Ina stunning release of new report, hackers compromised 40 computers in the University of Wisconsin chemistry department, and that's not the worst part. The computers had personal information—like Social Security numbers—of 2,920 people affiliated with the school, the Badger Herald reports. The Office of Campus...
Foley & Lardner LLP announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $208 million contract to the firm for Intellectual Property services for up to 10 years. Beginning this month, the firm will be responsible for performing contested proceedings work in the areas...
The LA City Council voted unanimously to “Go Google,” approving a $7.25 million contract to outsource the city's e-mail system to Google's cloud and transition some 30,000 city employees to the cloud over the coming year. This approval mark is significant for the city of...
Jorge Lopez, Vice President, distinguished analyst, CIO Research, Gartner and I recently discussed at Gartner's IT Symposium/expo 2009, the impact of the evolving role of the CIO and IT in this fast changing economy in terms of a backdrop of mergers and acquisitions mergers...
Innovation and technology leadership is a big question facing all CIOs not only in the public sector, but the private sector as well, especially in this time of flat to shrinking budgets, furloughs, and increased demands for transparency and accountability. This week I attended the...
How enterprise software giants separate you from more of your company's money? Here's how the software business really works: A software company charges your firm an enormous upfront licensing fee and locks you into escalating costs for decades to come, often using a set of...
As businesses emerge from the recession, questions also emerge around IT and business strategy, with organizations looking for new ways to gain competitive advantage. Gartner believes there is a new IT value model that demands the attention of global business and IT leaders. This new...
Two recent studies look at the use of collaboration technologies in the workplace, including Forrester's “The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2009” and Frost & Sullivan's “Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration.” Both reports have great stories to...
To cope with this increasing workload at a time of shrinking budgets, legal departments are doing what other areas like sales, finance and human resources did long ago: namely, leveraging technology. Previously they may have relied on service providers offering expensive white-glove service, now they...
The majority of Wisconsin - based technology vendors executives who responded to a recent survey rate Wisconsin's economy as poor or only fair, perceptions about the state's economy amongst those executives shifted positively from the second quarter to the third quarter. The survey did not...