How CIOs Build Bridges With Other C-Level Execs

	Why CIOs Detest the Phrase “IT and the Business” | Talking to the Business:Our Problems, Their Visions
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	How CIOs Build Bridges With Other C-Level Execs Top-notch CIOs are boosting IT's reputation and forming stronger relationships with other business leaders. Here's how. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG BYOD, Security, Policy - Are You Prepared? Prepare at Enterprise MobileNext Enterprise MobileNext can help. Whether you are banking on mobile technology to drive enterprise growth or trying to protect your organization against risk, we'll show you how to successfully deploy, secure and manage your mobile strategy. Sign up today to secure your complimentary registration for Enterprise MobileNext, Nov 30-Dec 1, SF, CA. In this Issue Why CIOs Detest the Phrase “IT and the Business” Talking to the Business:Our Problems, Their Visions CIOs, CTOs Shed Yet More Techie Cred Deciding How to Spend a $10K Windfall Wisely Picking a Fight With Users: Everyone Loses Job Search: 10 Things That Annoy Job Seekers the Most This Book Wants to Make You a Genius Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs Apple Awards Senior Execs $60 Million Each RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Balancing Business Needs with the Chaos of Mobile Security At CIO Perspectives Los Angeles learn how to create a mobile security strategy that skips the technical jargon, communicates more effectively on risk profiles and focuses on what matters most to the business. An expert CSO will walk you through the layered security model that solves the problem. Register Today! Why CIOs Detest the Phrase “IT and the Business” CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses our Nov. 15 cover story and why it's time to dump that polarizing phrase and make IT and business people equal partners. Read More Talking to the Business:Our Problems, Their Visions For IT, problems are our life's work, but business people want to avoid them at all costs. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Effectively Virtualizing Tier-1 Application Workloads This ESG Report presents test results of the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server, and how it can be used to lower costs, increase scalability, and provide high performance while maintaining the reliability and availability required by tier-1 applications. Learn more CIOs, CTOs Shed Yet More Techie Cred As corporations emerge from the latest recession, offload more IT functions to outsourcing companies, and adopt cloud-based applications, CIOs and CTOs are spending way more time on business issues than on day-to-day technical operations. Read More Deciding How to Spend a $10K Windfall Wisely A security manager explains how he decided to spend a $10,000 budget windfall. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case for the Custom Cloud When it comes to cloud services, "semi-custom" goes a long way. "The Case for the Custom Cloud," shows you how users can configure their own customized cloud services from choices you dictate – and how you can deliver the resulting cloud services quickly and affordably. Read More! Picking a Fight With Users: Everyone Loses When users try to solve problems that IT can't afford to address, IT has to think very hard about its attitude. Or else. Read More Job Search: 10 Things That Annoy Job Seekers the Most The following 10 frustrations that job seekers encounter during their searches make them want to scream. What annoyances would you add to this list? Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems WAN Optimization Strategies The benefits of IT consolidation have come with a downside – dramatic bandwidth and application performance issues. Making WAN Optimization a priority will result in dramatic gains in bandwidth and performance today, and ensure an optimized network for tomorrow. This paper defines how to defend against the trends that overwhelm the WAN. Read now! This Book Wants to Make You a Genius "How to Be a Genius" teaches you the ins and outs of higher cranial power. Read More Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs SLAs don't provide much protection against cloud-related outages, writes CIO.com blogger Bernard Golden. They merely credit customers against the cost of a service. To prevent outages, IT departments would better spend their time planning application architectures rather than duking it out with their cloud computing providers over SLAs. Read More Apple Awards Senior Execs $60 Million Each Apple last week awarded six senior executives $60 million each in stock contingent on them staying with the company through mid-March 2016. Read More
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What CIOs Should Know About How They Spend Time

	Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility | 6 More Mistakes Managers Make When Firing Employees
