CIO Insight Staff

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard on Sept. 22 fired CEO L o Apotheker, the man it had selected to lead the company into the 21st century, after 11 months on the job. HP’s embattled board of directors immediately installed one of its newest members, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, 55, to replace Apotheker on a […]

When Oracle executives were positioning the company to buy Sun Microsystems in late 2009, they stressed that the plan was to abandon the low-end commodity server business, instead focusing on high-end systems bundled with Oracle’s own enterprise software. During a conference call Sept. 20 with analysts and journalists to announce fiscal first-quarter 2012 results, Oracle […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook will take to a stage Oct. 4 to introduce the new iPhone. That information comes courtesy of AllThingsD, which relied on unnamed sources close to the information for the exact date. For some time, rumors have circulated that Apple plans to unveil the device–popularly dubbed the iPhone 5 –in October. There […]

In this week’s installment of CIOs on the Move, we cover executive changes at 13 organizations including CBS, Hess Corp. and Sony Corp. of America. Four of this week’s firms are actively seeking new CIOs. This feature covers CIOs changing jobs — and alerts you to job opportunities at organizations seeking IT executives — across […]

At least one research firm believes Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system could face a stiff challenge from a competitor other than Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 7 (WP7). NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence service said Android is the preferred platform among current smartphone owners as well as those who wish to buy a new […]

Federal government IT and cyber-security professionals are worried about sophisticated threats and the level of visibility they have in their networks, Cisco found in a recent online survey. Many of the professionals are seeing the cloud as a way to improve security while reducing costs. Employee behavior, increasingly sophisticated cyber-threats and lengthy IT processes top […]

SAP plans to buy out Crossgate, a business-to-business electronic data exchange service that allows trading partners to securely transmit critical business information, including production orders, specifications and invoices. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Crossgate, which was founded in 2001 and is based in Munich, Germany, allows enterprises to set up dedicated secure data […]

Windows 8 will include a revamped boot experience, according to Microsoft. “With continued innovation in the hardware ecosystem, the biggest shift in firmware in 30 years, and software changes leading to boot times of 7 seconds on machines with solid-state drives (SSDs), we decided it was time to bring the PC boot user experience into […]

The virtualization of networking functions is beginning to come up in more conversations involving IT managers, network administrators, and their current or potential vendors. Virtual networking is just as it sounds. Ports, switches and routers are virtualized to work inside a hypervisor with virtual machines in similar fashion to how physical ports, switches and routers […]

A major Japanese defense contractor discovered cyber-attackers had breached its computer network in August. The company says it’s not clear yet what has been compromised. Approximately 45 servers and 38 computers were infected with malware at ten facilities located throughout Japan and its Yokohama headquarters, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries told Reuters on Sept. 18. Japan’s largest […]

Apple will continue to dominate the tablet market this year, with or without an iPad 3 entering the market, according to an analyst. “We do not expect iPad 3 this year, but there’s no rush,” J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote in a Sept. 19 research note excerpted by Fortune. “The other tablet entrants have […]

Don’t look for Michael Dell to jump on the post-PC bandwagon. The PC market might be under significant pressure–from the rise of tablets and smartphones to the increased focus on software and services to the uncertain global economic situation–but consumers and businesses alike are continuing to buy PCs, with Gartner analyst predicting as many as […]