CIO Insights

Archive: 05-2012

• Shadow IT Cheat Sheet

  Here’s what you need to know about shadow IT, why it is lurking inside your organisation and what you should do about it.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 31, 2012, 4:17 AM PDT

• IT department ‘re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic’ as execs bypass the CIO

  Disaster warning for the CIO as frustrated business execs bypass IT and hire their own tech teams.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 30, 2012, 5:01 AM PDT

• The boss is watching, look busy: Employers step up social media snooping

  Employers are planning to routinely monitor what staff say on social networks - but risk finding out too much about their workers’ personal lives

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 29, 2012, 8:46 AM PDT

• Revealed: The jobs that will be wiped out by cloud computing

  As businesses switch to cloud computing demand for some traditional IT roles will plummet - but new, different jobs will be created instead.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 29, 2012, 5:08 AM PDT

• BYOD and cloud: The keys to making the IT department liked again?

  Letting go of the physical infrastructure is key to the IT department being taken seriously - but can CIOs really make the jump?

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 29, 2012, 4:46 AM PDT

• Desktop virtualisation still not (quite) ready for primetime, say CIOs

  Adoption of desktop virtualisation has been slower than server virtualisation, but it is starting to appear on the CIO’s to-do list

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 29, 2012, 3:16 AM PDT

• EMC is changing - but will its customers get the message?

  EMC’s acquisitions and ambitions in information management are turning it into more than a storage vendor. The big question is how far its customers understand that change.

  Posted by Clive Longbottom | May 28, 2012, 7:10 AM PDT

• Does IT need an image makeover? Top tips for winning over the business

  IT tends to neglect its own PR - and often only steps up communications with the business when things have already gone wrong. That approach has to change, say a growing number of IT leaders.

  Posted by Mark Samuels | May 28, 2012, 3:27 AM PDT

• How the cloud will change IT and finance from foes into friends

  Finance and IT aren’t often thought of as best friends - but cloud computing gives the two some common ground

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 28, 2012, 3:13 AM PDT

• Finance chiefs seize control of tech spending

  CIOs need to play nicely with the CFO over technology purchasing - but rarely do.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 25, 2012, 7:49 AM PDT