February 4th, 2012
Scott Shuster an onstage chairman of prominent business and governmental events, will moderate directIT Chicago’s CIOpanel at the Trump International Towers on Thursday February 9. For more than 15 years, Scott Shuster has been …
January 23rd, 2012
The CIOsynergy team announced today that Infineta, the first and only Wide Area Network (WAN) vendor focused on accelerating Big Traffic traversing inter-data center WANs has confirmed sponsorship of directIT Chicago February 9, at …
December 22nd, 2011
Former Federal Aviation Administration chief information officer David Bowen joined the Office of Personnel Management as its chief technology officer earlier this month. He will play a major role in modernizing the government’s retirement system, …
December 22nd, 2011
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced that Martin Schoenthaler will join the company as chief information officer on Jan. 1, 2012. He will report to Ray Young, senior vice president and chief …
December 22nd, 2011
Mayor Dewey Bartlett announced the promotion of Tom Golliver to Chief Information Officer for the City of Tulsa, effective Jan. 1, 2012. “I am pleased to appoint Tom Golliver to this critical position for …
September 18th, 2011
. From Data Networks to Mobile Platforms, Marketers Are Finding Themselves Arm-in-Arm With Tech Teams CMOS, meet your new BFF, the CIO. We know you and the tech guys might not have gotten along …
August 27th, 2011
. Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, will become the next chief information officer for the federal government — a bigger, more policy-oriented technology job than any he held at the software giant. Mr. …
August 27th, 2011
. On June 30, staff at the University’s Information Technology Services office got an unwelcome surprise when they found that the names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 Yale affiliates showed up in Google …
August 27th, 2011
WASHINGTON — Before cost-cutting became fashionable in Washington, Vivek Kundra, the White House’s chief information officer, was working to shrink the federal government’s enormous budget for information technology. Vivek Kundra, the former White House …
June 20th, 2011
Our intrepid CIO friend, Stu Laura, suggests that if the military can use computer games to help recruiting, why not the IT profession? Warning: If you can’t have a sense of humor about the …
June 20th, 2011
The next revolution of the Internet age NEW YORK—“The cloud is about economies of scale. There are a few large players that have this ability to scale,” said Ben Fried, CIO of Google. He …
June 20th, 2011
Left unsaid–typically, anyway–in most discussions about cloud computing is the implicit threat that it will be the cause of job losses. The clamorous suspicion that many IT groups display toward public cloud services seems …
June 20th, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission announced Robert Naylor’s hiring as chief information officer on Monday, one year after he resigned from the same position at the Small Business Administration. In his new role, Naylor will …
June 20th, 2011
When RehabCare executives started asking IT for Apple iPads several months ago, CIO Dick Escue didn’t miss a beat. Unlike many of his peers in the healthcare industry, he had no real qualms about …
June 20th, 2011
Back in the not-too-distant past, before virtualization and cloud computing radically evolved into disruptive–if not revolutionary–forces, changes in the world of IT were largely limited to doing more with less, as opposed to totally …
June 20th, 2011
Albert Ellis (pictured), CEO of Harvey Nash plc, who will be in Dublin on 14 June next to unveil the company’s CIO Survey 2011, was responding to a question of whether CIOs are truly comfortable …
June 20th, 2011
Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ) on Wednesday launched IT Performance Suite, a set of software tools designed to give CIOs a more accurate idea of the value they’re getting from their IT investments. The suite includes HP IT …
June 20th, 2011
Roam the open, warehouse-style headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, Calif., and you’ll see posters on nearly every wall encouraging innovation. One in particular reads, “Move fast and break things”–a principle that Facebook CIO Tim …
June 20th, 2011
Candidate will be responsible for 55,000 desktops, consolidation with Medicare and Centrelink The Department of Human Services is seeking a CIO following the recent announcement of its ICT chief’s, John Wadeson, retirement. The department …
May 16th, 2011
What are the top five things every CEO wants from the CIO? Getting on the same page financially and strategically with your CEO in the beginning of the economic recovery is one of the …
