LAURIANNE MCLAUGHLIN

Laurianne McLaughlin is Managing Editor at CIO.com, shaping daily content strategy, managing the home page and leading the reporting team. Her technology specialties include virtualization and cloud computing.

She also runs CIO.com's virtualization, data center and cloud computing drilldown sections.

After joining CIO Magazine in 2006 as technology editor, Laurianne did a mix of print and online work before becoming senior news editor for CIO.com in 2009.

Her work at CIO magazine and CIO.com has won multiple ASBPE (American Society of Business Publication Editors) awards.

Before joining CXO Media, she served as a senior editor, online for Business 2.0 and as a senior editor for IDG's PC World, the leading technology magazine for consumers. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Follow Laurianne on Twitter at @lmclaughlin.

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Virtualization of Desktop PCs on the Rise

IT leaders are intererested in virtualizing desktop PCs for good reason: Traditional PCs still take too much time and money to maintain. But are many CIOs actually treading into the waters of desktop PC virtualization? Are they even considering dipping their toes?

Benchmarking How Well You Manage Virtualization

Are you running a superior virtualization effort? You're going to need the measurements to prove it. A recent study by IDC examines metrics that IT leaders can use to benchmark how well they're managing virtualization.

Study: IT Wants More Virtualization Management Tools

Virtualization management's hot, but ITIL and IPv6 are not, says survey of IT leaders' priorities.

How IT Shapes 'Store of the Future' for Retailer Family Dollar

Family Dollar Stores needed to expand its stores, products and more. Here's how business and IT together crafted a vision of the future and began a big IT revamp, including a lean, new way to send business intelligence to store managers.

How to Find and Fix 10 Real Security Threats on Your Virtual Servers

VM Sprawl. Hypervisor holes. Rogue virtual machines. Network traffic gone bad. What are the biggest virtualization security risks now and how can you combat them? It's time to separate fact from fiction and get down to work.

Future Threats to Virtualization Security: Fact vs. Fiction

Who will be the TJX of virtualization security mistakes? No one knows yet, but one thing's certain: If you're a CIO, it better not be your company.

How a Retail Chain Saves Money with Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

In the midst of a major expansion and IT systems overhaul, Family Dollar decided to look at telecom costs. The savings made the exercise worth the trouble.

IT Fails To Communicate Business Value of Core Software

Businesses need to manage core software assets such as ERP systems for value creation, not cost containment, new research says. But 60 percent of CIOs and CFOs don't even understand the size of those assets.

Data Center Staffing Problems Grow: Virtualization Skills Scarce

86 percent of data center managers say they're fighting to find virtualization experts and other specialists, new research shows. And 60 percent call their current staff skill set too narrow.

Election 2008: Technology Issues Will Play a Key Role

What will the key technology questions be for the 2008 presidential candidates? Taxes, education, math and science training and trade issues will heat up in this election, says the former RNC chairman.