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Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment Smart CIOs will also look at how these payment models affect operational performance in your organisation and properly prepare the business for the true costs. It's not just the technology that's important - how you... [19 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment How can CIOs raise their game to overcome these challenges? In an exclusive interview, silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson spoke to Chui about the report he co-authored on how CIOs can overcome the... [18 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment As Nick Kirkland, chief executive of IT leaders' forum CIO Connect, says: "Most CIOs I know are considering [UCC] projects rather than doing them. Vendors may be making a lot of noise about unified communications and... [17 Nov 2009]
Eliminating Security Trade-Offs With Cross-Platform Server Isolation: How CISO's Benefit From an Evolutionary Alternative to Firewalls and VLANs for Security Inside the Corporate Network
White Paper CISOs and CIOs face a continuous battle to provide robust data security without hindering the strategic objectives of the enterprise. The demise of the "moat-and-castle" approach to security, and the continued... [13 Nov 2009]
The New Business Architecture: Making the Most of Business 2.0
White Paper The challenge for CIOs is to ensure their business architecture is 2.0 ready and secure while at the same time is pushing down costs and improving return on investment across the organization. The era of business 2.0 is... [13 Nov 2009]
Next-Generation Disaster Recovery and Availability Technologies for IBM Power Systems
White Paper Due to globalization, Web-based sales and service, more vigorous competition, and more stringent regulations, the goal of ensuring the availability and recoverability of data and applications has risen considerably on the priority lists... [13 Nov 2009]
Clustering on Check Point IP Appliances
White Paper Providing secure communications to customers and employees has become a high priority for CIOs and security officers, and to provide secure communications, various security appliances are deployed at key points in a... [13 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News The greatest success has been participation of the CIOs, CTOs and all those people in the ICT profession within government - it has been amazing," he told the Green IT Expo in London this week. With the government hoping... [13 Nov 2009]
Top 5 Things CIOs Need to Know About Wireless LAN Virtualization
White Paper With WLAN virtualization, CIOs gain granular control over every client and a network that can adapt to unpredictable workloads or grow with business needs, all while lowering overall cost. Virtualization has already made... [12 Nov 2009]
The All-Wireless Workplace Is Now Open for Business: Using 802.11n as Your Primary Network LAN Deployments
White Paper Adoption to date in enterprise offices, also known as 'carpeted space' has been slower, as many CIOs and users still regard a Wi-Fi connection as inferior to a wired Ethernet connection.n is a game changer because when... [12 Nov 2009]
The Number One Reason CIO's Get Fired
White Paper With EnterpriseWizard's cost-effective, quick-to-implement solution, CIOs can empower their companies to adapt to changing needs in hours or days, rather than months or years. The result: business managers who award... [11 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News Research by Gartner earlier this year predicted one in five businesses will be using virtualisation by year's end - up from 12 per cent in 2008.silicon.com's CIO Agenda research also found many heads of IT are eyeing the technology, with... [11 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment No good for cost cutting, say CIOs The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks; open source advocates hit back at CIOs claiming it costs too much to migrate;... [11 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Is IT responsible for workers' output and errors?
Comment Moreover is it the responsibility of CIOs to reign in bad working habits as part of our mandate to improve working processes and become efficiency evangelists? The question then is whether CIOs bear... [10 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Steve Jobs' agenda-setting wasn't the only popular Apple article on silicon.com last month: an article entitled why CIOs are saying no to Macs, which polled the CIO Jury on the Mac vs PC debate also proved a hit with... [09 Nov 2009]
