Recent articles by Sandra Gittlen
January 04, 2012
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) CIO Tom Conophy has no reservations when it comes to the cloud.
December 15, 2011
A cancer diagnostics firm is using a single sign-on service to secure a growing pool of SaaS subscriptions.
November 16, 2011
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, every business wanted to show off its glass house full of racks of green-lit servers. Today, Toronto-based Cookie Jar Entertainment believes the smaller the in-house data center, the better, and showing investors what good use you're making of cost-efficient cloud computing is a source of pride.
October 11, 2011
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -- that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had originally planned. Now, even though the school needs a facility with more capacity and better connectivity, Kossuth has been forced to back-burner the issue because of the iffy economic times.
September 09, 2011
When auto parts supplier Inteva Products LLC spun out from its parent company Delphi in 2008, CIO Dennis Hodges was left standing in a heap of legacy ERP equipment.
August 10, 2011
A good indicator that you're in need of a new email system is when your entire executive team offers to be part of a pilot group for a new platform.
May 09, 2011
If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on startups that are focused on enterprise technologies.
February 16, 2011
If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on enterprise technology start-ups.
January 19, 2011
Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the now-legendary VisiCalc in 1979. Bricklin, currently president of software developer Software Garden Inc., recently spoke with Computerworld about the intent of VisiCalc and how the spreadsheet has evolved.
January 19, 2011
Old ways of working with spreadsheets are giving way to a broad range of online software and services meant to either extend the capabilities of basic spreadsheet programs or to obviate the need for them.