Most CIOs to hold headcount steady; 12% plan increases

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	Most CIOs to hold headcount steady; 12% plan increases More CIOs are planning to expand their IT departments than are planning cutbacks; the majority expects to hold headcounts steady. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Manage your UPS and your energy proactively Now, more than ever, every cost matters and performance is critical. That's why you should insist on the more intelligent, more intuitive APC Smart-UPS. Click here to download White Paper #24 "Effect of UPS System Availability" and register to WIN APC SMART-UPS 1500VA Rack/Tower LCD 120V, a $779 value! Click to continue In this Issue Inside Cisco global security operations 9/11 continues to influence IT strategy Which city has the most painful commute in the world? Seven new cloud companies to watch IPv6: What you need to do now IM, SharePoint tools will edge out email, CIOs say Recoup with data dedupe IBM offers SMBs $1 billion in financing for cloud, analytics packages Want a job? These 10 tech firms are hiring How the iPad is changing work, and working together WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now Inside Cisco global security operations Cisco's Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) provides threat information, vulnerability analysis, and mitigation solutions to enterprise customers. Staff and resources are at work around the world, including at 11 Threat Operations Centers. Network World visited Cisco's TOC in Austin, Texas, for an inside look at how the distributed security teams come together. Read More 9/11 continues to influence IT strategy Many companies had refined their IT disaster recovery programs prior to 9/11, but the attacks exposed a lack of attention to continuity of business operations. Read More Which city has the most painful commute in the world? Los Angeles, New York and Chicago are known in the U.S. for their epic gridlock conditions, but in a global analysis by IBM, the pain of commuting in these cities is rated lower than a number of international cities where drivers say they're a lot more miserable. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aternity EMA Industry Impact Brief: No End User Left Behind This report reflects on Aternity's v5.0's new innovative features drive the broadest coverage "of end-user experience across almost any type of application or Windows-based desktop (physical or virtual)." Read now Seven new cloud companies to watch By now we're all familiar with the big names in the cloud computing industry, such as Amazon, Rackspace and VMWare. But there are also a whole host of cloud startups that are coming online to help you manage your cloud services provided by the big players. Read More IPv6: What you need to do now With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone. Since the IANA IPv6 worldwide deployment announcement in 1999, the issue has never been whether, but simply when IPv6 would become the core protocol for global Internet traffic. Read More IM, SharePoint tools will edge out email, CIOs say Email's popularity is waning, and within five years it could be eclipsed by other communication tools favored by employees, new research suggests. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks The Exponential Data Center Arbner will explore how changing data usage models have completely shifted network traffic patterns in the data center, making most data center networks ill-suited to today's reality, and too expensive to boot. Learn more >> Recoup with data dedupe Backing up servers and workstations to tape can be a cumbersome process, and restoring data from tape even more so. While backing up to disk-based storage is faster and easier, and probably more reliable, it can also be more expensive. Read More IBM offers SMBs $1 billion in financing for cloud, analytics packages Hey, small and midsize businesses, IBM has got some cloud computing and analytics packages to sell you, and they're offering financing on terms so easy you'll think Big Blue went crazy! Read More Want a job? These 10 tech firms are hiring A lot of technology companies are in the midst of hiring sprees -- in some cases looking for hundreds of new workers. Execs explain what skills they need, and where they are looking for top talent. Read More How the iPad is changing work, and working together In the enterprise, the iPad seems to have a liberating effect on the way people work, and how they engage with each other. It has less to do with CPU cycles and RAM and more with the touch UI, dimensions and weight, and battery life. Here's why. Read More
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