it management in pictures

• 

  IN PICTURES: Cisco Live, Day 1 - tradeshow and attendees
• 

  10 IT management companies to watch

• Salesforce.com's Desk.com service adding multilingual support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:19

  Salesforce.com's Desk.com service is about to add multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said Thursday.

• HP says Whitman's politics are her own

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 31 May, 2012 10:27

  Since taking over HP last year, CEO Meg Whitman has continued to help Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. That stance may carry risks ranging from public perception of the company to closer scrutiny by the government.

• BYOD: Time to adjust your privacy expectations

  By Tom Kaneshige | 30 May, 2012 21:09

  Some employees thought they were pretty sneaky downloading confidential data from corporate computers to thumb drives days before they turned in their resignations and bolted to a competitor.

• Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties

  By Fred O'Connor | 23 May, 2012 21:35

  Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 May, 2012 05:29

  CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through '13

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:47

  IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement, and who might be worried about layoffs, a one-time opportunity to participate in a program that would guarantee their employment through Dec. 31, 2013.

• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• Up-and-Coming Tech Jobs

  By Mary K. Pratt | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Any study of the IT labor market is likely to find that project managers and business analysts are in demand, but what about cloud transformation officers?

• 10 questions for Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove

  By Nancy Weil | 31 May, 2012 19:41

  Name: Harry Sverdlove

• 10 questions for Cormant CFO Catherine Goodison

  By Nancy Weil | 28 May, 2012 12:02

  Name: Catherine Goodison

• 10 questions for Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman

  By Nancy Weil | 24 May, 2012 14:11

  Name: Amichai Shulman

• CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship

  By Stephen Lawson | 14 December, 2010 08:29

  Running the internal IT operations of Cisco Systems is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalisation in the range of $US100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT.

• Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 09:53

  What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

• MIT's JoAnne Yates on information overload, 'CrackBerry' addicts and the 'always online' life

  By Matt Hamblen | 18 November, 2008 08:19

  MIT Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates is co-author of an upcoming article on information overload called "Ubiquitous E-mail: Individual Experiences and Organizational Consequences of BlackBerry Use"

• In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

• Five things CIOs should know about big data

  By Joab Jackson | 15 May, 2012 01:56

  Five key points CIOs should know when considering big data

• Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?

  By Lamont Wood | 08 May, 2012 20:56

  Out went 42 aging black and white copiers with interface boxes that let them serve as printers. In went 42 new networked multi-function printers (MFPs) that could do color printing and copying and scan directly to e-mail, fax or files. And the owner, the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO, saves $19,000 yearly.

• True tech confessions: Sinners and winners

  By Dan Tynan | 07 May, 2012 22:55

  We all make mistakes. But when you work in IT, those errors can quickly go public.

• 10 predictions for what the CIO Role will look like in 2020

  By John Brandon | 04 May, 2012 01:39

  At the same time, we also know that technology will change dramatically. Who could have predicted even 10 years ago that the CIO would have to deal with complications such as cloud security and virtualisation? To find out how the role will change in eight years, we tapped industry leaders, analysts and CIOs themselves to discover what the challenges of 2020 for the CIO will be like. Here's what we found out.

• Top CIOs predict future of the CIO role

  By Kim S. Nash | 24 April, 2012 00:32

  Five years from now, the CIO will be a better, faster, stronger version of today's top IT leader, practically running the company single-handedly. Or maybe other business executives will become more educated about IT and decide to hire cloud companies to do it all, leaving the poor CIO to wither, enforcing service-level agreements for a living. For almost as long as there have been CIOs, we've heard breathless speculation about whether the position will last, and if so, in what form.

• The upside of shadow IT

  By Julia King | 23 April, 2012 23:55

  First, a scary statistic: Gartner predicts that in less than three years, 35 per cent of enterprise IT expenditures will happen outside of the corporate IT budget. Employees will regularly subscribe to collaboration, analytic and other Cloud services they want, all with the press of a button. Others will simply build their own applications using readily available Cloud-based tools and development platforms.

• Four critical trends in IT business continuity

  By Bob Violino | 03 April, 2012 00:28

  In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.