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Special Report: I.T. Security Findings

Finding 1:IT Executives Say Security Is Adequate Despite ThreatsSecurity snafus often make news, but most CIOs aren’t rattled. As previous CIO Insight surveys have shown, very few IT executives think

Salesforce Announces On-Demand SOA Feature

At its first developer conference May 21 centered on Apex, Salesforce.com’s yet-to-be-released on-demand programming language, the company announced a new platform capability that will help developers build on-demand applications. The

Computing Grid Helps Get to the Heart of Matter

In November, when physicists at CERN in Switzerland begin their grand experiment using the world’s largest particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC—computer scientists there and across the globe will

Microsoft Reorg Focuses on Business

Microsoft has reshuffled its organizational chart again, this time adding the Developer and Platform Evangelism team to its Server and Tools division, and then moving that merged entity into the

Six Steps to Successful Vendor Management

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—To meet the technology needs of their organizations, CIOs are increasingly turning to outside vendors, a trend that appears to have little chance of letting up. Although the ability

Thin Clients Save Energy, Spare CO2

Using thin clients instead of conventional PCs would lower energy consumption by 51 percent and reduce CO2 emissions, concludes a recent study by the Fraunhofer Institute. The study, whose results

Security: New Study IDs Top Threats

It seems no matter how many companies make the news because of IT security problems—recent victims and foul-ups include AOL LLC, AT&T Inc., Sovereign Bancorp Inc., the TJX Companies, UCLA

How We Picked Our Top CIOs

“Influential” will never have the air of rigor, however phony, that ROI enjoys. There is no equivalent in the IT world to baseball statistician Bill James, measuring CIOs by such

How Secure Are Mid-Market Companies?

For several years now, CIO Insight‘s annual security surveys have found that IT executives have more confidence in their security than is warranted by the strength of their security measures,

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