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Robert L. Mitchell

IT's new concern: The personal cloud

As personal and professional clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety

Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets.

Mobile management morphs

Customers are pushing the limits of the software -- asking it to manage and do many more things than it was originally created to do -- and vendors are happy to oblige.

MDM tools: Features and functions compared

Application management, security and a bunch of other features are now baked into MDM. Check out our mondo chart showing the features and functions you get with 10 different enterprise mobile device management products.

7 cool consumer technologies coming soon to a cubicle near you

Move over, tablets and smartphones. Here are seven user technologies that are heading into the office.

Choosing an open-source CMS, part 3: Why we use WordPress

In the third part of a three-part series, we look at two organizations that have chosen WordPress as their content management system.

Premier 100 IT Leader: Garry Lyons

This IT leader succeeded with an unconventional approach -- recruiting talented people who didn't know anything about his business.

Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Joseph Eckroth

This IT leader championed a self-service kiosk that has enabled the business to provide extra virtual staff during busy times at airports.

Choosing an open-source CMS, part 2: Why we use Joomla

In the second part of a three-part series, we look at two companies that have chosen Joomla as their content management system.

Choosing an open-source CMS, part 1: Why we use Drupal

In the first part of a three-part series, we look at two companies that have chosen Drupal as their content management system.

From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight

A multi-year effort to re-architect 47-year-old mainframe-based legacy software around a service-oriented architecture moved from build to buy. Here's why.

The Grill: Enterprise Business Partners CIO Pradip Sitaram

Pradip Sitaram, CIO at Enterprise Business Partners, led a project to modernize the nonprofit housing developer's IT infrastructure, introducing agile development and cloud-based computing along the way.

Best BYOD management: Work zones for smartphones

New containerization technologies can help BYOD initiatives succeed by creating separate spaces on smartphones for work and personal use.

After Stuxnet: The new rules of cyberwar

Critical infrastructure providers face off against a rising tide of increasingly sophisticated and potentially destructive attacks emanating from hacktivists, spies and militarized malware.

Political IT: How campaigns mine the Web - part 2

Advocacy groups and political campaigns have unparalleled access to vast amounts of new and detailed data on voters interests, hobbies, lifestyles and political leanings -- and they're grappling with how to best exploit these vast troves of unstructured data.

Campaign 2012: Mining for voters

Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective when it comes to winning over voters and raising money.

Smart buildings get smarter

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's new headquarters integrates many state-of-the-art green technologies, including solar panels and wind turbines. Such IT-driven building designs are minimizing energy consumption while optimizing operations.

Predictive analytics go to work

Predictive analytics projects involve both art and science, but getting started isn't for high rollers only. Here's how to ensure a successful outcome.

Best BYOD management: Containment is your friend

New containerization technologies can help BYOD initiatives succeed by creating separate spaces on smartphones for work and personal use.

The Grill: Ramon Baez on outsourcing challenges at Kimberly-Clark

Ramon Baez, who was recently named global CIO at HP, reflects on five years' of successes and challenges in his previous role as CIO at Kimberly-Clark.

Author Bio

Robert L. Mitchell Robert L. Mitchell, national correspondent, writes in-depth technology features and a blog at Computerworld. He covers a wide range of topics, including analytics, emerging technologies, green IT and building energy-efficient data centers. His more than 25 years of IT-related experience has included an engagement as the manager of business development for an IT services firm as well as senior editorial positions at Network World and BYTE Magazine.