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	IT's winning (and losing) job titles In today's work environment, IT jobs are increasingly found outside the IT department, embedded in other business functions, with the employee working alongside technology-savvy business colleagues. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy, an HP company Reduce Discovery Costs of Mobile Data Date: January 10th, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EST Join this live Webcast for a discussion on a unique approach to protecting and retaining data that resides on mobile devices by creating a meaning-based backup that allows organizations to apply intelligent legal hold policies against the full corpus of data. Learn more In this Issue IT jobs are up, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act stalls Web 'handles' vs. phone numbers PC users unlikely to embrace Windows 8 Verizon to pay $3.6B for mobile spectrum 'Server huggers' impede cloud migrations Deal means more SAP cloud changes The Grill: Doug Cutting Thornton A. May: Sustaining your career during unsettled times CIOs describe their ideal job candidates IT workers' top 4 dream employers 6 job-hunting tricks for a Web 2.0 world Paul Glen: Want to own the future? Build rich relationships Scot Finnie: Getting a running start on 2012 in IT WHITE PAPER: IBM Business Analytics: Pushing Toward Relevance Although business analytics and business intelligence tools are becoming ubiquitous, they frequently remain underutilized. Part of the challenge is the disconnect between the IT teams deploying these tools and the business users who are supposed to be using them. Learn More IT jobs are up, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act stalls As IT employment numbers near 2008's all-time high, Sen. Grassley blocks Senate action on the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. Read More Web 'handles' vs. phone numbers Forget phone numbers and email addresses; the era of the Internet 'handle' is emerging. Read More PC users unlikely to embrace Windows 8 IDC expects Windows 8 upgrades on desktops and laptops to be scarce, saying Microsoft's upcoming operating system will be 'largely irrelevant' to users of traditional PCs. Read More Verizon to pay $3.6B for mobile spectrum Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay SpectrumCo $3.6 billion for mobile spectrum licenses covering 259 million U.S. residents. Read More 'Server huggers' impede cloud migrations Chipita America has become almost serverless over the past six years by moving its ERP, EDI and BI systems, Office and Exchange applications and file servers to the cloud. (Insider, registration required.) Read More Deal means more SAP cloud changes If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize its cloud computing strategy, which has so far been mostly ineffectual. Read More WHITE PAPER: Numara Software A Global Benchmark Defining IT Asset and Service Management Find out how your IT department's IT asset and services management strategy compares to that of your peers by using this unique tool. Click on the link below to begin our 10-minute assessment and see how your IT organization measures up! Learn more The Grill: Doug Cutting Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says he expects the surge in interest in the big-data storage and analytics framework to continue. Read More Thornton A. May: Sustaining your career during unsettled times Columnist Thornton A. May sees an evolving world of IT work, where what you did and what you learned isnt the career decision point. These days, what you can do and what value you can create is where the new action is. Read More CIOs describe their ideal job candidates Thanks to rapid-fire industry change, it's hard for IT workers to plan their careers. We asked four IT leaders about their current hiring needs and the "dream" resumes of candidates who could fill those positions. (Insider, registration required.) Read More IT workers' top 4 dream employers Computerworld asked 431 IT workers where they dream of working someday. Here's a look at the work environments of the four companies that came out on top. Read More 6 job-hunting tricks for a Web 2.0 world A new Computerworld survey shows that some 53% of IT workers are looking for new jobs, yet many of them are new to job hunting in a Web 2.0 world. Here are six tips from recruiters and savvy job finders. Read More Paul Glen: Want to own the future? Build rich relationships Technologies come and go, says columnist Paul Glen, but the ability to connect business and technical people will always be the rarest and most valuable skill an IT professional can offer. (Insider, registration required.) Read More Scot Finnie: Getting a running start on 2012 in IT Scot Finnie offers his predictions of developments we're likely to see in IT in the coming year. Read More
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