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	Forecast 2014: How to wring value from your IT budget   In Computerworld's Forecast 2014 survey, 36% of the respondents said that they expect their IT budgets to increase, and that spending on hosted services will outpace spending on hardware and software. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP Inside the Minds of Enterprise Mobile App Developers   The success of smartphones introduced a new paradigm for developing applications that's having a broad and deep impact on application development tools and software architectures. Read Now! In this Issue Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth 8 hot IT skills for 2014 INSIDER Forecast 2014: How to master disruptive technologies Thornton A. May: Fed up with blowhards, IT will fight back in 2014 The Grill: Verizon's Ajay Waghray tackles a massive project to streamline infrastructure Paul Glen: When you've had it with a stakeholder INSIDER iOS 7, new iPhones may help Apple in the enterprise New Dell won't abandon the PC Preston Gralla: Time to break up Microsoft? Not so fast DEC's demise may offer a lesson for Microsoft Boston, SF shine in mixed U.S. IT job market Encryption is still the best defense, despite NSA code-cracking Offshore IT service providers are the leading users of L-1 visas WEBCAST: Citrix Online Detecting and Dealing with Toxic Teams Join Paul Glen, CEO and author of Leading Geeks, on Thursday September 26 at 10AM PDT/ 1 PM EDT. as he explains the 5 warning signs that indicate you have a toxic team and how to restore your team to 100% health. Learn big solutions for big problems! View now Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth As IT executives watch the demands of mobile devices and cloud computing mercilessly hammer their wireless and wired networks, many anticipate needing to add bandwidth to their organization's infrastructures in 2014. Read More   8 hot IT skills for 2014 The list of IT skills that will be most in demand next year leads off with programming and application development, according to Computerworld's Forecast 2014 survey. Read More     INSIDER Forecast 2014: How to master disruptive technologies   These three organizations are taking steps into the unknown, changing business processes, even strategies, with social networking, cloud and more. Insider (registration required) Read More   Thornton A. May: Fed up with blowhards, IT will fight back in 2014 Columnist Thornton A. May says in 2014, IT leaders will need to have regularly scheduled meetings that actively and aggressively seek to make sense of the changing world around them. Read More   The Grill: Verizon's Ajay Waghray tackles a massive project to streamline infrastructure   Ajay Waghray, CIO at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, jumped into his new role by launching a massive project to consolidate and update the company's infrastructure and eliminate redundant systems to create the streamlined backbone that he wanted. Read More   Paul Glen: When you've had it with a stakeholder While you oftentimes just have to live with whatever it is you don't like, some situations call for a more forceful reaction. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Why Storage Convergence? Why Now? In this paper, Enterprise Strategy Group examines approaches to IT operational challenges and business requirements. Learn how HP Converged Storage's comprehensive approach represents a logical evolution development in storage, delivering ease, flexibility and cost-efficiency all in one. Learn more.   INSIDER iOS 7, new iPhones may help Apple in the enterprise Much of what Apple offers enterprise workers and their IT departments in the new iPhone 5s and 5c comes by virtue of its new mobile operating system, iOS 7, which became available with the new smartphones last week. Insider (registration required) Read More     New Dell won't abandon the PC Dell officials vow that the company will continue making acquisitions and will remain committed to its struggling PC business once its $24.9 billion deal to go private is complete. Read More   Preston Gralla: Time to break up Microsoft? Not so fast There are increasing calls for Microsoft to sell off Bing and walk away from mobile. Would those moves be good in the long term? Read More   DEC's demise may offer a lesson for Microsoft With Microsoft facing an almost insurmountable challenge to remain viable, some see parallels between the software giant and DEC, the high-flying tech titan of the 1980s that had all but disappeared by 1996. Read More   Boston, SF shine in mixed U.S. IT job market Tech employment is showing signs of slowing, but not everywhere. For example, the Federal Reserve reports that demand for certain types of IT skills outstrips supply in some markets -- Boston and San Francisco in particular. Read More   Encryption is still the best defense, despite NSA code-cracking Though the NSA has apparently cracked widely used encryption algorithms, security experts maintain that, properly implemented, encryption is still the best way to secure data. Read More   Offshore IT service providers are the leading users of L-1 visas The IEEE-USA is calling for reform of the L-1 visa program following the release of a government report that identified offshore IT service providers as the biggest users of the visa. Read More
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