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	User activity monitoring can reveal policy violations and misuse of company resources With regulations such as PCI, HIPAA and GLBA, companies are required to know and document who has access to sensitive data and applications. User activity monitoring tools can help identify and record specific actions, either continuously or when a problem is suspected. Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software The Business Impact of a Poor User Experience Don't miss this informative webcast exploring the value of monitoring web application performance from the user perspective and gain access to a free whitepaper "Monitoring Web Application Performance from the User Perspective" at the end of the presentation! View Now! In this Issue Hottest Tablets for Your Holiday Wishlist Federated Cloud Strategies: What CIOs Need to Know LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You Candid Talk Trumps the Blame Game IT's guide to managing Macs in the OS X Lion era 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now Hottest Tablets for Your Holiday Wishlist Tablet PCs have become the must-have holiday gift. This year though, Apple's iPad is no longer the only tablet on the market with significant "wow factor." CIO.com's Al Sacco presents a list of the best tablets available for this 2011 holiday season Read More Federated Cloud Strategies: What CIOs Need to Know As cloud computing adoption skyrockets and business functions increasingly look to external cloud providers to provision IT services, CIOs need to consider federated cloud strategies to integrate and manage this mixed bag of cloud computing environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You With more than 1.1 million LinkedIn Groups, users are bound to find professionals that share similar interests and goals--LinkedIn has groups for CIOs, IT professionals, social media enthusiasts and more. Read More Candid Talk Trumps the Blame Game How Hilton's CIO uses honest communications to work through difficult times-and avoid finger-pointing Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase IQ Supercharges Predictive Analytics This white paper introduces you to Sybase® IQ—a high-performance, scalable column-store database engine which has been repeatedly proven to meet the predictive analytics needs for a wide variety of businesses. Read now. IT's guide to managing Macs in the OS X Lion era No longer relegated to the fringe, Macs are fast becoming integral to today's business organization. As a result, IT can no longer rely on one or two dedicated "Mac guys" to maintain its Mac fleet. Instead, Mac management has become an issue that any CIO or systems administrator may be faced with on any given day. Read More 8 Ways to Make Peace With Your CMO CIOs and CMOs may be the enterprise odd couple, but social media, mobile and Web-interaction models mean they really need to learn to get along. Business strategy depends on it. Read More
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