CIO Insight Staff

Linux is poised for continued growth among new and existing users thanks to lower total cost of ownership, technical features and security, among other reasons, according a recent Linux Foundation survey. The January 2012 report from the Linux Foundation and Yeoman Technology Group titled "Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users" claims […]

Internet search pioneer Jerry Yang, who with Stanford University classmate David Filo co-founded Yahoo in 1995, resigned Jan. 17 from the board of directors of his own company. Yang also said he is withdrawing from the boards of Yahoo Japan Corp. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. For about seven years, Yahoo ranked as the world’s […]

REDMOND, Wash. –Cloud was the big word at Microsoft’s recent Private Cloud Reviewers’ Workshop here. There were many other words uttered, such as System Center 2012, Windows Azure, Hyper-V and so forth, but cloud seemed to be spoken the most. However, whenever presenters during the event–which ran the week of Jan. 9–mentioned the cloud, they […]

For years, computer users’ biggest security threats were attacks against their desktop computers and applications. But cyber-criminals increasingly have been turning their sights toward mobile devices and Web applications, as they are fertile new ground for lucrative cyber-attacks. It won’t happen overnight, of course, and there will still be more than enough security flaws impacting […]

The Web’s response to SOPA and PIPA is officially in full swing. Both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECTIP (PIPA) at hand in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, respectively are intended to curb online piracy by allowing copyright holders to block access to domestic and foreign Websites allegedly distributing illegal content. […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–It takes one to know one. That’s what IBM says about social business–IBM says it essentially created the market for social business software because Big Blue needed it for its own purposes. With well over 400,000 employees spread all over the world and a vast number of partners, suppliers and customers, IBM needed a […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM kicked off Lotusphere 2012 today, with a general session that demonstrated the many uses, benefits and faces of social business. This year’s Lotusphere and Connect conferences underscored the importance of socially-enabling business processes–from the three-song set by Ok Go–a band whose success was partially fueled by the popularity of its award-winning […]

Wikipedia plans on undergoing a self-imposed blackout Jan. 18, in protest of proposed legislation that it says would harm a free and open Internet. The legislation in question includes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) before the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The bills are intended to […]

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Jan. 16 said it has hired former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra as its new executive vice president of emerging markets, snapping up the cloud computing connoisseur fresh off of his teaching fellowship with the Kennedy School and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Kundra oversaw more than $80 billion […]

Oracle held the top spot in the business analytics software market during the first half of 2011, with 20 percent global market share and 17.9 percent semiannual year-over-year growth, according to a new study from IDC. The research firm’s newly launched Worldwide Semiannual Business Analytics Tracker shows that Oracle’s closest competitors (SAP, IBM, SAS Institute […]

IBM has launched a broad array of technologies and services to help its customers become social businesses, to further integrate social media and social networking into their everyday working environments, and to leverage analytics to sift through all the data coming from that social world. The range of products and service enhancements were announced at […]

NEW YORK — Microsoft is planning to make the data it collected as part of its botnet takedown operations available as a real-time threat intelligence feed. The company would distribute threat data obtained from captured botnets and other sources to foreign governments, law enforcement, Computer Emergency Response Teams and private corporations, two members of the […]