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	Why IT needs to drive the risk conversation The current system of risk management at most organizations is designed to frustrate everyone. Here are seven ways to change the dialogue. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! In this Issue Get a grip on mobile device management Ready for 'digital transformation'? Bart Perkins: A project staffing worst practice Healthcare CIO Edward Marx: IT ROI is measured in lives saved Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Windows 8.1 Update 1, now with less annoyance Security Manager's Journal: Dealing with the heartburn of Heartbleed Career Watch: How IT can be influential IBM battles Intel in hyperscale market Microsoft's new 'normal' irritates IT Jonny Evans: The technology world's sexism needs to end Heartbleed's boon: stronger passwords San Diego's SAP system triples some workloads IT execs expect big things from solar Oracle adds OpenStack cloud management tools to Solaris WHITE PAPER: VCE Power Plant Achieves Required High-Availability with VCE Faced with an external compliance audit and the need to improve availability, one of Europe's largest power plants turned to VCE Vblock™ Systems to: - Transform twin data centers to active-active mode - Enable business continuity and reliable delivery of electricity - Virtualize 95% of applications Learn More Get a grip on mobile device management As mobile device management continues to morph, consider what's 'good enough' for what you need right now -- and don't neglect the user experience, whatever else you do. Read More Ready for 'digital transformation'? The major consulting firms are all advising IT pros to remake their businesses into fully digital organizations. But as IT has known for years, transformation -- especially digital transformation -- is hard. Read More Bart Perkins: A project staffing worst practice When it comes to IT professional services, using the DOD sourcing method called Lowest Price Technically Acceptable is ludicrous, because it disregards the value of expertise and experience. Read More Healthcare CIO Edward Marx: IT ROI is measured in lives saved Edward Marx, senior vice president and CIO at Texas Health Resources in Arlington, is using social media to connect with the organization's local community and implementing BI tools to deliver advanced clinical care. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Windows 8.1 Update 1, now with less annoyance After trying Update 1 for the last few weeks, the best I can say for it is that it sucks less. Read More Security Manager's Journal: Dealing with the heartburn of Heartbleed Our manager scrambles to find and fix any vulnerable resources after the OpenSSL flaw is discovered. Read More Career Watch: How IT can be influential The co-founders of business-growth consulting firm Growth Vault discuss how IT can be influential within a business. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS See the Possibilities Utilizing Data Visualization Regardless of size, today's businesses are bombarded with structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources. Take advantage of all this data with in-memory analytics and data visualization techniques, to get day-to-day insights for making better decisions. Learn more IBM battles Intel in hyperscale market IBM is inching ahead with efforts to expand sales of its Power server chips and challenge Intel in the market for hyperscale data centers run by the likes of Google and Facebook. Read More Microsoft's new 'normal' irritates IT Microsoft's new process for updating Windows -- which features a faster-paced tempo that requires customers to apply releases within weeks -- could be a first step in moving the operating system to a services-style model. Read More Jonny Evans: The technology world's sexism needs to end Jonny Evans says the technology industry is still sexist, and it doesn't look as though the endemic discrimination in IT workplaces will disappear anytime soon. Read More Heartbleed's boon: stronger passwords The security vulnerability known as Heartbleed may have given rise to improved Internet security by spurring people to use stronger passwords. Read More San Diego's SAP system triples some workloads San Diego's $50 million SAP system has tripled employees' workloads for some tasks, but the city has also failed to devote enough attention to training, according to a consultant's report. Read More IT execs expect big things from solar A survey that challenged 800 IT managers to imagine the data center of 2025 offers up some optimistic, even surprising, findings. Read More Oracle adds OpenStack cloud management tools to Solaris Oracle once slammed the cloud as hype, but apparently it's backing off of that stance, having introduced a Solaris update that includes the OpenStack cloud management platform. Read More
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