Can you keep your IT staff in 2012?

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	Can you keep your IT staff in 2012? IT staff retention is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2012. Read More In this Issue Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Tower, tower, come in tower Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 The CIO's lament: 20-something techies who quit after 1 year Gartner predictions for 2012: More cloud, consumerization, loss of IT control Letter to Hurd details allegations that led to his downfall at HP Be on the lookout for the malicious insider IBM predicts five big technologies of the future Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics. Read More Tower, tower, come in tower It is hard to put your finger on any one thing that sums up developments in the world of IT this year, but a speaker at one of Network World's recent IT Roadmap conferences had an interesting analogy that seems apt. Read More Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has developed a technique for analyzing email traffic in real-time to identify spam messages as they come across the wire, simply using information from the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) packets that carry the messages. Read More 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this network-of-networks stopped being a research project and became an engine of economic growth. Read More The CIO's lament: 20-something techies who quit after 1 year Louis Trebino, CIO and senior vice president at the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) in New York City, is experiencing significant turnover on his Web development team. Read More Gartner predictions for 2012: More cloud, consumerization, loss of IT control IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years. Read More Letter to Hurd details allegations that led to his downfall at HP Details of allegations of sexual harassment that ultimately caused Mark Hurd, now co-president at Oracle, to quit as CEO of Hewlett-Packard are now plastered across the Internet after a letter written on behalf of the complainant was unsealed by the Delaware Supreme Court Wednesday. Read More Be on the lookout for the malicious insider A new white paper from Symantec profiles the risk indicators of the malicious insider. There are key patterns and technologies that can help you identify the employee who might have a penchant to steal your company's intellectual property. Read More IBM predicts five big technologies of the future IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future of telemedicine and nanotechnology. Read More
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