CIO Insights

Archive: 01-2013

• How cloud platforms are letting business get experimental

  Public cloud platforms are providing a cost-effective way for companies to experiment with new business ideas.

  Posted by Nick Heath | January 31, 2013, 11:48 AM PST

• Stop doing what the vendors tell you, CIOs told

  Corporate IT strategies are too often bland rehashes of what’s come before, says Gartner after surveying more than 2,000 CIOs on their plans for the coming year.

  Posted by Nick Heath | January 17, 2013, 3:08 AM PST

• Training, not outsourcing, is key to success say CIOs

  IT leaders who focus on training and retaining staff are generally more successful than those buying in talent from outsourcers, a global survey of more than 2,000 CIOs finds.

  Posted by Nick Heath | January 16, 2013, 6:43 AM PST

• Ten business trends for 2013 - and four ways they affect you

  The ratchet of change just went ‘click’ and is the new stable, the new economy, and there is no going back, and what is in store is even more radical.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | January 16, 2013, 1:11 AM PST

• Nerves of glass - Artificial Intelligence and us

  For decades pundits have been describing optical fibre networks as the nervous system of the planet, but none could have guessed just how prophetic that would be.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | January 15, 2013, 2:53 AM PST

• Will 2013 be a better year for the tech department? CIOs think so

  Higher budgets for staffing and tech, plus big data and cloud means this year will be a better year for tech workers than 2012, according to the TechRepublic CIO Jury.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | January 14, 2013, 8:44 AM PST

• Apple and Android tablets to make enterprise land grab this year

  Growth in sales of Android and Apple tablets to business will significantly outstrip that of Wintel PCs and tablets this year, according to a new report.

  Posted by Nick Heath | January 4, 2013, 4:46 AM PST