IT Cure Eight Years in the Making

California inmates sued over substandard medical care in 2001. Full deployment of critical systems begins this year. Full story »

Feature

Health Care Behind Bars

Inside California prisons, substandard medical care kills one inmate every six days. IT is part of the court-ordered prescription to ensure doctors do no more harm. Part 1 of 3. Full story »

Feature

Healthcare Behind Bars Part 3

Improvements to California's prison healthcare system and its IT have come too slowly for the courts. Part 3 of 3. Full story »

Feature

Health Care Behind Bars Part 2

At San Quentin State Prison in California, technology manager Dan Marshall has installed wireless networks and virtualized servers. But his first job is to keep himself safe. Part 2 of 3. Full story »

Book Excerpt

Same Business, Different Lens

The CEO of Shutterfly outpaced competitors by reimagining the online photo-finishing business as a way to build social connections between its customers. Full story »

Columns

Problem Solved

Big Change, Big Challenges

Think your current IT project's scope is daunting? Alcatel-Lucent CIO Elizabeth Hackenson just finished the first leg of a three-year job to consolidate her company's 25 data centers and 125 server rooms down to just six data centers, including a unique new center near Paris that opens this week. Full story »

Departments

Editor's Letter

A Tall Order

Without buy-in, IT can't reform California's prisons Full story »

CEO Letter

Generation Y

Are you ready for the next-gen workforce? Full story »

Essential Technology

Thinking Inside the Box

Considering unified threat management (UTM) appliances that combine many security jobs? Here's some advice from CIOs who've tried these all-in-wonders on for size. Full story »

Trendline

Trendlines: New, Hot, Unexpected

In this issue: The cap on H-1B visas; Corporate mash-ups; Face-reading computers; The lapsing landline; China and RFID; Banning of social networks; The value of big monitors; Efficiency in IT shops; and By the numbers, including IT modernization. Full story »

5 Things I've Learned

5 Things I've Learned from Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey

How Jack Dorsey figured out that short is sweet, flexibility is essential and applications should work so that people don't have to be at their computers all day long. Full story »

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