Kim S. Nash

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Kim S. Nash is an award-winning journalist who looks at IT strategy and tactics through a business lens. Nash shows what IT leaders need to know now about enterprise and consumer technology and the people who use them. She loves to interview smart people trying to solve interesting problems and sees analytics, cloud computing, mobile and social media as key vehicles for growing revenue, engaging customers, honing operations and sparking employee creativity.

 

Nash is a Girl Scout leader and fan of Elvis, Ben Franklin, Atul Gawande and Mary Tyler Moore. (If you can identify Mary's relationship to "Veal Prince Orloff," you're a kindred spirit. No Googling!) Contact Nash at knash@cio.com and follow her on Twitter. Read her stories.

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Latest Posts by Kim

Privacy: A CIO's Next Competitive Weapon

|   Google says that in-context privacy tools should supplement traditional privacy policies to give users more insight and control

Be Brave: Startups May Be Your Ticket to Real Innovation

|   Being among the first in your industry to experiment with mobile, video, tablets or social media tools, for example, can teach you what an emerging customer segment wants and put you ahead of rivals.

Tomatoes, Oil, Internet Addiction: How Tech is Cramping My Lifestyle

|   Technology is really cramping my lifestyle this summer. Some of this technology is being used too well (oil industry), some too poorly (by me), and in other cases, there’s not enough technology (food supply). As a result, I'm suffering. You are, too. How? I'm glad you asked.

Project Management Nightmare: Records from the Bush Administration

|   When US presidents leave office, they leave behind pounds and pounds of paper and bytes and bytes of electronic records—all sorts of data reflecting the activities, and inactivity, of their leadership of this great nation of ours.

$7 Billion to Fix Calif. Prison Health Care

|   California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says $7 billion ought to fix -- mostly -- the health care system inside California's 33 state prisons, IT included. Now I'm watching to see if state lawmakers agree, and pass Schwarzenegger's proposal, which he pitched Friday in Sacramento.

Biggest Tech Letdowns of 2007

|   The tech industry handed us a good year in some respects. Salaries up, virtualization tools ripe. But we're cranky and critical so that stuff wasn't good enough. We assembled a list of some of the biggest letdowns of the year (see our insightful and entertaining slideshow).

Google Doesn't Tread on American Blind's Trademarks

|   Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and American Blind & Wallpaper Factory have settled their lawsuit over whether the search service tramples American Blind's trademarks when it sells ads that pop up after Internet users search for terms such as "American blinds" and "American wallpaper."...

Let's Start Getting E-Discovery Right

|   In our webified world, disputes erupt all the time about who's stepping on whose intellectual property and what kind of evidence you need to bring to court to prove a case.

Another Data Breach, Another Thin Attempt to Make Us Feel Safe

|   When Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) told employees last week that a computer device containing personal data about them had been stolen from its New Jersey office, the brokerage did like many, many companies before it. Merrill said, in essence, "But don't worry about it."

Nardelli as New Chrysler CEO and What it Means for Chrysler's IT

|   In January of 2007, as Home Depot shareholders seethed, Bob Nardelli took a $210 million exit package and resigned as CEO. This week, he landed the CEO job at Chrysler.

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Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
Read the white paper to see how IBM helped Citigroup deliver new services and enhancements to their 200 million customers faster.
There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
Accommodating specific lines of business can result in a hybrid ecosystem of applications and servers. The resulting complexity of this architecture makes for an environment that is costly to maintain and difficult to change when addressing new challenges.
This whitepaper will help you to define a mobile device passcode policy. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must: 1) create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while: 2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.

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