Should the CIO know how to code?

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	INSIDER Should the CIO know how to code? With IT integral to the business, an increasing number of companies are hiring CIOs who didn't rise through the ranks. Is that a good thing? Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: CyrusOne Colocation: The Logical Home for the Cloud That environment is colocation—sophisticated data centers where some of the biggest enterprises and cloud providers in the world can offload the risks of growing capital costs, facility management and obsolescence and focus on their core mission. Learn More! In this Issue Microsoft pares Windows 8 to three editions for Intel U.S. consumers turn to Facebook, Twitter for healthcare answers Privacy groups launch protest against CISPA bill Twitter acquires team at analytics firm Hotspots.io Website vulnerabilities fall, but hackers become more skilled Operators of online drug ring arrested in global sweep Google Drive may launch next week with 5GB of free storage Matt Hamblen: Three years to every mobile decade From CIO.com: How the cloud democratizes and complicates disaster recovery HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake Oracle says Google knowingly 'broke the rules' with Java Quantum releases LTFS appliance that makes tape like NAS Facebook to combine profile URL usernames, email handles Openwave, Synchronica sell mobile messaging businesses IT Blogwatch: iPad Mini: Low-price 7-in rumors, release date 'soon' WHITE PAPER: GroupLogic The Enterprise File Sharing Option Enterprises and IT departments need to address several critical security issues when considering file sharing and syncing products. Many of today's solutions do not meet Enterprise requirements. Learn more Microsoft pares Windows 8 to three editions for Intel Microsoft said it will sell just three Windows 8 editions for Intel PCs, half as many as the company pushed in 2009 for Windows 7. Read More U.S. consumers turn to Facebook, Twitter for healthcare answers A survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers shows that many now use social networks to discover healthcare information and then turn to those same sites to voice their opinions about their experiences. Read More Privacy groups launch protest against CISPA bill Several groups Monday launched a week of protests against a controversial proposed cybersecurity bill they claim would eviscerate online privacy rights. Read More Twitter acquires team at analytics firm Hotspots.io Twitter has acquired the team at Hotspots.io, a social media analytics company, according to a notice on the Hotspots.io website. Read More Website vulnerabilities fall, but hackers become more skilled The number of coding mistakes on websites continues to fall but companies are slow to fix issues that could be exploited by hackers working with improved attack tools, a security expert said. Read More Operators of online drug ring arrested in global sweep The alleged ringleader of an online marketplace for illegal drugs was arrested Monday in Lelystad, Netherlands, capping two days of arrests and the indictment of eight men on federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Read More Google Drive may launch next week with 5GB of free storage Reports of an imminent Google Drive launch keep piling up, with The Next Web claiming that the online storage service will finally arrive next week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Private Cloud: Lessons Learned Along the Way A recent IDG Research Services study confirms that the private cloud is indeed full of promise. Agility. Efficiency. Cost savings. But realizing those rewards can be an arduous path. Now, you can leverage what Cisco learned on their own path to the private cloud. View Now Matt Hamblen: Three years to every mobile decade Service costs and a smartphone's price are part of the technology evolution, just like quad cores and high res cameras. Read More From CIO.com: How the cloud democratizes and complicates disaster recovery When it comes to disaster recovery, the cloud is showing itself to be a mixed bag. CIO.com's Jeff Vance explains how the great shift in technology has both lowered the entry barriers for DR technology and given smaller businesses what could be a dangerous sense of false security. Read More HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard's Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun's Sparc servers had been in a free fall, and Oracle's executives stated internally that the company's 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems was a mistake, HP said in a filing in its dispute with Oracle over the porting of its software to the Itanium platform. Read More Oracle says Google knowingly 'broke the rules' with Java Oracle and Google kicked off a high-stakes jury trial in San Francisco on Monday, with Oracle arguing that Google ran roughshod over its intellectual property rights because the search giant was scared of getting left behind in the mobile advertising business. Read More Quantum releases LTFS appliance that makes tape like NAS Quantum announced an LTFS appliance that allows tape drives to act like network-attached storage where data can be accessed as simple, open file formats. Read More Facebook to combine profile URL usernames, email handles Facebook members who customized their profile webpage with a unique name will have to use that same name as the handle of their Facebook.com email address. Read More Openwave, Synchronica sell mobile messaging businesses Two mobile messaging software businesses -- Openwave's Mediation and Messaging units and Synchronica -- were sold on Monday in a sign of consolidation for that industry. Read More IT Blogwatch: iPad Mini: Low-price 7-in rumors, release date 'soon' Here comes the iPad Mini? Supposedly, Apple is readying a 7-inch tablet -- 7.85 says one über-precise rumor. We're told to expect a release date around July/September. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers squint at the scuttlebutt. Read More
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