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• In Pictures: 20 iPad business apps every CIO should want

  By Brad Reed | 26 March, 2012 09:05

  iPad apps for sales forces, IT departments and more

• Cloud, mobility top CIO priorites: Analyst

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 12 April, 2011 14:30

  CIOs are looking to ‘lighter weight’ technologies including cloud computing and mobility in order to deliver results for their organisation, according to a recent Gartner survey.

• Taming the ERP Integration Beast: A Work in Progress

  By Thomas Wailgum | 10 June, 2010 07:25

  CIOs have been talking about enterprise application integration for as long as they've been talking about business-IT alignment or proving the value of the IT function. That is to say,for decades.

• Career turning points: Keep IT all about the users

  By Diane Frank | 29 May, 2010 04:01

  A chance elective in college brought Jackie Lucas into IT, but a passion for people led her to become a CIO.

• Microsoft CIO talks cloud, economic rebound

  By Chris Kanaracus | 05 May, 2010 04:59

  In one way, the global recession "felt like more of the same" for Microsoft CIO Tony Scott. "The boss comes in and says, 'We want to cut costs.'"

• Canadian CIOs admit lack of security awareness

  By Shane Schick | 17 April, 2010 05:06

  Have hackers, bonets or rogue ex-employees managed to steal mission-critical data from the enterprise? Don't ask the CIO.

• CIO study says IT leaders could one day be CEOs

  By Shane Schick | 17 April, 2010 05:16

  Canadian CIOs have all the key leadership competencies they need if they were motivated to one day take on a CEO job and running an entire enterprise, based on research findings presented at an industry event on Thursday.

• Google hosts 400 CIOs, updates Docs

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 13 April, 2010 06:55

  Google's enterprise division is hosting several hundred CIOs on Monday at its headquarters, where it will unveil enhancements to its Docs office suite, including a revamped code base.

• SMB IT advocate: All bark, no bite?

  By David Ramli | 04 March, 2010 13:15

  Small and medium-sized IT providers have welcomed the Federal Government’s plans to appoint an SMB IT advocate, but some claim nothing will change unless it gains extra powers.

• IDC: Three in four CIOs retain IT staff and budget in 2009

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 13 November, 2009 13:20

  Just one-quarter of Australian organisations have made cuts to IT budgets or staff during the economic crisis, according to IDC’s new industry findings.

• Unisys service uses the cloud to manage mobile devices

  By John Ribeiro | 01 October, 2009 10:21

  Unisys is introducing a new service on Wednesday that will allow its customers to better manage, secure and support mobile devices carried around by employees, company executives said on Tuesday.

• CIOs seek better results, lower costs

  By Denise Dubie | 28 September, 2009 07:38

  CIOs and IT leaders can see the light at the end of the dark economic tunnel, but that hasn’t shifted the majority of their focus from increasing productivity and reducing costs, according to recent research.

• White House CIO to disclose cloud computing plans

  By Robert McMillan | 11 September, 2009 13:18

  White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will explain how the federal government plans to offer cloud computing services to U.S. agencies at a Silicon Valley press event set for next Tuesday.

• IBM's new CIO may already be its most powerful

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 11 September, 2009 05:57

  IBM veteran Pat Toole was recently named CIO at at the company and given much broader responsibilities than his predecessors in the post, which now oversees a far more centralized IT operation.

• Federal CIOs still face cloud computing hurdles

  By Grant Gross | 22 May, 2009 04:43

  U.S. government agencies want to use more cloud-computing services, but several hurdles still stand in the way, including the U.S. government's budgeting process and a lack of understanding of government's needs by vendors, three agency IT executives said.