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	Time Is Money: What CIOs Should Know About How they Spend Their Time CIO's publisher emeritus Gary Beach looks at our annual State of the CIO data for clues to how CIOs manage their time and how well that aligns with their goals. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap Washington, DC - 12/7 Washington Convention Cntr IT Roadmap Washington, DC will be returning to the Washington Convention Center on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. IT Roadmap is a regional one-day technology event that features a full-day conference program, and an exposition hall with leading technology providers. Click to continue In this Issue Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility 6 More Mistakes Managers Make When Firing Employees IT Pros Staying Put, Expecting Raises Bloodiest Tech Industry Layoffs of 2011 Can You Trust One Outsourcing Provider to Manage the Rest? Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next RIM Developer Chief on the Future of BlackBerry, BBX Introducing CIO.com's Newest Blog, Consumerology The Future of Human Computer Interfaces WHITE PAPER: inContact Debunking Security Concerns with Hosted Call Centers This paper discusses the different layers requiring security, how security should be addressed in each layer and how to select a qualified hosted call center provider. Learn More! Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility Dell CIO Robin Johnson explains how a company's lack of agility, the inability of its IT infrastructure to quickly incorporate a new business process that would give it a competitive edge, can be costly. Johnson explains why the price of this lack of agility, what he refers to as the agility tax, is too high to pay. Read More 6 More Mistakes Managers Make When Firing Employees Terminating an employee is one of the hardest things a manager will ever have to do. Because firing someone can be so emotionally charged and logistically complicated, it's an easy process to mess up. Here are six more common mistakes managers make. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Optimization for the Cloud Download this Taneja Group Solution Brief to learn how these combinations require a different approach to optimizing the infrastructure, and how Riverbed Technology is making business use of the hybrid cloud possible Read Now IT Pros Staying Put, Expecting Raises There's cause for contentment among IT pros, many of whom are staying put at their current jobs due to a combination of lingering economic concerns and improving conditions at work. Read More Bloodiest Tech Industry Layoffs of 2011 Job cuts in the U.S. technology industry in 2011 are down significantly from a year ago and turnover levels in IT shops have returned to pre-recessionary levels, but that doesnt make the tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been laid off from electronics, telecommunications and computer industry jobs feel much better. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel IDC: Ways to Improve the Branch Office Well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%. Read now Can You Trust One Outsourcing Provider to Manage the Rest? Big IT service providers are offering up their skills as service integrators, promising to help CIOs reign in their multi-sourcing messes. But can this "fox watching the henhouse" model really work? Read More Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next A Forrester Research report says that while social software is gaining steam in the marketplace, businesses are nowhere near close to seeing a social revolution. Here's a look at the report's key findings, plus five tips for mapping out the next steps. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How IT is Changing the Way Business is Done The following discussion examines the forces driving the rapid rise of workshifting, the forms it can take, the IT challenges that must be addressed to enable it, the technologies now available to unlock its full value and the resulting benefits for the business. Read now RIM Developer Chief on the Future of BlackBerry, BBX CIO.com's Al Sacco chats with RIM's new VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, about the new BlackBerry platform, BBX, the future of the existing BlackBerry OS, what this software split means to BlackBerry--and Android--developers, and more. Read More Introducing CIO.com's Newest Blog, Consumerology This blog will be covering information technology-related products and services that are moving from the enterprise and the Small and Medium Business (SMB) worlds down to the Small Office Home Office (SOHO) and consumer markets. It's about the trend for high tech products from the enterprise world to migrate towards consumers and for consumer products to migrate into the workplace. This two way migration is both disruptive and transformative to the how, why, and when we do business. Read More The Future of Human Computer Interfaces Researchers at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group are prototyping new, novel and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information. Here are 10 innovations that enhance human-computer interactions, enrich our personal and professional lives, and make it easier to create, communicate, collaborate and even cook. Read More
	Hot Picks for the Week New CIO Blog Section. New design, new blogs on Security, Consumer tech, and more. 2011 Tech Industry Graveyard Forget iPhone 4S: Nine High-End Apple Alternatives Join CIO on Facebook! Images, Stories, RSS, Twitter and more! Up-and-coming IT leaders who have yet to head an IT organization can gain recognition through our Ones to Watch Award. Nominations accepted through November 18.
