CIO Insight Staff

Who says tablets and smartphones are just shiny, distracting toys? According to the latest CDW IT Monitor, nearly three-quarters of the IT decision-makers surveyed thought that the use of tablets and smartphones has led to an increase in productivity within their organization, with 25 percent saying it improve productivity significantly . Half of all IT […]

More enterprises are embracing the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, with executives seeing significant benefits in employee productivity and satisfaction while acknowledging the security and support issues for IT staffs, according to a new survey from Cisco Systems. In its IBSG Horizon Study, released May 16, Cisco officials found that 95 percent of survey respondents said their […]

Polycom is updating its RealPresence video content management technology to enable the streaming of live and recorded video to Google Android and Apple iOS mobile devices, the latest efforts by the unified communications vendor to deliver video to any device at any time. The updates, announced May 15, include new features for Polycom’s RSS 4000 […]

The Big Apple’s burgeoning IT sector, led by fields that leverage the Web and mobile technologies, have put New York City in a position to take advantage of the growing IT market for years to come, and has emerged as a national leader in the technology space, second only to Silicon Valley, according to a […]

The Apple iPhone 5 isn’t likely to put in an appearance at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference, planned for June 11. What Apple instead plans to show off is an update to iCloud, the Wall Street Journal reported May 14. iCloud users currently can store sets of images in the cloud, which can be synced […]

Sprint, T-Mobile and other organizations against Verizon Wireless controversial agreements with cable companies Time Warner, Comcast and Bright House Networks–together called SpectrumCo–and Cox Communications today held a kick-off phone call with the media, introducing a newly formed Alliance for Broadband Competition. Consumer-protection groups Public Knowledge and the Free Press, as well as the American Antitrust […]

Apple is asking Kaspersky Labs to analyze security on its Mac OS X platform, Kaspersky Labs CTO Nikolai Grebennikov has told Computing magazine. It s a good thing, Grebennikov told Computing, seeing as how Apple "doesn’t pay enough attention" to security and given that its OS is basically a sitting duck. "Mac OS is really […]

SAP implementations, SQL upgrades and Windows 7 migrations are among the IT projects featured in this installment of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop. American Express, Dannon, TD Ameritrade and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts are among the 27 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies highlighted here. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by […]

More than a third of IT professionals see having a cloud-ready network as the key infrastructure piece needed to begin migrating applications to the cloud, but almost 40 percent say they would rather have root canal or do their own taxes before dealing with the network challenges associated with private or public cloud deployments. The […]

The Pentagon is expanding a cyber-security program meant to promote information sharing between the private and public sectors. In partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD) announced on May 11 that it is expanding its Defense Industrial Base Cyber Security/Information Assurance Program (DIB CS/IA) to all eligible companies. The […]

Doctors have nearly doubled their use of tablets since 2011, a May 10 report by Manhattan Research revealed. In its annual "Taking the Pulse" study, Manhattan Research found that tablet use by doctors reached 62 percent in 2012, compared with 35 percent of physician tablet adoption in 2011. "Taking the Pulse" is an annual report […]

Apple devices–from iPhones to iPads to Macs–are becoming more prominent in enterprises as employees bring them to work, fueling the burgeoning trend of the consumerization of IT. And that could cause security problems for businesses, according to researchers at security software maker Zscaler. The recent malware attacks over the past few weeks on Macs running […]