CIO Insight Staff

Oracle executives are looking to aggressively expand their data center offerings, both horizontally and vertically, as the company ramps up its competition against IBM and Hewlett-Packard. CEO Larry Ellison and other executives on Sept. 26 unveiled the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general-purpose high-end system powered by the next-generation T4 processor that Oracle hopes will compete […]

Amazon is widely expected to unveil its long-rumored tablet Sept. 28 at a New York City event. According to an early September posting by TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, who had an opportunity to play with an early version of the tablet, Amazon’s device will feature a custom Android interface (complete with a tabbed Android Webkit browser […]

Apple’s iPad remains on the top of Consumer Reports list of best tablets, despite some new Android tablets. “We’ve added five new tablets to our ratings, and while some were noteworthy for reasons of their own, none rose to the challenge the iPad continues to present to its competitors,” the publication wrote in a Sept. […]

Oracle estimates that it should receive about $1.16 billion in damages due to Google’s alleged infringement of Oracle’s Java patents and copyrights in creating the Android mobile operating system. In a letter filed with the court Sept. 22, Oracle’s attorneys said Google mischaracterizes the report by Oracle’s damages expert and mistakenly claimed that Oracle was […]

Microsoft is detailing some of its security procedures for Windows 8. Key to Windows 8’s platform integrity architecture is its UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), a set of specifications for how the operating system communicates with platform firmware during the boot-up process. UEFI features a firmware validation process known as secure boot, which dictates how […]

Consulting firm PwC‘s Health Research Institute has come out with a report revealing that health organizations are underprepared to secure patient medical information. The report, "Old Data Learns New Tricks: Managing Patient Privacy and Security on a New Data-Sharing Playground," shows that despite advances in electronic health records (EHRs) software and security technology, health care […]

In this week’s roundup of the hottest tech projects, we highlight IT activity across 13 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies, including American Airlines’ rollout of Apple iPads to its pilots. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg and covers technology deployments, software implementations, and IT department changes across […]

Hewlett-Packard, which desperately needed a better communicator and executor of business strategy at the top of its organization, introduced its new CEO, Meg Whitman, to an audience of press and analysts on a conference call a mere one hour after announcing her appointment on Sept. 22. Following a full day of speculation, Whitman replaced former […]

Advanced Micro Devices, which just last month named a new CEO following more than eight months of searching, is now looking for a new head of its Products Group unit. AMD announced Sept. 22 that Rick Bergman, who has been a top spokesman for many of AMD’s processor products over the past few years and […]

A revealing study from Cisco suggests the Internet has become such an integral part of our lives that it is deemed as important to our functionality as water, food or air. An international workforce study by Cisco revealed that one in three college students and young professionals, the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report, also […]

Despite the worsening global economic environment, IT spending in the United States and around the world will continue to be relatively strong through the end of 2011, while slowing although still growing next year, according to analysts at Forrester Research. Forrester analysts in July were preparing to release their second-half IT projections, but put those […]

Email may be critical to an organization’s day-to-day operations, but it is also becoming one of the main sources of data leakage, according to a recent Ponemon Institute report. In a survey of 830 information technology, security and compliance professionals, more than half of the respondents said improper email use by employees is the main […]