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Mozilla, Microsoft Withdraw Trust in Malaysian Intermediate CA

	Microsoft Issues Workaround for Duqu Attack While it Prepares a Patch | Airtel's Profits Continue to Be Weighed Down By Africa, 3G
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	Mozilla, Microsoft Withdraw Trust in Malaysian Intermediate CA The move follows a bulletin by Entrust which issued the intermediate certificate to the Malaysian company Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Business Analytics Summit Business Analytics Summit - November 15, 2011 - NYC Attend and benchmark yourself against respondents to this exclusive Computerworld/IBM Cognos survey that looks at organizations' top objectives and challenges in using business analytics. Plus, learn how the most mature users of business analytics compare with those who are just starting out or are partway along the maturity curve. Register now. In this Issue Microsoft Issues Workaround for Duqu Attack While it Prepares a Patch Airtel's Profits Continue to Be Weighed Down By Africa, 3G Alcatel-Lucent's Saw Revenue Drop in Q3, but Still Made a Profit Pricing and Weak Ecosystems Behind Slow Tablet Sales Mozilla Devs to Test New Phone OS This Year Android 4: Developers Praise the New UI and APIs 5 Office Suites for Android Phones Apple's Steve Jobs Vs. Tim Cook Open Source Vs. Proprietary Software Adobe Flash Vs. HTML5 WHITE PAPER: alfabet Five Rules To Reduce Risk For Application Landscapes This guide is for people responsible for ensuring the security and compliance of enterprises¹ application landscapes, including CIOs, CISOs, Heads of IT Governance as well as Enterprise Architects. It sets out five rules for creating a future IT landscape that infringes neither internal nor external regulations and delivers business value. Read more Microsoft Issues Workaround for Duqu Attack While it Prepares a Patch The temporary fix may affect some applications using embedded fonts, Microsoft said Read More Airtel's Profits Continue to Be Weighed Down By Africa, 3G The company has high debt from its investments in Africa and South Asia Read More Alcatel-Lucent's Saw Revenue Drop in Q3, but Still Made a Profit Enterprise and IP divisions saw growth and helped Alcatel-Lucent to stay in the black Read More WEBCAST: Microsoft Transforming operations to simplify knowledge access Discover how one of the largest privately-held commercial real estate firms in the United States enhanced collaboration and modernized communication by migrating to a flexible, data-driven system built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Learn More! Pricing and Weak Ecosystems Behind Slow Tablet Sales Interest in Amazon's Kindle Fire shows that content and a low price is key when competing with Apple's iPad, according to analysts Read More Mozilla Devs to Test New Phone OS This Year Mozilla recently posted images of the user interface for its Boot to Gecko mobile operating system and a development timeline Read More Android 4: Developers Praise the New UI and APIs With the first 'Ice Cream Sandwich' smartphones due in mid-November, the real app testing can soon begin Read More WHITE PAPER: Good Technology When Mobile Device Management Isn't Enough Many businesses are turning to mobile device management (MDM) solutions to better secure, manage, and support the variety of mobile devices their employees use. In many instances, MDM alone is not enough to protect against data loss and leakage. Read more. 5 Office Suites for Android Phones Read More Apple's Steve Jobs Vs. Tim Cook Read More Open Source Vs. Proprietary Software Read More Adobe Flash Vs. HTML5 Read More
	Hot Picks for the Week New CIO Blog Section. New design, new blogs on Security, Consumer tech, and more. 2011 Tech Industry Graveyard Forget iPhone 4S: Nine High-End Apple Alternatives Join CIO on Facebook! Images, Stories, RSS, Twitter and more! Up-and-coming IT leaders who have yet to head an IT organization can gain recognition through our Ones to Watch Award. Nominations accepted through November 18.
