Analyst Corner

More CIOs Planning to Spend Money, Hire IT Staff

Our exclusive survey finds more CIOs are expecting to increase their budgets than at any time since mid-2008. There's some good news about staffing, too.

Research

CIO Technology Survey Results

Top Technologies of Interest to IT Buyers Today: Cloud Computing, BI, Business Process Management

Research

Exclusive Unified Communications Survey Results

Early Unified Communications Adopters Cite Improvements to Productivity & Information Delivery

Analyst Corner

Cloud Computing Survey: Adoption Prospects Are Hazy

IT buyers are uncertain about savings from cloud computing, while concerns about security are on the rise.

Infrastructure

The State of Cloud Computing in Japan

What can you learn from a conversation with Japan's second-largest telco, which is also a cloud service provider? Plenty, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

Applications

Nintendo Wii Left Out in the Cold This Holiday Season

Nintendo's charmed status as the holiday gift that defied even the recession seems to be ending. Should Nintendo's supply chain planners have seen this coming?

Development

Meet "The Fixer" for Troubled IT Projects: Jason Coyne

Consultant Jason Coyne shows up at your IT project for one reason: To cure it or kill it. In this Q&A with CIO.com, Coyne explains why he's one part doctor, one part marriage counselor, and how he helps IT teams at odds with a vendor or integrator recover from near disaster.

Architecture

How Service Oriented Architecture Helps a Music Promoter Keep the Hits Coming

Artist 2 Market clients Spinal Tap, Dolly Parton and Tommy Lee use service oriented architecture-based applications to promote their work to fans

Personal

More Jobs Vanish: IT's Gains Are Real People's Losses

Improved IT means many jobs cut in this recession have been cut forever, some job hunters are now learning. While long-sought efficiency improvements have arrived, not everyone is celebrating.

IT Organization

Hot Jobs: ITIL Manager

Why you need an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) manager, and how to go about hiring one.

Enterprise

Nintendo Wii Left Out in the Cold This Holiday Season

Nintendo's charmed status as the holiday gift that defied even the recession seems to be ending. Should Nintendo's supply chain planners have seen this coming?

Partner/Vendor

IT Outsourcing: Think Twice Before You Issue a Single RFP

Sure, the big outsourcing providers can offer application development and infrastructure services. But just because they do doesn't mean you should send them a single RFP if you need to provision both. Pace Harmon's Steve Martin explains the circumstances in which it makes sense to issue separate RFPs.

Corporate Issues

When Did a Billion Become Boring?

'One million'-anything used to be impressive. Now, even 1 billion is blah. Just one example: Number 326 on Forbes' list of the wealthiest Americans is worth just more than one billion. Are we jaded, or have we lost perspective on all those zeros?

Environment

How Xcel Energy Plans to Help Customers Cut Their Electric Bills

An online dashboard aims to provide Xcel Energy electricity customers with tools to fine-tune their power consumption and their bills.

Government

You Can Outsource City Hall, but Not Offshore--Yet

Faced with declining revenue and increased demand for IT services, state and local governments are looking to third-party IT providers for help, even amid some high profile public sector outsourcing disasters. And while offshoring remains off the table for the public sector for now, the recession could force state and local governments to reconsider offshore sourcing options.