CIO Insight Staff

Worldwide business intelligence (BI) platform, analytic applications and performance management (PM) software revenue reached $12.2 billion in 2011, a 16.4 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $10.5 billion, according to a report from IT analytics firm Gartner. The BI, analytics and PM software market was the second-fastest growing sector in the overall worldwide enterprise software […]

Visa has dropped Global Payments from its list of companies that are deemed compliant with security policies following a data breach that may have compromised as many as 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts.

Corporations in the U.S. and Europe will move an additional 750,000 jobs in IT, finance and other business services to India and other low-cost countries by 2016, according to a new report from business advisory and operations improvement consulting firm The Hackett Group. However, the study notes that levels of additional offshoring in these areas […]

Apple’s iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android operating system are running away in a rapidly growing smartphone market that is now as large at the feature phone space, according to numbers in the latest Nielsen Wire report. And the iPhone’s growth appears to be coming at the expense of Research In Motion and its […]

While not as shocking as some critics predicted, a new report about working conditions at Foxconn–the Chinese factory now famous for churning out Apple products, as well as other electronics–paints a grim picture of exhausting working conditions and a disregard for workers rights. The degree to which the report will improve workers’ experiences is unclear, […]

Apple’s new chief executive Tim Cook took the top spot in a survey of highest-rated CEOs compiled by jobs and career site Glassdoor. Cook received a 97 percent approval rating; by comparison, when Steve Jobs stepped down from the post in August 2011, his cumulative approval rating was 97 percent, though his rating between March […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on AWS as a publically available data set. AWS and NIH announced the news at the White House Big Data Summit on March 29. The announcement makes the largest collection of human genetics […]

IT teams from midsized U.K. and U.S. businesses polled still spend more than half (56 percent) their time on server management and troubleshooting in a typical month, and only 28 percent on strategic, "value-added" activities, according to a survey released by cloud computing specialist Rackspace Hosting. Despite the widespread availability of cloud and managed hosting, […]

Research In Motion’s new CEO, appointed to the post two months ago, is beginning what promises to be a painful restructuring of the struggling BlackBerry maker that he says does not hold any guarantees, and will probably be followed by even more changes. On a conference call March 29 with analysts and journalists, CEO Thorsten […]

Google users can sign up for its new Account Activity feature that sends them a link to a password-protected report with insights into their signed-in use of Google services and summarizes the data associated with each product they use when signed in to their accounts. Google said the feature is designed to offer users transparency […]

Worldwide software as a service revenue is forecast to reach $14.5 billion in 2012, a 17.9 percent increase from 2011 revenue of $12.3 billion, according to a new report from IT analytics firm Gartner. The report projected SaaS-based delivery would experience healthy growth through 2015, when worldwide revenue is projected to reach $22.1 billion. Researchers […]

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, Dell SecureWorks and other organizations have essentially disabled a newer version of the Kelihos botnet, which Kaspersky and others helped shut down in September 2011. The new Kelihos version, first discovered in January, was armed with new features that made it more dangerous than the initial botnet, according to researchers […]