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Byline: David Weldon The second massive data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (http://www.fiercecio.com/story/nearly-22-million-affected-latest-opm-data-breach/2015-07-10 ) is just the latest to grab wide-spread media and public attention. Large data [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>PC sales expected to decline 4.4 percent, says Gartner PC manufacturers continue to struggle with a downward slide, as the latest http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3088221 from Gartner show a 4.4 [...]

Byline: David Weldon UPDATE: This story has been updated to add new information in the second paragraph about Katherine Archuleta's resignation. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) revealed that [...]

Byline: David Weldon Microsoft Corp. has gone gangbusters with major announcements over the past two weeks about changes to the company, its strategy and staff. The latest is word yesterday [...]

Byline: David Weldon CIOs that want to rake in top dollar for their efforts should pack their bags and head for Los Angeles. A typical CIO paycheck in the City [...]

Byline: David Weldon With all of the recent lower-than-expected quarterly revenue reports in the technology sector, it might be easy to assume that portions of the IT industry are seeing [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Innovative CIOs focus on customers, cost savings and automation CIOs who are considered true innovators are those that focus on improving customer experiences, reducing costs and increasing [...]

Byline: David Weldon IT hiring managers that have been feeling the pain looking for skilled IT workers this year can brace for more bad news: information technology is now at [...]

Byline: David Weldon As Microsoft Corp. puts new emphasis on cloud services, a new http://blog.bettercloud.com/google-apps-vs-office-365/ from BetterCloud looks at how the firm's Office 365 stacks up against Google Apps when [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Amount of 'obsolete' technology in use on the rise While some CIOs are eagerly awaiting the release of Windows 10 at the end of the month, others [...]

Byline: David Weldon Microsoft Corp. continued with its efforts to reinvent itself Wednesday, with the https://news.microsoft.com/2015/07/08/microsoft-announces-restructuring-of-phone-hardware-business/ that it is restructuring its phone hardware business, and will lay off 7,800 workers [...]

Byline: David Weldon CIOs are being bombarded with advice on the need to embrace digital transformation and drive innovation in their organization. But that begs the obvious question of, 'Where [...]

Byline: David Weldon IT security is getting plenty of attention these days – from the CIO, to the CEO, to the board of directors. And while the increased attention is [...]

Byline: David Weldon Apologizing is rarely easy for anyone. Apologizing in public fashion is especially tough. So it would be a safe guess that yesterday was not a good one [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Following breach, OPM puts out 'help wanted' sign for top IT project managers Do you have lots of cybersecurity experience, desire a $122,000 to $169,000 yearly salary, [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>DoD sponsoring CIO Mobility Industry Day The Department of Defense is apparently embraced mobility in a big way, and DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen will host https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=DODM12E&TID=Eb7TixewiwSiVQn52xqp3w%3d%3d on [...]

Byline: David Weldon Interested IT leaders have already circled July 29 on their calendars for the release of the new Windows 10 operating system, but Microsoft has clarified just how [...]

Byline: David Weldon The past few weeks have seen a number of announcements of top tech executive departures, and the latest came from Intel late last week. Intel President Renee [...]

Byline: David Weldon Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao continues to grab attention and make headlines, but the latest round is probably not what she would hope for. A petition calling [...]

Byline: David Weldon Several recent IT hiring surveys have projected that CIOs would be ramping up hiring for the second half of this year, and new government statistics confirm that [...]

Byline: David Weldon Several months after the company first revealed plans to split in two, officials at Hewlett-Packard http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000119312515243056/0001193125-15-243056-index.htm to break HP Enterprise off as a separate company. The paperwork, [...]

Byline: David Weldon It turns out that many skilled data analysts are essentially janitors. A new study released by https://www.xplenty.com/ , a big data integration platform, finds that a third [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Shadow Data emerges as new security worry Shadow IT gets more than its fair share of headlines, and now shadow data has emerged as a new concern [...]

Byline: David Weldon Last month saw a number of high-profile IT leadership appointments. Among them were… The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced the elevation of Margie Graves to [...]

Byline: David Weldon The subject of careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields has drawn a great deal of attention in recent months. And while STEM activity in [...]

