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iCloud and iOS 5: New Challenges for the Enterprise
The ongoing march of iPads and iPhones into workplaces is beginning to make Apple a fairly common tech brand in businesses and enterprises.
CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco explains how you can avoid six very common--and even more annoying--foursquare no-nos and offers a handful of general location-based service (LBS) etiquette tips.
If you're worried about certain pictures of yourself on Facebook, now's the time to delete them. Security firm Sophos issued a warning on Tuesday saying the social networking site had enabled facial recognition technology on accounts without informing users of the change.
At Texas hospitals, iPads and iPhones sever the desktop computing cord giving doctors and nurses more mobility and more time to spend more time with their patients.
A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6.
A new document in a year-old patent lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google over Android intellectual property suggests Oracle could be seeking huge damages from Google.
Windows 8 will work on more devices, which will create complications for enterprises as the consumerization of IT gathers steam. The major challenges: hardware and application incompatibility and Windows upgrade fatigue.
IT roles are fundamentally changing in nature to cope with a hugely different workforce and business environment, according to Forrester.
With the announcement of the Google Wallet mobile payment system last week, small businesses will have new ways to process credit cards while shoppers can make 'contactless' payments.
How quickly the world of smartphones has changed. Two years ago, a story about the best models would have featured the iPhone and some BlackBerry handsets, with Android-based phones scarcely mentioned.
Being at the top of a search engine results page can mean the difference between business success and failure. So, what would you do to ensure a listing there?
News
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What it Takes to Be a Proactive IT Leader - ICloud: What You Need to Know
- Laptop Thieves Stopped! Amazing Recovery Stories
- Verizon Confirms Sales of Its Galaxy S II 'Superphone' Start in July
- New Cisco Edge Routers Optimized for IPv6 Traffic
- How the Apple ICloud Compares to Google's Cloud
- Penn. School District Hit with New Mac Spying Lawsuit
- Microsoft Upgrades Bing Webmaster Tools
- Say Goodbye to Google Search Portals for Linux, Mac and More
- IPv6 Traffic Surges At Launch of World IPv6 Day
Applications
- HP: Oracle is Legally Bound to Reverse Itanium Decision
- Options for Cloud, SaaS Data Integration Grow
- Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition
- Google Adds Download Defense to Chrome, Patches 15 Bugs
- Major Damages Sought in Oracle-Google Patent Dispute
- Business Video: Get Ready for the Surge
- Virtualized Environments Painfully Insecure?
- Oracle Fixes 17 Bugs in Java Security Update
- Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint
- Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Counterfeit Software
Careers
- Hot Job: Why Your IT Department Needs Data Scientists
- Turn IT Pros Into 'Compassionate Geeks'
- Career Watch: IT Employment Tops 4M
- Internet Architect Vint Cerf to Young People: Science and Tech Careers Can Be Rewarding
- N.C. Outsourcing Deal Leads to IT Layoffs
- Can the iPad Cure What Ails Us?
