45 years of creative evolution in the IT industry and beyond

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	45 years of creative evolution in the IT industry and beyond As Computerworld celebrates its 45th anniversary, IT executives and pundits look back over decades of change that brought stunning technological advancements -- and put more power in users' hands. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Rescue: Remote Support for PCs and mobile devices. Rescue lets you remotely connect, troubleshoot and repair PCs and todays' most popular smartphones. With Rescue, IT can instantly connect, diagnose and solve. This enables IT to do more, and spend time on the tough IT cases. Do more and improve customer satisfaction and outcomes. Find out what IT knows. Do More. Try Rescue today In this Issue Scot Finnie: Where will IT be in 5 years? Smart buildings get smarter The ins and outs of IT executive coaching The Grill: Energy Plus CIO Hugh Scott Startup IT vendors are worth the risk INSIDER Help desks change with the times RIM CIO aims to reassure unhappy enterprise BlackBerry users High court nixes appeal of AT&T, NSA wiretap Case Huawei gear is secure, say U.S. network service providers Enterprise tools added to Google Search Appliance Thornton May: 3 questions every CIO must answer Security Manager's Journal: Security has to extend to your customers Preston Gralla: Tech talk seems to be taboo on the campaign trail Career Watch: The look of competence RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Scot Finnie: Where will IT be in 5 years? Most IT predictions are two-dimensional, featuring forecasts in which the big trend of the day takes over and completely changes IT. Read More Smart buildings get smarter The San Francisco Public Utility Commission's new headquarters is a smart building that integrates many state-of-the-art green technologies, including solar panels and wind turbines that supply up to 7% of the building's energy needs. At Microsoft's headquarters, analytics tools optimize operational and energy efficiency across seven building management systems. Read More The ins and outs of IT executive coaching CEOs have long used executive coaches to take their leadership to the next level. Now IT pros are following suit. Read More The Grill: Energy Plus CIO Hugh Scott CIO Hugh Scott decided to move to the cloud within months of joining Energy Plus Holdings. Here, he discusses the challenges of moving into a leadership position at a new company, the importance of forging relationships with vendor partners and his approach to building a motivated IT team. Read More Startup IT vendors are worth the risk Working with startup vendors requires a lot of legwork and a plan for managing the risk. But the payoff can be great. Read More INSIDER Help desks change with the times Research firm Gartner is predicting the demise of the help desk, but tech support veterans say reports of the death of the help desk are greatly exaggerated. Insider (registration required) Read More RIM CIO aims to reassure unhappy enterprise BlackBerry users Research in Motion CIO Robin Bienfait's last name means 'well done' in French. She hopes customers will agree that those two words apply to the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Modernize Your Network and Advance Your Business If your enterprise is looking for ways to thrive in the new business world order, this paper will give you five great reasons to modernize your network now. It will explain how HP, with its advanced networking technologies, can help you break free from your legacy network. Read Now! High court nixes appeal of AT&T, NSA wiretap Case The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of a lower-court court decision upholding legal immunity for telecom companies that allegedly participated in an NSA surveillance program during the last decade. Read More Huawei gear is secure, say U.S. network service providers Responding to a congressional report warning U.S. businesses not to buy equipment from Huawei or ZTE, three U.S. Internet and telecommunications service providers said their networks are safe even though they use some equipment from Huawei. Read More Enterprise tools added to Google Search Appliance Google upgraded its Search Appliance for the enterprise to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organizations. Read More Thornton May: 3 questions every CIO must answer What business is IT in today? What business should it be in tomorrow? What should the 'I' in 'CIO' signify? Read More Security Manager's Journal: Security has to extend to your customers When a security manager's company sells software, he can't ignore the potential vulnerability of those products. Read More Preston Gralla: Tech talk seems to be taboo on the campaign trail Discussions about technology issues are complex and not amenable to sound bites. But they are quite important nonetheless. Read More Career Watch: The look of competence Communication specialist and author Cara Hale Alter talks about how to project confidence and competence. Read More
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