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	Government open data proves a treasure trove for savvy businesses Ever since President Obama signed the Open Data Executive Order, government agencies have been making their vast data stores available to the public. These once-secret data sets are proving a valuable business resource, too. Read More WEBCAST: CenturyLink Technology Solutions Building a Big Data solution that's production-ready To realize game-changing insights, operate with unprecedented speed and agility, and gain true competitive edge, harnessing big data's power has become nothing less than mission-critical. In this webinar, experts explore solution strategies and best practices for deploying a production-ready big data environment. Learn more In this Issue Spring-clean your applications 4 ideas to steal from IT upstarts Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Who needs operating systems anymore? Not you. Security Manager's Journal: Stopping vendors from making us a Target Ron Miller: When will we start taking security seriously? The Grill: Rotary CIO Peter Markos is working to measure the global impact of the nonprofit's giving Bart Perkins: Power to the people's devices Career Watch: The rise of people architecture The Internet of Things may need an open-source foundation Killing Windows XP is a risky move for Microsoft Ballmer: Microsoft Hurt by slow move to hardware-software model CIOs worldwide grapple with unneeded apps The cloud may be safer than you think Seagate readies high-capacity storage drives for tablets WHITE PAPER: Neustar Inc. Four Ways DNS Can Accelerate Business Growth This e-book describes how DNS has developed over the years to support business growth as new needs have emerged, for example, advanced traffic management and protection from cyber threats. Learn More Spring-clean your applications Getting rid of old, unsecured or unused software and services is not easy. Do it correctly, though, and you can save IT time and money. Read More 4 ideas to steal from IT upstarts Fast-growing companies like Square and MongoDB are driving IT innovation with leaner staffs, cloud-first computing, self-service everything and CTOs rather than CIOs. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Who needs operating systems anymore? Not you. OSs will still matter to developers and engineers, but ordinary users are going to be more and more in the cloud, where their OS doesn't matter at all. Read More Security Manager's Journal: Stopping vendors from making us a Target The data breach suffered by Target could make it easier for our manager to make some needed changes in his company's vendor management processes. Read More Ron Miller: When will we start taking security seriously? And what is going to have to happen before we see that we must set the smartest minds on coming up with newer, safer and less complicated security methods? Read More The Grill: Rotary CIO Peter Markos is working to measure the global impact of the nonprofit's giving Peter Markos, CIO and general manager for Rotary International, contends with challenges ranging from authenticating a constantly changing list of users who need to access Rotary's systems to enabling applications that work for a vastly diverse membership. Read More Bart Perkins: Power to the people's devices The new USB Power Delivery spec turns the capabilities of the USB port on their head. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Mobile Apps and Devices Slash Customer Cycle Time Consolidated Engineering Laboratories' field employees used to collect data on triplicate forms that were sometimes hard to read and difficult to manage. After procuring iPad devices from CDW and integrating mobile apps with back office systems, the company boosted productivity and reduced their customer cycle time by as much as 7X! View Now Career Watch: The rise of people architecture In managing human resources, people architecture is gaining popularity, says IT workforce analyst David Foote. He explains what it is and why it's on the rise. Read More The Internet of Things may need an open-source foundation The biggest obstacle to the Internet of Things isn't imagination or technology. It's interoperability. And new open-source code may be able to provide that. Read More Killing Windows XP is a risky move for Microsoft Microsoft could lose its hard-won reputation for keeping software secure if it goes through with its plan to stop supporting Windows XP on April 8. Read More Ballmer: Microsoft Hurt by slow move to hardware-software model In his first public appearance since he stepped down as Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer again acknowledged that the company missed the boat on mobile and 'didn't put the hardware and the software together soon enough.' Read More CIOs worldwide grapple with unneeded apps Corporate IT departments around the world are burdened with unnecessary software applications, according to a survey by systems integrator Capgemini. Read More The cloud may be safer than you think Some experts argue that security concerns shouldn't deter enterprises from using public cloud technologies when it makes business sense to do so. Read More Seagate readies high-capacity storage drives for tablets Seagate Technology thinks there should -- and could -- be more storage capacity in tablets, most of which come with a relatively small amount of native storage. Read More
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