Debra D'Agostino

The iPhone is coming—and CIOs should start getting ready. Apple’s new iPhone, to be available June 29, is one of the most anticipated communications devices to come on the market in some time. Already, 19 million Americans are said to be interested in the multifunction handheld device, according to M:Metrics, a mobile market research company. […]

CIOs know that employees are sending and receiving more e-mail than ever before—about 4.3 gigabytes of data per user per year, according to The Radicati Group. Still, not all CIOs have a plan for storing, indexing and eventually deleting these messages. It’s an issue that warrants careful attention, particularly in light of new federal e-discovery […]

In early April, the White House announced it had misplaced—and may have deleted—more than 5 million e-mail messages from its archives. The missing files may have contained crucial information pertaining to an investigation into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. The White House says that, in accordance with the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibits […]

GeoEye Inc., a satellite imaging company in Dulles, Va., has photographed 160 million miles of the Earth’s terrain—providing governments with sensitive data to be used for national security, and giving companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. the ability to create detailed maps for Web surfers. But until recently, the $151 million firm had […]

NAME: Max Mancini TITLE: Senior Director for Platform and Innovation COMPANY: eBay Inc. CAREER: Led the team that launched Kijiji Many I.T. professionals talk the big talk about innovation, but Max Mancini, 40, lives and breathes it. He never wears a suit to work. His office is a cluttered mess of paperwork. Three days a […]

NAME: Brennon Marcano TITLE: Software Systems Specialist COMPANY: Prudential Financial Inc. QUOTE: “To me, ‘no’ always meant ‘not right now’ ” Brennon Marcano has no direct reports, but he does have a growing throng of young, loyal followers. Marcano, a 33-year-old software systems specialist at Prudential Financial Inc., where he manages online client account services, […]

NAME: Sandy Aronson TITLE: Director of I.T. COMPANY: Harvard Medical School–Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics CAREER: Working on a Master’s in biology at Harvard University Passion is more than a word to Sandy Aronson. The 38-year-old director of IT at Harvard Medical School–Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics is so committed to […]

What defines today’s successful CIOs? Do they keep costs down or drive ROI? Do they show a knack for developing innovative approaches to solve problems? As part of its sweeping new report, “Grooming the 2010 CIO,” the Society for Information Management has identified seven key roles successful CIOs assume in the enterprise today. Not surprisingly, […]

British telecom had a problem. Three years ago, as the U.K. telecom giant (now BT Group plc) sought to remake itself from a provider of traditional telephone services into a leader in network-centric IT solutions, it found its own IT shop was a mess. The $34 billion company, which operates in 170 countries, had no […]

As A&E Networks prepares to broadcast reruns of the popular HBO series, The Sopranos, the cable channel is faced with the challenge of building excitement for shows that millions of viewers have already seen. Enter: The Sopranos A&E Connection. Part fantasy football, part scavenger hunt, the idea is for potential A&E Sopranos viewers to find […]

Jeff Peterson, CIO of UNICCO Service Company, a $700 million facilities and equipment management company, has big plans for 2007. He’ll be laying the technology groundwork for the Newton, Mass.-based firm, which maintains offices, production plants and heavy equipment for more than 1,000 clients, to increase its revenues to $1 billion in the next few […]

As expected, our report on the Top 30 IT Trends for 2007 generated quite a stir among readers. The study, culled from the 13 surveys CIO Insight conducted in 2006, broke down the largest upcoming trends in IT strategy, management, security, and technology. The biggest standouts our editors uncovered? Business process improvement will remain a […]