Carr Communications Inc. » CIO Magazine http://www.carrcommunications.com Writing, editing, web consulting, and communication strategy Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 5 Things You Need to Know About Platform as a Service, CIO Magazinehttp://www.carrcommunications.com/2010/01/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-platform-as-a-service-cio-magazine/ http://www.carrcommunications.com/2010/01/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-platform-as-a-service-cio-magazine/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:33:17 +0000 david http://www.carrcommunications.com/?p=290 Continue reading →]]> My latest for CIO Magazine: 5 Things You Need to Know About Platform as a Service

Analysis of web-based services that provide a platform for building applications. This is the middle ground between packaged web based applications, such as those from Salesforce.com, and lower-level infrastructure services like web-based data storage services. Platform as a service is more like a bundle of operating system and app development services that lives in the network “cloud.”

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Windows 7: 5 Things for CIOs to Consider Before Deployment

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5 Things You Need to Know about Software-as-a-Service Contracts
How CIOs can guarantee secure SaaS contracts.

Read it on CIO.com

]]> http://www.carrcommunications.com/2009/10/228/feed/ 0 5 Things You Need to Know About Smartphone Securityhttp://www.carrcommunications.com/2009/09/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-smartphone-security/ http://www.carrcommunications.com/2009/09/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-smartphone-security/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:27:10 +0000 david http://www.carrcommunications.com/?p=181 Continue reading →]]> This is the latest installment in my “5 Things You Need to Know” series for CIO Magazine.  For 5 Things You Need to Know About Smartphone Security, I talked with experts about the ways these devices are becoming as powerful as the laptop computers of a few years ago, with the same or worse risks for loss of these devices and the corporate data they now often store.

]]> http://www.carrcommunications.com/2009/09/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-smartphone-security/feed/ 0 CIO Magazine: 5 Things CIOs Need to Know About Mainframe Modernizationhttp://www.carrcommunications.com/2009/08/cio-magazine-5-things-cios-need-to-know-about-mainframe-modernization/ http://www.carrcommunications.com/2009/08/cio-magazine-5-things-cios-need-to-know-about-mainframe-modernization/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:49:13 +0000 David F. Carr http://www.carrcommunications.com/?p=115 Continue reading →]]> CIO Magazine has assigned me to write a series of these “5 Things” pieces, which are challenging me to write in a very brief list-oriented format (as opposed to my big blowout Baseline cover stories). It’s good for me!

5 Things CIOs Need to Know About Mainframe Modernization

It may make more sense to migrate than modernize, and other advice to keep in mind if mainframe modernization is on your agenda now.

http://www.cio.com/article/498040/_Things_CIOs_Need_to_Know_About_Mainframe_Modernization

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