CIO Insight Staff

IBM has announced a new analytics appliance that analyzes petabytes worth of big data, including consumer sales data and online shopping trends to help retailers gain insight on buying patterns. The new appliance, the IBM Netezza Customer Intelligence Appliance, is part of IBM’s Smarter Commerce strategy to help its retail clients use analytics to better […]

Paced by the iPhone 4S, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform accounted for 71 percent of total activations overall, with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system garnering the remaining 29 percent share, according to data collected by Good Technology from its enterprise customers. Good makes mobile device management software for enterprises, helping IT administrators provision and manage handsets […]

The European Commission on Jan. 25 unveiled its proposed changes to existing data privacy laws that would force Internet companies to better protect user information or face fines. The European Commission introduced new rules to update the 17-year-old data privacy laws to better protect Internet users on Jan. 25. The laws are intended to improve […]

Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, a career site for technology and engineering professionals. After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from […]

Investing in multiple layers of security to protect endpoints and the data stored on them tend to pay off in mitigating cyber-attacks and reducing downtime, according to a recent Symantec suvey. However, if there are security gaps, the breach can be quite costly. Organizations that invested in stronger defenses and trained its employees to be […]

Just like the Energizer bunny, the adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. A case in point is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. While DynamicOps is the latest example of a rapidly growing cloud services company, it s by […]

Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads during its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which ended Dec. 31. That suggests a particularly strong holiday selling season for the company; the iPhone number, for example, was well above the 30.2 million units predicted by many analysts.   Overall, quarterly revenue totaled $46.33 billion, with a […]

Despite a surge in tech-sector downsizing in the second half of 2011, the number of job cuts announced by these firms last year plunged to the lowest level ever recorded in tracking going back to 1997, according to the latest report on technology sector job cuts released Jan. 23 by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & […]

Coming on the heels of the Zappos.com breach, hosting provider DreamHost has reset its customer accounts because of a data breach. Unknown attackers breached a database server belonging to Web hosting provider DreamHost, the company said Jan. 20. FTP and shell access passwords of some customers may have been compromised. The company was not specific […]

Health care IT managers want to adopt health information exchanges (HIEs), but a lack of capital may hold them back, according to a new survey by health care management consulting firm Beacon Partners. HIEs allow hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and physicians to share electronic health records (EHRs) across a region, community or health system. More than […]

Research In Motion appointed a new CEO Jan. 22, replacing longtime co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with Thorsten Heins, the company’s chief operating officer for product and sales. Heins has quite a task in front of him. RIM’s market share is steadily eroding in the face of aggressive competition by Apple’s iOS and Google […]

Intel is reorganizing its management team, unveiling several moves a day after announcing record revenue for 2011. As the giant chip maker moves into its new fiscal year, it will have new leaders of its PC and data center groups, a new COO, a new CIO and a new chief product officer. The company’s data […]