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The deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics.

When the company data center moves to various cloud configurations, the provisioning of servers will need to be addressed.

Google Drive raises several concerns about cloud storage. Many of these consumer-level questions -- who owns your data, how data can be used and what happens if the data is lost or stolen -- are ones enterprise IT executives should be asking, too.

The NFL may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to its IT operation, Nancy Galietti, the NFL's vice president of IT, does not use the word big.

How well do Facebook apps protect your privacy? Before you download something new and agree to share information, check out how Privacyscore rates its first.

When Majestic Realty Co., a Los Angeles-based commercial real estate developer, moved to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) for cloud-based email in early 2011, CIO Jon Grunzweig was shocked by the lack of technical support he found for BPOS in the marketplace.

Before there was the World Wide Web, millions of people used online services, like AOL, CompuServe, and GEnie to work with each other, gossip, and share Star War jokes. Join us as we journey back to a time when 2,400 BPS modems were "high-speed"; when you had to worry not about your bandwidth cap, but with paying dollars per hour of connect time; and when Internet porn was rendered in ASCII drawings.

For Gregg Leach, CFO of aircraft overhaul and repair business Able Engineering, the need to involve the IT department on major projects was never questioned. "I've got more background in IT than I do in finance," said the finance chief, whose previous work experience included serving as the CIO of a health care company, and IT positions with finance components.

Increased compensation and promotions have become more popular as motivators.

Everything works well in the cloud, until it doesn't.

When online marketing firm Hubspot started in 2006, the company's IT needs were not very taxing, but they expanded quickly as the company realized success.