CIO Insight Staff

Dell announced that its systems supported the landing of NASA’s new Mars rover, Curiosity. Dell systems played a key role in the most complicated portion of the mission, with data analysis conducted in two NASA High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters running Dell PowerEdge servers. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, the […]

A few weeks ago at the Aspen Security Forum, Gen. Keith Alexander, National Security Agency director, said the number of attacks against America’s critical infrastructure increased seventeenfold between 2009 and 2011. Now as much as ever, some argue, a gap exists between the protection capabilities of today’s enterprises and the penetration capabilities of modern attackers. […]

The rise of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and others means businesses run the risk of irritating customers, who are becoming used to the instant contact such platforms provide, if they don’t adequately respond to their requests and complaints, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. By 2014, organizations refusing to participate […]

Data scientists, IT specialists who conduct high-level data analyses and apply it to business projections and modeling, are in high demand in cities across the North America, as organizations grappled with an ever-increasing amount of information gathered from customers from social media sites, email and other platforms. San Francisco leads the pack when it comes […]

Illinois has become the second state in the country to pass legislation banning companies from asking employees or job applicants for their login information for social networks. The bill, which Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Aug. 1, makes it illegal for an employer to request social network account information in order to gain access […]

Beleaguered BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion continues to struggle in the face of competition from Apple’s iPhone and other handsets, even as mobile Web usage rises, according to cloud security specialist Zscaler’s second-quarter "State of the Web" report. The study also found Facebook broke its five-quarter downward trend for enterprise traffic in the second quarter, […]

The smartphone ideal–high speeds! everywhere availability!–and smartphone reality are still separate things, says a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Despite the proliferation of devices sporting quad-core processors and networks running 3G, HSPA+ and 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, Americans still find themselves waiting on their phones. And while […]

The now well publicized Dropbox security breach was the result of two things that Dropbox could have foreseen, and could have prevented. The first was failing to anticipate user misconduct, and the second was failing to take steps that would allow the site to remain secure even if the users weren’t. This was exacerbated by […]

The bring your own device (BYOD) trend is gathering steam but posing challenges to IT departments, which are trying to figure out how to secure the various smartphones and tablets employees are using to connect to corporate networks, according to findings in OnForce s Q3 Confidence Index, a poll that reflects the opinion of more […]

Cisco Systems is augmenting its aggressive cloud strategy with the addition of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff to the board of directors. The 47-year-old cloud pioneer, who founded Salesforce.com in 1999, was one of two new members announced by Cisco Aug. 2 to the now 14-member board. The other was Kristina Johnson, CEO of Enduring Hydro, […]

Cloud-based storage provider Dropbox came clean with more details today about a security breach that led to a spamming campaign. The company’s investigation into the incident revealed that usernames and passwords stolen from other Websites were used to sign in to a number of Dropbox accounts, including one belonging to a Dropbox employee that contained […]

Microsoft’s newly announced major refresh of its 16-year-old Hotmail product has the goods–from a new name, Outlook.com, to a streamlined interface, key improvements and the integration of social media connections–but those coming changes still appear to be too little, too late to get dedicated Gmail or Yahoo Mail users to jump ship. That’s the reaction […]