converged on Capitol Hill this week to appeal to lawmakers for clarity on overlapping regulatory efforts, more funding for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and telehealth legislation.

IT Outsourcing Market Far From Stable

IT services deal activity was steady in the second quarter, but the IT and business process outsourcing industry is undergoing significant shifts as customers fire existing providers, ink shorter deals and embrace emerging technologies.

15 Free Enterprise Collaboration Tools

Whether your business is looking to start small or go big, many free tools can help jumpstart your enterprise collaboration efforts. Here's a look at 15 of the best — some old, some new, some basic and some robust.

Meet the 12 Wealthiest People in Social Media

Some of the names on our Top 12 list are familiar industry figures. Others are hardly household names. The common thread: They have all made billions from social media.

Apple Lays Out Its Social Media Aspirations

Apple tried to make it in social media years ago, and it doesnu2019t plan to revive that fantasy any time soon, says CEO Tim Cook. Cook does, however, offer his thoughts on Google, Facebook and Twitter u2013 and he doesn't hold back when it com

Federal IT Leaders Seek Support From Developers for EHR Adoption

The White House's Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is looking to build a development community around the Blue Button electronic health record system.

MapR Aims to Take SQL-on-Hadoop to Next Level

Seeking to eliminate the need to manage schemas and perform time-consuming ETL tasks on incoming data before exploring it, MapR is adding the Apache Drill distributed ANSI SQL query engine to its Hadoop distribution.

Vendor Outreach Key to Unlocking Federal Cloud Market

Federal IT executives urge cloud service providers to offer agencies a glimpse of their roadmaps to help guide procurement strategies, which is often a byzantine process hampered by perpetual government tech talent shortages.

13 Things to Do on a Conference Call

Chances are good you've become adept at working remotely and taking part in conferences from your home or mobile offices. Chances are even better you've discovered creative ways to multitask. However, if you need some inspiration, check out

What’s Hot, Not in Healthcare IT Startups

Healthcare startups pop up just about everywhere these days. Experts from Health 2.0, Rock Health and StartUp Health weigh in on what types of tech get the most (and least) attention from health entrepreneurs.

9 Rules for the Developer-ization of IT

CIOs who want to drive innovation and change in their organizations should focus on making the lives of developers easier so they can innovate, produce great apps and deliver valuable IP.

IT Crucial as Feds Respond to ‘Perfect Storm’ Labor Squeeze

Government agency leaders urged to embrace digital services and mobile work strategies to improve citizen services amid hiring freeze.

Twitter Erupts During Apple’s iPhone and Watch Event

When Apple's long-awaited smartwatch finally made its formal debut today, Twitter erupted. Activity spiked just two minutes after the Apple Watch was revealed, generating 32,227 tweets per minute.

Mayo Clinic Turns to IBM’s Watson to Fill Clinical Trials

Mayo clinicians will leverage Watson's natural language processing and data analytics capabilities to quickly sift through millions of pages of clinical trial and patient data to match patients with appropriate clinical trials.

10 Useful Devices for Your Small Business Office

The market is filled with tech gadgets and gizmos a-plenty. These 10 products stand out among the whozits and whatzits galore for their capability to improve productivity and efficiency in your small business.

Six Things You Need to Know About Samsung’s Gear VR Headset

Samsung's Gear VR headset provides a truly unique virtual reality experience that's designed to take advantage of the Galaxy Note 4's impressive display resolution. But the headset has a notable Achilles heel: It only works with one de

What Kind of CIOs Will Millennials Make?

Remember the adage, u2018No one ever got fired for buying IBMu2019? You can bet millennials don't. In fact, they like the energy of startups run by young people like themselves, according to a recent survey. Expect the CIO of the future to take

Stars React on Social Media to iCloud Photo Leaks, Apple Denies Breach

Apple may not be at fault for a massive leak of personal and nude photographs hacked from celebritiesu2019 iCloud accounts, but the damage is already done and it could get worse. The stars are taking to Twitter to vent their outrage.

Virtual Engineers Could Transform IT Outsourcing

European oil company Rompetrol fled a disastrous outsourcing deal with the help of new autonomic IT infrastructure services from IPsoft.

