| Career Turning Points: Step Up to the Big Challenges |
| Formative Lessons from Successful IT Leaders - A CIO Executive Council Pathways career development monthly series
09/01/2010
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| Blue Coat Brings in New CEO |
| Blue Coat Systems has brought in a new CEO, spinning the change as a way to free up outgoing boss Brian Nesmith from the daily grind of managing the company to instead work on product strategy.
08/31/2010
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| More IT Managers Plan to Spend Less, Oracle Struggles with Users, Survey Finds |
| A survey by research firm TheInfoPro indicated that IT managers plan to spend less this year and next on data storage systems, preferring to do more with what they already have.
08/30/2010
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| The Role of IT in Strengthening the Modern Corporate Enterprise |
| IT in the modern enterprise has evolved from a back-office component to a core operational constituent that can improve business performance and increase shareholder value. CIOs now have an opportunity to demonstrate a truly executive level-leadership role in defining their enterprises.
08/30/2010
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| Why IT Costs Must Come Out of the Black Box--Now |
| Full IT cost transparency is not a "nice to have" anymore, says a new Forrester Research report. It's a required competency that organizations will need to avoid two big business pitfalls and remain competitive.
08/30/2010
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| Red Hat Board Gets Military Leadership |
| The Red Hat board of directors appoints ex Army General H. Hugh Shelton as director.
08/29/2010
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| IT Works Out, Gets Fit |
| The phrase "team-building exercise" has a literal meaning for the IT staff at JM Family Enterprises Inc.
08/26/2010
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| CIO 100: How to Build an IT Culture of Trust |
| What makes one IT team perform better than another? Trust. From the CIO 100 Symposium this week, here's expert advice on how IT leaders can foster a culture of trust, not fear.
08/23/2010
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| 5 Indispensable IT Skills of the Future |
| In the year 2020, technical expertise will no longer be the sole province of the IT department. Employees throughout the organization will understand how to use technology to do their jobs.
08/22/2010
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| Stress Relief: 11 Ways to Prevent Burnout and Improve Work-Life Balance |
| CIOs share practices they employ on and off their jobs to make their workloads more bearable, reduce stress, improve their work-life balance and prevent IT career burnout.
08/19/2010
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| HP Hires Firm to Lead CEO Search to Replace Hurd |
| HP has signed on executive search firm Spencer Stuart to lead its bid to find a replacement for former chairman, president and CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal.
08/17/2010
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| 5 Reasons IT Pros Should Be Paranoid |
| IT organizations have a lot on their plates, and keeping the data center humming is only part of the equation. Factor in the threats coming at IT from every direction, and you can see why IT pros have ample reason to be paranoid. The invasion of consumer devices into the workplace, the rush toward cloud computing, the constant vigilance to prevent data spills, all while managing a meager budget in an era when your career can be cut short at any time can cause even the most level-headed IT pro to start looking over his shoulder.
08/15/2010
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| Former Sun CEO Joins 'Talent Intelligence' Company Board |
| Since leaving his post as CEO of Sun Microsystems in February, Jonathan Schwartz has been largely quiet, despite promises to keep people updated via Twitter and his blog. Now he's turned up on the board of Taleo.
08/11/2010
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| Stupid Data Center Tricks |
| A university network brought to its knees when someone inadvertently plugged two network cables into the wrong hub. An employee injured after an ill-timed entry into a data center. Overheated systems shut down after a worker changes a data center thermostat setting from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
08/11/2010
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| The Short List for HP's Next CEO Could Be Long |
| Analysts are developing a short list of candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. Not surprisingly, some of the names are familiar.
08/10/2010
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