CIO Insight Staff

  TRUE FALSE Most of our servers are utilized 10% or less. The data we need to store grows by at least 30% each year. We develop more than one-third of our own software. We use a storage area network. Our development approach is services-based (e.g., Web services or messaging). We use Gigabit Ethernet and […]

America’s great middle class, called the Silent Majority in years past, is becoming increasingly noisy and demanding online and off, but in ways nobody expected at the start of the Internet boom. No matter that the dot-com craze has cooled dramatically, the genie’s out of the box: Behavior and attitudes are changed forever, asserts Charles […]

Bruce Schneier, author of Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, is a cryptographer and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Lawrence Rogers is a senior technologist at CERT, a national clearinghouse for information security threats at Carnegie Mellon University. CIO Insight Copy Chief Debra D’agostino chatted with both men recently about wireless […]

The July Confidence Meter numbers dipped again, if only slightly, as our 727 survey respondents continue to wait for clearer signs that a real recovery is in progress. Confidence in the chance for a recovery in the overall economy in the next three months ticked down a tenth of a percentage point, to 6.2 on […]

 HP – http://www.hp.com HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing.  Datalink – http://www.datalink.com Datalink is an information storage architect. The Company analyzes, designs, implements, and supports information storage infrastructures […]

As corporate strategy and information technology become virtually inseparable, managing the link between them involves putting the right people in place and motivating them to understand and willingly shoulder their direct personal responsibility for making sure the company meets its strategic goals, and that it directs its efforts toward that end. And with responsibility comes […]

Marianne Broadbent wrote her doctoral dissertation at Australia’s University of Melbourne in the late 1980s on the need to align information technology and corporate strategy. Has the alignment gap eased since then? “Things have gotten better, and they’ve gotten different,” Broadbent told CIO Insight Executive Editor Edward Baker in a recent interview. “There is much […]

Books Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies: How to Achieve a Competitive AdvantageBy Bernard H. BoarJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994 368 pages, $70Boar is well-known for his works on IT planning. This how-to manual for strategic business planning includes charts, techniques, diagrams and tips for overcoming problems, improving application development and […]