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	INSIDER How to recruit the best executive sponsor for an IT project Every big project needs a high-ranking exec with a stake in the game and solid connections within the organization. Here's how to find and train the right one for the job. Read More WHITE PAPER: Service-now.com Drive More Value from Your IT Assets You can make your life simpler when you automate your entire IT Asset Management (ITAM) lifecycle and Software Asset Management (SAM) in one system of record. Read Now! In this Issue Legal concerns curb corporate cloud adoption Managing IT contractors presents unique challenges Paul Glen: Being right vs. not being wrong The Grill: Enterprise Business Partners CIO Pradip Sitaram INSIDER U.S. hits snag in exascale supercomputer race HP's woes persist as Autonomy deal goes bad Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: OSs are leaving the user out of user interfaces Don't be a Scrooge with at-work holiday shoppers PC vendors curb expectations for Windows 8 sales hike Petraeus affair reveals risks of email Senate fails to advance cybersecurity bill Career Watch: Sorting out the best developer candidates Security Manager's Journal: Tracking down rogue IT Bart Perkins: Don't forget the field WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors BYOD in Education This white paper can help you address the security and management of multiple devices being introduced into your network. Read on and learn how to embrace a BYOD. Read Now! Legal concerns curb corporate cloud adoption Inside the enterprise, the biggest obstacle to cloud computing is often the company's own corporate counsel. Here's how IT is getting to yes with legal. Read More Managing IT contractors presents unique challenges Hiring contract tech workers is a quick, easy way to staff up a project or offload mundane tasks -- but managing them can be ticklish. Read More Paul Glen: Being right vs. not being wrong To a lot of people, it seems as if we geeks are always battling for supremacy in the Always-Need-to-Be-Right Club. Read More The Grill: Enterprise Business Partners CIO Pradip Sitaram Pradip Sitaram, CIO at Enterprise Business Partners, led a project to modernize the nonprofit housing developer's IT infrastructure, introducing agile development and cloud-based computing along the way. Read More INSIDER U.S. hits snag in exascale supercomputer race Budget woes are forcing the U.S. to extend by two to four years its target for finishing work on an exascale supercomputer, increasing the likelihood that the Chinese will get there first. Read More HP's woes persist as Autonomy deal goes bad Hewlett-Packard vows to 'aggressively' seek recompense for alleged fraud on the part of U.K. software vendor Autonomy, which HP acquired in a $10.3 billion deal last year. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: OSs are leaving the user out of user interfaces The problem is that far too many people have forgotten User Interface 101: Make it easy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec The Time for VM-Only Backup Technology Has Passed With cost pressures and complexity frustrating many backup teams, a platform approach across physical and virtual environments is becoming the new normal, especially as virtual workloads become mission-critical in nature. This analyst whitepaper explores a unified state of backup from Symantec. Read Now! Don't be a Scrooge with at-work holiday shoppers Now that holiday gift-buying season is under way, IT managers should be prepared for a fair amount of that shopping being done at work. Read More PC vendors curb expectations for Windows 8 sales hike Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year, an analyst said recently. Read More Petraeus affair reveals risks of email The scandal that caused the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus stands as a cautionary tale about how difficult it is to ensure email privacy. Read More Senate fails to advance cybersecurity bill The U.S. Senate failed to muster enough votes to move forward on the Cybersecurity Act. Read More Career Watch: Sorting out the best developer candidates When two candidates look equally good on paper, how do you choose between them? Read More Security Manager's Journal: Tracking down rogue IT The CIO wants to know if rogue IT is a problem. 'Probably,' says our manager. Now he better find out how bad it is. Read More Bart Perkins: Don't forget the field Headquarters staffers often belittle the importance of functions located elsewhere, and they just as often have things backward. Read More
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