CIO Executive Briefing

In depth: Unified communications still fragmented
Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.
Five things CIOs should know about big data
Five key points CIOs should know when considering big data
Defining 'big data' depends on who's doing the defining
Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big?
Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users
What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has concluded.
Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?
Out went 42 aging black and white copiers with interface boxes that let them serve as printers. In went 42 new networked multi-function printers (MFPs) that could do color printing and copying and scan directly to e-mail, fax or files. And the owner, the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO, saves $19,000 yearly.