CIO Insight Staff

Vertical markets such as health care are buying core IT products such as PCs, servers, printers, phone systems and networking gear, along with tablet PCs and LCD TVs for their facilities, according to the September 2010 report "Second Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities" by IT trade association CompTIA. CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) is […]

Researchers say the volume of digital business data to be stored is growing at a rate of 40 percent to 60 percent each year. So it makes sense that this explosion in stored files, logs and other data has become one of biggest challenges to solve for large enterprises. Gartner Research reported Nov. 1 that […]

Outlook 2011 for Mac delivers a tool that is superior to the Mail and iCal applications that Apple bundles with Mac OS X. It also relegates to history the embarrassment of Microsoft Entourage. For years, users of the Microsoft Office for Mac suite have wondered when the company would get around to releasing an e-mail […]

Concerns around the complexity of migrating to the new productivity software in Microsoft Office 2010 will delay broad deployment until 2011, according to a global survey of 953 IT professionals conducted by market research firm Dimensional Research and sponsored by Dell’s Kace division. Eighty-five percent of respondents say they plan to adopt Office 2010. While […]

Motorola’s bet on Google’s Android operating system paid off again in 3Q 2010, as the company reported a $109 million profit well above the $12 million earned in 3Q 2009. Motorola’s revenues hit $4.9 billion, up 13 percent from 3Q 2009. Motorola’s mobile device segment sales topped $2.0 billion, up 20 percent from 3Q 2010, […]

PayPal announced new mobile technologies and business relationships that will change the way people shop and pay. The announcements were made at the company’s second annual developer conference, 2010 Innovate, in San Francisco on Oct. 26. PayPal announced the availability of Mobile Express Checkout, a secure two-click checkout experience on a mobile device. Consumers will […]

The cloud is still "akin to the Wild West" when it comes to the security of the data hosted there, according to the 2010 Access Assurance Survey conducted by identity and access management vendor Courion. One in seven respondents admit that they know there are potential access violations in their company’s cloud applications, but they […]

IBM says the mainframe is back–if it ever left at all. IBM announced 3Q 2010 net income of $3.6 billion, compared with $3.2 billion for 3Q 2009, an increase of 12 percent driven by significant increases in systems and technology sales and IBM services as well as a boost in growth markets. Mark Loughridge, IBM’s […]

Apple has reportedly struck a deal with Unisys to help expand its corporate and government footprint. Under the terms of the agreement, Unisys will provide maintenance and support for Apple products in use by those enterprises. "Most of those organizations are still pretty heavily PC-based," Gene Zapfel, a managing partner at Unisys, told Bloomberg in […]

The global smartphone market grew 50 percent during the Q2 2010 compared to figures from the same period a year ago, ABI Research reported on Oct. 26. Driven by strong sales from Apple, HTC and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), smartphones constituted 19 percent of all mobile handsets shipped during the quarter, representing a […]

Nevada’s Clark County Family Services Department is using IBM business analytics software to improve the delivery of social services and ensure compliance with new state regulations. Eboni Washington, a supervisor in the IT department who oversees the business intelligence management and performance management initiatives for the Clark County Family Services Department, says IBM has helped […]

Next time you’re considering a new hire, you may want to take a page from some of the major technology firms. Enterprises such as Apple, Google and Microsoft expect prospective employees to answer a range of intriguing questions. Some of these, of course, are function-specific. For example, it’s no surprise that Dell would ask an […]