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	Extreme automation: FedEx Ground hubs speed deliveries FedEx Ground's highly automated hubs, which sort 3.5 million packages a day without human intervention, are speeding up deliveries and helping the company win market share. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP The Enterprise CIO Forum Introducing the Enterprise CIO Forum, a community focused on driving business transformation – brought to you by CIO and the CIO Executive Council and lead by CIOs from prominent global enterprises. Link up with like-minded global IT leaders who are driving business transformation at their global enterprise organizations. Connect now! In this Issue Toyota plans social network for electric-vehicle buyers Business VPs are driving many SaaS purchases Most EU countries ignore law on website cookies Smartphone app points consumers to cheaper prescription drugs VW reorganizes IT to help develop 'rolling computers' Oracle now avoiding big acquisitions The Grill: Larry Bonfante Preston Gralla: A changing of the guard as Microsoft falls to No. 3 How IT shops are coping with tablet mania Southern scales back desktop virtualization Security Manager's Journal: Giving cloud storage the ax Bart Perkins: Data breaches' costly fallout Career Watch: IT employment tops 4M Thornton May: IT has to set the record on itself straight RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Is Microsoft Desktop Virtualization for you? Desktop Virtualization provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables companies to give their employees flexibility to work everywhere; simplifying compliance and management through a centralized and unified infrastructure. Learn how IT is empowering users with Desktop Virtualization with this on-demand roundtable. Click to continue Toyota plans social network for electric-vehicle buyers Toyota teams up with Salesforce.com and Microsoft to create a social network for buyers of Toyota electric cars. Read More Business VPs are driving many SaaS purchases Much of SaaS purchasing comes from business groups outside of the IT department, according to a Forrester Research report. Read More Most EU countries ignore law on website cookies Most EU countries are ignoring a new privacy law on website cookies. Read More Smartphone app points consumers to cheaper prescription drugs Medco and Verizon Wireless released a mobile application that guides smartphone users to locations where they can purchase the lowest-cost prescription drugs. Read More VW reorganizes IT to help develop 'rolling computers' Volkswagen is realigning its IT operation so it can play a bigger role in the automaker's effort to build a new generation of cars that are infused with intelligence, connectivity and many other new capabilities. INSIDER (registration required) Read More Oracle now avoiding big acquisitions Oracle this year has dramatically slowed its growth-by-acquisition strategy to concentrate instead on integrating Sun into the company, finishing work on the long-awaited Fusion Applications and filling gaps in its product portfolio. INSIDER (registration required) Read More The Grill: Larry Bonfante IT leadership isn't all about charisma, says Larry Bonfante, CIO of the U.S. Tennis Association, but many IT managers lack the ability to inspire. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Add Business Value Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Preston Gralla: A changing of the guard as Microsoft falls to No. 3 Microsoft can react to being eclipsed in market value by Apple and IBM by either resigning itself to its fate or taking a cue from those that surpassed it. INSIDER (registration required) Read More How IT shops are coping with tablet mania How do you cope with tablet mania? The software, controls and policies that companies use for smartphones can be applied to tablets, too. Read More Southern scales back desktop virtualization Southern Co. had been planning to move most of its employees into a virtual desktop environment within two to three years but will now tackle a much smaller-scale deployment over time. Read More Security Manager's Journal: Giving cloud storage the ax None of the SaaS storage vendors at this point have implemented adequate safeguards that will keep corporate data safe. Read More Bart Perkins: Data breaches' costly fallout One estimate puts the cost of the average breach at $7.2 million, but indirect costs can be even higher. INSIDER (registration required) Read More Career Watch: IT employment tops 4M BLS figures show IT employment above 4 million for the first time since 2008. Read More Thornton May: IT has to set the record on itself straight Somehow, it has been branded as an out-of-control spendthrift that has made huge mistakes costing money and competitive advantage. INSIDER (registration required) Read More
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