Last week, in “An Open Letter to the CEO: What IT Really Needs,” we outlined the three big steps your CEO can take to improve IT performance and ROI. We received such a strong response to the article–and so many…
E-commerce, mobile computing, tablets and other emerging channels have become so important to Best Buy that the company is rebuilding internal IT resources it outsourced seven years ago. Best Buy is hiring some 200 IT professionals as part of this…
Google spent $680 million on its data center infrastructure in the third quarter of 2011, a decline from recent quarters. The slight decrease in infrastructure investment is likely tied to the completion of two of the company’s data center projects.…
Someday, cloud security vendors and cloud services providers will convince enterprise IT that it’s safe to move sensitive data and mission critical apps from the private cloud to the public cloud. Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived. Security practitioners,…
RIM did more dancing around the issues than frank sharing as it tried to explain the BlackBerry outage–leaving CIOs to speculate. And goodwill’s running short. After an almost four-day outage of RIM’s Blackberry service, RIM’s co-CEOs gave a status update…
