How to prepare for the coming IT skills revolution

	Obama expands OPT visa program for foreign students | Whitman takes risks by helping Romney
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	How to prepare for the coming IT skills revolution The current tech talent gap is just the first sign of a coming revolution in the IT labor market. Here's how to secure your footing now and brace for what's ahead. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More! In this Issue Obama expands OPT visa program for foreign students Whitman takes risks by helping Romney Thornton May: The caveman in the executive suite Bart Perkins: Social media passwords in jeopardy The Grill: Tracey Rothenberger wears two hats at Ricoh Americas Senator seeks student visa program investigation Attention IT: Your interns have something to teach you HP appoints new head of software WHITE PAPER: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Obama expands OPT visa program for foreign students A program that allows foreign science, technology, engineering and math grads to work in the U.S. for 29 months without a work visa was expanded with little attention in May by the Obama administration. Read More Whitman takes risks by helping Romney HP CEO Meg Whitman's strong support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney carry risks ranging from public perception of the company to closer scrutiny by the government. HP says Whitman's politics are her own. Read More Thornton May: The caveman in the executive suite Thornton May's thinking about executive identity has meandered as far back as our hunter-gatherer forebears. Read More Bart Perkins: Social media passwords in jeopardy Employers who demand that job applicants surrender their passwords could face unintended consequences. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Securing the Cloud Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live. Learn More! The Grill: Tracey Rothenberger wears two hats at Ricoh Americas To help lead the merger of two multibillion-dollar companies -- IKON Office Solutions and Ricoh Americas -- Tracey Rothenberger last year added chief process officer to his existing titles of senior vice president and CIO. Read More Senator seeks student visa program investigation U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says a program that allows foreign students to work here for up to 29 months may be hurting U.S. workers and risking national security. Read More Attention IT: Your interns have something to teach you IT interns brought innovation to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the White House and We Energies. Here's how to inspire similar results from your summer crew. Read More HP appoints new head of software Following through on promises to shuffle the ranks of upper management, Hewlett-Packard has hired George Kadifa to head the company's software division and has promoted Bill Veghte, who formerly led the division, to the role of chief operating officer. Read More
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