Byline: David Weldon Coming into 2015, CIOs were told they needed to embrace digital transformation. Soon after, the cry was for mastering digital disruption. That soon turned into a mandate [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Big data putting big strains on the data center CIOs can expect a major increase in data center demand, according to an http://www.cioinsight.com/it-strategy/big-data/big-data-puts-a-strain-on-existing-data-centers.html at CIO Insight. Citing [...]

Byline: David Weldon This Sunday officially kicks off the start of 'Shark Week,' a televised celebration of all things shark. This year, many organizations are tying their unrelated topics to [...]

Byline: David Weldon IT leaders certainly get more than their fair share of overly hyped technologies. But the Internet of Things doesn't appear to be one of them. Indeed, revenue [...]

Byline: David Weldon Microsoft is getting out of a couple of businesses, including display ads and collecting map information. The moves come just days after CEO Satya Nadella http://www.fiercecio.com/story/one-month-windows-10-launch-microsoft-has-new-mission/2015-06-29 to [...]

Byline: David Weldon Spending on IT worldwide will drop by nearly 6 percent this year, Gartner reported, adding to the concerns of many IT leaders that the tech industry is [...]

Byline: David Weldon Cybersecurity has become a top level concern at most organizations. So it perhaps comes as no surprise that IT security and boards of directors are now a [...]

Byline: David Weldon In four months, Hewlett Packard will complete its much-publicized split into two independent businesses. But not everyone at the firm is waiting around to see the monumental [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Is the Internet of Things over-hyped? Is the Internet of Things greatly over-hyped? Technology experts speaking at a recent panel suggest 'yes', and stated the trend should [...]

Byline: David Weldon This past weekend, much of the tech industry was joining in the celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community over the Supreme Court's decision [...]

Byline: David Weldon When it comes to cloud computing, concerns about security continue to be a significant barrier to more organizations embracing the cloud, or using it more robustly. In [...]

Byline: David Weldon Today marks exactly one month until the much-anticipated release of Windows 10. It also marks the beginning of a new mission for Microsoft to help every individual [...]

Byline: David Weldon Bowing to pressure from Microsoft, Samsung said it will stop the practice of changing or disabling the settings for Windows Update on its PCs and tablets. The [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Is Wall Street the new Silicon Valley? Is Wall Street the new Silicon Valley? Certainly not, if you count number of IT workers employed in each market. [...]

Byline: David Weldon When it comes to insider IT security threats, the third time is definitely not the charm. In fact, the typical organization now experiences 3.8 insider security incidents [...]

Byline: David Weldon Closing the gender gap in information technology is one of the greatest challenges facing the field. Numerous studies confirm that the number of women entering the IT [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Data center investments shows no sign of slowing With all the investments in cloud computing one might think some of that is coming at the expense of [...]

Byline: David Weldon The facts seem pretty clear. Baby boomer IT workers will be retiring in droves over the next five years. The already painful IT skills gap will be [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>Study confirms board-level cybersecurity concerns Another https://www.jltspecialty.com/media-centre/press-releases/cyber-risk-a-high-priority-in-the-boardroom has confirmed the growing concern over IT security on executive boards. JLT Specialty polled senior risk managers at its Communications, [...]

Byline: David Weldon Opponents of the controversial H-1B visa foreign worker program have been waiting for the results of immigration reform in Congress to see what impact it will have. [...]

Byline: David Weldon The topic of diversity in IT has been getting a lot of attention lately, especially among tech giants that are trying to undo the effects of years [...]

Byline: David Weldon >>IBM and Box form new cloud services partnership Major tech players are jumping into the cloud computing game in a big way this week. Monday, Oracle http://www.fiercecio.com/story/late-game-oracle-finally-sees-value-cloud/2015-06-23 [...]

Byline: David Weldon The term 'rogue IT' doesn't seem to grab tech headlines quite the same way as it used to. And for good reason: the practice is on the [...]

Byline: David Weldon Box unveiled its new Box Governance tool this week to help organizations better manage sensitive data, but more importantly, to help the firm lure more enterprise users [...]

Byline: David Weldon When it comes to IT security, one of the greatest vulnerabilities continues to be a lack of confidence – by pretty much everyone. That includes a lack [...]