Stories by Clint Boulton

The learning software company is using little-known virtualization software to ease its transition to agile software development as its digital download business blooms.

More than a month after the news of the massive acquisition broke, some CIOs are still wondering exactly what Microsoft is getting in the $26.2 billion deal.

Microsoft is urging consumers and businesses alike to upgrade to its new operating system, but why are some CIOs standing pat for now?

The cloud software maker is now hosting communications capabilities, including phone services and web meetings, in the cloud.

Sales teams for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are using cloud software to track existing client accounts and identify new leads.

Following the infiltration of the hotel chain’s network with payment card-stealing malware, Omni is looking to use analytics software to detect and quarantine attacks.

Cyber insurance may be a booming business thanks to the high-profile breaches, but the market for such policies is a complicated, say experts from SANS Institute, Advisen and PivotPoint.

Service King Collision Repair Centers is phasing out its MPLS system as the primary networking provider for SD-WAN appliances, says its CIO.

CIOs are addressing major pain points in corporate workflows by consolidating approval requests into lightweight ’micro apps.’

As Chipotle recovers from its food-borne illness outbreaks, franchisees for the popular chicken chain are ushering in the ‘Internet of Chicken’ by using low-power wireless sensors and gateways to monitor their walk-in freezers and refrigerators.

Principal Financial Group turned to agile to quickly build more software for its insurance, retirement planning and asset management customers.

Workday’s Diana McKenzie is plotting a data management strategy that will help the company better serve its customers and get into the black.

Hiring a CDO can prove disruptive to businesses, creating competition and conflict between the anointed digital leaders and CIOs and potentially CMOs, says PwC. But there is some good news.

Sweeping technology upgrades for fans and employees have the professional golf group building Windows 10 applications and migrating email and other computing tasks to the public cloud.

The software company releases to open source an SDK intended to let developers build Internet of Things applications that run on any network device, OS or infrastructure.