Jack Rosenberger

By Jack Rosenberger Soon after the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup in 2007, a group of parents whose children attended JSerra High in San Juan Capistrano, a city of 35,000 located 30 miles south of the Duck’s arena in Anaheim, Calif., approached Art Trottier, a Ducks executive, and asked him if the organization would […]

By Jack Rosenberger Nearly four of every 10 dollars in a large organization’s IT budget goes to application support and maintenance (ASM), according to a new survey of 300 U.K. and U.S. CIOs conducted by HCL Technologies. If that budgetary stat isn’t disturbing enough, consider this one: 83 percent of the aforementioned CIOs expect the […]

When it comes to defending her client’s brands and intellectual property in cyberspace, attorney Jennifer C. Wolfe relies on BrandShield, an online brand protection company, and its arsenal of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools. Consider Digital Brand Monitoring Wolfe first became aware of the Israel-based startup because of her participation as a council member of ICANN’s Generic […]

By Jack Rosenberger Cyberspace comes across as a forbidding, often dangerous and now-untrustworthy environment in Threat Horizon 2016, the new state-of-the-cybersecurity landscape report from the Information Security Forum. The annual report’s purpose is to provide a forward-looking view of security threats and issues in cyberspace. The bleak cyber-world portrayed in “Threat Horizon 2016” is heavily […]

By Jack Rosenberger In his first interview as the new CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella recently spoke with The New York Times about the organizational and cultural challenges he faces as the third CEO in the 39-year history of the technology giant. The leadership issues that Nadella discussed are relevant to the day-to-day concerns of […]

By Jack Rosenberger In the wake of the news that Target’s profit fell more than 40 percent during the fourth quarter of 2013, due in large part to a data breach that affected up to 110 million customers, CIO Insight interviewed Eric Cole, a SANS Institute Faculty Fellow and the head of SANS’s Cyber Defense […]

By Jack Rosenberger To better understand the immediate future of enterprise mobility, CIO Insight recently spoke separately with Chris Hazelton, research director of mobile and wireless technologies at 451 Research, and Chris Marsh, a principal analyst of enterprise mobility at Yankee Group. The pair discussed mobility trends, device vendors, mobile ROI, and related developments for […]

By Jack Rosenberger If you’re like me, your work day starts with the creation of the daily to-do list. As the managing editor of CIO Insight, my typical to-do list contains at least a dozen entries, either specific items (such as writing copy for the next day’s CIO Minute e-newsletter) or broad categories (such as […]

By Jack Rosenberger “It’s a good time to be a CIO” is one conclusion to be drawn from the just-released 2013 Society for Information Management (SIM) IT Trends Survey, which reports that most organizations are increasing IT budgets, headcounts and salaries. The 34th annual survey of SIM IT professionals also finds that the average tenure […]

By Jack Rosenberger The top networking trends of 2013 include larger budgets, the continued rollout and expansion of wireless networks, and the return of security as the top pain point for network managers, according to the new TheInfoPro’s Networking Study. Other hot topics include unified communications, network access control and the rollout of mobile device […]

By Jack Rosenberger Without implementation, ideas remain just ideas. Many organizations, however, are not built for supporting innovative ideas, as co-authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble point out in their new book, Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization. Instead, the majority of organizations are built for supporting ongoing operations, or what […]

By Jack Rosenberger Enterprise customers of BlackBerry’s smartphones and enterprise management software should find alternatives to the financially troubled company’s products over the next three to six months, according to a recently released Gartner report, a copy of which was obtained by Computerworld. The Gartner report recommends three courses of action. BlackBerry responded with a […]