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Hot Tech Projects: Active Directory Consolidation, Cognos Upgrade, Google Apps Implementation

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:03:04 -0500

Active Directory domain consolidation, Cognos server upgrades, Google Apps deployments, and SAP Time and Labor Capture are all among the implementations undertaken by the 15 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies highlighted here. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg. - All manner of technology upgrades are featured in this roundup of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop. For example, Active Directory domain consolidation, Cognos server upgrades, Google Apps deployments, and SAP Time and Labor Capture are all among the implementations undertaken by the 15 Fortune-ranked a...

Hot Tech Projects: Healthcare, Government IT Upgrades

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:13:19 -0500

Healthcare organizations and government agencies dominate the technology upgrades featured in this roundup of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop. Here, we highlight IT activity across 23 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg. - Healthcare organizations and government agencies dominate the technology upgrades featured in this roundup of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop. This roundup highlights IT activity among 23 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies. The Department of Homeland Securitys division of Immigration and Custom...

Hot Tech Projects: Virtualization, Data Centers and Hadoop Clusters

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:32:46 -0400

In this edition of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop, we highlight IT activity across 42 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies spanning the final weeks of October. Virtualization, data center openings and closings, major application migrations and even a few Hadoop clusters make their way into the roundup. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg. - In this edition of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop, we highlight IT activity across 42 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies spanning the final weeks of October. Virtualization, data center openings and closings, major application migrations and even a few Hadoop clusters make their way into the rou...

10 Worst Mobile Mistakes of 2010

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:19:26 -0500

The past year has been an exciting one in the mobile computing space. Smartphones, from BlackBerrys to iPhones to Android-based devices, grew in popularity, and Apples iPad gave life to the burgeoning tablet market. With all these new products competing for consumers and businesses cash, deciding which ones are worth it can be a challenge. For CIOs, it was a year to determine what was best and what wasnt when it came to mobile technology and the enterprise. And unfortunately, while many products were consumer superstars, CIOs were presented with some less-ideal options that failed to deliver the kind of experience that they were looking for. Most companies decided to play safe, rather than risk getting caught up with the wrong carrier or device and wind up with an enterprise full of technology that left users wishing they had something else in hand. And standing aside and waiting for the market to mature was probably a smart move. The mobile technology market saw some major mistakes this year from big-name vendors. And not even the most reliable companies could keep themselves away from issues. Read on to find out what the worst mobile mistakes were this year. - ...

An Old Enemy Resurfaces, Windows 8 Leaks, Kin's Demise

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

It hasn't been a great week for Microsoft. Salesforce.com has an old enemy heading their patent-infringement lawsuit against Redmond, Windows 8 rumors abound and the Kin is no more. - First came the appearance of an old enemy: in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, Salesforce.com has retained David Boies, who represented the Justice Department in its historic antitrust lawsuit against the software giant, as counsel. That lawsuit can be seen as a response to Microso...

10 Things You Should Know Before Buying iPhone 4

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

With Apple's iPhone 4 just a few weeks away, it's time for consumers and enterprise customers to decide if the device is worth buying. Making that decision is getting more difficult. Years ago, the iPhone was the only "next-gen" smartphone on the market. - The iPhone 4 is scheduled to hit store shelves on June 24. But before that happens, customers will need to evaluate if Apple's new device is really for them. Take a look at 10 things worth considering before deciding if the iPhone 4 is really the right purchase. If consumers wanted to be able to us...

The Nebulae: World's Fastest Supercomputer

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

China's ambition to enter the supercomputing arena, among other areas of world competitiveness, because clearer this week with a system called Nebulae, build from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs. Nebulae is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 petaflops per second (PFlop/s). A petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. China now runs 24 of the top 500 computers in the world, and two placed in the top 10. - The Chinese boast two of the world's top ten fastest supercomputers, according to rankings published by the TOP500 organization. The Nebulae, based in Shenzhen, is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 petaflops per second (PFlop/s). The main objective of th...

Smart Grid: 7 Reasons Why It Matters

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:53:15 -0400

With the Obama Administration having earmarked $3.4 billion in Recovery Act funds to spur the energy industry's transition to a smart energy grid, the impetus is clearly there for utilities to start making progress on this important modernization of the nation's energy delivery system. Oracle polled C-level executives from its substantial roster of energy industry clients, providing a glimpse at where the smart grid transition effort stands.

What Oracle found is that while progress may appear glacial, with just one in five utilities saying it's moving forward on system-wide smart grid deployment, many are simply in an earlier stage on that path, and most have substantial expectations regarding what the smart grid will deliver. The following slides provide a snapshot of how utility executives view the transition. - ...

Business Intelligence: The Real Challenge

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:55:00 -0500

Business intelligence tools have matured, but have IT's internal capabilities? A look at the real challenge CIOs face in executing their BI strategy. - Businesses have been accumulating data in digital form from business operations for more than 40 years now. In parallel with this accumulation, tools for organizing, categorizing and analyzing this data turning it into the kind of context-rich information that can drive decision making have been gro...

U.S. CTO: Mobile Apps Could Spur Broadband Spend

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:02:55 -0400

U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra says increasing mobile Internet access provides incentives for investment in high-speed connections. - The U.S. government's new technology czar said on Thursday that new mobile phone applications could spur private investment in high-speed Internet connections, but Washington would also play a leadership role. Aneesh Chopra, recently appointed the country's chief technology officer by U.S. Presiden...

Google, Yahoo Delay Search Ad Deal

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:06:22 -0400

The stalled ad partnership comes as more have called for government investigations about antitrust potential. - Google and Yahoo have decided to delay implementing a controversial search advertising partnership, Yahoo said on Friday. quot;The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the (U.S.) Department of Justice, quot; Yahoo said in a ...

Top Challenges of Enterprise Mobility

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:49:07 -0400

CIOs and other IT leaders say the rise in enterprise mobility leaves their organizations vulnerable to new security and compliance challenges. - Whats your biggest challenge for deploying and supporting mobile technologies? Tell us at editors@cioinsight.com. And check out these other obstacles to effective IT management: ITs Top Hiring Challenges Why IT Projects Get Killed Top ...

Putting a TV Network in Your Network

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:06:33 -0400

Companies have been using video for years, but the demand is growing rapidly in this YouTube era. Supporting video will soon become ITs problem, and CIOs must be prepared. - CIOs at some companies have been responsible for supporting video broadcasts and conferences for years. But in the YouTube era, users and executives expect video to be far easier to create and more ubiquitous than ever before. Since specially equipped conference rooms can cater to a limited number o...

Top Goals for Adopting Emerging Tech

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:22:15 -0400

Businesses clearly have different motivations for investing in emerging technologies. - What does your firm hope to get from emerging technologies? Tell us at editors@cioinsight.com. And check out these other presentations on technology management: 10 Technologies That Drive Revenue The Most Emergent Technologies Using IT Withou...

10 Technologies that Drive Revenue

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:53:33 -0400

Who said CIOs cant have a direct impact on revenue generation? IT leaders say these technologies help boost their companies' finances. - What other tools have helped your company drive revenue growth? Tell us at editors@cioinsight.com. Also, check out these presentations on IT management: Top 5 Ways to Manage IT Costs How CIOs Stay Relevant with a CFO Boss CIOs Top Business...