CIO Insight Staff

One could describe Dell as acquisition-crazy and not be far off the mark. It has now captured two new companies in three weeks and 13 in the last two years, if you’re keeping score. That’s a lot of new-generation IT to uproot and move inside a company firewall. However, Dell has a system on how […]

IT teams will face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially increased bandwidth demands, according to Network Instruments, a specialist in network and application performance monitoring. The survey found 60 percent anticipate half of their apps will run in the cloud within 12 months, and 70 percent will implement […]

Apple’s newest iPad already has CIOs and IT professionals planning accordingly. In a recent ChangeWave Research survey, more than one in five business IT buyers said they now plan to buy the new iPad, which goes on sale March 16, during the second quarter of 2012. That 22 percent, according to ChangeWave, represents the highest […]

While the overall labor market in the U.S. continues to limp forward, the tech industry is showing more vigorous signs of growth, and in some places around the country where it wouldn’t necessarily be expected, according to the March tech employment report from IT jobs specialist Dice. “After two years of continuous improvement in recruitment […]

Yahoo has endured its set of trials in the last several years, and it is understandably skittish about a lot of things. In just the last few months, it has replaced its CEO, lost its former CEO and co-founder, lost its board chairman and replaced three other board members. The company’s overall value is slipping, […]

It’s no secret that Apple is racking up customers in the enterprise market, attracting more corporate users whose companies have reluctantly acceded to their employees’ desire to bring their iPhones and iPads to the office to use for both work and play. Research from mobile device management (MDM) software maker Good Technology suggests Apple iOS […]

Symantec’s advice to smartphone users? Keep the devices close. According to a recent study by the security software vendors, people who lose their smartphones or other mobile devices in public have a 50 percent chance of ever getting them back. And even if the device is returned, the person who found the phone most likely […]

Symantec security researchers are seeing cyber-criminals increasingly using Twitter as a way of luring mobile device users to their malware. In a March 12 post on Symantec’s blog, company employee Joji Hamada said that tweets are becoming a popular way for cyber-criminals to bring people to the Android.Opfake malware. “Users can potentially end up infecting […]

Apple has won over once-tentative enterprises, in recent years, and the new iPad is no exception. However, its arrival may bring as many challenges as benefits, especially for the IT professionals with the task to support it within their networks. "The screen is certainly a great asset of the new iPad, and considering how many […]

President Obama has appointed Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Previous to the appointment, Park acted as CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he apparently headlined the creation of HealthCare.gov. According to a March 9 posting on The White House Blog, Park will work closely with Tom […]

Google continues to be the most popular search engine by far in the United States, but there appears to be a growing concern over privacy and the amount of personal information Google and other search engines are collecting about users, according to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The […]

Hackers associated with the group Anonymous on March 9 continued its retaliation for the arrests earlier in the week of members of the LulzSec hacker group, this time attacking the Website of New York Ironworks while publishing outdated source code from security software maker Symantec. New York Ironworks is a company that supplies police equipment, […]