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Connected Health and IoT in healthcare delivery: Are we ready?

Connected health and IoT can be powerful forces for change in healthcare delivery. Conflicting reimbursement models and low adoption rates for mHealth applications are among the issues we need to address.

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Healthcare Industry Internet of Things

Modeling complexity: Iterative risks and opportunities

Leveraging technology to help pinpoint, understand, and model the impact of potential points of failure.

By Paul Bradley

Big Data Data Mining Predictive Analytics

3 and a half fundamentals of IT investment that every SME needs to know

Making decisions on your IT plans are often plagued with inconsistent information and a general lack of knowledge. Focusing your decision-making process on your business goals may help to minimize the confusion.

By Chris Enstrom

IT Strategy Microsoft 365 Small and Medium Business

Why a stylus beats the Apple Pencil for navigating iOS

Yes, you can use the Apple Pencil to navigate iOS but a stylus is still better in some ways. The Apple Pencil still can't access the Control Center or Notification Center, and it can't move forward and backward between web pages in Safari.

By Jim Lynch

iOS iPad iPhone

Whirlpool CIO tackles ERP overhaul and IoT-powered appliances

CIO Mike Heim is replacing Whirlpoolu2019s aging SAP ERP systems with the vendor's HANA software, and is working closely with IBM on its Internet of Things predictive analytics platform.

By Clint Boulton

CIO ERP Systems Internet of Things

Does Linux need a data loss prevention solution?

Even if Linux is secure by design, the data residing on these machines is not secure and thatu2019s exactly what one company is trying to protect.rn

Linux Open Source Security

How one CTO built a culture of trust and engagement

When Joe McBreen took over as CTO of St. Vrain Valley School District in 2009, he walked into an IT nightmare. Seven years later, he's turned things around. Here's how he did it.rn

C-Suite CTO IT Jobs

8 things keeping security professionals up at night

As the need for enterprise data and technology grows, it only widens the skills gap for security professionals. That means, security professionals are feeling the pressure to get more done with less.

By Sarah K. White

CIO Cloud Security Cybercrime

How writing better requirement details drives software purchase success

We look at four places where requirement descriptions are used, and consider how writing better description details can help make a major software purchase more successful.

By Chris Doig

Business IT Alignment IT Governance IT Strategy

Discovering top-line growth through innovation

Business transformation requires focus on top-line growth. In order for innovation to accelerate business transformation, innovation must be sustainable, and as a result top-line growth must be impacted.

By Peter B. Nichol

Health and Fitness Software IT Leadership Technology Industry

Why IT people should also be business people

With respect to the concept of the duality of man. There is a built-in duality between non-IT people and IT people that we need to understand and embrace.

By Paul T. Cottey

IT Leadership Technology Industry

The 4 slides you need

Introducing a new technology solution requires 4 basic image slides.

By Theodore May

C-Suite CIO IT Skills

Living and breathing innovation

To be a truly innovative organization, it takes dedication and a willingness to take risk in order to expand and grow.

By Larry Stofko

CIO CMO CTO

3 words that explain why the consumer Internet of Things will get big, fast

Ever wish your car could heat itself up on a cold morning? APIs are the answer.

By Bryan Kirschner

Consumer Electronics Internet of Things Software Development

Are you still struggling with your data?

Data-centric companies are becoming the ones to beat in today's marketplace. Are you prepared for the shift?

By Treb Gatte

Data Mining IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Is your big data effort a big deal?

If not, it's time to make it one!

By Greg Simpson

Analytics Big Data

Avoiding a digital Frankenstein

A lesson for CIOs and CMOs.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Collaboration Software IT Leadership Small and Medium Business

Software Freedom Conservancy: Canonical’s distribution of ZFS file systems violates GNU GPL

ZFS will come pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04, a move that the Software Freedom Conservancy says violates the GNU GPL license.rn

Linux Open Source Operating Systems

What problems are digital solutions solving?

Going digital for digital's sake doesn't always deliver the kinds of benefits enterprises need. First, define the business problem, then tell me how technology can solve it.

By Esteban Herrera

Emerging Technology Outsourcing Technology Industry

Facebook’s Canvas a ‘big moment’ for mobile ads

Facebook yesterday announced a new full-screen, mobile ad format called Canvas that's designed to help advertisers engage customers with detailed brand experiences.

By Matt Kapko

Feb 26, 2016 5 mins

Facebook Internet Small and Medium Business

How long can IT outsourcing deliver more for less?

Digital transformation is driving even smaller and shorter deals for IT service providers, but how low can providers go?

By Stephanie Overby

Outsourcing Technology Industry

Obama’s plan looks to revolutionize healthcare

The Precision Medicine Initiative seeks to develop a vast database of patient information to enable researchers to gain new insights into diseases and tailor individualized treatment.

