fusionone: Technology for Business

By Patrick Gray   Takeaway: Patrick Gray believes that a tablet’s success relies on the content that’s available on the device, which must be compelling in that particular format. I’ve been fielding lots of questions about the technology behind tablet devices. IT staff worry about security and manageability, and everyone else — from consumers to

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: Gartner analyst Ken McGee has a radical assessment of IT and what CIOs need to do about. Read his principles of the “new CIO manifesto.”  The traditional IT department has entered a period of massive transformation and CIOs are having to completely rethink the way they lead, strategize, and manage their

By:  Chee Sing Chan Polish-born and Australia-bred, Cathay Pacific‘s CIO Tomasz Smaczny has a clear sense of where IT is heading –having written papers on IT’s changing relationship with the business plus over 25 years of experience in retail and finance. He talks to Computerworld Hong Kong on the CIO’s path to transformation and possibly

By Toni Bowers Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer. (That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009 survey.) Here are the skills that the IT executives say they will be

BY: Leah McLaren One night last week I awoke to the sound of shattering glass. It was 2 a.m. and I was alone in my apartment, a ground-floor flat in a quiet London neighbourhood. Without stopping to think, I found myself charging out of bed to meet my intruder in a T-shirt. “No, no, no,

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: For innovation, IBM has been the undisputed leader according to one important metric for 18 years straight. Learn how the company does it. For 18 years in a row, IBM has been granted more patents than any other company. The company was way ahead of the curve in embracing diversity in

By Justin James Takeaway: Your projects will go more smoothly if you get along with your vendors — and part of the responsibility for a healthy vendor relationship lies with you. There is a lot of advice out there for IT vendors regarding what they need to do to ensure happy customers. At the same

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s September 2011 patches in your organization. This month is pretty mild in terms of recent patches. The interesting surprise this month was Microsoft accidentally making the security patch information known for a few hours the week before it

By Rick Vanover Source Takeaway: DNS is one of the most sensitive areas of IT and is where many configuration issues originate. IT pro Rick Vanover shares a few more tips to prevent issues with DNS for Windows systems. I love DNS, but hate it when things go wrong. So, I’ve taken a few steps

Summer is hot but data centers need to stay cool, which can be expensive. Here’s how IT groups can reduce temperatures and budgets. Now that summer is in full swing, it’s natural for IT shops to be concerned about keeping their data centers cool. But with limited budgets, keeping the data center operating efficiently without