Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages

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	Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages CIOs and senior IT leaders have ascended the ranks of corporate America, and in some cases, they rate among the most highly paid executives at the largest U.S. companies. IT leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Aetna, Gap, FedEx, Home Depot and Walgreens took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2011. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Entuity Research Summary: Network Management Megatrends for 2012 Tectonic shifts in IT technologies and architectures-especially cloud and server virtualization-are challenging the notion that network management is a mature and stable science. Major changes are happening, returning the network to a position of prominence and requiring new priorities for network management tools, technologies and practices. Read the white paper. In this Issue Six-figure IT salaries not just for CIOs, SVPs Don't tread on me…or Google, either Ask an IT support pro: When and how to do a screen share session Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router Five needs driving SDNs What IT needs to know about the Microsoft-Yammer deal Groups plan super Wi-Fi network in rural college towns RIM's rumored breakup is a 'silly fantasy' How to Win at the IT Outsourcing Negotiating Table Start-up Allgress delivers heat maps that display cold risk management facts WHITE PAPER: Certeon Put the Power of Application Acceleration to Work Discover a new, non-appliance approach to improving application performance for mobile workers. Through data compression, content-aware data deduplication (using a single instance history store), and by a variety of advanced protocol handling methods and application blueprints, users can see 50%-90% improved throughput. Learn more. Six-figure IT salaries not just for CIOs, SVPs Information architects, data security analysts, and user experience designers often see salaries top $100,000, according to Robert Half Technology. Read More Don't tread on me…or Google, either Recently, the European Union's telecommunications lobbying group, ETNO, started a campaign to influence the upcoming International Telecommunications Union (ITU) meeting this December in Dubai. At the heart of their campaign is an extension of the so-called "sending party network pays" principle, in which they want content providers outside of the European Union – think Google, Apple, Facebook and others – to pay ETNO members for the substantial amount of bandwidth that ETNO members' customers are incurring. Read More Ask an IT support pro: When and how to do a screen share session Among the valuable tools I use to help clients troubleshoot technical problems is screen sharing. It's great because it allows me to not only get right into your machine and fix the problem; it also makes it possible to easily demonstrate how I fixed the problem. This way, customers can learn how to fix the problems themselves, saving them time in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon Reduce Network Traffic between VMware VMs Accelerate application performance within your VMware environment. The industry's first virtual appliance for application acceleration for VMware combines high performance of application acceleration with cost-savings of virtualization. It significantly reduces network traffic between VMs. Learn more. Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router Cisco's Linksys brand of home wireless networking routers today joined other vendors in coming out with 802.11ac equipment, as well as enabling a cloud-based platform for configuration and control of its "Smart Wi-Fi Routers." Read More Five needs driving SDNs Five trends in network are driving the transition to software defined networking and programmability. Read More What IT needs to know about the Microsoft-Yammer deal With Microsoft buying Yammer for $1.2 billion, Microsoft promises it will push the business collaboration/social networking platform into more of its cloud-based services. That means corporate IT pros will have to deal more with Yammer in their day-to-day jobs. To help prepare for that, here are some key questions and answers they need to consider. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. Groups plan super Wi-Fi network in rural college towns University towns in rural areas will get more super Wi-Fi broadband service under a new effort announced by a consortium of higher education associations, public interest groups and tech companies. Read More RIM's rumored breakup is a 'silly fantasy' Unnamed sources "close" to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion dismissed as a "silly fantasy" a story by The Sunday Times of London claiming that the company was considering splitting its hardware and network services groups in to separate businesses. Read More How to Win at the IT Outsourcing Negotiating Table If CIOs want to get the most from IT outsourcing deals, they need to treat negotiation as an organizational business process--with training, tools, and processes--rather than an IT purchasing arrangement. Read More Start-up Allgress delivers heat maps that display cold risk management facts Start-up Allgress made its debut Tuesday with software designed to give chief information security officers (CISOs) a view into the security and risk-compliance status of corporate networks and data resources. Read More
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