By Kenneth Corbin

Big Data Government Healthcare Industry

CIO/CISO takes unorthodox route to the C-suite

CIO and CISO Tammy Moskites says companies face mounting risks from insecure digital certificates in the era of the Internet of Things u2013 itu2019s those cybersecurity threats that drew her to the dual C-suite role at Venafi.

By Clint Boulton

CIO Careers IT Leadership

Business leaders struggle with cloud, big data and IoT security

New survey of enterprise leaders highlights concerns over security in new IT architectures as sensitive data moves to cloud, big data and IoT environments.

By Kenneth Corbin

Big Data Cloud Security Internet of Things

Why meeting face-to-face still trumps videoconferencing

Many have tried and many have failed to build a videoconferencing system that was affordable and practical. Logitech has recently come up with a system addresses the tech issues. However, columnist Rob Enderle writes that folks still prefer meeting

By Rob Enderle

Enterprise Applications IT Leadership

Amazon Echo’s 5 best new features

Amazon issues updates for its Echo virtual assistant every week, so its feature set constantly grows. Here are the best new Echo updates from the past few months.

By James A. Martin

Feb 25, 2016 4 mins

Computers and Peripherals Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps

Comcast, telcos spent $88M to influence lawmakers in 2015

Do you ever wonder why U.S. cable companies aren't more heavily regulated? One possible reason: Comcast and other telcos spent more on lobbying last year than the aerospace and real estate industries, according to Open Secrets.

By Bill Snyder

Consumer Electronics

IT Resume Makeover: How your older experience can get you hired

You've probably heard about the rules of resume writing and why you should throw out years of experience to keep your resume short. Take a note from this resume makeover and leverage even older work history to sell your professional brand and l

By Sarah K. White

IT Jobs IT Skills Resumes

Social media certainly isn't a fail-proof solution to all of today's corporate communication and collaboration problems, but strategic CIOs and their teams can use social platforms to improve business processes, boost productivity and engag

By Matt Kapko

CIO Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

CIOs look to LinkedIn to recruit (and be recruited)

CIOs are finding a reprieve from the global IT talent vacuum in LinkedIn. IT executives are using the professional social networking platform to land new gigs.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Jobs LinkedIn

Day One 2 customer revolt opens the door for competitors

The journaling app Day One 2 has some very angry customers right now because of the removal of iCloud and DropBox syncing, and that opens the door for a competitor to swoop in and steal some of them away.

By Jim Lynch

iOS iPad iPhone

Verizon charts a different cloud services path

The telecom giant is unloading its data centers to focus on its services business.

By Andy Patrizio

Cloud Computing Data Center Verizon

How IT can help users help themselves

A high-quality, self-service knowledge base search can help users help themselves and ease pressure on your IT department.rn

IT Governance IT Strategy Technology Industry

IT service management, pink elephants and Martin Short

Sounds like some sort of strange dream, doesn't it? It's not u2014 it's the Pink16 conference I attended last week in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CIO CMO CTO

Amdocs integrates Red Hat OpenStack into its Network Cloud Service Orchestrator

Transitioning physical networks into software defined u2018servicesu2019rn

Cloud Computing Linux Open Source

The iPad Pro should have been called the iPad Plus

Apple goofed by stressing professional uses for the iPad Pro instead of simply emphasizing that it's the best iPad ever. And some folks probably won't buy the iPad Pro because of its name.

By Jim Lynch

Feb 24, 2016 5 mins

Small and Medium Business iOS iPad

How different SQL-on-Hadoop engines satisfy BI workloads

A new benchmark of SQL-on-Hadoop engines Impala, Spark and Hive finds they each have their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to Business Intelligence (BI) workloads.

By Thor Olavsrud

Business Intelligence Hadoop SQL

6 things marketers need to know about beacons

Bluetooth 'beacons' are a simple way for marketers to communicate with customers in physical locations, but the platforms and infrastructure behind the tiny wireless sensors can be quite complex. Here's a quick guide to the basics of b

By James A. Martin

Internet Internet of Things Retail Industry

How to manage the risks and costs of software compliance

Software compliance can be a tricky u2013 and expensive u2013 challenge for most IT leaders. Luckily, tech solutions let you manage software assets.

By Bruce Harpham

Compliance Enterprise Applications

Apple, Google, Samsung and others betting on mobile payments

While itu2019s not clear yet which of the many mobile payment systems currently available today will be around for the long haul, thereu2019s no doubt that paying for goods and services with your phone will quickly replace traditional credit cards an

By Sharon Goldman

Mobile Payment Systems Small and Medium Business

Hiring trends for 2016: Welcome to the gig economy

According to a recent study on hiring trends, the number of workers hired as freelance or contract workers has risen in the past two years, and itu2019s expected to increase.

By Sarah K. White

CIO CMO CTO

How to retain your millennial workforce

According to Deloitte, most millennials at your company have one foot out the door and eye on their next position. What can you do to convince them to stay?