CIO Insight Staff

Security professionals are most concerned about targeted attacks, external hackers and insider threats, according to a recent report from Symantec. Their jobs are made more challenging by industry trends such as mobile computing, social media and the consumerization of IT, the survey found. Nearly 50 percent of IT security professionals surveyed said external threats pose […]

Hewlett-Packard, still stinging from a lackluster quarterly report on Aug. 18 and answering questions about its long-term strategy, stuck to product news Aug. 30 at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. It unveiled a new turnkey-type cloud-building package for midrange enterprises and branch offices of large enterprises. HP VirtualSystem suite of applications for VMware, which to […]

With its design-it-yourself PCs in the 1980s and ’90s, Dell liberated personal computing in its own image. Later, it developed its own servers, resold and serviced storage hardware from EMC, and made it all economically attractive for its marketing sweet spots midrange and small businesses to purchase and deploy. Now, in 2011, the company Michael […]

Technology giant Intel Corporation announced the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Intel Federal, to provide strategic focus in order to better address new opportunities in working with the U.S. government. Initially, Intel Federal will focus on the high-performance computing segment, including work on exascale computing with the U.S. Department of Energy and other agencies. […]

VMware has announced vFabric Data Director, a new platform to deliver a Database as a Service solution for the enterprise. Announced at the company s VMworld 2011 conference, vFabric Data Director presents a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a Database as a Service (DaaS) model for the enterprise. VMware s vFabric […]

Salesforce.com is introducing a new round of features to its Chatter social-networking platform, in effect increasing its bet that businesses will want to give their workers a Facebook- and Twitter-style experience. Chatter allows employees to post comments and share files in a Facebook-style environment. These additions will include Chatter Now, an instant messaging tool that […]

Freshly minted Apple CEO Tim Cook now has added incentive to stay with the company for the next decade, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Apple’s board of directors has awarded Cook with one million shares of restricted company stock. He will receive half that block in 2016 and the […]

Major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business projects, according to a recent study from Oxford University. IT projects on average are 27 percent over budget and take 55 percent longer to complete than originally planned, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School’s BT Centre for Major Program […]

IBM has announced a new hybrid cloud solution based in part on technology the company got from its 2010 acquisition of Cast Iron. IBM’s new hybrid cloud helps clients reduce the time it takes to connect, manage and secure public and private clouds. With new integration and management capabilities, organizations of all sizes will be […]

Sprint is apparently ordering its employees to deflect questions about Apple’s next iPhone appearing on the carrier, according to a leaked internal memo. A recent Wall Street Journal article suggested that Sprint will join Verizon and AT&T in carrying the iPhone, which has been popularly dubbed “iPhone 5.” Apple itself has yet to unveil the […]

In this week’s installment of CIOs on the Move, we cover executive changes at organizations including Aflac, Apple, and Amazon.com, and 19 others.. This feature covers CIOs changing jobs — and alerts you to job opportunities at organizations seeking IT executives — across Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies in the U.S. and Canada. Information is provided […]