Stories by Laurianne McLaughlin

Last year, the big question about virtualization in data centres was: "How much money and time will this save us?" This year, the big question will be: "How secure are we?"

When Rich Phillips became COO OF Maritz Travel about two and-a-half years ago, he sat down and took a hard look at the big industry picture

Managing a complex project with multiple moving parts and deadlines being worked on by a diverse team can get downright nasty. Here's how one company solved the problem.

By 2003, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer found itself with a costly business problem: Paper. Reams of paper. Mountains of paper. Pfizer was up to its neck in the stuff

Improve your leadership IQ. Check out James Kilts's take on the factors that truly matter to a leader's success, plus his advice for IT executives on the rise

E-mail attachments have become a staccato series of shooting pains for many a CIO. Today's attachments --packed with images, presentations, PDFs, video clips and other space gluttons -- keep getting bigger, with no end in sight. They can bloat your servers, clog your systems and slow user mailbox opening to a crawl (prompting help desk calls).

Alec Palmer, CIO for the US Federal Election Commission, had a clear mandate from his business side: Our database presentation tool doesn't serve the public well. Fix it. And he did, in-house, with no extra staff, for $US12,000, in six weeks.

You are where you sit: Your choice of perch for your regular meetings can send the wrong message and even hurt your career, say executive coaches, BusinessWeek.com reports today.

If there's one goal CIOs want to achieve this year, it's to help drive revenue. Some shrewd CIOs have found a little-known route to get there: Price optimization software

What technology keeps you up at night? That's not the right question to ask CIOs anymore, I've learned this week at CIO's leadership conference here in Huntington Beach, California.