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While cloud may have turned the IT world upside down, the basics of business continuity remain the same.

In this economic landscape, insurers are looking for solutions that assist measurable achievement of operational goals, and position the company well for profitable growth.

Apple says it will correct “flaws” that enable it to track iPhone users, but what impact will the privacy/location issue have on auto insurance?

Amazon's recent snafu resulting in outages among its EC2 customers' sites raises the question of how insurers should steel themselves for such a situation?

Social media may still be thought of as a separate emerging technology by insurers, but soon it will be the norm.

Technology should enable complete automation of underwriting to the point where getting insured is a simple plug-and-play process, but will that happen?

While the number of records breached dropped from 2009, the overall number of breaches rose to its highest-ever level.

An Innovation in Insurance survey confirms that carriers value the input and advice of analysts, but don’t always trust its objectivity.

Good governance is the key to keeping MDM initiatives on track at Protective Life.

People think seniors' online habits revolve entirely around looking at their grandkids' pics on Facebook, but they're surprisingly active when it comes to advocacy.

A reported decline in PC shipments in the first quarter is blamed on everything from the growth of the tablet market to the Japan tsunami, but perhaps there is a much simpler reason.

Linux revolutionized the software distribution model to the point where we now also have open source databases, middleware, development tools and even business intelligence tools.

Crazy as it sounds, the Department of Justice needed a court order to disrupt a botnet that has been operating for a decade.

Insurers attempting to "boil the ocean" when developing a successful BI initiative will fail every time.

The industry, on the whole, is less profitable than it was 40 years ago. So how do we turn it around?

Through a combination of key technologies and partnering with the business, IT can help insurers achieve profitable growth.

Cloud computing offers a variety of advantages, but security concerns will grow with the technology.

The Epsilon breach should make insurers question how their data is being protected once it’s outsourced.

Ultra-efficient server design will interest insurance technologists looking to trim energy usage in their data centers.

Insurers may be interested to learn about these 5 innovations in auto safety technology.

While the insurance industry has been relatively free of major security problems, a new breach at the Hartford is an ominous sign.

Carriers need to help their agents leverage social media to attract new clients.

Insurers are finding that they must create a new role in their organization—one that merges IT discipline and business know-how.

One insurer has already gone Lean, and is reaping the rewards.

In wake of David Sokol’s exit, speculation mounts surrounding Buffet’s possible successor.

A huge security breach yields only customer names and e-mail addresses, but that’s more than enough to cause significant problems.

Experts say insurance fraud has grown in the current recession, but insurers seem unwilling to fund anti-fraud measures

Oftentimes, the one-size-fits-all mentality doesn’t hold true for insurers trying to implement best practices learned from other companies.

Master data management is insurers’ best recourse to unlock the siloed data often associated with multiple applications for each line of business.

It’s imperative that insurers’ business priorities and the competitive industry benchmarking process drive their selection of a PAS vendor.

A couple of Chinese insurers have found a creative way to extend the retirement business value chain.

While not yet mainstream, electric cars are being mass-produced, and carriers need to get in the driver’s seat when it comes to insuring them on the roads.

There is no easy answer, but for many insurers, the necessity to upgrade is dire.

If perception of risk depends on how it’s described, we need to look closely at the descriptions before making risk-based insurance decisions.

Much like how SOX spurred IT spend at the beginning of the last decade, the federal health care reform law is sparking a similar trend.

For many insurers, skill development in business analysis is often insufficient to maintain sustained performance at sufficient levels.

Given Apple's proclamation that its iPad 2 has sparked the "post-PC era," CIOs are worried that this new era will spur an arms race—upgrading to the best hardware available every two years.

Car manufacturers and consumer electronics giants are working together on a connectivity standard, but seem to be ignoring vehicle and data security.

As experts express their opinions on the topic, the only consensus is that “Big Data” is a very fluid term.

Insurers may openly welcome Obama’s pick for FIO chief, but risks remain in the rule-making process.

OnStar and other remote services provide many benefits, but also open the door to theft and vandalism.

Economic, compliance and geopolitical risks are top of mind at ERM symposium.

Sometimes, leaders can get the most benefit from simply changing the approach used, the questions asked and the focus of attention.

Aflac’s situation with comedian Gilbert Gottfried’s Twitter comments about the Japanese disaster has shown that insurers must develop well-defined and well-communicated social media usage policies.

With mobile computing, employees in the field can access executive dashboards or alerts that impart streams of critical information.

As the reality of devastation and loss of life sink in, some seek to point the finger of blame at technology.

A new report says the economy will continue to stall growth in insurance, and points to technology as the competitive differentiator, yet IT budgets are not increasing significantly.

French insurance CIOs divinations proving true; the nation's pending tax reforms could impact the life insurance industry for years to come.

As part of a broader mobility strategy, telematics has the potential to fundamentally transform the customer/insurer relationship.

Cloud computing can be an enabler of entrepreneurship and organizational transformation.

While the former U.S. vice president regularly rails against climate change, he has now found other topics on which to opine.

Working toward service-oriented architecture is a worthy goal—find out where your company ranks.