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	Cisco CEO's pay falls 32% CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip videocam business and eliminated 12,000 jobs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle The Application Grid Approach to a Modern Data Center An application grid approach significantly automates the process of adding, reducing, or modifying existing IT deployments in support of highly scalable systems that have less downtime and lower resource consumption. Learn More! In this Issue Gartner: The future of IT? Get ready to blow stuff up 20 high-tech toilets 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO Turn single-user spreadsheets into multi-user business applications 7 'MBA preferred' IT jobs One big Wi-Fi rollout: 12,000 college dorm residents US Department of Labor teams with Facebook to help jobless people By the numbers: The impact of data breaches Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill Google Apps failing LAPD, says advocacy group RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Business Analytics Summit Business Analytics Summit - November 15, 2011 - NYC Attend and benchmark yourself against respondents to this exclusive Computerworld/IBM Cognos survey that looks at organizations' top objectives and challenges in using business analytics. Plus, learn how the most mature users of business analytics compare with those who are just starting out or are partway along the maturity curve. Register now. Gartner: The future of IT? Get ready to blow stuff up If IT is to successfully move into the future, it's going to need to blow up its current way of thinking and the way it supports mature technologies. Read More 20 high-tech toilets Lights, music, action! Today's tricked-out toilets have it all. Read More 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO "You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.'' Read More WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Application Performance Management In this eGuide, Network World, with sister publication CIO, offer news on the latest trends, best practices, and straightforward advice on these solutions and the challenges of managing application performance. Learn More! Turn single-user spreadsheets into multi-user business applications Practically every organization has workgroups that depend on spreadsheets to manage a business process. Sharing the spreadsheets via email or SharePoint can be a hassle, especially when multiple people need to enter data or make changes to the data. Now there is a Web-based tool that turns a single-user spreadsheet into a secure, multi-user database that's as easy to use as Microsoft Excel. Read More 7 'MBA preferred' IT jobs Among the 84,000 open tech positions currently listed on Dice.com, there are roughly 1,400 job listings that say an MBA is preferred, and they come from a variety of industries Read More One big Wi-Fi rollout: 12,000 college dorm residents Wi-Fi on college campuses is nothing new, but the University of Massachusetts at Amherst recently finished one of the biggest 802.11n deployments ever, providing wireless access to some 12,000 student dormitory residents. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Proactive Performance Management for Enterprise Databases In this Quest Software white paper, read about the inherent challenges of proactive database management, and the what to look for when choosing the right management tool for your company. Read it today. Read now! US Department of Labor teams with Facebook to help jobless people Facebook, the U.S. Department of Labor, and some other organizations are partnering to help jobless people in the country find employment through social networks. Read More By the numbers: The impact of data breaches Websense 'Security Pros and Cons' survey of 1,000 IT managers confirms that data breaches are widespread. Here's a look at how organizations are responding. Read More Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice. Read More Google Apps failing LAPD, says advocacy group A consumer advocacy group released documents that indicate that CSC, the prime contractor for Google Apps services for Los Angeles, has allegedly not managed to meet the security requirements of the Los Angeles Police Department. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 2011 tech industry graveyard Fortunately for the tech industry, there's a lot more living than dying, with 2011 seeing the birth of everything from Apple's iPad 2 to the Google+ social network. But inevitably, 2011 has also seen its share of dead, killed, murdered, offed, obliterated companies, technologies and ideas as well. Here's your chance to pay last respects, and who knows, maybe a few of these will sprout back to life. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES With lions on the loose, that Twitter limit can bite Skype exploits: I know where you are, and how to best stalk you Cheap power: An overnight revolution Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012 FAQ on Son of Stuxnet Gartner: 10 key IT trends for 2012 Day 1: Giving up Windows 7 for Ubuntu 11.10 for two weeks Private social networks playing Facebook role in more workplaces Android smartphone smackdown: Droid Razr vs. Galaxy Nexus SQL injection attack has compromised nearly 200,000 ASP.Net sites
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