CIO Insight Staff

By Jack Cooper, Evangelos Katsamakas and Aditya Saharia IT consumerization refers to the increasingly transformational impact of consumer IT on enterprise IT. Smartphones and tablets, mobile apps and app stores, cloud services such as e-mail, storage and collaboration tools, and social networks and related social technologies are some prominent examples of the consumer IT that […]

Tech Skills Programming Talent on the Decline IT candidates with traditional skills, such as Cobol, Delphi/Object Pascal and Transact-SQL ColdFusion—even Flash. They’re older languages being phased out. Programming Talent on the Rise People who know MS.net, Python, Ruby, HTML5, RESTful Web Services, JavaScript and JQuery, as these skills are best suited for mobile Android, Apple […]

By Kevin Sawyer In his recent CIO Insight  article “How the Federal Government Controls IT Spending,” my colleague Eric Thomas discusses the business of IT, and urges federal CIOs to “develop more robust mechanisms to fairly and equitably allocate IT costs to the consumers of the IT services” in order to “help the agency better […]

Steady Hiring Growth Niche 11% of CIOs say they’ll expand their IT teams in the fourth quarter of 2013, a percentage that’s about the same as was reported in the third quarter. Standing Pat 65% plan to hire only for open IT roles, compared to 56% for Q3. Freeze Frame 19% have put Q4 IT […]

By C.J. Ravi Sankar As the U.S. health-care industry begins implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called Obamacare, insurance companies are experiencing a change in their business environment. For example, regulatory changes like medical loss ratio mandates require a reduction in administrative spend, while business model changes will force payers to […]

By Esteban Herrera We’ve recently seen much debate and discussion  about the proposed legislation to change existing policies governing H-1B work visas. While it remains to be seen exactly how this will play out, now is the time for CIOs to assess their resources, both internal and external, to ensure their organization is properly aligned and […]

Bigger Data Center Ante Up 36% of data center operators are seeing data-center budgets growing more than 10%. Storage Expansion Two-thirds of data-center operations have increased capacity by at least 1,000 kW during the last five years, and 17% have increased capacity by more than 10,000 kW. Top “Very Important” Considerations for Data Center Expansions […]

Cloud Application Performance Top Five IT Investment Areas for 2013 Cloud infrastructure tops the list but by a small margin. Cloud Infrastructure: 12%, Flexible Renegotiation of Outsourcing Contracts: 10%, Business Analytics, Big Data and In-Memory Computing: 9%, SAP Consolidation: 9%, Mobile Apps: 8% Top Five IT Investment Areas for the Long Term Cloud computing leads […]

Young Execs Want Video Valuable Asset 87% of young executives feel that business-class video has a significant, positive impact on an organization. Must-See TV Three of five say they will rely more heavily on business-class video on the next five to 10 years. Team Tool 70% of those who aspire to manage large teams say […]

Drive Digital Success Bull’s Eye 30% of companies are using digital for advanced customer targeting (for advertising purposes) enterprise-wide, compared to 17% last year. Socially Active One-quarter are engaging customers via social media before, during or after sales, which is about the same as last year. Play Time 24% have created branded apps and games […]

By Mark Ball For most IT organizations, the classic 80/20 rule applies to the supplier portfolio, where more than 80 percent of the total spend is dedicated to less than 20 percent of the organization’s total number of suppliers. This is expected because large IT infrastructure systems and resources are typically procured through a relatively […]

By Eric Thomas “Use it or lose it!” You might hear your doctor say that expression about your mental acuity or your personal trainer about your physique. I often hear it from my clients in government, specifically from federal CIOs or IT managers. The phrase relates to their IT budget; if they don’t spend their […]