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Full Nelson Video: Cisco's 'Health Presence' Showcase

Fritz Nelson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:00:00 EST

Cisco is applying its telepresence to healthcare in a compelling effort to lower costs and serve its employees, but it's also a bid to show a tangible business idea beyond its relentless messaging.

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Global CIO: Welcome To The CIO Revolution, Circa 2010

Bob Evans — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about CIO strategies and priorities for 2010 as the CIO Revolution continues.

Global CIO: The CIO's Christmas

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:06:00 EST

A holiday poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss

Global CIO: Oracle's EU Nemesis Mocked Intel After $1.5B Fine

Bob Evans — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST

Column about EC bureaucrat Neelie Kroes fining Intel $1.5 billion and then making jokes about that penalty, and about what type of joke she had planned for Oracle.

Global CIO: Oracle Customer Comments Will Force EU To Yield

Bob Evans — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Oracle customers last week crushed the EU's case against Oracle by saying its databases don't compete with MySQL. But will the EU listen?

Down To Business: The 'Jobs Summit' And The Role Of Government

Rob Preston — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Policy makers don't 'create' IT and other jobs without introducing a ton of waste. They do best when they grease the skids of output and trade.

Practical Analysis: 802.11 -- The Blu-Ray Of Wireless

Art Wittmann — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

While useful, 802.11n is unlikely to be game-changing technology in most enterprise settings.

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Global CIO: Riverbed Sees Cloud Computing Boom In 2010

Bob Evans — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:24:00 EST

Column about how Riverbed is becoming the company that enables and accelerates cloud computing for enterprises and governments.

Global CIO: Why SAP Won't Match Oracle's 22% Maintenance Fees

Bob Evans — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column listing five reasons why SAP will keep its annual maintenance fees at 17% and not raise them to 22% to match Oracle's.

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Global CIO: IBM Supports Oracle But Microsoft Kisses EU Ring

Bob Evans — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:31:00 EST

Column about IBM exec Steve Mills saying MySQL doesn't compete with Oracle products, while Microsoft waits in line to bash Oracle to the EU.

Global CIO: General Motors CIO On 4 Essential IT Skills

Chris Murphy — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:19:00 EST

GM CIO Kline would like to hire people with all 4 into the new GM. But how can IT pros get this broad experience?

Global CIO: Steve Jobs Is Bugs Bunny But Microsoft Is Elmer Fudd

Bob Evans — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:15:00 EST

Column about how Apple and Steve Jobs operate like Bugs Bunny, while Microsoft bumbles along like Elmer Fudd.

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Global CIO: The 50 Top Tech Quotes For 2009, Part II

Bob Evans — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about Top 50 Tech Quotes Of 2009, Part II.

Global CIO: The Top 50 Tech Quotes From 2009

Bob Evans — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column containing 50 of the most-compelling IT-related quotations from 2009.

Practical Analysis: Pundits, Facts, And Competing Goals

Art Wittmann — Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

There's no silver bullet when it comes to building a technically competent enterprise content management strategy.

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Global CIO: Outsourcer HCL To Cut Insurer's Costs By $150 Million

Bob Evans — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about HCL winning a huge deal with Equitable Life to provide end-to-end processes including not only IT infrastructure and services but also business services.

Global CIO: Will SAP Move To Tiered Maintenance Fees?

Bob Evans — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about how SAP's recent vague changes to its pricing and licensing models and its decision to postpone maintenance-fee increases until 2010 might mean it's going to overhaul how it charges for support.

Global CIO: Fear Of Facebook For The Enterprise

Chris Murphy — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Enterprise social networking, at its worst, looks like another way to get buried in data.

Government CIOs Must Focus On Results, Not Data Centers

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:07:00 EST

Data center proliferation entails unacceptable cost and risk, says the former CIO of the U.S. Postal Service. With cloud computing as an option, it's time to pursue a more sustainable strategy.

Global CIO: Oracle, Larry Ellison, The EU, And MySQL

Bob Evans — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:10:00 EST

Column about how politics and declining European involvement in the IT business are behind the EU's badgering of Oracle over the MySQL database.

Down To Business: How Indian CIOs Stack Up

Rob Preston — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

IBM thinks they're more progressive than CIOs elsewhere in the world, given their emphasis on innovation, customers, and other strategic matters.

Practical Analysis: Smartphones -- Passion To Profit And Productivity

Art Wittmann — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Mobile apps are hard to support, they're a new development discipline, and they have a squishy ROI--but they can't be ignored.

Global CIO: The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405

Bob Evans — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about angel-inspired events on last night's USAirways flight #3405.

Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent

Fritz Nelson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:09:00 EST

An interview with the city's mayor and IT principals about DataSF.org and its groundbreaking applications

Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers

Alexander Wolfe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:00 EST

Justin Rattner talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking

Practical Analysis: How Locked In To Vendors Are You?

Art Wittmann — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Stem-to-stern storage, networking, and management products are coming from several vendors. Is that a positive trend?

Global CIO: Microsoft Data Center Strategy Vital To Azure

Chris Murphy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:24:00 EST

Microsoft's envisions a more just-in-time approach to bringing on data center capacity.

Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers

Bob Evans — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

Column about the possibility that Oracle might suspend its operations in Europe to bypass the EC's absurd and unreasonable conditions on approving the Oracle-Sun acquisition.

Full Nelson: A Web Presence Needs Sizzle, For Shizzle

Fritz Nelson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:31:00 EST

Customer engagement is the future of the Web. For the bold and the willing, successful ideas are there for the trying -- just don't try too hard.

Global CIO: Building A Brand Takes IT Flexibility

Brian Gillooly — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:04:00 EST

There are fundamental differences in how marketing and IT see their roles, and the world. And it's bad for a company's brand when the CIO and marketing execs don't get along.

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Global CIO: Instead of 'China Out,' 3Com Goes In With HP

Chris Murphy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

3Com tried to take on the world from China. Easier said than done. Now it's turning to Hewlett-Packard