- Forrester: IT Departments Face Decade of Fundamental Change
- IT Workers' Mobility Hindered By Incomparable Qualifications
- Hospitals Compete for IT Talent with Funding At Stake
- What We’re Reading from the June 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine
Cloud Computing
- New Cisco Edge Routers Optimized for IPv6 Traffic
- How the Apple ICloud Compares to Google's Cloud
- Options for Cloud, SaaS Data Integration Grow
- Riverbed Releases WAN Cloud Storage Gateway Appliances
- HP Sets $2B in Financing to Speed Cloud Adoption
- VMware CEO: What We Plan for the Post-PC Era
- ICloud and IOS 5: New Challenges for the Enterprise
- Data Center Group Issues Cloud Usage Guidelines
- U.S., Chinese, EU Firms Push Cloud Standards
- ITunes in the Cloud Versus Other Music Services
Data Center
- New Cisco Edge Routers Optimized for IPv6 Traffic
- Riverbed Releases WAN Cloud Storage Gateway Appliances
- Data Center Group Issues Cloud Usage Guidelines
- Apple iCloud: A Visual Tour
- High on ICloud, Apple Slates MobileMe's Demise
- How To Develop a Cloud Computing Error Logging Strategy
- HP Announces Converged Storage Strategy, Products
- 2011 Marconi Prize Goes to Giants of Cellular Communications, Data Storage
- Why There's No Nobel Prize in Computing
- Giving Cloud Storage the Ax
Mobile
- Verizon Confirms Sales of Its Galaxy S II 'Superphone' Start in July
- New Cisco Edge Routers Optimized for IPv6 Traffic
- Penn. School District Hit with New Mac Spying Lawsuit
- Industry Upbeat About IPv6 Day Despite Low Traffic Volume
- Next-Gen Marketing Combines Local, Social and Mobile
- 10 Things to Know About the Move to IPv6
- Polycom to Acquire HP Telepresence Business
- Oracle Seeks Hefty Slice of Google's Ad Revenue
- LTE Outperforms 42M Bps HSPA+ on Streets of Stockholm
- Skype Sign-in Problems Knock Millions Offline
Web 2.0
- Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition
- Twitter Rolls Out Automatic URL Shortening
- Security Firm Issues Alert on Facebook Facial Recognition
- Greenpeace Campaign Makes Online Trouble
- Next-Gen Marketing Combines Local, Social and Mobile
- Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint
- Facebook Raring to Give IPv6 a Test Flight
- Popular Chinese Microblog By Sina to Launch English Version
- Social Media Users Share Web Content in Limited Ways
- Police: Man Stole Nude Photos From Hacked E-Mail Accounts
Virtualization
- Virtualized Environments Painfully Insecure?
- VMware CEO: What We Plan for the Post-PC Era
- Build a Secure, Customer-Driven Enterprise with an Identity and Context Virtualization Service
- Brocade's Virtualization Strategy: We Use Everything
- Microsoft Research Virtualizes Idle Desktops to Save Power
- How Windows 8 Will Challenge Enterprise IT
- Battle Looms Over Securing Virtualized Systems
- Virtualization, 10G Ethernet Streamline Cisco User's Data Center
- Citrix Expands Virtualization, from the Data Center to the iPad
- Citrix Overhauls Virtual Desktop Products for 'Personal Cloud'
Security
- Penn. School District Hit with New Mac Spying Lawsuit
- Greek Police Arrest Teen on Hacking Charges
- Google Adds Download Defense to Chrome, Patches 15 Bugs
- Microsoft Pursues Botnet Herders Via Russian Newspapers
- Riverbed Releases WAN Cloud Storage Gateway Appliances
- Virtualized Environments Painfully Insecure?
- Judge Rules Against Trial in Lawsuit By Victim of $588K Cyber Heist
- Security Firm Issues Alert on Facebook Facial Recognition
- Oracle Fixes 17 Bugs in Java Security Update
- Risk's Rewards: Organizational Models for ERM
Outsourcing
- 5 Tips for Getting Better Results From Your IT Contractor
- Tips for Picking an IaaS Provider
- N.C. Outsourcing Deal Leads to IT Layoffs
- Forrester: IT Departments Face Decade of Fundamental Change
- Clearwire Outsources Support to TeleTech
- 4 Ways CIOs Can Get Outsourcers to Focus on Business Value
- New Rules May Bring 'False H-1B Demand'
- Infosys Faces Grand Jury As Visa Probe Broadens
- HP Signs Deal to Acquire Printelligent
- Outsourcing Customers Focus on SLAs to Detriment of Business Transformation
Operating Systems
- Penn. School District Hit with New Mac Spying Lawsuit
- Say Goodbye to Google Search Portals for Linux, Mac and More
- 8 Hot Features in Windows 8
- Google Adds Download Defense to Chrome, Patches 15 Bugs
- ICloud and IOS 5: New Challenges for the Enterprise
- Oracle Seeks Hefty Slice of Google's Ad Revenue
- Microsoft Windows 8 Demos Spur Developer Worry
- WWDC: Apple Unveils IOS 5
- Lion Revealed, Will Ship in July for $30
- Windows 1.0: Still Playing Reversi After All These Years
Data Center Definitions & Solutions
What is a data center? How are data centers managed? What data center technologies should I be aware of?
