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Security researcher urges IT to keep up with SAP patches

More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

Consumerization trend creates IT worries, worker benefits

Fully 95% of 600 businesses surveyed by Cisco permit the use of employee-owned smartphones and tablets at the office and found productivity gains for workers who use their own hardware.

Deep dive: Cloud applications

The path to launching a cloud service is not so straightforward. Here's how to find likely services among your existing applications -- and get them ready to roll Insider (registration required)

IBM goes after enterprise mobility projects

IBM took steps on Monday to help enterprises go mobile, introducing a set of software and services called Mobile Foundation.

Bull seeks to move Cobol and C apps to Java

Bull has unveiled a new transaction processing application platform, Libert TP, which it says will allow businesses to move legacy applications from Cobol or C to a Java environment at their own pace.

P100 Profile: Cynthia McKenzie, Fox Entertainment (video)

Cynthia McKenzie, senior vice president, IT, Enterprise Application Services, at Fox Entertainment, talks about the company's SaaS projects and its BYOD policies.

P100 Profile: Tim Theriault, Walgreens (video)

Tim Theriault, senior vice president and CIO at Walgreen Co. outlined the Walgreens 2.0 project, four different IT initiatives that helped upgrade legacy systems at the company.

Bank IT spending to be 'rocky' through 2013

Tech spending by banks will grow this year at a slower pace than in 2011, a trend expected to continue until global economic conditions improve and banks begin to see the benefits of new IT, according to Celent.

How 26 hospitals deployed e-order systems in 28 months

All 26 of Adventist Health System's hospitals rolled out computerized physician order entry systems -- the biggest barrier to attaining the U.S. government's meaningful-use certification -- in just 28 months.

Q&A: Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley touts new 'supply chain of IT'

Systems monitoring and management may be headed to the cloud as management-as-a-service. Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley explains what that means and how it will affect IT in this Q&A -- part of the ongoing IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series. Insider (registration required)

4 lessons from the Springfield, Ill. SCADA cyberattack

The recent cyberattack on a public water utility in Springfield, Ill. has stoked concerns about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure equipment across the U.S.

Thomson Reuters regrets speed of billion dollar Eikon desktop switchover

Thomson Reuters has said it made a mistake with the fast launch speed of a billion dollar desktop product for financial traders, called Eikon.

JetBlue supports iPhone -- as long as it's the employee's device

Over the past several years, JetBlue has migrated from a traditional IT infrastructure with multiple data centers run by on-site employees to an almost completely outsourced model with virtual everything, from desktops to servers.

Oracle's Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need, analysts say

Oracle's new Big Data Appliance should appeal to enterprises looking for more efficient ways to capture, organize and analyze vast amounts of unstructured data, analysts said.

HP updates dependency mapping software

Hewlett-Packard has updated its dependency mapping software to help customers figure out which departments are using which systems and applications, to enable chargeback programs and other management tasks.

Cloud CIO: What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means to CIOs

The latest trend (or over-hyped term, if you like) is "consumerization of IT." As with cloud computing, the term is somewhat ambiguous and is applied to a number of things that are recognizably related, but which differ in details.

Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery

Amazon Web Services' efforts to restore service following a power outage at its Dublin data center were complicated further on Monday by an error in the EBS (Elastic Block Storage) software, the company said.

Lightning strike in Dublin downs Amazon, Microsoft clouds

A lightning strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power failure in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, causing the companies' cloud services to go offline.

Subway changes its menu, adds SaaS

Subway is a fast-food franchisor with some 35,000 restaurants worldwide. Like many big enterprises, it expected to host a new mission-critical spending-management system in-house. It ended up doing the exact opposite.

VMware, EMC release new virtual storage, smaller VMAX array

In conjunction with VMware's release of its vSphere 5 cloud OS, EMC has released virtual storage appliance software and a new, lower-end version of its high-end virtual storage array, VMAX.