Are You Keeping Ahead of IT Industry Trends?

	CIOs Should Learn to Lead the 'Digital Cowboys' | Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth
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	INSIDER Are You Keeping Ahead of IT Industry Trends? Social, mobile and other consumer technologies are inspiring venture capitalists to invest and changing the landscape of IT. Are you paying attention? Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Disk Backup Vendor Comparison This Info-Tech report highlights an independent evaluation of the top six disk-backup vendors: Dell, EMC (Data Domain), ExaGrid, FalconStor, HP and Quantum. Their products appear similar, but an in-depth look into features reveals their differences. See their strengths and weakness and pick the one that works best for you. Learn more. In this Issue INSIDER CIOs Should Learn to Lead the 'Digital Cowboys' Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth Silicon Valley's top threat is China, survey finds INSIDER IT Economic Impact Study Reveals IT Spending Tempered by Cautious Optimism Grassley plan for tougher H-1B enforcement revealed IBM freezes salaries of executives, many workers Dell's strategy for Wyse unit: hire, not fire RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue INSIDER CIOs Should Learn to Lead the 'Digital Cowboys' The co-author of a new book says younger professionals are gadget-savvy and global-minded, so they require a new leadership style. Insider (registration required) Read More Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is coming up on his five-year anniversary at the helm, following his arrival in December 2007. Under Whitehurst's leadership, Red Hat's revenue has grown from US$523 million in its fiscal 2008 to more than $1.1 billion in its fiscal 2012, without deviating from its core strategy of open-source infrastructure software. Read More Silicon Valley's top threat is China, survey finds A significant number of high-level technology executives appear to believe Silicon Valley's days as the world's innovation hub are numbered. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how INSIDER IT Economic Impact Study Reveals IT Spending Tempered by Cautious Optimism Many CIOs say they plan to increase IT budgets and continue spending on new projects. They also indicate a growing interest in investment in edge technologies such as mobile, social and cloud. Insider (registration required) Read More Grassley plan for tougher H-1B enforcement revealed TechNet, an industry lobbying group, Wednesday released a letter signed by nearly 350 companies that calls on Congress to eliminate the per-country cap on green cards just as details of the latest U.S. Senate proposal come to light. Read More IBM freezes salaries of executives, many workers IBM this year won't be awarding pay raises to its executives as well as some of its workers. Read More Dell's strategy for Wyse unit: hire, not fire Dell completed its acquisition of Wyse Technology just last month and is now hiring, and not cutting, employees. Read More
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