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Lesson From Steve Jobs: The Power of Inspiration

	How to Fire People the Right Way | Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets
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	Lesson From Steve Jobs: The Power of Inspiration Art inspires. Humor inspires. Teamwork inspires. A greater purpose inspires. What are you doing to inspire your IT staff? Read More WEBCAST: Akamai Video: Securing the Cloud in a Hyperconnected World This whiteboard presentation covers strategic IT security initiatives within the enterprise and explains how the Akamai Intelligent Platform provides an unmatched level of defense against website, application, and data security attacks. Learn more In this Issue How to Fire People the Right Way Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets How CIOs Can Build a Better Brand The Secret to Forging Valuable Partnerships 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO How to Have Real Risk Management Robots Are Taking Mid-Level Jobs, Changing the Economy Microsoft Video Predicts Dazzling Technology Future First-Gen Design of Top Websites and Gadgets WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence Contact Center Consolidation and Centralization In this web event, industry experts will share their insight and practical hands-on experience about how to build a successful plan for consolidating and centralizing your contact center and enterprise communications. Learn more How to Fire People the Right Way With the economic recovery in question, companies are starting to cut staff again, and employees are more likely to file wrongful termination charges against their former employers. Human resources and legal experts explain how to avoid legal trouble when firing an employee for performance reasons or laying off an employee for financial reasons. Read More Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets Savvy companies are monitoring Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to pick up valuable competitive intelligence about their rivals' product specs, pricing, finances and dissatisfied customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Secunia The (In) Security State of SCADA Software Systems In this white paper, we are going to discuss the vulnerable components of SCADA software systems based on analysis performed by Secunia Research while verifying the reported vulnerabilities. Additionally, we will provide some recommendations to mitigate exploitation and reduce the attack surface. Read now How CIOs Can Build a Better Brand Great brands result from robust business models, innovation and IT-enabled competitive advantage. Read More The Secret to Forging Valuable Partnerships The CIOs of Kaiser Permanente and Proctor & Gamble know a thing or two about the value of true strategic partnerships and how to build them. Read More WEBCAST: Zurich Avoiding Reputational and Financial Risk This webinar will review the current climate of privacy and security risks that organizations face today, and offer an overview of key risk management techniques to improve the enterprise risk profile including vendor contract management, employee training, encryption, incident response planning, and others. Learn more 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO CIOs and CMOs may be the enterprise odd couple, but social media, mobile and Web-interaction models mean they really need to learn to get along. Business strategy depends on it. Read More How to Have Real Risk Management Akamai Technologies CSO Andy Ellis talks about some of the things organizations need to consider in order to better manage risk. Read More WHITE PAPER: alfabet Five Rules To Reduce Risk For Application Landscapes This guide is for people responsible for ensuring the security and compliance of enterprises¹ application landscapes, including CIOs, CISOs, Heads of IT Governance as well as Enterprise Architects. It sets out five rules for creating a future IT landscape that infringes neither internal nor external regulations and delivers business value. Read more Robots Are Taking Mid-Level Jobs, Changing the Economy Computers and robots will replace humans in enough jobs that they will dramatically change the economy, said industry watchers and MIT economists at a robotics symposium Monday. What's more, they said, the transition has already started. Read More Microsoft Video Predicts Dazzling Technology Future It's hard to imagine the average person shelling out the kind of cash it would take to buy this technology. Read More First-Gen Design of Top Websites and Gadgets What did YouTube look like in 2005? How ugly was the first BlackBerry pager in 1999? Remember Amazon.com when it just sold books? Even the greatest products have awkward beginnings. Let's take a look at your favorite websites and gadgets when they came into the world. Read More
	Hot Picks for the Week New CIO Blog Section. New design, new blogs on Security, Consumer tech, and more. 2011 Tech Industry Graveyard Forget iPhone 4S: Nine High-End Apple Alternatives Join CIO on Facebook! Images, Stories, RSS, Twitter and more! Up-and-coming IT leaders who have yet to head an IT organization can gain recognition through our Ones to Watch Award. Nominations accepted through November 18.
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