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	Olympics CIO Gerry Pennell on creating a gold-standard team CIO for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog), Gerry Pennell's Commonwealth Games experience allowed him to get up to speed quickly, although the scale of the Olympics is much larger. Read More WHITE PAPER: AppSense A User Managed Applications Solution Provide the ability for users to install and manage their own critical applications into an isolated environment and then access these applications in a seamless manner while also paving the way for technology trends like bring your own device (BYOD). Learn more about how you can empower users to securely manager their own application portfolio. Learn More In this Issue How to choose an IaaS provider Smartphones of Summer: The 12 Hottest Handhelds Three Reasons You Should Switch to Office 365 Bitcoin: Seven reasons to be wary NSA Whistleblower Drake: You're automatically suspicious until proved otherwise Top 10 Android Tablet Apps How IT Leaders Can Negotiate a SaaS Partner Contract Wi-Fi Direct backers hope enhanced standard makes more products work together Beyond Dropbox: Security is only part of the cloud's problem RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant remote support with LogMeIn Rescue With LogMeIn Rescue, you can start a support session in just 60 seconds. Connect 24/7 to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. You'll get in, solve the problem and save the day without ever leaving your desk. Try it free today. How to choose an IaaS provider Move over, Amazon: Google, HP, and Microsoft, and others want a seat at the table. How do you choose among all those IaaS providers? Start with this quick primer Read More Smartphones of Summer: The 12 Hottest Handhelds CIO.com's Al Sacco rounds up the 12 best high-end smartphones available this summer season, from handset makers Samsung, Motorola, Apple, HTC, Nokia and more. Read More Three Reasons You Should Switch to Office 365 Office 2013 will soon be here, along with a new and improved version of the cloud-based Office 365. If you're looking to upgrade, you have to decide whether the traditional desktop version of Office is the way to go, or if Office 365 is a better fit for your needs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Splunk for Microsoft Exchange In today's highly competitive environment, IT departments need to deliver email services that are constantly available. Read this fact sheet on how Splunk App for Microsoft Exchange provides real-time monitoring and auditing for Microsoft Exchange. Read Now! Bitcoin: Seven reasons to be wary Of all the virtual currencies out there, BitCoin is the most interesting from a technical perspective - and the least interesting from the business point of view. BitCoin is a peer-to-peer virtual currency that uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money. Read More NSA Whistleblower Drake: You're automatically suspicious until proved otherwise Continuing in the theme of what NSA whistleblowers have to say about Americans under mass surveillance, such as William Binney's claim that the NSA has dossiers on nearly every U.S. citizen, we'll take a look at another former NSA official, Thomas A. Read More Top 10 Android Tablet Apps Android tablets often get overshadowed by Apple's mighty iPad and have to fight for market share--and attention from developers. But there are some great Android apps optimized for tablets out there. Here are CIO.com's picks for the top 10. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Sales Effectiveness in the New Sales Paradigm In this webcast produced by the Sales Management Association (SMA), Forrester's Scott Santucci will explore the new sales paradigm and discuss how businesses must transform their selling models into dynamic, communications-intensive systems, empowering individual sellers to define, create and deliver value to customers. Learn More How IT Leaders Can Negotiate a SaaS Partner Contract All companies great and small will eventually work with a SaaS provider. In most cases, the standard contract should suffice, but CIOs will never know what they can add (or subtract) if they don't ask. Read More Wi-Fi Direct backers hope enhanced standard makes more products work together The Wi-Fi Direct Services specification that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to finish next year should help to extend the use of Wi-Fi Direct beyond proprietary implementations, the organization says. Read More Beyond Dropbox: Security is only part of the cloud's problem Microsoft might want you to "Take it to the Cloud" but a whole lot of people are wishing they had stayed on the ground. The recent news that Dropbox accounts may be exposed, again, to attack should raise alarms for any IT manager considering cloud services. Security, though, is not the only issue facing cloud buyers. Read More
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