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	How to prevent IT department overload Managing the flow of an infinite supply of worthwhile projects through a finite IT operation takes finesse. Here's how to avoid the backlog and the chaos. Read More WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow 3 IT Imperatives CIOs Use To Drive Change CIOs who have been successful in bridging the divide between IT operations and business did it by accelerating the transformation of IT. Read now! In this Issue IT's new concern: 'Bring your own cloud' INSIDER IT on the fly: The art of quickly building, then dismantling, IT operations Paul Glen: The secret to keeping processes vital The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety INSIDER Unemployed IT vets say job offers go to cheaper labor Chinese hackers master art of lying low Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Google Glass will be a big deal, so deal with it Security Manager's Journal: NAC deployment means better access control at last Bart Perkins: Avoiding IT audit nightmares Career Watch: The growth of consulting Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017 Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law Microsoft's $300M Nook investment hasn't paid off -- yet RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Now Accepting Submissions - VMware Innovation Awards Winners will be selected by a prestigious panel of judges and honored at VMworld on August 27th in San Francisco. VMware Innovation Awards Winner will receive: Your story featured in Computerworld, 2 conference passes to VMworld 2013, and more. Submit an entry for this prestigious award and showcase your innovative projects, visit: http://events.computerworld.com/VMwareNominationform2013CW IT's new concern: 'Bring your own cloud' As personal and professional clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher. Read More INSIDER IT on the fly: The art of quickly building, then dismantling, IT operations The CIOs for the London Olympics, President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and other short-lived but intense operations know how to run successful IT shops in extraordinary situations -- and their insights can be applied in even the most ordinary of conditions. Insider (registration required) Read More Paul Glen: The secret to keeping processes vital As long as a problem seems present, gnarly and intractable, we enjoy following the process that solves it. But once the problem has been solved, it's not so interesting to us anymore. Read More The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets. Read More INSIDER Unemployed IT vets say job offers go to cheaper labor Tech companies want Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration, arguing that qualified tech workers are in short supply in the U.S. But veteran IT professionals who say they can't find jobs question that analysis of the labor market. Insider (registration required) Read More Chinese hackers master art of lying low China's remarkable success in infiltrating U.S. government, military and corporate networks in recent years shouldn't be seen as a sign that the country is gaining on the U.S. lead in cybertechnology, security experts say. They're just very persistent and very good at remaining undetected for long periods of time. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Google Glass will be a big deal, so deal with it Some people are having fits about Google Glass. True, it will change how we think about privacy in public places, but such rethinking started years ago. Read More WHITE PAPER: serVelocity Is Your Services Organization Leaving Money on the Table? Fully adopting today's service automation technology provides executives the visibility they require to increase profitability at a time when it is sorely needed. Visibility enables actions that optimize key Services margin levers where even small improvements equate to significant bottom line and strategic impact for the company. Learn more. Security Manager's Journal: NAC deployment means better access control at last The deployment has already revealed a whole lot of devices that don't meet the criteria for getting on the corporate network. Read More Bart Perkins: Avoiding IT audit nightmares IT's problems can draw unwanted notice now that Sarbanes-Oxley requires them to appear in 10-K reports as 'material weaknesses.' Read More Career Watch: The growth of consulting OnForce CEO Peter Cannone says the use of IT contractors is expanding and will continue to do so. Read More Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier. Read More Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017 About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. Read More Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but the challenge of keeping up with it is growing as chips get smaller, says a company executive. Read More Microsoft's $300M Nook investment hasn't paid off -- yet Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets. Read More
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