Facebook Vows to Destroy Click Bait and the Results Could Be Shocking

Facebook says itu2019s growing tired of some publisheru2019s bait-for-click tactics and wants to reduce the amount of sensationalized content that appears in usersu2019 news feeds. It wonu2019t be easy, though.

Department of Labor Doing IT Consolidation, Centralization Amid Tight Budget

The Department of Labor has a history of semi-autonomous agencies running their own IT shops. That's beginning to change thanks to a push toward consolidating and standardizing infrastructure and applications.

Verizon Says Passwords Suck, QR Codes Offer Better Way

Verizon adds QR code logins to its Verizon Universal Identity Services portfolio to streamline authentication while making it more secure.

An Inside Look at LinkedIn’s ‘Unbundling’ Mobile Strategy

LinkedIn has embraced a multi-app strategy and now has a family of six separate apps — from job search to tailored news — but is there such a thing as too many apps?

7 New Technologies Take the Field This NFL Season

The NFL's latest tech innovations will improve the game experience for players, coaches, officials and fans. Here are seven technologies you'll see this football season.

5 Ways Federal CIOs Plan to Improve Security Monitoring

One of the leaders of Homeland Security's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program shares his strategy for deploying real-time security and situational awareness across the government.

21 Weird and Wacky Wearables You’ll Actually Want

These 21 unique wearable devices are all worth a look u2014 and some could genuinely enhance your life.

Community Health Breach Highlights Healthcare Security Vulnerabilities

Healthcare's latest data breach, affecting 4.5 million patients, offers the industry a sobering reminder that is simply isn't doing enough to protect patient data from known security threats.

Government CIOs Urged to Hire IT Workers With Soft Skills

As the federal IT operation shifts to a service-oriented model, CIOs need to staff up with managers with diverse backgrounds and the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse array of customers and providers.

Does Microsoft Really Love Open Source?

Microsoft is involved in many major open source projects, including Hadoop and Docker. What's motivating the company to abandon its 'proprietary-only' roots?

CIOs Must Learn to ‘Dance’ With Other C-suite Executives

Technology is changing the way every department, from marketing to human resources to finance, is achieving its goals. For that reason, now more than ever, CIOs need to become skilled collaborators.

3 Mistaken Assumptions About What Big Data Can Do For You

Many executives and organizations see big data as a panacea, but data and analytics can't address every problem you face. These three scenarios in particular illustrate common misconceptions about what big data can do.

How CIOs Can Survive and Thrive in a Swirl of Change

Todayu2019s CIO has to be able to successfully collaborate across departments, connect corporate silos, be customer-focused, get agile and tap the power of data analytics.

Court Ruling Could Bring Down BYOD

In what could be a decisive blow to the Bring Your Own Device trend, the California Court of Appeal ruled that companies must reimburse employees for work-related use from personal mobile devices.

Teaching Leadership to Healthcare CISOs Aim of New Certification

Through a joint effort of the Health Information Trust Alliance and Southern Methodist University, healthcare IT security professionals can add leadership and management skills to their technical know-how.

Brocade Pitches Open Networking to Cash-Strapped Feds

Brocade is taking aim at the federal government, promising a more efficient, cost-effective networking environment that nurtures innovation with open protocols to support multiple service providers.

Department of Transportation CIO Leading a Turnaround Mission

A little more than a year into the job, the Transportation Department's IT chief has been leading an effort to bring together agency CIOs, move ahead with shared services and improve cybersecurity.

How New CEO Vishal Sikka Can Reinvent Infosys

IT outsourcing industry observers have advice for new CEO Vishal Sikka. They suggest Infosys' first outsider CEO make some bold changes to reposition the Indian company in the IT services market.

2014’s Hottest IT Certification

In the world of technology, the certifications and skills that organizations need to keep pace is constantly shifting. To help you find the most valuable certifications to advance your tech career, CIO.com spoke with David Foote, Chief Analyst and Re

CMO-to-CMO: Engage With Technology

Savvy marketing executives know they need to partner with the CIO to both navigate tricky technology waters and tap the power of analytics to gain insight into customer behavior.

Splunk App Captures Real-Time Streaming Wire Data

Splunk adds capability to capture wire data to its platform, dramatically expanding use cases for application management, IT operations, security and business analytics.rn