CIO Insight Staff

Identify Your Stars With pressure to cut costs while maintaining services and standards, the first challenge is figuring out who makes the list of office MVPs, and who goes onto the unemployment rolls.

Businesses risk losing over $1 trillion from loss or theft of data and other cybercrime, according to a study released on Thursday by security technology firm McAfee. The California-based company launched the survey after detecting a rapid acceleration of malicious software, or "malware," last year, CEO David DeWalt said. Malware increased by 400 percent in […]

TRENDS Dealing With Data Overload CIOs today are dealing with more data than most can handle, both at work and at play. Three IT leaders explain how they are dealing with the seemingly unending inundation of information. IT LEADERSHIP Managing IT Through Tough Times To lead IT departments in a recession, CIOs need to be […]

Ed Trainor is certainly an aptly named CIO. As the IT chief of Amtrak, Trainor is responsible for making the organization’s information infrastructure run on time. This is his second stint at Amtrak, after having served at the organization from 1976 to 1985. In the intervening years, he has held CIO positions at an impressive […]

Advanced Micro Devices will eliminate 1,100 jobs, cut salaries and take a new $622 million charge for its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI, bringing total writeoffs for the deal to $3.17 billion. AMD, which trails Intel in the computer chip market, said the salary decreases range from 20 percent for its two top executive […]

Pancreatic cancer experts say they are puzzled by what is ailing Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, because it is not clear how serious his health problems are or how directly they relate to his bout with cancer. Last week, Jobs said he had an easily treatable "hormonal imbalance" that was robbing his body of the […]

Top technology companies came to Las Vegas to show off their latest innovations in consumer electronics, but despite the plethora of TVs, computers, phones, cameras and other gadgets on display, it was clear the industry is bracing for a very tough year. While there were a few bright spots at this year’s subdued Consumer Electronics […]

The financial crisis and the subsequent market shake-ups haven’t rippled too horribly through IT shops, but uncertainty still looms. Should they get hit, IT leaders will face a plethora of tough decisions. When it comes to cutting costs, boosting productivity and enhancing revenue, CIOs and their deputies look to business process improvement, according to our […]

Verizon Communications said it agreed to a mobile search deal with Microsoft and that details will be announced later on Wednesday. Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is due to announce their deal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Seidenberg, speaking at a Citigroup conference, gave no further details. […]

The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamoring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work. Not a single desktop model figured on online shopping portal Amazon.com’s top 10 selling PC […]