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	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 WEBCAST: CA Technologies Close the Gap between IT and Business Join a panel of international experts as they discuss methods to implement a more proactive approach to application lifecycle management and best practices to ensure an exceptional user experience. Learn More In this Issue 10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO iOS 5 Meets the Enterprise Extending the life of your data center VIDEO: IDG editors reflect on Steve Jobs' legacy WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More 10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search Is your job search lagging? Not seeing the results you'd like? Check out these ten expert tips from CIO.com's Kristin Burnham to enhance your search. 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 WHITE PAPER: HP The People Side of Converged Infrastructure IT is undergoing a massive shift. CIOs are looking for more flexible architectures that will allow them to quickly react to business needs. The Converged Infrastructure delivers the flexibility that CIOs need, with a high level of simplicity and automation that accelerates business outcomes while reducing costs. Read now '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 iOS 5 Meets the Enterprise Get ready, CIOs! Apple unleashed iOS 5 today, which means employees using iPhones and iPads will be bringing the new operating system to work as soon as tomorrow. The good news is that iOS 5 has plenty of benefits for the enterprise. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon, Exinda & Cisco Special Digital Edition: Wan Optimization This Network World Spotlight Digital Edition, prepared by Network World editors, provides an in-depth look at the latest WAN optimization developments. Read now Extending the life of your data center This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -- that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had originally planned. Now, even though the school needs a facility with more capacity and better connectivity, Kossuth has been forced to back-burner the issue because of the iffy economic times. Read More VIDEO: IDG editors reflect on Steve Jobs' legacy As part of our coverage of the death of Steve Jobs, we've put together a video with several of the editors at IDG Enterprise, the group that comprises the publications of Computerworld, Network World, CIO.com, ITworld and others. Whether you loved him or hated him, Steve Jobs had an impact on all of our lives, both personally and professionally. 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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