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Proving ground for telephony: small business, consumers

Sun targets customer needs

CTO for Software John Fowler talks about N1, the WS-I, and getting at the core of customers' problems

Workflow drives IBM’s vision

Director of Marketing Scott Hebner talks about the Web services infrastructure and standards process

Office cliques: Management bears a lot of responsibility

Groups are natural, but not when they impede the business

The wireless road taken

Trucking industry CTOs are equipping vehicles with devices that refine delivery management systems and drive profits

A CTO gives thanks

Despite the bad economy, many have perservered, and deserve recognition for doing more with less

History and innovation

Disruptive technologies have always made some managers uncomfortable, so take lessons from the past

Outsourcing forecast

To the editor

You must keep your staff

Dancing with peer -to-peer

As p-to-p begins to play new roles, enterprises will need to learn new steps

CTO with heart

Community Health Network IT executive leads the launch of an all-digital specialty hospital

IBM bets on ‘smart’ computing

Senior VP Steve Mills discusses IBM's grid and autonomic computing initiatives

Pentagon data mining: Just say ‘no’

New civilian spy program is a bad idea run amok

Flexibility and control

Decisions, decisions: Web services come of age, offering apps that bridge the 'build or buy' gap

Understanding natural selection

Make sure your "best practices" really fit your business needs

Envisioning enterprise data

Complex business data has taken a new shape as CTOs turn to new visualization technologies to convey their corporate information in easy-to-digest graphics

Try this at home

In a nutshell, O'Reilly & Associates implements the technology it writes about

Small, fast, or Mac

New notebooks attack mobile ennui with pens, performance, and (gasp) Unix

The changing CTO role (Fourth in a four-part series)

Inside Microsoft’s Information Technology Group

CIO Rick Devenuti talks about the Tablet PC and his group's role in product development

Office cliques: unethical or just natural?

Some workers feel left out in a younger workplace

Fix it sooner, not later

CTOs must communicate the high cost of making changes at the end of a project cycle

Value innovation

Nortel Networks CTO rethinks network deployment to serve customers in a down market

Delivering the goods — digitally

Going totally digital has yet to arrive despite pundit promises, but some CTOs are changing the way they move products

Keep your staff happy

It's inexpensive, it's the right thing to do, and if you are successful, there's a payoff

KonaWare empowers mobile workers

Execs discuss the market for mission-critical mobile apps

Uniting and dividing at the same time

Religion is a two-edged sword

The art of good politics

CTOs must constantly communicate the value of IT to crucial constituents in their organizations

A manager for all seasons

In lean and in prosperous times, there's value in keeping your staff happy

Starting a supply-chain revolution

CTOs in the retail supply chain are adding a collaborative planning and forecasting platform to the technologies already in use

Technology circle

CTO of Guidance Solutions sees companies using Web services as a partnering tool

Fujitsu Softek simplifies data storage

CEO Steven Murphy discusses the evolution of storage technology and the Bluefin standard's impact

Walking into the minefield

Religion has a place in the office — or not

The glory that is Greece

Like the Parthenon that speaks to us from the past, IT infrastructure should stand the test of time

The ‘new normal’ is here

Big budgets for large IT projects are over

CTO with backbone

Strong fiscal management and technology innovation are key for Level 3 Communications

Integrating an upturn

It's the new reality. Rather than spend millions for new technologies, CTOs spin their legacy systems into new business models

Better days (way) ahead (First in a four-part series)

Grand Central facilitates communication

Execs Craig Donato and John McDowall tell how a Web services network enforces reliable connections between enterprises

Instinct, fear, and religion

A comment, an I-told-you-so, and a thorny topic

A healthy integration

Web services proves the right prescription for Providence Health System?s hefty systems integration project

To the editor

M&A code

Sailing online

Several ocean carriers joined forces to create the GTN portal

Plotting the grid

The University of Pennsylvania's National Digital Mammogram Archive taps emerging open grid standards to exponentially boost breast cancer treatment

Leading by listening first

Before you judge history or your staff, review the facts and the process

The ubiquitous CTO

As technology, financial, and business processes intertwine, demand for the CTO's expertise will grow

Facing the future

Carriers zero in on the services side of telecom as wireless picks up speed

That unifying voice

Webley CTO designs the platform for a voice-based integrated communications system

CTOs en masse

Far-flung enterprises and complex technical needs have inspired some large enterprises to design org charts with multiple CTO tiers

Apple on the move

Senior execs discuss technology innovation at Apple