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	Get smarter about your email and cut your costs by 80% Enterprise email is the one true "killer application." But why is it still so expensive and complicated? There are alternatives that are at least as good functionality-wise, but far cheaper when it comes to total cost of ownership. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More In this Issue Cloud CIO: 3 Private Cloud Use Case Scenarios Android Apps: 9 Best, Free Social Networking Choices Google Apps: How We Convinced the C-Suite 5 signs that your techies are being poached How to survive CIO regime change RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Are you maximizing IT efficiency? Optimizing IT efficiency can save time, money, and valuable resources. As the number-one line item in most IT budgets, storage is a good place to start. NetApp customers use half the storage of traditional approaches and can reinvest savings in revenue-generating opportunities. Learn to measure, monitor and improve efficiency and boost your bottom line. Cloud CIO: 3 Private Cloud Use Case Scenarios It is by now a truism that most IT organizations are planning an IT infrastructure strategy that includes cloud computing and that an internal cloud (aka private cloud) is a fundamental part of that strategy. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Take Control of Your Network Once and for All Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now Android Apps: 9 Best, Free Social Networking Choices Share, save and savor all things social with these nine free Google Android apps, hand-picked by CIO.com's mobile maestro, Al Sacco Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Catholic Health East Success Story Using CA Oblicore Guarantee™, CHE has been able to automate the process of SLA reporting, build a service catalog and capture reliable IT service delivery information. The solution pulls information from originating systems to populate reports, dashboards and SLA scorecards based on defined metrics. Learn More Google Apps: How We Convinced the C-Suite Joe Fuller, CIO at Dominion Enterprises, had a mess to clean up. Built through a series of 150 acquisitions, the marketing services company was burdened by inefficiencies, disparities and siloed data. As the economy continued to tank in 2010, the company started to feel the weight of hosting e-mail in 24 separate locations, which posed a multitude of support and integration issues, Fuller says. Read More 5 signs that your techies are being poached With IT hiring on the rise, CIOs need to worry about an issue that hasn't cropped up in years: how to prevent their most talented employees from being poached by rivals. Read More How to survive CIO regime change How long does the average CIO stay on the job? Not very long. According to a Gartner Inc. survey of 1,527 CIOs, their average tenure in 2009 was four years and four months, a figure that has changed relatively little over the past several years, according to Mark McDonald, group vice president of Gartner Executive Programs. "It's been between four years and three months and four years and nine months," he says. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Hot technology at the annual CTIA wireless show CTIA Wireless offers a look at the evolving mobile landscape, from handsets and apps to core network systems. Here's a few of the things that are hot at the show in Orlando. First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 has finally arrived, after months of delays and after rival Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 10 already shipped. The browser gets a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync. Were they worth the wait? Let's take a look. MOST-READ STORIES Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses Wireless carriers delay Japan's text-to-give donations Microsoft now manages iPhone, Android, Windows, Linux Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too Nokia looks to make Windows Phone 7 hottest mobile OS Programmer fired for eating pizza Microsoft warns of hack attempt on Windows Live, Google Lots of "people" you interact with online are sockpuppets Is EMC/RSA poised to buy NetWitness? Can LTE really do it all?
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