CIO Insight Staff

Get big fast: That was a mantra of late—and not-always-so-great—1990s Web mania. Growing quickly then meant hiring lots of people and burning through scads of cash without a clear idea how sales would materialize. These days, fast-growing companies need to demonstrate real revenue, from real customers, or they’ll get yanked short by investors like a […]

When it comes to hiring and retaining IT staffs, the future doesn’t look so bright. The Baby Boomers are getting ready to retire, the number of college students entering computer science has dropped 50 percent in the last five years, according to the Computer Research Association, and the need for corporate IT people is growing. […]

NEW YORK—On Sept. 19 Motorola announced its plans to acquire enterprise mobility company Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion. While it was rumored that there was interest in Symbol from Motorola as well as its competitors, the announcement sent ripples through the RFID industry where Symbol has a strong presence in the reader and tag market. […]

Cars and trucks have long been the most visible symbol of America’s insatiable thirst for energy. But data centers—those sprawling computing centers that cram thousands of energy-hungry servers into air-conditioned rooms—though less visible, are starting to take their toll as well. As most CIOs know, data centers are wildly expensive and require gobs of electricity […]

As part of its current ad campaign, Apple suggests that Macs aren’t vulnerable to the same Internet security problems PCs are. But according to a new study by security vendor Symantec, the number of vulnerabilities identified in Apple’s Safari browser in the first half of 2006 doubled over the prior six months—and it increased its […]

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) shows great promise for several industries, including retail, manufacturing and even health care. CIO Insight’s special focus on this emerging technology highlights some of the most forward-thinking uses of RFID in the marketplace. CASE STUDIES Gillette’s Fusion Launch Makes a Good Business Case for RFID For its biggest product launch ever, Gillette […]

From service-oriented architecture to business process management to RFID, technology is reshaping the automotive industry for the new millennium. Check out the following case studies, trends and analysis from CIO Insight and Baseline for more details. What’s Driving Toyota? Behind Toyota’s assembly line are sophisticated information systems supporting and enabling the business processes that help […]

If you haven’t heard the hype around Web 2.0, you’ve been living under a rock. Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web. There are more than 52 million blogs. And the research firm Gartner Inc. recently added Web 2.0 to its ubiquitous emerging technologies hype cycle, predicting widespread adoption within two […]

On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, eWEEK sought the perspective of several members of our Corporate Partner Advisory Board as they looked back at the disruptive forces that have reshaped the enterprise agenda during that time. Technology Editor Peter Coffee spoke with Robert Rosen, CIO of the National Institute of Arthritis […]

Is your company’s information safe from thieves, hackers and careless employees? Chances are, it’s not as secure as it could be. With detailed analysis, case studies and opinion pieces, CIO Insight’s Annual Security Issue tackles the growing challenges in protecting critical corporate data. September 2006 Security Survey: CIOs Need to Fill Holes in Security and […]

How has Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we live and work? Baseline asked three information-technology managers whose organizations were affected by the attacks in New York City to share their personal and professional experiences from that day and the months that followed. Ellen Clarke, then CIO of Marsh, an insurance broker with offices on […]

BOSTON—After taking on the responsibility of leading Microsoft’s efforts to secure its much-awaited Vista operating system, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of the Redmond, Wash., company’s Security Technology Unit, is in town at the Security Standard Conference to evangelize to the firm’s progress in those efforts. While critics continue to say that Microsoft’s next-generation operating […]