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	Sizing up open source: Not so simple Choosing open-source software is more complicated than picking traditional software. Is your IT department prepared to contribute code fixes to the community? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference Is your IT consumerization journey on track? Embracing consumer technologies for business advantage is a journey. Take the first crucial step at Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) June 2-4, 2013 in San Francisco. Come Sunday for "The Consumerization Journey: A Readiness Assessment Workshop" led by Doug Neal and Jim Ginsburgh of CSC Leading Edge Forum. Learn more at www.citeconference.com In this Issue Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open source code How to nab a data scientist job Scot Finnie: A call for mobile innovation The Grill: James Turnbull driving change in healthcare IT INSIDER Security tools can't keep hackers at bay Struggling companies turn to business-savvy IT pros to boost the bottom line Thornton May: Stalking the elusive data scientist Security Manager's Journal: Plans and processes are made to be revised Career Watch: A little less stress for IT workers? Preston Gralla: Microsoft's smartwatch: Been there, didn't do that Harvard aims to help developers make cheaper solar panels Google CEO: 'Big bets' on non-core products are worth the risk U.S. IT services providers heartened by Senate immigration bill Florida restricts use of drones by law enforcement officials WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open source code Just about anyone in the office can introduce open source code into the company's IT infrastructure. Yet CIOs face real dangers if they're not properly managing their open-source assets. Read More How to nab a data scientist job How exactly do you make it to the data scientist big leagues? As it turns out, there is no one right path. Instead, it's largely a scramble out there on the big data field. Insider (registration required) Read More Scot Finnie: A call for mobile innovation A lot more innovation is desperately needed for mobile hardware design and platforms. Are Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft up to the task? Read More The Grill: James Turnbull driving change in healthcare IT Jim Turnbull, CIO at University of Utah Health Care, says mobile technology as the next big opportunity for getting patients more involved in managing their healthcare. Read More INSIDER Security tools can't keep hackers at bay Credit card data of customers of Schnucks supermarkets was exposed for months in a breach that was not closed until weeks after a card processing company issued an alert about fraudulent activity. Insider (registration required) Read More Struggling companies turn to business-savvy IT pros to boost the bottom line Economic woes have pushed companies of all sizes to shake up data center hiring, development and other processes to better align IT and business operations. Read More Thornton May: Stalking the elusive data scientist Since it is virtually impossible to find all needed analytical skills resident in the same human being, it might be wise to adopt an 'ensemble' approach to your organization's deficit in those skills. Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation Scalable Performance to Enterprise Applications The growing disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualized, and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application performance. Read Now! Security Manager's Journal: Plans and processes are made to be revised The company's incident-response plan needs to be updated. That's normal -- no plan is carved in stone. Read More Career Watch: A little less stress for IT workers? A survey finds that stress remains high, but it's down significantly from last year. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's smartwatch: Been there, didn't do that Vendors are falling all over themselves to develop smartwatches. Will this be yet one more example of Microsoft getting to a market first and then failing to cash in? Read More Harvard aims to help developers make cheaper solar panels Hoping to usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard's Clean Energy Project in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells. Read More Google CEO: 'Big bets' on non-core products are worth the risk Google's core offering may be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Google Glass, says CEO Larry Page. Read More U.S. IT services providers heartened by Senate immigration bill Domestic IT services providers say the U.S. Senate's immigration bill could benefit them by raising the costs of their competitors that are based overseas. Read More Florida restricts use of drones by law enforcement officials A new Florida law restricts the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by state law enforcement officials. It's the first law of its kind in the country. Read More
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