CIO 100 2011
The 2011 CIO 100 Awards honor 100 companies that are accelerating business results by innovating with technology. Find out who they are.
More and more organizations are looking to service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate and maintain, hard to change, and rely on a dwindling set of skills, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems. At the same time organizations are asking three important questions: 1) Since I hear different things, what exactly is SOA, anyway? 2) If I use it, how is it going to help my organization eliminate cost, increase agility, deal with dwindling legacy skill sets, and address compliance? 3) Given that it hasvalue, how do I get there? This white paper, part of the Oracle IT Modernization Series, addresses all three of these questions.
Sponsored by Oracle
The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied-and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices-business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0-is providing a solution.
Sponsored by Oracle
To successfully adopt SOA, a company must create a plan that addresses the full extent of the changes required for SOA. For the past five years Oracle has been working with a wide variety of companies that are in various stages of SOA adoption. This experience has been captured in the Oracle SOA Maturity Model such that this collective experience can be used to measure the progress of an SOA initiative and, more importantly, can identify specific capabilities that are lacking or lagging and are therefore inhibiting the SOA initiative. This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption.
Sponsored by Oracle
Undoubtedly, SOA has entered the mainstream but that doesn't mean it should be embraced without caution and adequate governance practices in place. The arrival of next-generation SOA tools from leading vendors, means companies can now tackle governance issues sooner rather than later. These new tools provide the visibility, control and analytics to govern how services and processes are deployed, re-used and changed across their entire lifecycle. Whether you are just embarking on an SOA program or expanding an existing initiative, the latest governance solutions can guide you along the path to demonstrable, measurable SOA success. Read this white paper now to see why there's never been a better time to confidently invest in SOA.
Sponsored by Oracle
Please join us for a live webinar on June 29th at 2pm EST as we show you how to conduct a complete analytic process and trace your steps along the way. We will show you how to perform tasks at each stage in the process, so that you can validate your data and visualize the results prior to sharing.
You will learn that a data-driven approach really will give you the best insight.
* Acquire data easily
* Build complex analytics
* Inspect your data
* Create and share results
* Trace your steps
***Thank you for your interest in this event. Currently, we are only accepting registrants from the United States and Canada to participate in the live webinar.****
Sponsored by MDA
The rapid emergence of private cloud in enterprises across virtually every industry has introduced cost and operational efficiencies into IT departments all over the world. The biggest opportunities, however, revolve around leveraging the new IT service delivery models enabled by private cloud to transform the relationship IT has with business units.
This webcast will explore how the most effective organizations are utilizing the private cloud to address key business imperatives - to not just reduce costs...but to drive innovation, differentiation and top-line growth.
Sponsored by Microsoft & HP
When: June 22nd (11 AM ET / 8 AM PT)
ATERNITY will showcase a live 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
**Bonus Analyst Brief**
All registrants will receive a complimentary copy of Enterprise Management Associate's Impact Brief detailing the innovation and new capabilities of Aternity's FPI Platform Version 5.0.
Sponsored by Aternity
Discussion on the latest trends in enterprise mobility with the expert authors of the Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011. Topics covered include the latest trends in mobile device management and app development-platforms such as iOS, RIM and Android and hardware such as smartphones and tablets.
Sponsored by Sybase
CALL IN - June 28 — Key Advice for High Achieving Women in IT
Join this webcast, part of the Council's Executive Women in IT continuing education series, to discuss how women can advance in a male-dominated profession. Contribute your own experiences to help find paths forward, and to identify roadblocks and how to overcome them. This is part of an ongoing Council-led effort with the in-person workshop series in addition to the webcasts. Register Now
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ATTEND - Executive Women in IT Breakfast Series: San Francisco, Chicago
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DOWNLOAD - How to Improve Leadership Depth in the Senior IT Team — Public Executive Summary
The Future-State CIO®
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