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	4 survival strategies for IT chaos CIOs across all industries are facing unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, from forces such as cyber attacks, consumer technologies, and changing global privacy rules and industry regulations. Here are four strategies for coping. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM and Intel IBM Delivers Innovation On New x86 Systems and Solutions Live Webcast: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:00 PM EDT You need an IT infrastructure that provides scalability, performance and efficiency tailored to the specific goals of your business. Join us on September 10 to learn more about IBM's new innovation designed to provide the performance and efficiency required for today's workloads. Register Now In this Issue Open APIs: An indispensable link to customers At last! HR pros who understand IT Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does Windows 8 help the government to spy on us? The Grill: Cynthia Nustad creates a culture of transparency INSIDER Data analytics 'nerds' now a mainstay in U.S. politics Blunders lead to Ballmer's demise Bart Perkins: Can't buy you love Security Manager's Journal: Two big goals for 2014 budget won't require a lot of money Career Watch: IT professionals assess the IT profession Self-driving cars don't yield for naysayers Torvalds marks Linux's birthday with a nod to its past Microsoft's mobile fate rests on Nokia deal Dell sticks with Windows 8 for business tablets WEBCAST: ServiceNow Service-Oriented Cloud Automation During this webinar, you will discover how ServiceNow is enabling organizations to increase their competitive agility, user satisfaction and productivity, all while enhancing IT's value to the business. View Now! Open APIs: An indispensable link to customers Public APIs let customers connect to you in new ways, but the interface must be easy for outside developers to work with. Read More   At last! HR pros who understand IT Gone are the days of the clueless HR rep. These pros know and understand IT's needs, helping tech departments make better, faster hires. Read More   Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does Windows 8 help the government to spy on us? TPM has always sounded like a good idea. But the problem with 'trusted computing' has alwasy been knowing how trustworthy it is. Read More   The Grill: Cynthia Nustad creates a culture of transparency Cynthia Nustad, senior vice president and CIO at Health Management Systems, says having an engaged and educated executive team, with a clear understanding of IT investments, creates a higher chance for project success. Read More     INSIDER Data analytics 'nerds' now a mainstay in U.S. politics   Proving that data analytics is becoming a mainstay of U.S. politics, data scientists from the 2012 Obama and Romney campaigns have opened their own firms to offer their services to other candidates. Insider (registration required) Read More   Blunders lead to Ballmer's demise The heap of blunders that piled up at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer may have led to the earthshaking announcement that Bill Gates' former right-hand man and heir, as well as Microsoft's fiercest cheerleader, will step down as CEO within a year. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Pure Storage   Flash for All Servers and networks get relentlessly faster and cheaper with Moore's Law, and as a result are now thousands of times faster than the mechanical desk storage to which they connect. Download this ebook to discover how your business can improve efficiency, compete better, and deliver compelling user experiences with flash. Learn more now. Bart Perkins: Can't buy you love There are problems with buying followers on social media sites. Read More   Security Manager's Journal: Two big goals for 2014 budget won't require a lot of money Hardening the core will leverage many existing technologies. Read More   Career Watch: IT professionals assess the IT profession A survey digs into IT pros' perceptions about their own profession. Read More   Self-driving cars don't yield for naysayers As development of self-driving car technology moves ahead, there's a growing faction of people in the blogosphere who say they won't let a computer usurp their driving independence. Read More   Torvalds marks Linux's birthday with a nod to its past Twenty-two years ago last month, Linus Torvalds announced in a newsgroup post that he was creating a free operating system, and he echoed the words -- and the spirit -- of that post in his announcement of the latest Linux kernel release candidate on Aug. 25. Read More   Microsoft's mobile fate rests on Nokia deal Microsoft's move to acquire Nokia's devices and services business is a gamble that the company had to take to boost its flagging mobile business. For Nokia, it's an admission that it lacks the resources to compete with Samsung and Apple, say analysts. Read More   Dell sticks with Windows 8 for business tablets Demand for Windows 8 may be sluggish, but Dell still thinks it's the best operating system for business tablets and plans to roll out more Windows 8 products later this year. Read More
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