CIO Insight Staff

Organizations are struggling to keep track of changes in their networks and to effectively manage their firewall policies, according to a new study. Nearly 85 percent of network administrators in the 2011 Firewall Management report said half of their firewall rule changes need to be fixed because they were configured incorrectly, Tufin Technologies found in […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, VMware’s Cloud Foundry was seen as the best Platform as a Service (PAAS) cloud development platform by developers polled. In the survey, only those developers who use a particular platform were asked to rank the attributes of the platform. Cloud Foundry achieved the highest overall score, while IBM’s […]

Intel is only keeping its controversial high-end Itanium chip alive because Hewlett-Packard is paying it to do so, according to Oracle officials. In a court filing Nov. 18, Oracle executives say that HP is secretly paying Intel to continue development of the Itanium platform so that HP can keep using the chip in its high-end […]

Security experts expressed strong concerns about the provisions in the anti-piracy bill that would prevent Internet users from accessing certain Websites. The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced last month by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the chairman of the House Judiciary committee. The House Judiciary hearing on Nov. 16 invited various industry giants, including the […]

CompTIA, the nonprofit IT association for the IT industry, has released its "Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities" study showing small physician practices continuing to complement laptops and desktop PCs with smartphones and tablets but slow to adopt cloud computing services. The organization conducted the study, announced on Nov. 16, to find out where companies […]

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Nov. 16 reported a loss of $3.76 million, or 3 cents per share, on sales of $584 million, as the company saw some challenges in its billings for the third quarter. Salesforce.com, whose Web-based software is used to power customer management operations, said its non-GAAP (non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) earnings were 34 […]

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. — Motorola has faced several challenges that would have spelled the end for most other companies. At one point, Motorola was losing more than $1 billion a month, forcing the company to make tough decisions, sell off its less-than-profitable divisions and return to its roots as a solutions-based company. In the end, Motorola […]

Salaries for IT security professionals are projected to increase by 4.5 percent in 2012, according to a new salary survey. The increasingly hostile threat landscape and growing demand for cloud computing has made security the hottest IT career in terms of salary growth, staffing firm Robert Half Technology said in its latest 2012 Salary Guide […]

Apple’s iPhone and Google Android continue to make inroads among enterprise users, outpacing both Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Microsoft’s smartphone efforts, according to iPass’ Mobile Workforce Report. The quarterly report is based on 2,300 responses from employees at 1,100 enterprises worldwide, according to iPass. Some 49 percent of respondents were based in North America, […]

IBM’s DeveloperWorks subsidiary has released a 2011 Tech Trends report predicting that Watson supercomputer’s advanced data analytics capabilities could play a large role in health care, education and government. DeveloperWorks is Big Blue’s online community where IT professionals can develop tech skills in areas such as open source, business analytics, cloud computing and mobility. Business […]

Michael Dell told eWEEK last August that his company is steering more aspects of the business toward the higher-margin enterprise markets. That strategy apparently is starting to make a difference on the bottom line. Dell on Nov. 15 posted profits that were up 9 percent over the same period a year ago, despite banking only […]

Robust Internet connectivity plus virtualization, along with a heavy dose of managed hosting experience equals infrastructure as a service, a utility model where compute, storage and virtual machine instances are available at a moment’s notice and paid for based on usage. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the granddaddy of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings and is […]